Gagan Narang's Project Leap initiative to mentor 135 young shooters

The Project has called out to all talented shooters across the country to take part in its annual trial and it would be the first time the trial has been made open to all shooters in the under-21 age category. Out of the 176 shooters who had applied, 130 have been selected to take part in the trial which is currently taking place at the state-of-the-art ‘Gun for Glory’ shooting academy. The final selected shooters would train under Slovakian rifle coach Anton Belak and South Korean pistol coach Kim Seonia.

"We initiated Project Leap with an ambitious goal of finding India its 10 best shooters as part of Vision 2024," Narang said."We knew the potential of the project but had to start modest and hence restricted it for Gun for Glory shooters in year one; the results have been phenomenal. Backed with the success of last year we have rolled out the project for all youth and junior shooters with the hope of unearthing more talent who have been untapped so far," the London Olympic bronze medalist added.