Sonia Rai from Himachal wins silver in shooting team event at Asian games

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The women’s 10m air pistol team comprising Harveen Srao, Sonia Rai and Shweta Choudhury has bagged the silver with a tally of 1142 points in 15th Asian games going on at Doha. Sonia belongs to Soonpur in Baijnath area in Himachal and studied at Baijnath.

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Coach Csaba Gyorik with the air pistol women team which won the silver medal at the Asian Games, (from Left) Sonia Rai, Harveen Srao and Shweta Chaudhary (Pic courtesy:indianshooting)

Sonia got her first major international medal by winning the bronze in women’s 10 m air pistol at ISSF World Cup at Resende in Brazil in April.

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3 Comments

  1. says: chandan

    Hi,

    congratulation to you. I am vry keen to learn about shooting, but i don’t know how? basically i belong Mandi (HP). i have two pistols and one air gun. i enjoyed when i play with them. Now i want to take it seriously as a career.Plz give me some information related, Club or association that i can join .

    chandan

  2. says: Sanjay

    Great Job , well done sonia.

    Tusi great ho.

    BTW ….One small information is wrong here in the page.
    She has done her studies from Delhi but not from baijnath.
    I know because we are friends and classmates.

    Once again heartily congrats sonia.

    Cheers Party

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