Raiza Dhillon

Raiza Dhillon (born 20 April 2004) is an Indian skeet shooter. She was the youngest Indian shooter at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She created a Junior National record with a score of 122 in the qualification round at the 2024 National Shooting Championships.

Early life Dhillon is from Shamgarh, Karnal District, Haryana. Her father, Ravijit Singh Dhillon, is a farmer, and her mother, Gul Dhillon, is a sarpanch of Shamgarh, their native village near Karnal. Their family shifted their base to Panchkula where her mother, Gul, introduced her to sports like tennis and swimming and also into Bharatnatyam. However, the youngster chose to take up shooting at the age of 12, and wanted to shoot with big guns which sight she is quite familiar with after watching the 20-gun stock of her great grandfather, Jagirdar Gurinder Singh Dhillon.

The quota berth won by a shooter is a berth for the country and the Federation, which can nominate any shooter for Olympics, as per set criteria.

International She started her international career representing Junior India at the World Championships in Lima in 2021. In 2023, she represented India again in the skeet junior women mixed and individual events at World Championships in Changwon, Korea and won a silver medal in the individual skeet event. In 2023, she participated in the Junior World Cup event at Suhl, Germany, in the same events.

In April 2025, she entered finals and finished fifth in her first Senior ISSF World Cup in Lima. She shot 51 targets out of 60 in the final and finished two shots behind Phoebe Bodley-Scott of Great Britain, who shot 53. Germany's Annabella Hettmer won the bronze. She scored 71 after three rounds made it 116 after five rounds of 25 shots each but tied with two other shooters in second place behind Zarina Madeleine Russell of Great Britain. But she won and qualified second into the final after topping the three-way 24-shot shoot off with Phoebe and Hettmer.

Domestic In December 2024, she beat Simranpreet Kaur Johal’s junior record of 120 set at the 2018 Jaipur Nationals, on way to her qualification to the women's skeet final. She also equalled the National record of 122 by Ganemat Sekhon set at the ISSF World Cup final at Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, Delhi, also in 2024. Later in February 2025, she set 124 out of 125 at the All India Inter-University Championships and equalled Sekhon's National record of 124.

She joined the Sports Authority of India'a National Centre of Excellence in 2023.