Hosts kazakhstan

Karni Singh Shooting: India’s top marksmen and women assembled here at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting range as the preparatory camp for the 16th Asian Shooting Championships (ASC) got underway here on Monday.

The championships will be held from August 16 to 30 at Shymkent in Kazakhstan, with India sending the largest contingent, comprising 182 shooters across pistol, rifle, and shotgun in both Olympic and Non-Olympic events. The championships will see an intense fight for continental dominance between Asian shooting powerhouses ahead of next year's Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.

The preparatory camp follows the national camp, which was conducted last month in Dehradun for rifle and pistol and Bhopal for shotgun athletes, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) informed in a release on Monday.