When Anish Bhanwala finished 13th at the Paris Olympics and didn’t make the six-man final at the Chateauroux shooting range, he called his father Jagpal Bhanwala up. The conversation veered around his first Olympic experience being a positive learning curve and how that experience would shape his career going forwards. On Sunday evening, Bhanwala, who has shown rapid strides over the last two years, became the first Indian shooter to ever win a medal in the men’s 25m rapid fire event at the World Championships with a silver in the final at Cairo, Egypt.

“People ask me about the disappointment in Paris but then I always saw the Paris Olympics as something which taught me a lot and also which gave me the joy to compete at the biggest stage. And I took a break of more than four months post P

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