{"id":22802,"date":"2021-09-03T12:05:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T06:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=145392"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T06:35:05","slug":"tokyo-paralympics-avani-lekhara-wins-bronze-to-become-the-first-indian-woman-with-two-medals-at-the-paralympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-paralympics-avani-lekhara-wins-bronze-to-become-the-first-indian-woman-with-two-medals-at-the-paralympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Paralympics: Avani Lekhara wins bronze to become the first Indian woman with two medals at the Paralympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avani Lekhara has again put a medal in India\u2019s bag in this 2020 Tokyo Paralympics Games. The Indian para rifle shooter won a bronze medal in the Women\u2019s R8 \u2013 50m Rifle 3 positions SH1 final event which took place on Friday. Earlier in these Paralympic games, Avani also won a gold medal for India in the Women\u2019s R2 \u2013 10m air rifle SH1 event. After clinching another medal, She becomes the first Indian woman to win two medals at the Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_SAI\/status\/1433676654971273225?s=20<\/p>\n<p>Avani Lekhara has made the nation proud again in the same Paralympics by her amazing efforts to clinch another medal for her country. At the start of this 50m rifle shooting event, she was looking confident. The Indian Para shooter finished in the 2nd rank just after Sweden\u2019s A. Normann in the qualification round. Avani\u2019s total points in the qualification were 1176.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The moment\ud83d\udc9c  Outstanding from Avani Lekhara. Only 19 yrs and the youngest competitor in the final, she can only get better. Two medals: a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gold?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gold<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bronze?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bronze<\/a> already. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paralympics?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paralympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Oi0YZoFisY\">pic.twitter.com\/Oi0YZoFisY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Doordarshan Sports (@ddsportschannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddsportschannel\/status\/1433666408282419210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the final event of the Women\u2019s 50m \u2013 rifle 3 positions SH1, Avani finished with a score of 445.9, 12 points behind the gold medalist Zhang Cuiping of China and Germany\u2019s silver medalist named Natascha Hiltrop who both were behind the Indian at the end of the qualification round. Indian fans are happy to see this amazing performance of their country\u2019s girl. India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi also tweeted to congratulate Avani for again winning a medal for her country as she made the nation proud by her stupendous performance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More glory at the Tokyo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paralympics?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paralympics<\/a>. Elated by the stupendous performance of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AvaniLekhara?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AvaniLekhara<\/a>. Congratulations to her on bringing home the Bronze medal. Wishing her the very best for her future endeavours. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Praise4Para?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Praise4Para<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1433665007833661440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avani Lekhara, the Indian Para rifle shooter has won another medal in the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020. She won bronze in the Women\u2019s 50m rifle 3 positions shooting event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":42988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2631,2482,1080,2611,2628,2605,1443,2601],"class_list":["post-22802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-avani-lekhara","tag-bronze-winner","tag-gold-medalist","tag-indian-para-sports","tag-indian-paralympians","tag-paralympicindia","tag-rifle-shooting","tag-tokyo-2020-paralympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}