Tokyo: Car accident in 2012 left the Avani Lekhara wheelchair but on Monday, the shooter was felt “above the world” after becoming the first Indian woman who trapped the Paralympic gold medal.
Focusing on only one shot at a time and turning off the others doing tricks for Lekhara.
He fired his way to the peak of the podium at the SH1 Woom’s Rifle 10m Rifle event that stood.
“I can’t describe this feeling, I feel like I’m at the top of the world.
It can’t be explained,” he said after victory.
Read the Alsoshooter Avani Lekhara became the first Indian woman to win gold in Paralympicsavani Lekhara finished with a total record of 249.6, which is also a new paralympic record.
He is the fourth Indian athlete to win the Gold Paralympics after Murlikant Petkar swimmer (1972), Javelin Thrower Devendra Jhjharia (2004 and 2016) and Jumper High Thangelu Mariyappanlekhara, who sustained a spinal injury in a world accident in 2012, finished with a world record equalizing a total of 249 , 6, which is also a new paralympic note.
Stay quiet through the final, Lekhara said, “I just said one thing, that I have to take one chance at a time.
There is no other important thing now, just take one chance at a time and just finish it.” Just think that I have to follow the process.
Beyond that, I tried not to think about the score or medal calculation.
“The 19-year-old child from Jaipur, who began shooting on his father’s insistence in 2015 in the range of shooting of the city, was happy to have become the first.
Indian women to win the Paralympic gold.” I was very happy I could be a contributing person.
Hopefully there are many upcoming medals.
“He hasn’t looked back since firing his first shot six years ago, enjoying every bit of precision sports while trying his way to understanding at the rifle exhibition.
I feel the connection to it.
When you have to focus and consisture, that’s what I like about shooting,” he said.
When asked how he began shooting, Lekhara said, “2015 summer vacation, my father took me to the shooting range.
I shot a few shots and they were quite good.
So I just started as a hobby, and this was where I was.” He will also Compete in a mixture of 10m rifle sh1 rifles, the position of Rifle 3-3 Women’s Sh1 and the mixed Rifle Rifle Rifle event.
In the SH1 rifle category can hold weapons with weapons.
The athletes have a decrease in value at their feet, such as amputation or Paraplegia.
He was only the fourth Indian athlete to win Paralympics Gold after Murlikant Petkar swimmer (1972), Jambharia (2004), Jambharia (2004) and 2016) and Jumper Mariyappan ThangaveLu (2016) height.