Avani, Manu laud Deaflympics shooters for record show in Japan
Interestingly, deaf shooters fuelled India’s strong display at the Deaflympics, clinching a total of 16 medals, including 7 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals.
Interestingly, deaf shooters fuelled India’s strong display at the Deaflympics, clinching a total of 16 medals, including 7 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals.
For Avani, who won the gold in the same event three years back in the Tokyo Paralympics, the journey to her title defence at the Paris Games hasn’t been smooth at all.
Star para shooter Avani Lekhara, who scripted history by becoming the first Indian to clinch a pair of medals in Tokyo three years ago, is hoping to repeat her feat in the upcoming Paris Paralympics, starting August 28.
The 20-year-old won the gold with a record score of 250.6, breaking her own world record of 249.6. Poland's Emilia Babska bagged the silver medal with a total of 247.6, while Anna Normann of Sweden got bronze with a score of 225.6.
The 19-year-old para shooter clinched her second medal in Tokyo, a bronze, in women's 50m rifles 3P SH1 event on Friday. Avani had earlier won the gold medal in women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 with a world-record equalling score of 249.6.
The 19-year-old Avani had earlier won the gold medal in women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 with a world record equalling score of 249.6
Lekhara's hopes of adding a second medal to the gold she won in the R2 Women's 10m Air Rifle SH1 did not materialize as the 19-year-old Indian shooter finished 27th.
