Sarnobat became India's first pistol shooter to win a gold medal in the World Cup when she won the 25 metre pistol event in the ISSF World Cup in Changwon. In the
2014 Commonwealth Games at
Glasgow, she won gold in the women's 25 metre pistol event. In the same year, she won the bronze medal in the 25 metre pistol team event at the
2014 Asian Games at
Incheon, where she teamed up with Anisa Sayyed and
Heena Sidhu. An injury caused by an accident in 2015 came as a setback for Sarnobat; it affected her elbow, which took almost two years to fully heal. She made it back to the Indian national team and started working with German coach
Munkhbayar Dorjsuren, who helped Sarnobat gain physical fitness and mental strength. Ironically Dorjsuren was one of Sarnobat's competitors at the 2012 Olympics. Her bronze medal in the 2011 World Cup event at
Fort Benning led to her selection for the London Olympics in 2012, thereby becoming the first female Indian shooter to qualify for the 25 metre sports pistol event in the Olympics. On 22 August 2018, she became the first Indian woman to become an individual Asian Games gold medallist in shooting by winning the 25 metre pistol event with a Games record score of 34. She won the shoot-off against her Thai opponent to win the gold. In ISSF World Cup in Osijek, Sarnobat won the gold medal in the women's 25m pistol event. The 30-year-old fired a final score of 39 after qualifying second with a total of 591. Her stupendous performance in the final earned her the Tokyo's ticket. and was selected for the
2020 Tokyo Olympics. ==References==