Biography

Mehuli Ghosh is an Indian shooter. She represents India at various international junior shooting championships all across the world. On 13 July 2022, Mehuli Ghosh, along with her shooting partner, Shahu Tushar Mane, clinched a gold medal in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team final at the ISSF Shooting World Cup organised at Changwon, Korea. Mehuli Ghosh and Tushar Mane posing after winning the gold medals in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed team final at the ISSF World Cup Rifle championships in Changwon (Korea) in 2022.In a media conversation, Mehuli stated that she started watching Rifle Shooting and Swimming sports on television in 2013. In 2014, she joined the Serampore Rifle Club, and her father struggle a lot for money so that she could participate in her favourite sports. She said, I found shooting very interesting as it was not a well-known sport. Then I started gathering news and other relevant information about Shooting. My father being a temporary employee in West Bengal government, struggled for a year to collect enough money to allow me to withstand my passion. Then I joined Serampore Rifle Club in 2014.Later, during a practising session at the Serampore Rifle Club, she accidentally hit one of her pellets on a spectator, and she was banned by the club. Thereafter, she joined the Joydeep Karmarkar Shooting Academy, where Joydeep Karmarkar, a former Indian Olympic finalist and Arjuna Awardee, started mentoring her. Mehuli Ghosh with her shooting coach Joydeep Karmakar.Mehuli Ghosh used to get psychological counselling after she went into depression soon after she was banned by the Serampore Rifle Club. Her parents wanted to boost her morale in sports so they consulted a psychiatrist. [1]Indian Express.In 2016, she clinched two gold medals and seven silver medals at the Indian National Shooting Championships organised in Pune. In 2017, she was the winner of eight gold and three bronze medals at various National junior shooting championships.In 2017, at the junior shooting championship held in the Czech Republic, Mehuli participated in the preparatory championships and finished in the seventh position. In the same year, at the Junior World Shooting Championship organised in Germany, she finished in seventeenth position. In December 2017, in the Asian Champions organised in Wako City, Japan, Mehuli scored 420.1 points during championships in shooting 10 m rifle and earned the Youth Olympics 2018 Quota place.Mehuli is a fitness enthusiast. She regularly practises yoga at home to increase the concentration power of her mind. Mehuli Ghosh while practising yoga.In 2018, Mehuli Ghosh won two World Cup medals at the ISSF World Cup in Mexico and became one of the youngest contenders from India. In the same year, she was authorised to participate in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She was the winner of a silver medal in the Womens 10m Air Rifle during the XXI Commonwealth Games held at Gold Coast, Australia. She defeated her opponent Martina Veloso, who was from Singapore. Soon after this win, she reached the world ranking of sixth and third in Asia by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). Mehuli Ghosh won silver in the final of the womens 10m air rifle event at the Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast.In 2018, during the junior shooting championships held in the Czech Republic, she was the only Indian shooting athlete to reach the finals of the competition and finished in the seventh position. In 2018, at the ISSF world cup championships, Mehuli won two Bronze medals.In 2019, during the South Asian Games held in Nepal, Mehuli won a gold medal. Mehuli Ghosh after winning a gold medal in shooting in 2019.