Door Open For India to Host Commonwealth Shooting Championships in 2022

The National Rifle Association of India has expressed its commitment to host a separate Commonwealth Shooting Championships in 2022 and endorsed the Indian Olympic Association’s idea of adding medals won in that event to the Birmingham Games tally.

NRAI President Raninder Singh was part of a recent meeting, held in Munich on December 5, between the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) and Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF). The meeting had discussed ways to make up for the sport’s exclusion from the roster of the 2022 Birmingham Games.

Having got an encouraging response to its proposal to host a separate shooting event just before the 2022 CWG, Raninder wrote to IOA President Narinder Batra, assuring its full commitment to hosting the tournament and seeking the apex body’s cooperation in helping it submit a “formal proposal” to the CGF.