Sports
Sports and games played at RIMC include boxing, football, horse riding, hockey, squash, swimming and shooting. RIMC has produced International level sports persons in the games of squash, shooting and horse riding. It has produced great squash players like Ritwik Bhatacharya, Brig. Raj Manchanda and Maj. Shakti Singh. Alumni Poshuk Aluwalia has represented India in shooting in 2010 SAF games at Dhaka where he won a medal. RIMC alumni Piyush Sunil Deshmukh also represented India in an International Horse Show at Sydney, Australia. He fetched four medals making India Proud at a small age of just 16 years. Achudev S an alumnus of RIMC and a cadet at NDA had represented India in International Services Athletic Meet in Turkey. Not only this but RIMC is adjudged India's best school in Sports education by Times Magazine. RIMC has a 50-metre olympic-sized swimming pool, an indoor swimming pool, 5 basketball courts, 3 squash courts, and numerous football and hockey fields.
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