Media Release
Mangaluru, Jul 28: The 1st National Level Open Shooting Championship will be hosted by Mangalore Rifle Club, with the support of the district administration of Dakshina Kannada, from July 30 to August 7. The NR and ISSF matches will be held in Mangalore Rifle Club, situated in Jugul Towers, 4th Floor, Kadri, Mallikatte. It accommodates 10 lanes of 10M air rifle and pistol training. The participants have a chance to win cash prizes in 10M Air Rifle and Air Pistol for both men and women under Sub-youth, Youth, Junior and Senior categories. The Open Challenge match for Air Rifle and Air Pistol, with a cash prize of Rs 1 lac each for the champions, will be held on August 7, at US Mallya Indoor Stadium. This would be a great opportunity for the public to witness an Olympic level sport in Coastal Karnataka.
The event will be inaugurated on July30 at 9:30 am in Jugul Towers, 4th floor, Kadri, Mallikatte by chief guests, Premananda Shetty, mayor of Mangaluru; Harish Poonja, MLA; Mahabaleshwara MS, general manager of Karnataka Bank and Ghayathri R, zonal head of Bank of Baroda. The prize distribution of NR category will be held on August 1 at 6:00 pm in Jugul Towers 4th floor, Kadri, Mallikatte by chief guests, Bindushree P, deputy commissioner excise, Gokuldas Nayak, joint director of District Industries Centre, Sanjeev Yadav - general manager of United Breweries Group and Kiran B N - proprietor, Sachh Properties. And finals will be held on August 7 at US Mallya Indoor Stadium, Lalbagh and the chief guests for the final event are Dr Rajendra K V - deputy commissioner, Dr Sumitha - Indian shooting team physiotherapist, N Shashi Kumar IPS - commissioner of police, Ifthikar Ali- MPT PHd - syndicate member of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Kota Shrinivas Poojary - minister of Backward Classes Welfare, Vedavyas Kamath - MLA Mangaluru city South constituency, Vishal Hedge - pro chancellor (Admin) of Nitte Education Trust, Farhaad Yenepoya - director Yenepoya group.
Mangalore Rifle Club which is an affiliated Unit of Karnataka State Rifle Association (KSRA) was established in 2016 and over the years it has constantly worked towards its vision of spreading awareness about this Olympic level sport by offering efficient, quality and safe training to interested individuals. It intends to conduct this event to garner the attention of the public toward this sport and help them realise that in addition it builds one's character by enhancing courage, improving focus and concentration, developing self-discipline, and promoting self-analysis. The event will also boost the morale of the participants to strive for perfection.
Mangalore Rifle Club, is the only Air Rifle and Pistol Shooting club in Coastal Karnataka. Currently, it has a cohort of 30+ committed members in the youth, junior and senior categories respectively, who have bagged several accolades at different university, state and national level events.