Shooting at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
The Shooting events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games took place at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range from 5 to 13 October 2010.
XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Anisa Sayed and Sarnobat of India won the gold medal in 25M Pistol Women (Pair) event, at Karnail Singh Shooting Range, in New Delhi on 5 October 2010
XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang of India won the gold medal in 10m Air Rifle Men (Pair) event, at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range, in New Delhi on 5 October 2010
XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Winners of (Singles Shooting 50M Rifle Prone Women’s), Mcintosh Jen of Scotland (Gold), Tejaswini Sawant of India (Silver) and Brekke Johanne of Wales (Bronze)
XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi (Men’s) Shooting Trap Pairs, India’s Mansher Singh and Manavjit Singh won Bronze medal, at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range, in New Delhi on 8 October 2010
Vijay Kumar (sport shooter)
Honorary Captain Vijay Kumar Sharma, AVSM, SM is an Indian sport shooter. He won the silver medal in the individual 25 metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Kumar hails from Barsar village of Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh and is a retired Subedar Major in the Dogra Regiment Indian Army, who was later promoted to Honorary Captain Rank. Vijay Kumar is supported by the Olympic Gold Quest initiative. He is the only Indian to have won a medal at 25m rapid Fire Pistol. He has been posted at Indian Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) Mhow since 2003 where he is being coached by the Russian Pavel Smirnov.
The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Shri Award to Vijay Kumar, in 2013