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| Ganemat Sekhon, from a family of shooters, wins skeet silver at World Cup | | | agencies
NEW DELHI, May 24: Two 22-year-olds, Ganemat Sekhon and Darshna Rathore made it a day to remember for India by winning silver and bronze respectively at the ISSF World Cup in Almaty. Ganemat and Darshna had to battle difficult conditions, including the wind, to finish on the podium. Assem Orynbay of Kazakhstan won gold following a shoot-off after she and Ganemat finished the 60-shot final with 50 hits each. But Ganemat missed the first of two shoot-off targets while Assem didn't miss. "It was windy here in Almaty and it was getting dark. That's why I made a slow start in the final. The scoreboard here does not show the scores and I somehow got confused in the end and was overthinking a little bit. The silver medal in tough conditions here has come at the right time in my senior career and I am glad I am returning home with a medal and experience," Ganemat said. She is from a family of shooters - her great-grandfather Captain Chattar Singh won the Royal shooting competitions in the pre-independence era and her grandfather Mohinder Pal Singh shot at the national level. Ganemat would often accompany her father Amrinder Sekhon to the shooting range in Patiala from their then-Zirakpur residence. In 2018, Sekhon became the only Indian women skeet shooter to win a medal at the world level - a bronze in the Junior World Championship in Australia. "I can't remember when Ganemat's love for guns started. She would be fascinated by the big bore guns of my father and grandfather at our home and once she turned 12, she herself told us to get her into big bore shooting. With skeet being a more technical event as compared to trap, she always liked to compete in skeet. We would go to the Patiala shooting range, which is more than 55 kilometres from our home, five times a week for her training sessions," Amrinder said. In 2018, Ganemat finished 50th in the senior world championships in Changwon before she finished 10th in Asian Games. She then trained under Italian coach Pietro Genga in the town of Bari, Italy, near the Adriatic Sea. The youngster won her first senior world medal, a bronze medal in the ISSF World Cup in Delhi in a field comprising 2016 Rio Olympics finalist Amber Hill of England
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