Divyansh Singh Panwar (born 19 October 2002) is an Indian

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. He won the silver medal in the

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event at the 2019 ISSF World Cup in Beijing and secured a quota position for India at the

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where he achieved rank 32 at the Men's 10 metre air rifle event.

Early life

Panwar was born on 19 October 2002 to Ashok Panwar, a staff at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in

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, and Nirmala Devi, a qualified nurse. Panwar took up shooting in 2014 at the age of 12 and initially used his elder sister Anjali's weapons at the Jangpura shooting range in Jaipur. In 2017, his father became worried by his "''

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'' addiction" and enrolled him at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in

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where he trained under Deepak Kumar Dubey.

Career

Panwar won two gold medals at the

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in Suhl. The trio of Panwar, Hriday Hazarika and Shahu Tushar Mane won gold in the junior men's team 10 metre air rifle event with a score of 1875.3, a world junior record. In the junior mixed team event, Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan broke the world junior record, scoring 498.6, to clinch gold. At the

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in Changwon, Panwar and Shreya Agarwal won bronze in the 10 metre air rifle junior mixed team event. After finishing 12th in the individual 10 metre air rifle event of 2019 ISSF World Cup in Delhi, Panwar won silver at the same event in Beijing. He secured India's fourth quota spot in shooting discipline at the

with the performance. Paired with

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in the mixed team event at the World Cup, he won gold in Beijing, gold in Munich and bronze in Rio de Janeiro. At the 2019 World Cup Final in Putian, Panwar bagged gold in the individual 10 metre air rifle, and gold in the mixed team event with Croatia's

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. In May 2019, he was promoted from developmental group to core group of the

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Personal life

As of 2019, Panwar is a class 12 biology student at Maheshwari Public School, Jaipur, and regards himself to be "average" at studies. He practices meditation and carries a ''

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'' pocketbook with him.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Panwar, Divyansh Singh Living people 2002 births Indian male sport shooters 21st-century Indian sportsmen Sport shooters from Jaipur Medalists at the 2021 Summer Universiade FISU World University Games gold medalists for India FISU World University Games silver medalists for India Summer World University Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for India Asian Games shooters for India Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists in shooting