Ganemat Sekhon: Aiming to excel

Sekhon likes to color and attract her free time. Her dream is to construct a taking pictures vary in her hometown, Chandigarh. Ganemat Sekhon, 21, Shooter, Chandigarh; Photo by Sandeep SahdevGanemat Sekhon, at the moment India #1 (#25 globally), is the one Indian to win medals at worldwide skeet taking pictures competitions.Ganemat Sekhon, at the moment India #1 (#25 globally), is the one Indian to win medals at worldwide skeet taking pictures competitions.

She says her love for the game was prompt: “When I was 15, my father took me to a shooting range in Patiala. Within a month, I was in Delhi, had a coach and was training for the nationals.”

Her journey to the highest wasn’t straightforward – in 2016, her outing at a World Cup in Germany was a debacle. After that, she determined to compete internationally solely after rating #1 in India.

She achieved that by 2017 and, in a World Cup in Finland, received a bronze. In 2018, she received one other bronze at an ISSF World Cup in Australia and yet one more in Delhi in March 2021. In October, she received a silver on the 2021 Peru World Championships.

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