Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games: Shooter Avani Lekhara adds bronze to her gold medal

Indian paralympic shooter Avani Lekhara adds bronze medal to her shooting gold earlier this week at Tokyo and becomes only 2nd Indian to win multiple medals at Paralympics.

Indian ace shooter Avani Lekhara claimed a second medal in R8 - Women's 50m Rifle 3P SH1 event, winning bronze with a score of 445.9 at the Tokyo Paralympics on Friday (September 3). Earlier, Avani Lekhara scripted history earlier this week as she became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics, firing her way to the top of the podium in the R-2 women’s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event in Tokyo. The 19-year-old from Jaipur, who sustained spinal cord injuries in a car accident in 2012, finished with a world record equalling total of 249.6, which is also a new Paralympic record. The 19-year-old Lekhara qualified second for the event with a score of 1176, including 51 inner 10s. In the fiercely contested finals, Lekhara totalled 445.9 to finish ahead of Ukraine's Iryna Shchetnik, who let slip her grip on the medal spot with a poor third shot of 9.9 in the elimination. The Jaipur-based shooter, who sustained spinal cord injuries in a car accident in 2012, had fired a world record equalling total of 249.6, which was also a new Paralympic record. Prior to her, Joginder Singh Sodhi was the lone Indian to win multiple medals in the same edition of the Games when he fetched one silver and two bronze medals in the 1984 Paralympics.