new delhi top indian shooters jitu rai gagan narang and apurvi chandela were named in the countrys 27member squad for the upcoming commonwealth games to be held in gold coast australiathe national rifle association of india nrai announced the full quota of 27 shooters 25 men and 12 women after the organising committee of the games reduced the country quotas across sportsindia had fielded 30 shooters in the 2014 glasgow commonwealth games and bagged 17 medals 4 gold 9 silver 4 bronzethough most of the disciplines will be held in gold coast shooting will be held at the belmont shooting centre in brisbane from april 8 to 14 there will be nine mens and eight womens events in the three disciplines of rifle pistol and shotgunbesides rai and narang other top shooters among men include sanjeev rajput manvjit singh sandhu and mohammed asabin the 2014 glasgow commonwealth games rai had won a gold in the mens 50m pistol event while narang had bagged a silver and a bronze in the 50m rifle prone and 50m rifle 3 position eventsamong women experienced heena sidhu promising youngsters mehuli ghosh and manu bhakar have also been named along with chandelachandel had won a gold in womens 10m air rifle event in glasgowwe have gone strictly by performance and merit as usual for the commonwealth games given the reduced quotas it was tough to have to leave out a few shooters who had shot consistently well over the considered period and we went for consistent top ranks across multiple events nrai president raninder singh saidwe believe we have a quality squad to match up and even better our performances of yesteryears there are some exciting and extremely talented youngsters who will rub shoulders with established seniors and i am sure they will come out better with the experience he saidthe nrai also named squads for the six international shooting sport federation world cup stages of this yearthe junior shooters who have made it to the commonwealth games squad have not been selected for the junior world cups in view of the importance attached to the cwgthe squadmen 1550m rifle 3 position sanjeev rajput chain singh50m rifle prone chain singh gagan narang10m air rifle ravi kumar deepak kumar25m rapid fire pistol anish neeraj kumar50m free pistol jitu rai om prakash mitharwal10m air pistol jitu rai om prakash mitharwaltrap manavjit singh sandhu kynan chenaidouble trap mohd asab ankur mittalskeet smit singh sheeraj sheikhwomen 1250m rifle 3 position anjum moudgil tejaswini sawant50m rifle prone anjum moudgil tejaswini sawant10m air rifle apurvi chandela mehuli ghosh25m sports pistol heena sidhu annuraj singh10m air pistol heena sidhu manu bhakertrap shreyasi singh seema tomardouble trap shreyasi singh varsha varmanskeet saniya sheikh maheshwari chauhan