Jaipur, Nov. 27 -- When Sakshi Padekar first decided to try out shooting as a possible sports career, even renting the guns and buying basic ammunition was a challenge and her parents had to mortgage her mother's jewelry to just get things rolling.
The 22-year-old daughter of a security guard in a manufacturing unit in Pune Maharashtra, has come a long way since then as she clinched the women's 10m Air Rifle individual gold medal with a dominant show in the Khelo India University Games Rajasthan 2025 and also led the Lovely Professional University team to the top of the podium.
What makes this achievement all the more special is that this was Sakshi's first major 10m Air Rifle triumph as she had always focused on 50m Rifle events, which s...