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Anjali Bhagwat

Personal information
Birth name	Anjali Ramakanta Vedpathak
Nationality	Indian
Born	(1969-12-05)5 December 1969 (age 55) Mumbai,Maharashtra
Height	5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Website	anjalibhagwat.com
Sport
Sport	Rifle shooting
Turned pro	1988
Medal record Women'sshooting Representing India Asian Championships 2012 Doha 10 m air rifle team Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester Air Rifle (Individual) 2002 Manchester Air Rifle Team 2002 Manchester 3P (Individual) 2002 Manchester 3P Team 2006 Melbourne 3P Team Commonwealth Championships 1999 Auckland Air Rifle (Individual) 1999 Auckland Air Rifle Team 1999 Auckland 3P(Individual) 2001 England Air Rifle (Individual) 2001 England Air Rifle Team 2001 England 3P(Individual) 2001 England 3P Team 2005 Melbourne Air Rifle Team 2005 Melbourne 3P (Individual) 1999 Auckland 3P Team 2001 England Air Rifle Team 2005 Melbourne Air Rifle (Individual)

Anjali Bhagwat (born 5 December 1969) is a professionalIndiansport shooter. She became the World Number One in10m Air Rifle in 2002. She also won her firstWorld Cup Final inMilan, in 2003, with a score of 399/400.^[1]

Anjali won theISSF Champion of Champions award and is the only Indian to win the ISSF Champions' Trophy inAir Rifle Men & Women mixed event atMunich in 2002. She has represented India in three consecutiveOlympics, and was a finalist in the2000 Sydney Olympics, a first for any Indian women shooter and also the first Indian athlete to make an Olympic final sinceP.T. Usha in 1984.^[2] She has won 12 gold and 4 silver medals in theCommonwealth Games andCommonwealth Shooting Championships. She is a Commonwealth record holder in10m Air Rifle and Sports Rifle3P. In the 2003 Afro-Asian Games, Bhagwat created history by becoming the first Indian woman shooter to get gold and a silver medal in the Sports3P andAir Rifle events respectively.

To date, she has won 31 Gold, 23 Silver and 7 Bronze medals. She has set 13 new records in international competitions and has won 55 Gold, 35 Silver and 16 Bronze medals, with 8 new records in national competitions in India.

Anjali Ramakant Vedpathak was born on 5 December 1969,^[3] in aMarathi family inMumbai.^[4] Inspired by the legendary athleteCarl Lewis, Bhagwat developed an interest in sports.^{[citation needed]} Her first brush with shooting occurred during her stint as a cadet in theNational Cadet Corps (NCC). A student ofJudoKarate and advanced mountaineering, Bhagwat was very much attracted toNCC. She joinedKirti College inMumbai mainly due to its close affinity with theNCC. As a part of her curriculum she got into MRA (Maharashtra Rifle Association). She started shooting at the age of 21 and within 7 days of holding a gun, she took part in the National Championship of 1988, winning a silver medal forMaharashtra in the process.

Sanjay Chakravarthy was her first coach. She credits him for her strong fundamentals and basics; instilled over a period of over 5 years.^{[citation needed]} She turned pro when she first participated in theNational Championships in 1988. She won Silver for her state and continues to play for theMaharashtra team. Her tally of 55 Gold, 35 Silver and 16 Bronze medals in domestic Competitions is unbeaten.

She participated in her first international event in 1995, in theSAF games. Her first international Gold winning performance was in the Commonwealth Championship in Auckland in 1999, where she won 3 Gold medals and a silver medal inAir Rifle,3P individual and the team event. She is the only woman to have won theWorld Cup forIndia.^{[citation needed]} She considers her rivalGalkina Lioubov (Russia) as an idol competitor.^{[citation needed]}

In December 1999, she started training under Laszlo Szucsak, the then coach for the Indian Shooting Team. Bhagwat had personally approached Laszlo after watching his work with the Malaysian Shooting squad.^{[citation needed]} The Hungarian remained with the team for a year during which Bhagwat earned a wild card entry in the2000 Sydney Olympics, where she went on to become one of the finalists. From 2001 to 2004, Bhagwat trained without a coach, and still managed to become World Number One in 2002.

During the year 2006, Laszlo re-joined the national shooting squad as the team Coach, and Bhagwat trained with him till 2008. In the year 2008, Stanislav Lapidus was appointed the coach by theIndian National Army for the national squad. Many stalwarts of the sport of shooting often rateWorld Championships higher than theOlympics. Bhagwat has ranked her victory as the Champions of Champions in 2002 as the best moment in her career. She still remains the only Indian to have ever won the title.^{[citation needed]}

Bhagwat uses aFeinwerkbau, a German-made rifle for herAir Rifle events. For 10m she prefers aFeinwerkbau while for 50m she uses a .22Walther.

Bhagwat's first kit was gifted to her byBollywood actor and a fellow shooter,Nana Patekar in 1993. She was officially sponsored by the Hinduja Foundation in 2000, and later by theMittal Champions Trust in 2008.Hyundai Corporation also supported her training prior to 2004.

Rajiv Gandhi Khel-Ratna (2003)^[5]
Arjuna Award (2000)^[6]

• 1992:Shree Shiv Chattrapati Award
• 1993:Maharashtra Gaurav Puraskar
• 1993:Vasantrav Naik Pratishthan Puraskar
• 2002:Indo-American Society[1]^[usurped] Young Achiever award
• 2003:Times Group Maharashtra Shaan
• 2003:Hero Indian Sports Award -Best sportswoman
• 2003:HISA Sports Woman of the year
• 2003:HISA Shooter of the year
• 2004:HISA Shooter of the year
• 2005:GR8 women achievers award
• 2005:Teacher's achievement award
• 2006:F I E Foundation National award

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Bhagwat has two siblings; a younger brother Rahul and an elder sister Neena. She is atennis andcricket enthusiast.Yoga andmeditation form a large part of her daily routine. Her mother sang forAIR (All India Radio) while her sister is a singer too. An avid reader, she enjoys fiction.

In December 2000, she married Mumbai-based businessman, Mandar Bhagwat. The couple has a son named Aaradhya born in 2010. In 2006, she shifted her base fromMumbai toPune due city's better sporting facilities. Bhagwat is currently coaching six shooters in Pune, for which she also utilizes her own range. The 10m range is a part of her house and she usually practises there.

She has promoted sports through associations withSahara andReliance. Bhagwat was vastly appreciated for her participation in India's bid for hostingCommonwealth Games 2010 alongside sporting legends likeSunil Gavaskar.

Bhagwat was a part of theBournvita Quiz Contest as a special guest. She was also a part of the expert panel onCNN-IBN during theCommonwealth Games in 2006 and 2010. She featured in the Hero Honda Sports Awards, 2007 where she sang and danced impromptu with former Indian cricketersVinod Kambli andAjay Jadeja. She has also been the subject of inspiration for many including a noted writer and columnist,Shobha De, who dedicated her column to Bhagwat after their interaction at an award ceremony.

She has been on the government selection panel for some of the top notch sports award, both on state & national level such as Shiv Chatrapati Award, Arjuna Award and Dronacharaya Award. Apart from this she has done a guest appearance in Marathi filmBokya Satbande. She has walked ramp twice for fashion designer Vikram Phadnis.^{[citation needed]} She has been teaching blind students.^{[citation needed]} She regularly writes for different newspaper and magazines.

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• Anjali Bhagwat at theInternational Shooting Sport Federation

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