Chinki Yadav is an Indian sport shooter who competes in the 25 metre pistol event. She secured a quota place for India at the 2020 Summer Olympics by qualifying for the final of the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships.
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| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 November 1997 Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 25 metre pistol | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Jaspal Rana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Early and personal life edit
Yadav was born on 26 November 1997 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Her family lived in a single-room dormitory[2] in the premises of the Tatya Tope Nagar Sports Complex where her father Mehtab Singh Yadav worked as an electrician. Yadav would accompany her father to the shooting range at the complex and, in 2012, decided to make a career in the sport.[3][4] While she took up pistol shooting and trained at the Madhya Pradesh Shooting Academy,[5] her younger brother Rajesh chose shotgun but "did not pursue it as seriously as Chinki".[3]
As of 2019, Yadav works as an assistant bank manager.[3]
Career edit
Yadav won the bronze medal in the junior women's 25 metre pistol event at 2015 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait City with a score of 570.[6] At the 2016 ISSF Junior World Cup, Yadav won bronze in the 25 metre pistol team event in Gabala[7] and bronze in the same event at Suhl.[8] She won bronze at the 2017 ISSF Junior World Championships in Suhl in the team event, along with Muskan and Gauri Sheoran.[9]
Yadav finished second in the qualification round of 2019 Asian Shooting Championships with a score of 588 and qualified for the final. This performance secured her a quota place for the 2020 Summer Olympics as four of the eight finalists were from countries which had already earned maximum quota places for the event. She came sixth in the final with a score of 116.[10][11]
References edit
- ^ "Chinki YADAV". ISSF Sports. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ Singh, Ramendra (29 June 2017). "Beating all odds, Chinki Yadav shoots to glory". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ a b c Mirza, Firoz (9 November 2019). "One-room house to Olympic quota". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ Sharma, Nitin (9 November 2019). "Father an electrician at shooting range, daughter wins Olympic quota". The Indian Express. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ Singh, Navneet; Roy, Avishek. "Daughter of an electrician, Chinki Yadav shoots down Tokyo Olympics berth". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ Singh, Ramendra (4 November 2015). "Bhopal's shooter wins bronze in Asian championship". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ "India bag five more medals on day four of Junior Shooting World Cup; take tally to 23". Zee News. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ "India women shooters take bronze at junior World Cup". India Today. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ "World Shooting Championship: Yashaswini, Anmol strike gold". The Hindu. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ "Shooter Chinki Yadav bags India's 11th Olympic quota". The Times of India. 8 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ^ Kannan, S. (9 November 2019). "Chinki Yadav fires Tokyo quota place". India Today. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
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Awards edit
- 2017: Eklavya Award by Government of Madhya Pradesh on National Sports Day
- 2019: Vikram Award by Government of Madhya Pradesh on National Sports Day