Rathore Jr walks the same path as father Rajyavardhan

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won the silver medal in Men’s Double Trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He became the first Indian (post independence) to win an individual silver, after Norman Pritchard, an athlete British origin born in India, who won two silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics. Now his son, Manavaditya Rathore, is following in his footsteps. ‘Milo’ — as Manavaditya is known — is 13 and made it to the Indian junior trap team on Monday. [caption id=“attachment_613858” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File photo of India’s Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. Reuters[/caption] The senior Rathore had assured himself of a spot in the men’s double trap team for the 1st World Cup in Germany with an individual gold at the Nationals, which were held in January, and now he will have his son for company. The Rathores will become the second Indian father-son combination after the Sandhus — Gurbir and Manavjit — to compete at the international level together. The Sandhus competed as a team — in the trap event at the Asian Shooting Championships in Bangkok in 1994. “It is nice to know that both of us will be part of the team but I don’t pay much attention to these things,” said Manavaditya, a Class VIII student, told the Indian Express. “I have worked hard for it.”