India’s promising Air Rifle Shooters will fight it out at the 15th RR Lakshya Cup 2024 powered by RR Global on January 4 and January 5, 2025 at the Megalink Electronic Targets-equipped Lakshya Shooting Club at Karnala Sports Academy, Panvel, Navi Mumbai.
The reigning men’s and women’s national air rifle shooting champions, Shahu Mane, an alumnus of Lakshya Shooting Club and Ananya Naidu will be among the leading air rifle shooters from the country who will be vying for top honours at the 15th RR Lakshya Cup.
Olympians including Divyansh Singh Panwar, Arjun Babuta and Sandeep Singh will be among the top contenders at the event.
The premier annual invitational shooting competition conducted by Lakshya Shooting Club, the brainchild of Olympian, Arjuna Awardee and ‘Dronacharya’ Suma Shirur, has only grown from strength to strength.
“At RR Lakshya Cup, we aim to recognize talent, reward excellence and provide a platform for shooters to showcase their skills at the highest level. This tournament is not just a competition,” Suma Shirur, High-Performance Director, Lakshya Shooting Club, said.
“It’s a celebration of hard work, dedication and the spirit of sportsmanship. It’s a great prospect to see the current national champions square off against each other for the coveted silver trophy. That’s what the Lakshya Cup stands for,” she added.
As Founder President of the Club, Suma first mooted the idea that men and women should shoot equal number of shots in a match.
And, since the first edition of the Lakshya Cup in 2008, this competition has been following that.
The move was vindicated when in December 2017, the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) adopted the equal shots rule for both men and women.