Ashi Chouksey

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ashi Chouksey

• Ashi Chouksey is an Indian Air Rifle sport shooter. She came into the limelight in 2022 when she won a silver medal in the women’s 10-metre air rifle team at the Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China.

• In 2017, she joined the National Cadet Corps (NCC), which included sport shooting, in her school days. Later, she learnt sport shooting in Panchmarhi, Bhopal. Once, in a media conversation, she shared that she joined NCC in her school to escape academics. Ashi Chouksey said,
  

  The school I was in put a lot of emphasis on academics, but I wasn’t keen on following that. My school had the NCC program from Class 9. Class bunk karne ke liye maine join kiya (I signed up to try and skip class).”

  

• After completing her school education, Ashi Chouksey went to Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy to learn Air Rifle sports shooting professionally. According to her, only 2 candidates out of 225 were selected by the officials during the selection trials, and she was one of them.

  

• Ashi Chouksey clinched a bronze medal in the 50m 3-Positions women’s team event held in Changwon in 2021. In 2022, Ashi Chouksey won a gold medal in the 50m 3-Positions mixed team event held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

  

• In 2022, Ashi Chouksey competed at the ISSF World Championships in Cairo, Egypt, representing the Indian senior team. In the same year, she won two bronze medals at the Junior World Cup organised in Suhl, Germany, one each from the individual and women’s team events.

  

• Ashi Chouksey won a silver medal in 2022 in the 10m Air Rifle competition in a team event organised in Hangzhou, China.

• In August 2023, Ashi Chouksey bagged a silver medal in an individual event and a gold medal in the team event at the Chengdu FISU World University Games held in China.

  

• In September 2023, Ashi Chouksey secured a silver medal in the 50m Air Rifle rifle 3-position team match at the 19th Asian Games organised in Hangzhou, China.
  

  

  At the same event, she won the bronze medal in the women’s 50m rifle 3-position individual competition.

  

• Once, in a media conversation, Ashi Chouksey shared that she had a habit of recording her scores and reflections in a diary after each session. This helped her to review her progress in various games and practice events. For easy access, Ashi keeps her diary in her shooting kit.