India have sent a record 21-member contingent to the Paris 2024 Olympics shooting competition, which will run from July 27 to August 5.

Former Youth Olympics champion Manu Bhaker returns for her second appearance at the Summer Games. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Anjum Moudgil and Elavenil Valarivan too had featured at Tokyo 2020.

The other 17 Indian shooters – including Asian Games gold medallist Sift Kaur Samra – will be making their debut at the Olympics in France.

All the Olympic shooting events will be taking place at the National Shooting Center in Châteauroux.

Paris 2024 Olympics shooting: Indian team

• Men: Arjun Babuta, Sandeep Singh, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomat, Swapnil Kusale, Arjun Cheema, Sarabjot Singh, Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu, Prithviraj Tondaiman, Anantjeet Singh Naruka
• Women: Elavenil Valarivan, Ramita Jindal, Anjum Moudgil, Sift Kaur Samra, Rhythm Sangwan, Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh, Rajeshwari Kumari, Shreyasi Singh, Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan

The Indian shooting contingent will be competing across all the 15 medal events at the upcoming showpiece in Paris – five each in pistol, rifle and shotgun competitions. Each event will consist of a qualification round, followed by the final medal round.

Among notable changes to the curriculum from Tokyo 2020, the skeet mixed team event will be making its debut at Paris 2024, where Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Maheshwari Chauhan will compete from India. It replaced the trap mixed team event from Tokyo 2020.

India have won four Olympic medals so far in shooting and the last one came at the 2012 Summer Games in London.

While Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore picked up India’s first-ever Summer Games medal in shooting with a silver in 2004, Abhinav Bindra’s 10m air rifle triumph at Beijing 2008 marked the country’s first Olympic gold medal in an individual event in any sports.

The other two podium finishes came at London 2012 with Vijay Kumar bagging silver in 25m men’s pistol and Gagan Narang clinching bronze in men’s 10m air rifle.