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Download Solution PDFAvani Lekhara is associated with which one of the following sports?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer Shooting.
Key Points
- Avani Lekhara is from Jaipur, Rajasthan.
- As 19-year-old Avani Lekhara won the gold medal in women’s 10 m air rifle Standing event in the SH 1 category at the Tokyo Paralympics.
- She became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the 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.
- In the final, she led from the start and edged out China’s Zhang C and Ukraine’s I Shchetnik in the medal series to win the gold.
- Avani has won many World Cup medals since 2017 including a Silver with a Junior World Record in R2 at the WSPS World Cup 2017, bronze at the WSPS World Cup Bangkok 2017, silver in the WSPS World Cup in Osijek, Croatia 2019 and silver in the WSPS World Cup Al-Ain 2021. She won the Tokyo Paralympics quota in February 2019 in the UAE.
- In 2012, the whole Lekhara family met with an accident on their way to Dholpur from Jaipur.
- The then 11-year-old Avani suffered a spinal cord injury and was paralysed below the waist.
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