Tokyo Games: Ahead Of Olympics, Indian Skeet Shooter Angad Vir Singh Bajwa Receives Lessons Remotely From Nigerian Coach | Olympics News
Indian skeet shooter Angad Vir Singh Bajwa’s Olympic preparation has a distinctive feel about it. Currently based in Italy, Bajwa has been “receiving his lessons remotely” from his foreign coach in Norway, Tore Brovold, while training alongside members of Kuwait and Qatar national teams in the northern Italian town of Lonato. It is quite different from the programme charted for the rest of his Tokyo-bound compatriots, who are being trained together by a handful of coaches at the same venue in Zagreb, Croatia.
Mairaj Ahmad Khan, who is going to shoot alongside Bajwa in the skeet men’s skeet event in Tokyo, is in his final stretch of preparations in another Italian town under longtime coach Ennio Falco.
“Angad is receiving his coaching lessons from Tore Brovold remotely. And he has been practising alongside shooters from Qatar and Kuwait,” a National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) source told PTI on Friday.
“They were training together under Ennio Falco but Angad came over to Lonato after both of them got their vaccine shots in Croatia. I think his coach wanted him to train in Lonato,” he added.
An accomplished shooter, Norwegian Brovold won the silver medal in the Beijing Olympics and gold in the prestigious ISSF World Cup Final in the same year. Bajwa, who has a shotgun range at home and had tried his hand in pistol shooting before switching to skeet, has been constantly in touch with his coach via video calling during the COVID-induced lockdown last year too, something that has helped him become better after the pandemic delayed the Games by a year.
