Elizabeth Susan Koshy, (born May 10, 1994) is an Indian

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from

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Career

Koshy made her international debut at the Junior meet in Germany in 2011 in which the Indian team was in sixth place. Koshy won five gold medals in

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at the State championship in the same year. She won silver in the

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and represented India in the 2013 and 2014 World Cups. Koshy took part in the

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. Koshy won gold in the 2015 National Games women's 50m Rifle Prone event, the first for Kerala. She was coached by

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-based Satguru Dass from the navy. From

Kochi Kochi ( , ), List of renamed Indian cities and states#Kerala, formerly known as Cochin ( ), is a major port city along the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea. It is part of the Ernakulam district, district of Ernakulam in the ...

, she was inspired to take up the sport on seeing a pre-National shooting championship during her childhood; she said that her grandfather was a hunter. She has taken part in prone, three-position and

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events but prefers three-position.

References

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