India’s Mona wins 10m air rifle gold; clinches Paris Paralympic quota

Mona Agarwal

India's Mona Agarwal, competing in only her fourth international competition, won the gold medal in women's 10m air rifle SH1 category at the WSPS Para Shooting World Cup to clinch a 2024 Paris Paralympic quota place for the country on Saturday.

Avani Lekhara, the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics gold medallist, won the bronze medal in the event. Mona, 37, who took up shooting sport in December 2021 after making a mark at the state level in shot put and powerlifting, has become the ninth Indian para shooter to secure a Paris berth.

The mother of two children shot a modest 618 in the qualification round at the Karni Singh ranges here to enter the eight-shooter final placed seventh.

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