Tilottama Sen
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| Born | 25 April 2008 Bengaluru, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tilottama Sen (born 25 April 2008) is an Indian sport shooter from Bengaluru.[1] In October 2023 she won the silver medal in the women's 10m air rifle event at the Asian Shooting Championship at Changwon in South Korea, earning a quota place for the Paris Olympics .[2] She is the youngest Indian to win a quota for the Olympics, and if selected to the Indian team, she would be the third youngest Indian at Olympics in Paris.[3]
Early life and background[edit]
Sen's family hails from Kolkata but are residents of Bengaluru.[4] She is studying Class 9 at Bluebell Public School, Bengaluru.[4] She started with volleyball and karate[4] but shifted to shooting later on. Inspired by Abhinav Bindra’s exploits at the Olympics, her father Sujit Sen, who works at TechMahindra, encouraged her to take up sport shooting. Initially, her father had to use his provident fund and retirement savings to buy equipment for her daughter.[5] But soon she got support from the Reliance Foundation and TOPS programme.[6] She practices at the Karnataka State Rifle Association shooting range at the Sports Authority of India (South Centre) at Kengeri in Bengaluru[3] or at the Hawkeye Rifle Shooting Academy.[7]
Career[edit]
Sen won gold medal at the World Championship in Cairo in the women's junior category in October 2022.[6] In November 2022, she won two gold in the individual and team events at the Asian Airgun gold in Daegu, South Korea.[4][8]
In March 2023, she made her senior international debut winning a bronze in the ISSF World Cup at Cairo, Egypt,[3][4] despite a technical issue with her rifle.[5] But she missed the Asian Games selection trials.[9]
At the 2023 Asian Shooting Championships in Changwon, Sen won silver in the 10m Air Rifle, earning India a quota place to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[10]
Awards[edit]
2024: Sportstar Aces Awards 2024: Young Achiever of the Year (female).[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Tilottama SEN". International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Tilottama Sen, Arjun Babuta clinch two more Paris quota places for India". Hindustan Times. 27 October 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ a b c "B'luru shooter, 15, youngest Indian to qualify for Oly". The Times of India. 28 October 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Teen dreams of Olympic medal after bagging bronze in Cairo". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ a b "From balloon-popping to Shooting WC bronze: 14-year-old Tilottama Sen is just getting started". ESPN. 1 March 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ a b Bureau, Sports (18 October 2022). "Indian juniors bag three more gold in World Championship". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ Kiran,DHNS, Sidney. "Tilottama turned hobby into shooting success". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ Achal, Ashwin (13 November 2022). "Tilottama Sen's dream run continues at the Asian Airgun Championship". Sportstar. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "Only 15, shooter Tilottama Sen overcomes heartbreaks to secure Paris Olympics quota". The Indian Express. 27 October 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
- ^ Vimal Sankar (28 October 2023). "Teenager Sen among medallists as India extend Paris 2024 shooting quotas to eleven". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media Company. Archived from the original on 28 October 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ Sportstar, Team (8 February 2024). "Sportstar Aces Awards 2024: Tilottama Sen wins Young Achiever of the Year award". Sportstar. Retrieved 9 February 2024.