Vizag shooters bag medals in AP State Shooting Championship-2016 in Guntur
VDRA has started the peep sight shooting coaching camp in the city to encourage the budding shooters.
Visakhapatnam: City-based shooters clinched two gold and three bronze medals in the recently concluded AP State Shooting Championship-2016 in Guntur. General secretary of Visakhapatnam District Rifle Association (VDRA) Ch. Devadanam said that Naresh Kumar Javvadi won gold medal in both juniors and seniors category while P.V.N. Sai Jayanth has clin-ched bronze medals in juniors and seniors category and Master G. Rohith won bronze medal in the sub-junior category. All the three city shooters will represent Andhra Pradesh in South Zone and Pre-National shooting championship.
The VDRA said that with the success of Indian shooting aces Gagan Narang, Abhinav Bindra and a few others, shooting sport has been catching up in the city and VDRA has started the peep sight shooting coaching camp in the city to encourage the budding shooters. Mr Devadanam said though shooting is a costly sport as compressed air-rifles are very expensive, they are planning to start more camps to groom the budding shooters in the city with the support of a few passionate persons in the sport.
Sources said that the shooters in the city are eagerly waiting for the shooting competitions in the upcoming Rio Olympics and if Indian shooters clinch medals in the sport, many youngsters may take the sport seriously in the coming days.