Joydeep Karmakar (; born 7 September 1979) is an Indian

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. Starting his sports career in 1989, he represented India in rifle prone events in various championships. He became a Junior National Champion in his first Nationals in 1994. He has represented India in 28 World Cups, 2 Commonwealth Games, 1 Asian Games and 3 World Championships. Karmakar competed at the

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, where he narrowly missed the podium with a fourth-place finish in the men's 50 metre rifle prone event.

Career

On 3 August 2012, Joydeep qualified for the Olympic Finals of Men's 50 metre Rifle Prone event After six rounds, Joydeep was at joint fourth with eight other shooters. However, there was a shoot off between the nine tied shooters, in which Joydeep scored 51.6 and finished fourth in the shoot off, thereby qualifying for the final round as he finished 7th overall. In the final he scored 104.1 and with a total of 699.1 he finished fourth, behind the bronze medal winner,

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. Earlier in 2010 he had participated in ISSF World Cup, Sydney and won a silver medal with an Asian Record score of 599/600. He is still the only silver medalist in World Cup in Prone event from India. His National Record Scores of 594/600, 595, 598 & 599 from 2005 to 2010 was unique as Joydeep only bettered his own record. Apart from more than 70 National Medals, he also won Individual Australian Open Cup, Commonwealth Championships Gold and South Asian double Gold. In domestic competitions he held the Kumar Surendra Singh record of 597/600 in Prone. He participated in International tournaments till 2015, including

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and 2014 Incheon Asian Games and ISSF World Championships in Granada, Spain. In late 2015 he set up a shooting academy in Kolkata named JKSA (Joydeep Karmakar Shooting Academy) which include more than 700 shooters. and above 100 champions. at

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. Later in 2018, he opened the other two branches of JKSA at

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and Bally, which is named as Shooting Sports Club Howrah, where he with other National & International shooters are training newcomers to the nuances of Rifle Shooting. In 2022 he established another shooting range for the top players in Dumdum. Karmakar is the

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and mentor of

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and

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silver medallist Mehuli Ghosh.

Summer Olympics

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Karmakar qualified for the finals of men's 50 metre rifle prone with a score of 595. In the final he scored 104.1 and finished fourth with a total score of 699.1, behind the bronze medal winner,

, whose aggregate score was 701.Shooting results for 50m rifle prone o
official 2012 London Olympics website

Personal life

Karmakar was born on 7 December 1979, to Santo Karmakar and Gayatri Karmakar, in

. His father, Santo Karmakar was a three-time national swimming champion and the well known introducer of sports air pistol in West Bengal. He married Radhika Ghosh Karmakar. His son, Adriyan Karmakar, has also represented India and won silver medal in 50m rifle prone event at Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany in May 2025.

Awards and accolades

Joydeep Karmakar has received the following awards and accolades: *

Arjuna Award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards given for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjun ...

in 2012 * West Bengal Khel Samman Award in 2013–14 * ABP Shera Bangali 2013

Trained Shooters

* Mehuli Ghosh * Adriyan Karmakar

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Karmakar, Joydeep Living people 1979 births Indian male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters for India Recipients of the Arjuna Award Seth Anandram Jaipuria College alumni University of Calcutta alumni Shooters at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games shooters for India Shooters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Indian sports coaches