Who is Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore?
Who is Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore?
He was elected as an MP in the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Jaipur Rural constituency. On 9 November 2014, he was sworn-in as the Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, under the Narendra Modi government. He was appointed the Minister of Sports on 3 September 2017.
Who is the first sports person to win an individual silver medal in shooting?
Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Major R.S Rathore. India won its first-ever silver medal in the individual event at the Olympics when its ace shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore struck it on the fourth day at the 28th Olympic Games in Athens bringing good news to millions of sports fans back home.
Which game did Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore?
He had, after all, led a regiment in Kashmir. But sport shooting was a different game; it was more to do with ‘precision’ rather than ‘target’ as he would later put it. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore first picked up the gun for sport purposes in 1998 when the Indian army decided to form a shooting team.
At what age Rajyavardhan Rathore started shooting?
It’s a statement that will not hold true for most other Olympic disciplines, but Rathore only took up professional shooting in 1998, when he was 28.
