- Lived:
- b. 28 September 1982, Dehradun; raised in Chandigarh, where his father built him a shooting range at home; trained between that range and the great halls of European shooting; lives and works in India (as of September 2026)
- Field:
- sport shooting — the 10-metre air rifle, the most merciless precision event in the Olympic programme
- The Big Idea:
- On the morning of 11 August 2008 in Beijing, level with the leader and one pellet left, he shot a 10.8 — and India had its first individual Olympic gold medal after 108 years of trying. The barrier, it turned out, had been in the mind; he then wrote an unsparing book about what removing it had cost his own.
- In their words:
- "my obsessive journey to Olympic gold" — the subtitle he chose for his autobiography (as of September 2026)
- If you remember one thing:
- A billion people had never won an individual Olympic gold; one man decided the problem was solvable, spent twenty years solving it with the obsessiveness of an engineer debugging his own nervous system, solved it with the last shot of the final — and then told the truth about the price.