Heena Sidhu Family, Age, Wiki

Born to affluent parents, Heena has an illustrious family background, with her father Rajbir Sidhu being a National Shooter himself and her uncle Inderjit Sidhu being a Guns customizer and a professional Gun–maker. Her mother Rominder Kaur is a housewife, who has also been a big inspiration in her life. Heena is not the only National level shooter in her family. Her brother Karanbir has also represented India in the 10 metre Pistol Shooting event.

Heena Sidhu was born and brought up in Ludhiana, Punjab. She has received tremendous boost and support from her family to take up gun shooting. She has been able to excel in the sport within a raw age of 27 years only. Her date of birth is 29^th August 1989. Heena Sidhu stands at an impressive height of 5’ 4” (1.58 m) and has a weight of 51 kilograms.

Heena Sidhu Education

Heena pursued a career in medical sciences and is a well–known dentist. She completed a course in Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) in 2013. Her elementary education was from the Yadavindra Public School and college education had been in Patiala Gian Sagar Medical Institute. However, with her Jat family’s support, she took up a professional career in shooting, and has ever since made her family and nation feel very proud indeed with her performance.

Heena Sidhu started practising pistol shooting in 12^th standard. That was way back in 2006 when she qualified for the National Junior Team. Soon she also got into the National Senior Team. Heena shoots with her right arm, with a dominance of her right eye. She had started participating in competitions since 2007.

Heena Sidhu Career as Professional Pistol Shooter

Heena Sidhu debut or big breakthrough was the winning of a silver medal in the ISSF World Cup held in Beijing in 2009. She went on to win the first position in the women’s 10m Air Pistol at the national championships held in Kerala in 2009. Heena made it to the big league when she won a silver medal in the team event in the Women’s 10m Air Pistol along with Sonia Rai and Annu Raj Singh in the 2010 Asian Games held in Guangzhou, China.

Heena also won a ‘Gold Medal’ in the same event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi. She shared the honour with Annu Raj Singh. In the singles event, Heena grabbed a ‘Silver Medal’ as well, making India really proud of her. Heena was a part of the Indian squad in the 2012 London Olympic Games, and completed 12^th in the qualifying round of the 10 metre Air Pistol event.

Heena also took part in the official Olympic Games Movie in London titled “First: The Story of the London 2012 Olympic Games”. It was the heart–warming story of 12 athletes who were all first timers in the Olympic Games. Their journey from their home towns to the playgrounds of London had made a great movie.

Heena Sidhu Medals, World Records, Awards & Achievements

The failures in the Olympics could not daunt Heena. In 2013, Heena Sidhu’s long cherished dream came true when she won the gold medal in the ISSF World Cup Finals held in Munich, Germany. She broke the world record in her event again was rifle/pistol.

The finals were a great fight between Heena and the reigning world champion Zorana Arunovic of Serbia, as well as the champion of the previous edition, Olena Kostevych of Ukraine. Heena scored 203.8 points and her final lead was a huge 5 points. Her unbelievable win has been honoured by ISSF by featuring Heena on the cover page of the Federation’s Journal.

In 2016, Heena went to the Olympics for the second time in Rio. However, her performance as well as those of other Indian women shooters like Apurvi Chandela in the Olympics has remained much beneath expectations. Heena has been the ‘Arjuna Awardee‘ in the year 2014.

Heena Sidhu Love Life, Marriage, Husband

In her interviews, Heena has talked about dating her coach and mentor Ronak Pandit. They had a love affair and both the couples were spotted together at various events and parties. Their relationship culminated into Ronak Pandit and Heena Sidhu love story. Finally, Heena Sidhu was getting married with Ronak Pandit on 7^th February 2013.

The gorgeous and beautiful Heena Sidhu marriage was a closed affair. Only family members and close friends were invited to the wedding. Ronak, the husband of Heena Sidhu, himself was a champion pistol shooter. The love life between the two is awesome. Heena lives with her husband in Mumbai and the couple is yet to have any kids.

Heena Sidhu Controversies

Heena’s life has been full of controversies and interesting facts. She had a fight with Shobhaa De following the latter’s insulting and mocking comment about the Indian athletes’ dismal performance in the Rio Olympics. Heena pulled out of the Asian Airgun Shooting Championship in Tehran for the compulsory Hijab rules to be followed there.

Later she commented on her Twitter account about the Tehran incident. Heena, along with fellow shooter Anjali Bhagwat faced harassment by the Jet Airways who declined to allow them to board the plane with weapons.

Heena Sidhu Beauty Secrets, Net Worth, Upcoming Matches

One of the most attractive of the Indian female sports personalities, Heena looks stunning in new haircut. Her beauty secrets lie in her simplicity and innocent appearance. With a long way to go in her career, Heena already has a huge net worth.

You can check out each and every of Heena’s matches from the internet by live streaming and taking constant live updates. The nation looks forward to much better performance by one of the hottest women shooters of India, Heena Sidhu in all her upcoming matches and next championship.

Apurvi Chandela Age, Family, Wiki

Family is the most important community that constantly influences our upbringing and deals with the way we grow up. Apurvi Chandela family belongs to a Rajput family in the Udaipur District of Rajasthan. Apurvi Chandela parents are Kuldeep Singh Chandela, an hotelier in Udaipur and Bindu Rathore, a homemaker. Born in the year 1993, Apurvi Chandela date of birth is January 4th. Apurvi birthday parties are generally thrown by her closest friends and family. Her fans too contribute to it.

Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela age is 23 years as of now. Born and brought up in Rajasthan provinces Apurvi Chandela nationality is Indian. She is that woman who made Indians proud. Apurvi Chandela education qualification is honours graduate. She went to Maharani Gayatri Devi’s school in Jaipur. After she completed her schooling, she moved to Delhi where she studied sociology honours from Jesus and Mary’s college, Delhi University.

Apurvi Chandela height is 5 feet 1 inch which is definitely not a good sign for a sportsperson but she has proved that wrong completely. Apurvi Chandela weight is near about 57 kg after heavy diet and body structure which improved her fitness. Apurvi Chandela wiki suggests she have put up high hopes for 2016 summer Olympics. Her fans are definitely waiting to see her on field again.

Apurvi Chandela Early Career

Like wrestler Sushil Kumar, Apurvi Chandela started her career in sports very early. Starting at a very young age, Apurvi Chandela shooting debut happened when she was just 19 years old. She started her training at a range, which her uncle Hem Singh built for her in his house. Apurvi Chandela always enjoyed this sport of shooting. It was 2008 Olympics games, when Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal; it sparked the thirst in Apurvi to master this game.

Apurvi Chandela and Abhinav Bindra are both now Indian famous shooters. Abhinav Bindra is Apurvi’s all time favourite sports role model who inspired her to take up this sport. Apurvi Chandela gold medals list is what got her lot of fame and money. Hence Apurvi Chandela net worth is quite promising. Her performances have always been appreciated worldwide by her fans.

Apurvi Chandela Medals, Records

Apurvi Chandela, today, comes under top Indian women shooter in India. Apurvi Chandela career history tells us that she has made herself to rank as best female India shooter. She competes at 10 metres air riffle events. Apurvi Chandela first match was at National Shooting Championships, New Delhi where she won her first gold medal in 10 meters air rifle. Later she won gold medal in 2014 commonwealth games in Glasgow. Since then she never looked back.

In 2014, she also won four medals at the Inter-shoot Championships at The Hague which included two individual and two team medals. Apurvi scored 206.7 points in final of commonwealth games 2014, thus creating a new games record. Apurvi Chandela emerged as ‘the shooter of the tournament’ in the Swedish cup Grand Pix. Chandela has qualified for Women’s 10 m air rifle at 2016 Summer Olympics. Her latest interviews say that she is in need of more sponsors to perform well in the tournament. Apurvi Chandela silver medal was earned in ISSF world cup in 2015 along with three gold medals.

Apurvi Chandela Love Life, Marriage

Belonging from a conservative Rajput family of Rajasthan, Apurvi Chandela love affair is not much of a varied one. Apurvi Chandela love life is kind of confidential. Hence not much is known about her personal life and love life though her boyfriend stories from her early life was sometimes heard. Apurvi Chandela relationship with her co players and other persons are quite good. Therefore no such Apurvi Chandela controversies are heard so far.

Apurvi Chandela, being only 23 years old, is more focused on her career right now. So her marriage details are not yet fixed. Career oriented Apurvi is not much of a dating person. We hope that Apurvi Chandela wedding will be a happy ceremony. Her wedding dates are expected to be on headlines in near future. Seeing her personality and the kind of person she is, it is quite clear that Apurvi Chandela husband will be a lucky person. Young female shooter of India is thus single and still waiting for per prince to show up.