Shiva Narwal and Sabeera Haris will lead a 71-member strong Indian shooting contingent at the ISSF Junior World Cup to be held in Cairo, Egypt, from Sunday.
The Cairo meet, which ends on April 27, is the first junior ISSF World Cup of the year for Under-21 shooters and will comprise events in rifle, pistol and shotgun disciplines. The second Junior World Cup this year is scheduled in Porpetto, Italy, in September but is only for shotgun events.
Overall, 284 athletes from 25 federations will compete in Cairo with India fielding the largest contingent of the lot. Three non-Olympic events, men’s and women’s 50m rifle prone and men’s 25m pistol, will also be contested in Cairo.
At last year’s ISSF Junior World Cup legs held across Germany’s Suhl and New Delhi, Indian shooters won 37 medals, including 17 golds, the most by any federation. Indian shooters have overall dominated junior shooting competitions in recent years and will hope to continue the trend this year.
At the Cairo meet, 71 Indian shooters will be vying for medals across 18 medal events. Of these, 36 shooters will be involved in the 15 Olympic events.
The roster includes Asian Games medallist Shiva Narwal, who combined with Arjun Singh Cheema and Paris 2024 Olympic medallist Sarabjot Singh to win India the 10m air pistol men’s team gold at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games.
Shotgun shooter Sabeera Haris is another member of the team with senior-level pedigree, having won the mixed trap bronze with Olympian Kynan Chenai at the ISSF World Cup 2025 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Abhinav Shaw, the men’s 10m air rifle Asian junior champion is also in the mix.
Indian shooting squad:
10m air pistol men: Abhinav Choudhary, Abhinav Deshwal, Abhay Dhama, Shiva Narwal, Himanshu Rana, Chirag Sharma.
10m air pistol women: Sanskriti Bana, Vanshika Chaudhary, Sejal Kamble, Kanak Kanak, Prachi Prachi, Mohini Singh.
10m air rifle men: Divyanshu Dewangan, Rohit Kanyan, Pritam Kendre, Abhinav Shaw, Naraen Pranav Vanitha Suresh, Vedant Nitin Waghmare.
10m air rifle women: Panaah Bhugra, Shambhavi Shravan Kshirsagar, Anvii Rathod, Aneesha Sharma, Manyata Singh, Anushka Thokur.
25m pistol men: Raj Chandra, Abhinav Choudhary, Sahil Choudhary, Abhinav Deshwal, Jatin Jatin, Yug Pratap Singh Rathore.
25m pistol women: Anjali Mahendra Bhagwat, Shikha Chaudhary, Prachi Gaikwad, Parisha Gupta, Manvi Jain, Sejal Kamble.
25m rapid fire pistol men: Sagnik Banerjee, Abhinav Choudhary, Sahil Choudhary, Sameer Sameer, Bhanu Pratap Singh Shekhawat, Pranshu Suryawanshi.
50m rifle 3 positions men: Hemant Burman, Rohit Kanyan, Kushagra Singh Rajawat, Manvendra Singh Shekhawat, Hithesh Srinivasan, Vedant Nitin Waghmare.
50m rifle 3 positions women: Yugeshwari Bais, Prachi Gaikwad, Gursidak Kaur Khosa, Manya Mittal, Shrivalli Shrivastava, Anushka Thokur.
50m rifle prone men: Hemant Burman, Rohit Kanyan, Shivendra Bahadur Singh, Hithesh Srinivasan, Dipen Nileshkumar Suthar, Vedant Nitin Waghmare.
50m rifle prone women: Yugeshwari Bais, Tejal Nathawat, Khwaish Sharma, Anushka Thokur.
Trap men: Syed Ahyaan Ali, Lakshya Atree, Zuhair Khan, Udhav Singh Rathore, Manitwa Singh Rawat, Yugan Sakthivel Muthukumaar.
Trap women: Sabeera Haris, Krishika Joshi, Addya Katyal, Tanisska Senthil Kumar, Bhavya Tripathi, Ananya Yaduvanshi.
Skeet men: Zorawar Singh Bedi, Ishaan Singh Libra, Anjaneya Singh Mandawa, Yashvardhan Singh Rajawat, Harviraj Singh.
Skeet women: Risham Guron, Agrima Kanwar, Parmeet Kaur, Sanyogita Shekhawat.
10m air pistol mixed team: Vanshika Chaudhary, Himanshu Rana, Chirag Sharma, Mohini Singh.
10m air rifle mixed team: Divyanshu Dewangan, Shambhavi Shravan Kshirsagar, Aneesha Sharma, Naraen Pranav Vanitha Suresh.
Trap mixed team: Sabeera Haris, Addya Katyal, Zuhair Khan, Manitwa Singh Rawat.
