State’s youngest trap shooter Shapath Bharadwaj, a student of class 9, will represent his country in Jr World Cup in Suhl of Germany scheduled to be held from April 29 to May 6.
Shapath and other team mates currently undergoing seven days training cum practice camp at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in Delhi ahead of the their departure to play in the World Cup. Sahapth surprised the shooting fraternity by displaying his outstanding performance at the tender age of 14 during selection trials at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in Delhi in which he scored 255 out of 300 and ensured his place in National Team.
The budding shooter gave credit of his success to his coach Yoginder Pal Singh (Yogi) who himself is a renowned international shooter. His training with clinical psychologist Dr Seema Sharma also helped him a lot in maintaining cool and focused at the time of pressure and he expressed his gratitude for her.
He earlier attained 5th rank in 59th National shooting championship held in Jaipur in December 2015 and became country`s youngest double trap shooter who got selected in National Team Squad second year in a row.
He was youngest participant in 35th National Games held in Kerala in the month of February 2015, represented Uttarakhand in the Games at the age of 13 and played with country`s ace double trap shooters. c