Anjum Moudgil

Tokyo Olympics: India women's hockey team enters quarters for first time in 41 years, PV Sindhu, Amit Panghal suffer defeats

World No 1 flyweight boxer Amit Panghal and star shutter PV Sindhu were the big names to experience defeats even though the latter is still in the hunt for a medal when she competes in the bronze playoff.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Anjum Moudgil, Tejaswini Sawant fail to qualify for women's 50m rifle 3 positions final

This meant the Indian shooting team's disastrous outing at the Games continued with none of its participants except for Saurabh Chaudhary qualifying for the finals, having entered Tokyo on the back of some stunning performances and soaring expectations.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Rahi Sarnobat, Manu Bhaker last hope for India's faltering shooting campaign in 25m pistol

Bhaker will get one last chance to leave her mark at the Games on Thursday after she endured a major weapon malfunction leading to a heartbreaking exit from the women's 10 air pistol event.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Indian shooters crash out in 10m air rifle mixed qualifications

The duo of Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Singh Panwar finished 12th with a total of 626.5 across three series each, while Anjum Moudgil and Deepak Kumar ended 18th out of 29 pairs with an aggregate score of 623.8 at the Asaka Range.

Tokyo Olympics 2020: IOC approves replacement for COVID-infected athlete in mixed team shooting events

The newly introduced mixed team events in shooting has bolstered an already strong Indian team's chances of medals at the Games.

Firstpost Masterclass: Anjum Moudgil dissects 50m rifle 3P, the marathon of shooting events

Among all the shooting events, nothing tests a shooter’s endurance, balance, and shooting skills quite like the 50m rifle 3-position event.

NRAI recommend Anjum Moudgil, Ankur Mittal for Khel Ratna

Mittal won his double trap world title in 2018 and got the Arjuna award the same year. Moudgil is a world championship silver-medallist, also from the 2018 edition and she was awarded the Arjuna in 2019.

ISSF World Cup: Tejaswini Sawant-Sanjeev Rajput duo misses bronze match by a whisker

In part one of the qualification, from where the top eight advance to stage 2, another Indian pair of Anjum Moudgil and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar was eliminated with a ninth-place finish behind Sawant and Rajput.

Anjum Moudgil, the rifle-wielding Zen

Anjum Moudgil was the first Indian athlete to secure a quota for Tokyo Olympics 2020 with her silver at the 2018 World Championships in Changwon. Here's a peep into her persona, which happens to be as intriguing as the sport she practices.

ISSF World Cup: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar finishes seventh in men's 10m air rifle

The 20-year-old Aishwary, who finished with a score of 628 in the qualification round, shot a total of 143.9 before being eliminated from the final of the men's 10m air rifle event.