Bhubaneswar (SunstarTV Bureau): At the Tokyo Paralympics Games in Women’s 10m Air Rifle SH1, India’s Avani Lekhara clinched the first gold medal, and made a world record score of 249.6 in the elimination round on Monday.
Notably, the girl Avani, who sustained spinal cord injuries in a car accident in 2012, qualified seventh for the final but shot superbly to leapfrog to the top in the final.
Zhang Cuiping, from China clinched silver medal, as she did in Rio 2016, with a score of 248.9 while Iryna Schetnik from Ukrain has finished with a total of 227.5 for bronze.
