Media Release
Mangaluru, Feb 15: Members of the Mangalore Rifle Club (R) participated in the Pathfinder Open Shooting Championship organized by the Pathfinder Global School, Pataudi, Haryana on February 5.
In the only event that the members participated namely, 10 m open sight air rifle shooting, they bagged 12 medals. Among these, 5 were gold, 5 were silver and 2 were bronze. This was made possible under the able guidance of their trainer Mukesh Kumar.
The members of the club expressed their gratitude to the commissioner of police, Mangaluru, M Chandra Sekhar IPS; J R Lobo, MLA of Mangaluru south constituency; captain Ganesh Karnik, MLC and wing commander P C Pant, commanding officer of 6 KAR Air Sqn, NCC, Mangaluru for their wholehearted support.
The participants in the men’s category were Deepesh S, student of Canara PU College, Mangaluru, Joyel Sujith Lobo, student of Karavali College of Hotel Management and Zahir Manipady.
In the women’s category the participants were V Sreelakshmi, student of St Aloysius College, Mangaluru, Nazima Manipady and Velsa S Pinto, student of MITE, Moodbidri.
The Mangalore Rifle Club is the only second of its kind in the state of Karnataka after Bengaluru. It began with an intention to train the young minds in this sport and develop some awareness about it in Mangaluru. Scarcity of good institutions for sports in the city inspired Mukesh Kumar to start this innovative academy for shooting.
The academy is provided with eight lanes of 10m air rifle and air pistol training with a full time coach.
Currently due to the shortage of funds, the academy uses Indian made rifles, further on finding some sponsors, the academy wishes to upgrade to German made rifles and pistols.
The academy wants to provide the best facilities in the country so that a large number of participants emerge from the state of Karnataka and particularly from the state of Mangaluru.
The academy also plans to develop 50m and 25m range in rifle and pistol shooting and to also have training in skeet shooting.
More information about the academy, will be found at www.mangalorerifleclub.com.