Asia olympic qualifiers

ISSF Final Olympic Qualification Championship: Three Indian women air pistol shooters are all set to begin their quest for the lone remaining quota place left to be won in the pistol discipline overall, as the ISSF Final Olympic Qualification Championship Rifle/Pistol, gets underway in the Brazilian city of Rio De Janeiro from Friday.

Two teenagers, Asian Games champion Palak and Chandigarh’s Sainyam, as well as Palak’s Haryana teammate Surbhi Rao, will try and claim the second Paris Olympics quota place in Women’s 10m Air Pistol.

It will be India’s 20th quota place in Shooting, which will also ensure a possible 24th and 25th start for the squad in Paris, come end July.