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KIRANJIT KAUR, 32, SHOOTER, ROPAR (PUNJAB)

TThe government must bring foreign coaches on board so we can compete with the best in the world. The process of importing weapons too should be made easier for state qualified shooters. Kiranjit Kaur, International shooter

he First Shot Kiranjit Kaur remembers seeing Olympics bronze-medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra on television in 2008 and being inspired by him. “I always dreamt of making a mark for myself, and shooting being an individual sport attracted me. You need total concentration and nerve of steel in this sport. There is no scope for error,” she says. Gun Proud A former National Champion (2011-2012, 10 metre Air Rifle event) Kaur, who also participated in the World Cup- 2013 held in Spain and stood 4th insists that more is less. Roadblocks Lamenting that only Delhi has good infrastructure for this sport, Kaur stresses on the need to hire foreign coaches in order to compete against the best in the world. “Even the process of importing weapons needs to be simplified to help qualified shooters. Sadly, the government is just not doing enough for shooters,” she rues. Moving Ahead “I am aiming to make it to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, and training eight hours a day for the same,” she says.