NEW DELHI: India’s Avani Lekhara progressed into the final of Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1 after finishing seventh in the qualification round here at the Chateauroux shooting range.
Competing in the 16-woman qualification round, Lekhara held her nerve through the three challenging rounds– kneeling, prone, and standing — to achieve a total score of 1159, including 59 inner tens.Her average score was 9.658.
Avani had previously won bronze in the same event in Tokyo Paralympics.
Another Indian competing in the event, Mona Agarwal, missed out on a spot in the final, finishing in 13th place with a total score of 1147 and an average score of 9.558, including 38 inner tens.
In athletics, India athletes will participate in shot put, high jump, javelin and 400m race events.
Following is the India schedule on Day 6 of the competitions in the Paris Paralympics on Tuesday:
Shooting
1:00 PM: Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions SH1: Avani Lekhara finishes 7th to qualify for final; Mona Agarwal (13th) misses out
Athletics
2:28 PM: Women’s shot put F34 (Final):Bhagyashree Jadhav finishes 5th with a best throw of 7.28m
Archery
3:20 PM: Women’s recurve: Pooja beats Yagmur Sengul (Turkey) 6-0 to enter quarter-finals
Shooting
7:30 PM: Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 (Final): Avani Lekhara
Archery
9:21 PM: Women’s recurve: Pooja vs Wu Chunyan (China) in quarter-finals
Athletics
10:38 PM: Women’s 400m T20 Final: Deepthi Jeevanji
11.50 PM: Men’s high jump T63 (Medal round): Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu and Shailesh Kumar
12.13 AM: Men’s javelin throw F46 (Medal round): Ajeet Singh Yadav, Rinku and Sundar Singh Gurjar