Rhythm Sangwan Bags India's 16th Quota Spot In Shooting For Paris Olympics

Rhythm Sangwan became the 16th Indian shooter to secure a 2024 Paris quota place on Thursday, winning a bronze medal in 25m sports pistol at the Asia Olympic Qualifiers, ensuring India's largest-ever shooting contingent will attend the global showpiece in July-August this year.

India's previous largest squad for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo included 15 shooters. Jakarta is proving to be a happy hunting ground, with three shooters -- Esha Singh, Varun Tomar (both 10m air pistol) and now Rhythm -- securing quota slots for the country thus far.

The 20-year-old Rhythm, who is from Haryana and was part of the team that won the 25m sports pistol gold at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year alongside Esha and Manu Bhaker, shot 28 in the final to finish third.