Omkar Singh (born 8 August 1984) is an India

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n sports shooter

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. He won three gold medals and a silver medal in shooting events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

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 held in Delhi

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. He hails from Anuppur district

Anuppur District

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 of Madhya Pradesh

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 and is currently serving Indian Navy

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On 5 October 2010, Omkar Singh and Deepak Sharma won a silver medal in the Men's 50 metre pistol pairs

Shooting at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre pistol pairs

The Men's 50 metre pistol pairs event took place at 5 October 2010 at the CRPF Campus.-Results:...

 at the Commonwealth games. Omkar Singh won his first gold medal in the Men's 50 metre pistol singles

Shooting at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre pistol singles

The Men's 10 air rifle singles event took place at 6 October 2010 at the CRPF Campus. There were two qualification rounds held to determine the final participants.-Results:...

 on 6 October 2010. The next day, he paired up with Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh (shooter)

Gurpreet Singh is an Indian sports shooter. He won two gold medals in shooting events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in India. He paired up with Vijay Kumar to win a gold in the Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol on 7 October 2010. On the same day, he and Omkar Singh won another gold medal in the...

 to win the gold medal in the Men's 10m Air Pistol (Pairs). On 8 October 2010, he won a gold medal in the Men's 10m Air Pistol (Single).

Omkar Singh belongs to the Kotma

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 Colliery in the Anuppur district

Anuppur District

Anuppur District is an administrative district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.The district has an area of 3701 km², and a population of 667,155 . 309,624 people are from scheduled tribes and 48,376 are scheduled castes...

 of Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

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. His father was a teacher in the South Eastern Coal Fields Limited (SECL) School.