Narang set milestone for his academy trainees: Singh

It was a celebration time for the academy situated at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports complex in Balewadi as the trainees distributed sweets and danced to drum beats after their role model won the bronze.

The 35-year-old Singh, who is also the Indian Shooting team coach, said the bronze completes a circle as an Olympic medal was only missing from Narang's cabinet.

"He had won the World Championships, World Cup, Asian Games, Asian Championship and Commonwealth Games but the Olympic medal was only missing. It completes a circle," an elated Singh told PTI from Pune.

"The trainees who look up to Narang as their role model, it will be a milestone which they would look to challenge and better in future. It's a huge motivation for them."

Gun for Glory shooting academy was set up by Narang and Singh on May 1, 2011 and the shooters from the academy have so far won 67 international medals.

Out of the 11 shooters in London, four are from the Gun for Glory academy including Annu Raj Singh, Rahi Sarnobat and Heena Sidhu apart from Narang himself.

"We are very happy with this bronze medal win though we were expecting a gold for Gagan, however, we are delighted to see Gagan wining some medal at Olympics as it was only the Olympic medal that was missing in his accolades," Singh said.

"We feel that Rahi Sarnobat and Anuu Raj Singh would also put up a great show." MORE