Swapnil Kusale
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Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Kambalwadi, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India[2] | 6 August 1995|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years active | 2012–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Deepali Deshpande | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Swapnil Kusale (born 6 August 1995) is an Indian sport shooter who competes in 50 metre rifle three positions. He won the bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the men's 50 metre rifle three positions event.[3]
Early life
[edit]Kusale was born on 6 August 1995, in Kambalwadi village in Kolhapur district.[2] In 2009, his father enrolled him into Maharashtra government's Krida Prabhodini sports programme. After one year of intense physical training, Kusale had to choose one sport and ended up choosing shooting.[4] In 2015, he became a ticket collector for the Indian Railways in Pune, which helped him buy his first rifle.[5]
Shooting career
[edit]In 2015, he won gold in 50m rifle prone 3 in the junior category in 2015 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait.[6] In the same year, he also won the 59th National Shooting Championship held in Tughlakabad ahead of Gagan Narang and Chain Singh in 50m rifle prone event.[7] In 2017, he repeated the same performance in 61st National Championship in Thiruvananthapuram by winning a gold in 50m rifle 3 position.[8]
In October 2022, he earned an Olympic quota berth for India in the men's 50-metre rifle 3 position event with a fourth place finish at the 2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Cairo.[9] In May 2024, he was selected in the Indian Olympic team in the 50m rifle 3 positions event after the trials in Delhi and Bhopal.[10] Despite finishing 5th in the final trial, Kusale was selected in the team as the second shooter based on his scores in the first three trials.[10][11]
At the 2024 Olympics, Kusale became the first Indian to qualify for the final of the men's 50 metre rifle three positions event,[12] and won the bronze medal with a score of 451.4 in the final.[3]
Career outside shooting
[edit]He joined joined Central Railway in 2015 as a Travelling Ticket Examiner(TTE). He was requesting for a promotion for years. Post his Bronze-medal winning achievement, he was given a double promotion and has been promoted to the post of Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Sports Cell in Mumbai.
References
[edit]- ^ "Swapnil KUSALE". ISSF. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ a b Mangale, Kalyani (19 July 2024). "Kusale primed for Olympic debut". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Swapnil Kusale earns third bronze medal for India in shooting". The Hindu. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "From rural obscurity to National champion: Meet Swapnil Kusale, India's 20-year old shooting prodigy". sportskeeda.com. 11 January 2016.
- ^ "Ticket collector from Pune, Swapnil Kusale wins India's third shooting bronze at Paris Olympics". The Indian Express. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ Srinivasan, Kamesh (10 November 2015). "Kusale wins junior Asian shooting championship". The Hindu – via thehindu.com.
- ^ Srinivasan, Kamesh (6 December 2015). "Swapnil Kusale shoots to gold in 50-metre rifle event". Sportstar.
- ^ "Swapnil regains lost crown at National Shooting Championship". The Times of India. 25 December 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ^ Sportstar, Team (24 October 2022). "Paris 2024: Full list of Olympics quota winners from India in shooting". Sportstar. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ a b Staff, Scroll (17 May 2024). "Shooting, Olympic Trials: Anjum Moudgil, Sift Samra, Aishwary Tomar, Swapnil Kusale book Paris berth". Scroll.in. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ Srinivasan, Kamesh (17 May 2024). "Olympic Selection Trials: Aishwary Pratap tops men's rifle three-position, Manu Bhaker beats Esha Singh in air pistol event". Sportstar. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
- ^ "Swapnil Kusale makes 3-position final, hopes to undo debacle of last year's Asian Games". ESPN. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- 1995 births
- Living people
- Indian male sport shooters
- Sport shooters from Maharashtra
- Shooters at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic shooters for India
- Shooters at the 2022 Asian Games
- Asian Games medalists in shooting
- Asian Games gold medalists for India
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
- Olympic bronze medalists for India
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- People from Kolhapur district