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Data analytics will help Indian shooting make better decisions: NRAI high performance director Pierre Beauchamp | More sports News – Times of India

BHOPAL: Pierre Beauchamp will complete one year in office next month as the high performance director of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI). The ISSF World Cup at the MP State Shooting Academy here was his first assignment on home soil, and the Canadian isn't disappointed because the hosts won just a single gold medal, rather he is happy with the progression from qualification to finals.Compared to the last World Cup in Cairo, India's conversion from qualification score to podium finishes has risen by 34 per cent. If it was 50 per cent in Cairo, in Bhopal it grew to 84 per cent.Those are the kind of numbers Beauchamp has been working on over the last one year, but that is nothing new for the former ice hockey player.His stints as the McGill University coach or a sports scien...
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How Indian shooting is turning to data analysis to return to the Olympic podium

Bhopal: Team India at the shooting World Cup followed a routine. At the firing line, the shooters would do their thing. A few yards behind them, the coaches hawkishly watched every shot, every movement, making tiny interventions when necessary. And behind the coaches, a bespectacled, grey-haired man walked around with a thick file in his hand. It is a dossier on every Indian shooter: their competition analysis, respiration rates, skin temperature, muscle tension, heart rates and even their wellness and nutrition data. “I am looking for numbers in everything,” says Dr Pierre Beauchamp, Indian shooting’s High-Performance Director. In a sport of decimals, India has turned to a numbers man. Beauchamp has played ice hockey and coached teams. He’s worked with footballers and golfers, speed sk...