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Avani Lekhara (born 8 November 2001 in Jaipur) is an Indian Paralympian and rifle shooter from Rajasthan. She won a gold medal in the 10m air rifle standing and a bronze medal in the 50m rifle 3 positions at the 2020 Summer Paralympics .
Avani Lekhara becomes first Indian woman to win gold medal, sets new record at Tokyo Paralympics. In her debut Games, Avani Lekhara scored 249.6 in the final of the women’s 10m air rifle shooting SH1 class. It was India’s fifth gold at the Paralympics.
Aug 30, 2021 · Indian athlete Avani Lekhara became the first woman from her country to ever win a Paralympic Games gold, after scoring 249.6 in the women’s 10m air rifle standing final at Tokyo on Monday.
Sep 3, 2021 · Para shooter Avani Lekhara scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to win two Paralympic medals on Friday.. The 19-year-old rifle shooter, who won gold in women’s 10m air rifle shooting SH1 class at Tokyo on Monday, added the women’s 50m rifle 3-position SH1 bronze medal to her tally. She also became the first Indian woman to win two medals at the Para Games in the same edition.. After qualifying for the final in the second position with 1176 points, Avani Lekhara continued ...
Oct 14, 2019 · Avani Lekhara Imagen. India. Shooting. 1. 1. Results. Unit Date Rank; Cheongju 2018 World Shooting Para Sport Championships (Cheongju, South Korea) Event Medal Unit Date Rank; R2 - Women's 10m Air Rifle standing SH1: Qualification: 2018-05-05: 16: ... The mother of two finishes ahead of Paralympic stars Zhang and Lekhara; Jangho, Chao and De La Forest win too on the opening day . Shooting.
May 19, 2023 · With Paralympic medals in the bag, ace para shooter Avani Lekhara is settling into her role as an advocate for better facilities and support for the physically challenged. ... services, and assistance. Against this background, it is quite remarkable that Avani Lekhara, India’s first female Paralympic gold medallist, was introduced to this sport thanks to this very thing — access. “I started shooting in 2015. The sport happened to me quite by chance,” Lekhara tells Sportstar, while on ...
Aug 30, 2021 · Prime Minister congratulates Avani Lekhara for winning Tokyo Paralympics gold medal; Sports Minister Shri Anurag Thakur also wished para shooter Lekhara on her historic achievement . Avani Lekhara, 19-year-old para shooter, made history on Monday by winning the elusive Tokyo Paralympic Games gold. Competing in her maiden Paralympics, Avani shot 249.6 points in the R2 women’s 10m air rifle SH1 category for a Paralympic Record and equal the World Record. ...
Sep 17, 2021 · It has been less than 20 days since a gold medal changed Avani Lekhara’s life. She took India’s first-ever shooting medal in the Paralympics leading a historic campaign at Tokyo 2020. A day that has not sunk in yet, according to the 19-year-old.
Aug 30, 2021 · In 45 years of Paralympic shooting, India had not won a medal of any colour. That all changed on Monday at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, as 19-year-old Avani Lekhara equalled the world record in the R2 - women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 to take gold. "I can't describe this feeling, I'm feeling like I'm on top of the world.
Aug 30, 2021 · Avani Lekhara shot 249.6 in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 event, thus equalling the world record set by Ukraine's Iryna Shchetnik in December 2018 and clinching India's first gold medal of the Tokyo Paralympics.
