Apurvi Chandela

Apurvi Chandela
Personal information
Nationality Indian
Born (1993-01-04) 4 January 1993
Jaipur, India
Height 156 cm (5 ft 1 in)
Sport
Country India
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 metre air rifle
Updated on 26 July 2014.

Apurvi Singh Chandela (born 4 January 1993) is an Indian shooter who competes in the 10 metre air rifle event. She won the gold medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow[1] and has expressed belief she can do the same at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Early life

She did her schooling from Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls' School, Jaipur.She studied Sociology honours from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University.

Family

Apurvi was born to a Chandela Rajput[2] family in Jaipur.[3] Her father is Kuldeep Singh Chandela,[4] a hotelier, and mother is Bindu Rathore. [5]

Career

In 2012, Chandela won the gold medal in the 10 metres air rifle event at the National shooting championships in New Delhi, her first year in the senior circuit.[6][7] In 2014, she won four medals at the Intershoot Championships at The Hague, that included two individual and two team medals.[8] In the same year, she won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, having scored 206.7 points in final, in the process creating a new games record.[9]

Chandela qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the 10m air rifle event

ISSF World Medal Tally

No. Event Championship Year Place Medal
1 10m air rifle ISSF World Cup 2015 Changwon 3rd
2 10m air rifle ISSF World Cup Final 2015 Munich 2nd

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