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| Full name | Ganemat Kaur Sekhon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 November 2000 Chandigarh, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Skeet shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 124 NR (2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ganemat Sekhon (born 29 November 2000) is an Indian skeet shooter.[1] At the 2021 World Cup in New Delhi, Sekhon became the first Indian to win a medal in the women's skeet event of an World Cup.[2]
Career
[edit]Sekhon began shooting in 2015 on the instruction of her father Amrinder Singh when she was 15.[3] She made her international debut at the ISSF Junior World Cup in 2016 at Suhl in which she placed 33.
In 2018, she become the first Indian female skeet shooter to win a medal at the ISSF Junior World Cup at Sydney, Australia when she won the bronze.[4] She won the Asian Championships silver medal in 2019.[5] Sekhon won bronze in the 2021 ISSF Shooting World Cup Women's Skeet event at New Delhi, the first for India in a women's event.[6][7] She also won a gold in Skeet Mixed Team and a silver in Skeet Women Team at the same venue.[8][9]
At the 2021 ISSF Junior World Championships, Sekhon won gold and silver in the Women's Skeet team and individual event, respectively.[10]
Sekhon won gold in the Skeet Mixed Team event along with Mairaj Ahmad Khan at the 2023 ISSF World Cup in Cairo.[11] This was followed by a silver medal in the Skeet Women event in Almaty.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "ISSF - International Shooting Sport Federation - issf-sports.org". www.issf-sports.org. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "Ganemat Sekhon wins India's first World Cup medal in women's skeet". Zee News. 21 March 2021. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "Behind Ganemat's golden gun, Italian craftsmanship and a Chandigarh furniture fix". ESPN. 22 March 2021. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "Shooter Ganemat Sekhon gives Indian women's skeet a podium facelift". Hindustan Times. 21 March 2021. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ Jaspreet Sahni (22 March 2021). "Ganemat Sekhon: Home range, father's presence pushed Ganemat to create skeet history for India | More sports News - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ Srinivasan, Kamesh (21 March 2021). "A day to remember for Ganemat". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "ISSF World Cup: Ganemat Sekhon settles for bronze in women's skeet". The Indian Express. 21 March 2021. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ "Result Skeet Mixed Team". www.issf-sports.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "Result Skeet Team Women". www.issf-sports.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2024. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "After silver, Ganemat Sekhon helps Indian women's skeet team win gold at Junior World Championships". The Bridge. 2 October 2021. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ Sportstar, Team (30 April 2023). "India's Mairaj Khan and Ganemat Sekhon strike gold at the Shotgun World Cup". sportstar.thehindu.com. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "ISSF World Cup: Historic silver-bronze finish for Ganemat Sekhon and Darshna Rathore". The Times of India. 23 May 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.