Vijayveer Sidhu Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Vijayveer Sidhu

• Vijayveer Sidhu is an Indian sports activities shooter. He is thought for bagging the seventeenth Paris Games quota place for India in January 2024.

• Vijayveer Sidhu began sports activities capturing on the age of 8 throughout a summer time camp at St Xavier’s School in Mansa, Punjab. In 2015, he, alongside together with his family, moved to Sector 51, Chandigarh, to offer higher capturing coaching for him and his brother.

• He took his skilled coaching below coach D. S. Chandel. In June 2018, Vijjayveer turned well-known after he received the gold medal within the 25m air pistol occasion on the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Cup in Suhl, Germany. According to Vijayveer, he and his brother received the gold medal with borrowed pistols. Vijayveer shot with teammate and good friend Arjun Singh Cheema’s gun, whereas his brother used the coach’s gun. In an interview, he mentioned that he and his brother received medals with borrowed pistols on the Junior ISSF World Championships in Changwon.

• Since 2019, Vijayveer’s predominant purpose has been to win a medal on the Paris Olympics in 2024. In 2019, he talked about his additional targets and revealed that he first needed to clear his class 1 exams after which deal with the Paris 2024 Games. He mentioned,
  

  Right now, we’re grounded. You can perceive, that our mom is a schoolteacher. Disconnected from the world, we get cell phones for less than an hour a day. We are doing targeted research. Further targets? “Tokyo (Olympics) to mushkil hai (looks difficult) but we guarantee to be there in Paris in 2024.”

• Vijayveer has represented India at varied International capturing tournaments together with ISSF Junior World Cup in 2018, World Championships in 2021, and the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.

• In November 2021, Vijayveer Sidhu received towards his twin brother Udhayveer Sidhu by one level to win the gold within the junior males’s 25-metre sports activities pistol occasion within the sixty fourth National Shooting Championship on the Dr. Karni Singh Range in Tughlakabad. Vijayveer shot 289 within the first stage and 298 within the second stage. His brother shot 292 and 294 within the two phases.

National Shooting: Twins Vijayveer and Udayveer Sidhu make it 1-2 for Punjab in Junior Men’s 25m Pistol. pic.twitter.com/j1qWuJSqzu

— indianshooting.com (@indianshooting) November 21, 2021

• In 2023, Vijayveer represented India on the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China. In the boys’s 25 m rapid-fire pistol staff occasion, he and his teammates Adarsh Singh and Anish Bhanwala received dwelling a bronze medal. However, Vijayveer didn’t rank amongst medal winners within the 25 m rapid-fire pistol males’s ultimate capturing occasion as he stood fourth with a rating of 21 factors.

• Vijayveer Sidhu was impressed by Indian shooter Gagan Narang to pursue sports activities capturing.

• On 13 January 2024, Vijayveer Sidhu received an Olympic quota berth for the Paris Olympics within the 25m fast hearth by profitable a silver medal on the Asian Olympic Qualifiers in Jakarta, Indonesia.