Chinki Yadav
{{short description|Indian sport shooter}}
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|birth_place=Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India{{cite web |title=Chinki YADAV |url=https://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHINDW2611199701 |publisher=ISSF Sports |accessdate=10 November 2019}}
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|coach= Jaspal Rana
|sport=Shooting
|event = 25 metre pistol
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{{MedalSport| 25 metre pistol shooting}}
{{MedalCountry| {{IND}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|ISSF World Cup}}
{{MedalGold| 2021 New Delhi|Individual}}
{{MedalGold| 2021 New Delhi|Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|ISSF Junior World Championships}}
{{MedalBronze| 2017 Suhl|Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|ISSF Junior World Cup}}
{{MedalGold| 2016 Gabala|Team}}
{{MedalBronze| 2016 Suhl|Team}}
{{MedalCompetition|Asian Shooting Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2015 Kuwait City|Junior Team}}
{{MedalBronze| 2015 Kuwait City|Junior Individual}}
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Chinki Yadav is an Indian sport shooter who competes in the 25 metre pistol event. She secured a quota place for India at the 2020 Summer Olympics by qualifying for the final of the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships.
Early and personal life
Yadav was born on 26 November 1997 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Her family lived in a single-room dormitory{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Ramendra |title=Beating all odds, Chinki Yadav shoots to glory |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/beating-all-odds-chinki-shoots-to-glory/articleshow/59360109.cms |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The Times of India |date=29 June 2017}} in the premises of the Tatya Tope Nagar Sports Complex where her father Mehtab Singh Yadav worked as an electrician. Yadav would accompany her father to the shooting range at the complex and, in 2012, decided to make a career in the sport.{{cite news |last1=Sharma |first1=Nitin |title=Father an electrician at shooting range, daughter wins Olympic quota |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chinki-yadav-father-an-electrician-at-shooting-range-daughter-wins-olympic-quota-6110660/ |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The Indian Express |date=9 November 2019}} While she took up pistol shooting and trained at the Madhya Pradesh Shooting Academy,{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Navneet |last2=Roy |first2=Avishek |title=Daughter of an electrician, Chinki Yadav shoots down Tokyo Olympics berth |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/other-sports/electrician-s-daughter-chinki-yadav-shoots-down-tokyo-olympics-berth/story-4Gxi6oRgxOMbALqlQULdIN.html |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=Hindustan Times}} her younger brother Rajesh chose shotgun but "did not pursue it as seriously as Chinki".{{cite news |last1=Mirza |first1=Firoz |title=One-room house to Olympic quota |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/other/2019/nov/09/one-room-house-to-olympic-quota-2059216.html |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The New Indian Express |date=9 November 2019}}
Career
Yadav won the bronze medal in the junior women's 25 metre pistol event at 2015 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait City with a score of 570.{{cite news |last1=Singh |first1=Ramendra |title=Bhopal's shooter wins bronze in Asian championship |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/shooting/Bhopals-shooter-wins-bronze-in-Asian-championship/articleshow/49664444.cms |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The Times of India |date=4 November 2015}} At the 2016 ISSF Junior World Cup, Yadav won bronze in the 25 metre pistol team event in Gabala{{cite news |title=India bag five more medals on day four of Junior Shooting World Cup; take tally to 23 |url=https://zeenews.india.com/sports/others/india-bag-five-more-medals-on-day-four-of-junior-shooting-world-cup-take-tally-to-23_1932034.html |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=Zee News |date=21 September 2016}} and bronze in the same event at Suhl.{{cite news |title=India women shooters take bronze at junior World Cup |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/other-sports/story/india-women-shooters-take-bronze-at-junior-world-cup-321818-2016-05-05 |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=India Today |date=5 May 2016}} She won bronze at the 2017 ISSF Junior World Championships in Suhl in the team event, along with Muskan and Gauri Sheoran.{{cite news |title=World Shooting Championship: Yashaswini, Anmol strike gold |url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/yashaswini-anmol-strike-gold/article19165681.ece |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The Hindu |date=28 June 2017}}
Yadav finished second in the qualification round of 2019 Asian Shooting Championships with a score of 588 and qualified for the final. This performance secured her a quota place for the 2020 Summer Olympics as four of the eight finalists were from countries which had already earned maximum quota places for the event. She came sixth in the final with a score of 116.{{cite news |title=Shooter Chinki Yadav bags India's 11th Olympic quota |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/shooting/shooter-chinki-yadav-bags-indias-11th-olympic-quota/articleshow/71968932.cms |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=The Times of India |date=8 November 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Kannan |first1=S. |title=Chinki Yadav fires Tokyo quota place |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/other-sports/story/chinki-yadav-fires-tokyo-quota-place-1617295-2019-11-09 |accessdate=10 November 2019 |work=India Today |date=9 November 2019}}
References
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External links
- {{ISSF | id=SHINDW2611199701 }}
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Category:Indian female sport shooters
Awards
- 2017: Eklavya Award by Government of Madhya Pradesh on National Sports Day
- 2019: Vikram Award by Government of Madhya Pradesh on National Sports Day