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{{Infobox sportsperson<br />
| name = Kynan Chenai<br />
| honorific_suffix = [[OLY]]<br />
| fullname = Kynan Darius Chenai<br />
| national_team = {{IND}}<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1991|1|29}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[India]]<br />
| sport = [[Shooting sports|Shooting]]<br />
| event = [[Trap shooting|Trap]]<br />
| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Men's [[Shooting sports|shooting]]}} [[File:Shooting pictogram.svg|30px]]<br />
{{MedalCountry|{{IND}}}}<br />
{{MedalComp|[[Shooting at the Asian Games|Asian Games]]}}<br />
{{MedalGold|[[Shooting at the 2022 Asian Games|2022 Hangzhou]]|[[Shooting at the 2022 Asian Games – Men's trap team|Trap team]]}}<br />
{{MedalBronze|[[Shooting at the 2022 Asian Games|2022 Hangzhou]]|[[Shooting at the 2022 Asian Games – Men's trap|Trap]]}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[ISSF World Cup|World Cup]]}}<br />
{{MedalBronze|[[2025 ISSF World Cup|2025 Nicosia]]|Trap mixed team}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Shooting Championships|Asian Championships]]}}<br />
{{MedalSilver|[[2012 Asian Shooting Championships|2012 Doha]]|Trap team}}<br />
{{MedalSilver|[[2019 Asian Shooting Championships|2019 Doha]]|Trap team}}<br />
{{MedalSilver|[[2023 Asian Shooting Championships|2023 Changwon]]|Trap team}}<br />
{{MedalBronze|[[2015 Asian Shooting Championships|2015 Kuwait City]]|Trap team}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Shooting Championships|Asian Shotgun Championships]]}}<br />
{{MedalSilver|[[2016 Asian Shotgun Championships|2016 Abu Dhabi]]|Trap team}}<br />
{{MedalBronze|[[2017 Asian Shotgun Championships|2017 Astana]]|Trap}}<br />
{{MedalBronze|[[2017 Asian Shotgun Championships|2017 Astana]]|Trap mixed team}}<br />
{{MedalCompetition|[[Commonwealth Youth Games|Commonwealth Youth Games]]}}<br />
{{MedalGold|[[2008 Commonwealth Youth Games|2008 Pune]]|Trap}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Kynan Darius Chenai''' (born 29 January 1991) is an Indian [[Shooting sports|sport shooter]] specializing in [[Olympic trap|trap]] shooting. He has represented India in multiple international competitions, including the Olympics and the Asian Games. He competed in the [[2016 Summer Olympics]], where he finished 19th in the men's trap event.<ref>{{cite web |title=2016 Summer Olympics - Athletes: Kynan Chenai |url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2016/athletes/_/athlete/55854 |website=ESPN |accessdate=11 August 2019}}</ref> At the [[2022 Asian Games]], Chenai won a gold medal in the men's trap team event and a bronze medal in the individual trap event, contributing significantly to India's record-breaking medal tally in shooting in that edition.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
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Kynan was born to a reputed Parsi family in Hyderabad, [[India]]. His father [[Darius Chenai]] is a former national shooting champion in Trap discipline and a businessman. He studied in [[Hebron School]] in [[Ooty]], [[Tamil Nadu]] with [[German language|German]] as elected foreign language. During his school days, he was part of the Field Hockey Team and Football Team, and also the school's freestyle swimming champion for three years.{{fact|date=September 2022}}<br />
He spent 1 year at Brunel where he tried to play hockey<br />
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== Athletic career ==<br />
In 2003, he took up shooting and was initially coached by his father. Later he was coached by four-time Olympic champion [[Mansher Singh]]. He won the gold medal in Junior Men's Trap shooting event at the 50th and the 51st National Shooting Championship in India.<br />
He also won a gold medal in the Trap event in the [[2008 Commonwealth Youth Games]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Sportskeeda|title=Know your Indian Olympian: 10 things to know about Kynan Chenai|url=http://www.sportskeeda.com/shooting/know-your-indian-olympian-10-things-know-about-about-kynan-chenai|date=6 July 2016}}</ref><br />
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Kynan achieved an Olympic quota for the 2016 Summer Olympics after finishing fourth in the Asia Olympic Shooting qualifiers in Delhi on 28 January 2016, where he finished 19th in the [[Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's trap|men's trap]] qualification round.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=Firstpost|title=Road to Rio: Shooter Kynan Chenai secures Olympics 2016 berth for India|url=http://www.firstpost.com/sports/road-to-rio-shooter-kynan-chenai-secures-olympics-2016-berth-for-india-2603066.html|date=29 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Rio Olympics 2016: Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Kynan Chenai fail to qualify for men's trap semi-final|url=http://www.firstpost.com/sports/rio-olympics-2016-manavjit-singh-sandhu-kynan-chenai-fail-to-qualify-for-mens-trap-semi-final-2943014.html|accessdate=9 August 2016|publisher=First Post|date=9 August 2016}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1991 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male sport shooters]]<br />
[[Category:Sport shooters from Hyderabad, India]]<br />
[[Category:Parsi sportsmen]]<br />
[[Category:Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics]]<br />
[[Category:Olympic shooters for India]]<br />
[[Category:Shooters at the 2014 Asian Games]]<br />
[[Category:Hebron School alumni]]<br />
[[Category:Shooters at the 2022 Asian Games]]<br />
[[Category:Asian Games gold medalists for India]]<br />
[[Category:Asian Games shooters for India]]<br />
[[Category:Asian Games bronze medalists for India]]<br />
[[Category:Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games]]<br />
[[Category:Asian Games gold medalists in shooting]]<br />
[[Category:Asian Games bronze medalists in shooting]]<br />
[[Category:21st-century Indian sportsmen]]</div>HesterBrewer