Shooter Abhishek gets Arjuna Award

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 17

Tokyo Olympics shooter Abhishek Verma, who won a bronze medal in the men’s air pistol event in the recently concluded President’s Cup Shooting Championship in Wroclaw, Poland, has been conferred with the Arjuna Award.

Abhishek, who won the feat by scoring 580 points in Poland, was awarded the honour by President Ram Nath Kovind, during a function at Darbar Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, in the presence of his father Justice Ashok Kumar Verma.

Abhishek represented the country in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and finished 17th in the men’s 10m air pistol event after leading the qualifying event. Abhishek represents Haryana and is ranked third in the world (as of March 1, 2020).

He shot into limelight after winning a gold medal in the 10m pistol event in the 2019 Beijing ISSF World Cup where he surpassed 2008 Olympic champion Pang Wei and also humbled Oleh Omelchuck, the former world file holder in the 10m air pistol event.

The feat

Tokyo Olympics shooter Abhishek Verma, who won the feat by scoring 580 points in Poland, was awarded the honour by President Ram Nath Kovind during a function at Darbar Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, in the presence of his father Justice Ashok Kumar Verma.