Avani Lekhara becomes first Indian woman to win two Paralympic gold

Avani Lekhara won a second successive Paralympic Games gold medal in women's 10m air rifle (SH1) event in Paris on Friday as compatriot Mona Agarwal claimed a bronze.

Winner of the Tokyo Paralympics gold three years back, Avani, 22, shot a superb 249.7 to erase her own record of 249.6 set in Japanese capital, while Mona, who took up shooting sport in 2022, notched up 228.7 for the bronze.

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Avani, who is wheel-chair bound after a car mishap left her paralysed below the waist when she was 11-years-old, had become the first woman shooter from the country to win medals in shooting at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021.

(With PTI inputs)