Vijay Kumar

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Vijay Kumar
medal table
Vijay Kumar (left) with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee (right) in 2013
Vijay Kumar (left) with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee (right) in 2013

Sport shooting

IndiaIndia India
Olympic games
silver London 2012 Rapid fire pistol 25 m
Asian Games
gold Doha 2006 Large caliber pistol (M)
bronze Doha 2006 Rapid fire pistol 25 m
bronze Guangzhou 2010 Air pistol 10 m
bronze Guangzhou 2010 Large caliber pistol
silver Incheon 2014 Large caliber pistol (M)
Commonwealth Games
gold Melbourne 2006 Rapid fire pistol 25 m
gold Melbourne 2006 Rapid fire pistol 25 m (P)
silver New Delhi 2010 Large caliber pistol
gold New Delhi 2010 Rapid fire pistol 25 m
gold New Delhi 2010 Large caliber pistol (P)
gold New Delhi 2010 Rapid fire pistol 25 m (P)

Vijay Kumar (born August 19, 1985 in Hamirpur ) is a former Indian sports shooter .

successes

Vijay Kumar took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London in two disciplines. With the air pistol he clearly missed the qualification for the final, with 570 points he remained 13 points below the number of points required for the qualification and took 31st place. In the competition with the rapid fire pistol , he moved into the final with 585 points as fourth in the qualification. In this five shots had to be fired in eight series, with the shooter with the lowest total number of points being eliminated from the fourth series. Kumar held his own until the last round, when only he and Leuris Pupo were left. Kumar was two points behind Pupo and only scored twice in the last series, so that Pupo increased the lead with four of his own and became Olympic champion . Kumar won the silver medal ahead of third-placed Ding Feng .

Kumar stayed without a medal at world championships , but was very successful at the continental level. After first finishing second at the Asian Championships in the individual competition with the large- bore pistol in Kuwait City in 2007 , he won the individual Asian championship with the standard pistol in Doha in 2012 . At the Asian Games in 2006 in Doha he won the bronze medal in the individual competition with the rapid-fire pistol, while he won gold in the team competition with the large-bore pistol. In 2010 in Guangzhou he took third place in the individual with both the air pistol and the large-bore pistol and thus won bronze. His last medal at Asian Games was a silver medal, which he in 2014 in Incheon won with the team in the discipline large-caliber gun. Kumar also won several medals at the Commonwealth Games . In 2006 he secured gold medal in Melbourne in both the individual and the pair competition with the rapid-fire pistol. At the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in 2010 , he repeated this success by winning both competitions again. In addition, he also won gold with the large-bore pistol in the pairs competition, while finishing the individual competition in second place behind his partner from the pairs competition, Harpreet Singh .

Kumar served in the Indian Army from 2001 to 2017 and held the rank of subedar major until he retired from active service . In 2019 he started working for the police. For his sporting success he received the Arjuna Award , the Padma Shri and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna .

Web links

Commons : Vijay Kumar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vijay Kumar. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Shooting at the 2012 London Summer Games: Men's Air Pistol, 10 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Shooting at the 2012 London Summer Games: Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol, 25 meters Final. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Vijay KUMAR. In: issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation , accessed November 7, 2019 .
  5. ^ Saurabh Shankar: The shot that clinched Olympic silver for Vijay Kumar. In: olympicchannel.com. August 19, 2019, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Kamesh Srinivasan: Olympic silver medalist Vijay turns cop. In: thehindu.com. The Hindu , January 10, 2019, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  7. ^ Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Awards Announced. In: gov.in. August 19, 2012, accessed November 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kumar, Vijay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian marksman
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamirpur , India