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Chateauroux: Avni Lekhara has given India its first medal in the Paralympic Games. She won the gold medal with a Paralympic record in the SH1 category of women’s 10 meter air rifle shooting. She scored 249.7. The previous Paralympic record of 249.6 was also in Avni’s name, which she made in Tokyo.
Korea’s Yunri Lee got silver, her score was 246.8. Mona Agarwal of India won the bronze medal with a score of 228.7. Avni was second and Mona was fifth in the qualification round.
The previous record was held by Chinese shooter Zhang Cuiping, which she set in the Tokyo Games. SH1 category is for shooters with lower limb impairments like amputations or paraplegia with the ability to hold their gun without difficulty and shoot from a standing or sitting position. Avani scripted history at Tokyo 2020 when she became the first Indian woman to clinch a pair of medals at a single edition of the Paralympics.
She won the 10m air rifle gold and the 50m rifle three-position bronze in the SH1 category on her Summer Games debut. The Indian shooting contingent comprised 10 athletes – Avani, Manish Narwal, Amir Ahmad Bhat, Rudransh Khandelwal, Mona Agarwal, Rubina Francis, Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar, Sidhartha Babu, Shriharsha Devaraddi and Nihal Singh.
