Prakash Nanjappa
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Bangalore, India
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| Born | 29 February 1976 Bangalore, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) (2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) (2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 10 metre air pistol 50 metre pistol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prakash Nanjappa (born 29 February 1976), also known as P N Prakash (Papanna Nanjappa Prakash), is an Indian shooter who competes in the 10 metre air pistol and 50 metre pistol events. He was the only Indian to win a medal in the 2013 ISSF World Cup, when he won bronze with a very minor difference between the second place in 10 metre air pistol event in Changwon, South Korea.[1] In the same event, he won the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[2]
Prakash Nanjappa was born on 29 February 1976 in Bangalore to P. N. Papanna, a international-level shooter. He started shooting in 1999, though motorbike rallies was his primary interest. In 2003, he moved to Canada and worked as a software engineer till 2009, when, on his father's insistence, he quit the job and moved back to India and took up the sport again.[3]
