At the
2002 Commonwealth Games in
Manchester, Rathore won a gold medal and set a new Commonwealth Games Record of 192 targets out of 200, which still stands. He also won the Team Gold Medal along with
Moraad Ali Khan. Rathore went on to successfully defend his Commonwealth Champion title by winning the gold medal at the
Melbourne Commonwealth Games in 2006. He also won the silver in the Team event with
Vikram Bhatnagar. He won gold medals in two
World Shooting Championships, at Sydney in 2004 and Cairo in 2006. In addition to these achievements, Rathore won a silver medal at the Olympic Games, a bronze medal at the World Championships, a bronze medal at the World Cup Final, and two gold medals and a bronze medal at the World Cup. He also secured five gold medals and a bronze medal at the Asian Championships and a bronze medal at the Asian Games. Altogether, Rathore has amassed a total of 13 medals in his sports career. Rathore rose to prominence when he won the silver at the
2004 Athens Olympics. It was India's first ever individual silver at the Olympics. In 2006, Rathore won a bronze medal in the World Championship in Spain, an event held for the top 12 shooters of the world. He was ranked third in the world for the most of 2003 and 2004 and briefly climbed to the first in early 2004 and second after the Athens Olympics. He won a silver at the World Championship in 2003 in Sydney for India after a gap of nearly 40 years. India had not seen a victory since Karni Singh of Bikaner, who won a silver at the 1962 World shooting Championship in Cairo. Rathore is credited with winning the Asian Clay Target gold medal four times in a row from 2003 to 2006. He also holds an Individual bronze medal which was at the
Asian Games 2006 in Doha. Between 2002 and 2006 he won 25 international medals at various championships for Double Trap. In 2011, Rathore participated in the Asian Clay Target Championship in Kuala Lumpur and won gold. His score of 194 in that tournament equals world record. ==Political career==