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Place of Birth: Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
About Rahi Sarnobat
- Rahi Jeevan Sarnobat (Marathi:???? ??????) is a female athlete from India who competes in the event of 25 meters pistol shooting.
- She won her first gold medal at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India.
- She is the first woman to win a gold medal in shooting in an Asian Games for India, she won the Gold at 2018 Jakarta Palembang in Women's 25 meter pistol event.
- She had won two gold medals in 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, first of the two golds in 25m pistol event in pair with Anisa Sayyed. Rahi hails from Kolhapur in Maharashtra.
- Her inspiration is fellow Maharashtrian and 50m rifle pro World Champion Tejaswini Sawant.
- She became India's first pistol shooter to win a gold medal in the World Cup.
- She won the 25m pistol event in the ISSF World Cup in Changwon.
- In the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, she won gold in the Women's 25-metre pistol.
- In the same year, she won the Bronze medal in the 25-metre pistol team event at the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, where she teamed up with Anisa Sayyed and Heena SidhuRahi won the bronze medal in world cup 2011 and got selected for the London Olympics in 2012, thereby becoming the first Indian shooter to qualify for the 25 meters sports pistol event in the Olympics.In May 2015, Rahi was recommended for the country's prestigious, Arjuna Award by the National Rifle Association of India(NRAI).On 22 August 2018, she became the first Indian woman individual Asian games gold medalist in shooting by winning the 25 meter pistol event with a game's record score of 34.
- She won the shoot off against her Thai opponent to bag the Gold.Rahi won the Gold medal in world cup, Munich Germany 2019 and got selected for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, in 2012 thereby becoming the first Indian shooter to qualify for the 25 meters sports pistol event in the Olympics.
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