NEW DELHI (India): Olympic quota winners Angadvir Singh Bajwa, Mairaj Ahmad Khan along with Olympian Kynan Chenai will represent India at the shotgun World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, between February 22-March 5, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) said.
Two times Asian Games silver medalist Lakshay Sheoran is the other member of the squad.
A total of 400 shooters from 31 countries are likely to take part in the event.
The NRAI has also selected 12 more rifle and pistol shooters along with the 12 selected for the shotgun World Cup for the Asian online shooting competition in Kuwait on January 29 and 30.
All the eight Olympic quota-winners in air rifle and pistol, Divyansh Singh Panwar, Deepak Kumar, Apurvi Chandela, Anjum Moudgil, Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma, Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Singh Deswal will be joined by Arjun Babuta, Elavenil Valarivan, Sarabjot Singh and Annuraj Singh.
The NRAI has also said that the team for the rifle and pistol World Cups in Delhi and Changwon would be selected after the next set of selection trials at the Dr Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, from February 8.
Squad Shotgun World Cup:
Trap: Lakshay Sheoran, Kynan Chenai, Prithviraj Tondaiman; Rajeshwari Kumari, Shreyasi Singh, Manisha Keer.
Skeet: Angadvir Singh Bajwa, Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Gurjoat Singh Khangura; Ganemat Sekhon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Karttiki Singh Shaktawat.
