Hina Sidhu
Heena Sidhu was born on 29 August 1989 in Ludhiana. She is the first Indian Pistol shooter to be Ranked World No.1 (as on 7 April'2014) by ISSF, the first Indian Pistol shooter to have won a Gold medal in the 2013 ISSF World Cup Finals -Pistol in 10 metre Air Pistol event.
She thus, became the third Indian shooter after Anjali Bhagwat (2003) and Gagan Narang (2008) to win a Gold medal in a Rifle/Pistol World Cup Finals. She along with Annu Raj Singh won the gold medal in women's Pairs 10 metre air pistol at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Heena (384) and Annu (375) won the 14th gold medal for India from the shooting range. She also won a silver medal in the singles event. She is also the first Indian shooter who has appeared on the ISSF magazine's cover page for the first time ever since the National Rifle Association of India was formed on 17 Apr 1951. Sidhu, is the Finals World record holder in 10 metre air pistol event with a final score of 203.8.
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Personal life
In 2013, Sidhu received a Bachelor of Dental Surgery. Sidhu's father was a national sports shooter. Her brother is also a shooter in the 10 metre air pistol event. Sidhu's uncle is a gunsmith and gun customizer. On 7 February 2013, Sidhu married Ronak Pandit, also a pistol shooter. Sidhu resides in Goregaon, Mumbai.
Career
Sidhu began shooting in 2006, participating in the national junior and senior teams. She was a member of the Patiala Club.
In 2009, Sidhu won a silver medal at the ISSF World Cup in Beijing.[4]. She won first place in the women's 10 m air pistol event at the national championship in Kerala.
Sidhu, with Annu Raj Singh and Sonia Rai, won a silver medal in the Women's 10 m air pistol team event at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. With Annu Raj Singh on 375 points and Sidhu on 384 points, Sidhu and Singh won a gold medal in the women's pairs 10 metre air pistol at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[1] In the singles event, Sidhu won a silver medal.
Sidhu was a member of the Indian team to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[2] She competed in the women's 10 metre air pistol event, finishing twelfth in the qualification round. Sidhu was part of the official London Olympic Games film entitled First: The Story of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The film, written, produced and directed by Caroline Rowland followed a dozen first-time Olympic athletes as they prepared to compete in London.[3]
In 2013, Sidhu won the gold medal at the ISSF World Cup Finals in Munich, Germany.[4] Sidhu defeated the world champion Zorana Arunovic of Serbia and the previous winner, Olena Kostevych of Ukraine with 203.8 points, which gave her a 5 point lead at the end of the event.[5]
In the 2014 Indian National Shooting trials, Sidhu won by 0.1 point over Rahi Sarnobat in the women’s air pistol event.[6]
In 2016, Sidhu qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's 10 metre air pistol and the women's 25 metre pistol events. She finished fourteenth in the women's 10 metre air pistol and twentieth in the women's 25 metre pistol qualifying rounds.[7]
In 2017, Sidhu won gold medal in women's 10 metre air pistol event at the Commonwealth shooting championships in Brisbane.[8]
In 2016, Sidhu pulled out of the Asian Air Gun Championships in Tehran because Iran made the wearing of the hijab mandatory for female participants.[9][10]
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Sidhu won a silver medal in the women’s 10 metre air pistol event, and a Gold medal in the women’s 25 metre air pistol event. She broke the Commonwealth Games record of 38 in winning the gold medal,[11]
Arjun Award
Heena Sidhu is winner of Arjun Award - 2014 in Shooting
Reference
- ↑ Heena Sidhu, Anu Raj Singh bag gold in shooting
- ↑ "Results of 52nd National Shooting Championships in Kerala". Indianshooting.com.
- ↑ Rowland, Caroline (2013-05-30), First, John Orozco, Heena Sidhu, David Rudisha,
- ↑ "Heena Sidhu beats World Champion to clinch Gold in Shooting World Cup finals | India at Sports". Indiaatsports.in. 2013-11-11
- ↑ "Indian Shooter Heena Sidhu Will Appear On Cover Page of ISSF Journal". Womenpla.net. 2014-01-03
- ↑ "Heena Sidhu snatches victory". The Hindu. 2014-01-22
- ↑ "Rio Olympics 2016: Heena Sidhu's campaign ends after failing to qualify for 25m air pistol final". First Post. 9 August 2016
- ↑ "Sidhu clinches gold, Deepak gets bronze at Commonwealth shooting". The Hindu. Press Trust of India (PTI). 31 October 2017.
- ↑ Indian shooter Heena Sidhu refuses to wear ‘hijab’, pulls out of Asian shooting championship in Iran, India TV, 29 October 2016
- ↑ Joshua Arpit Nath: Indian Shooter Heena Sidhu Refuses To Wear A Hijab, Withdraws From Airgun Competition In Iran, The Times of India, 29 October 2016
- ↑ Express Web Desk (10 April 2018). "CWG 2018: Heena Sidhu breaks Commonwealth Games record, wins 11th gold for India". The Indian Express. IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd. Retrieved 10 April 2018
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