Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar Shooting: Age, Medals, Olympics, ISSF

Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar Shooter won the bronze medal in the 50-metre rifle three positions event at the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships and secured a quota place for India at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Born into a family of farmers in Madhya Pradesh, Tomar often went hunting with his father Veer Bahadur, a landlord and learned about sport shooting from his cousin Navdeep Singh Rathore. In 2015, Tomar started to receive training at the Madhya Pradesh Shooting Academy in Bhopal.

Born: 3 February 2001

From: Ratanpur, Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh, India

Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar Medals & Achievements

Asian Shooting Championships

• Bronze Medal in 2019 Doha in 50 m rifle 3 positions event
• Bronze medal in 2019 Doha in 50 m rifle 3 positions team event

Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar ISSF Junior World Cup

• Gold medal in 2019 Suhl in 50 m rifle 3 positions

Asian Airgun Championships

• Bronze medal in 2019 Taoyuan Junior 10 m air rifle

Family

Father – Veer Bahadur – landlord

Cousin- Navdeep Singh Tomar

Lesser Known Facts

• Tomar set the junior world record in the 50-metre rifle three positions with a score of 459.3 and won the gold medal at the 2019 ISSF Junior World Cup in Suhl
• The earlier world junior record of 458.7 was shot by Filip Nepejchal of the Czech Republic in the Beijing World Cup.
• Tomar bagged India’s 13th Olympic quota in shooting
• India topped the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup tournament with 10 gold medals.