Avneet Sidhu

About Avneet Sidhu

Avneet Kaur Sidhu is an Indian shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) with Tejaswini Sawant at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.She contested in the 10 m air rifle and 50 m rifle three positions at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Career Highlights:

• In August 2006, winning an Olympic quota for India in the 49th World Shooting Championship held at Zagreb (Croatia), she became the sixth sportsperson (shooting) of the country to book a quota place in the Olympic Games 2008 Beijing, China. 
  
• she won in the 15th Asian Games held at Doha (Qatar) in 2006, a bronze in the 11th Asian Shooting Championship held in Kuwait and a gold medal in AISL Australia Cup II held at Sydney in March 2008.
  
• She is the first woman shooter from Punjab to represent India in the Beijing Olympic Games, 2008 and the first woman shooter from Punjab to win the Commonwealth and Asian Games medals. 
  

Avneet Sidhu Achievements

• Commonwealth Games 2006, Melbourne - Gold medal Team
  
• Commonwealth Games 2006, Melbourne - Silver Medal Individual
  
• Asian Games,Doha 2006 - Bronze medal
  
• 11th Asian Shooting Championship, Kuwait, 2007 - Bronze medal
  
• 33rd National Games, Guwahati, 2007 - two silver medals
  
• 51st National Shooting Championship,Ahmedabad - Gold medal
  
• 2008: Arjuna Award