Skeet Shooter Maheshwari Chauhan opens up on winning bronze at Asian Games 2026
Speaker 2: What is your feeling right now that finally a medal to you guys? What is it feeling?
Speaker 1: I feel very fortunate. I feel very very happy that we're part of the team to be winning a medal. I think it was a good team effort that we could finish on the podium. It wasn't our best performances, but the conditions were tough. The range wasn't easy, so I'm glad that we could put up a strong fight. And I think we're not totally satisfied with the color of the medal, but we're happy to be going back with a medal for sure.
Speaker 2: So the game has been started, you know, shooting is the only the game who are bringing medals for the country. How does it feel to you guys and you know many more games are left right now for shooters. So we are hoping for you know package of medals home.
Speaker 1: Definitely, I do believe that the Indian shooting contingent's one of the strongest. and I think you know, part of the game is that you're gonna win and lose, but the kind of experience and season athletes that we have in the team, I think it's fair to expect and it's all right because we're all gonna do our best. And and we do believe that our best is good enough to win medals, Sweta.
Speaker 2: Whom you dedicate this to?
Speaker 1: to to my team, to the girls and to my federation and to everyone. It's really it's taken an entire village to support us, to get us here. So we've got great coaching staff and support staff. We've got our federation put in a lot of camps for us leading up. So we actually started our prep back in July and I think it's really a team effort, but I would dedicate this medal to the two girls I'm in the team with.
Speaker 2: And how much do you try to play a crucial role in your all this thing, you know, in your journey?
Speaker 1: Um, I, so it's been amazing. I know the kind of like support and funding that's coming is great. It's very well appreciated, especially for a sport like shotgun. It is very expensive, it's very inaccessible if you don't have the right kind of support. And the way you can see shooting building, especially shotgun shooting building now, uh, you know that it has the right kind of guidance and light and foundation building, and that's the only reason you can see the medals that you do today.
