Tokyo: Indian shooter Fancied Rubina Francis finished seventh in the 10m final of the SH1 water pistol from the Tokyo Paralympic Olympics here on Tuesday.
Rubina has 128.1 points when he was eliminated in seventh place at the Akasa Shooting Range.
When the gun is held with one hand only, athletes in the SH1 gun have a disturbance that affects one arm and / or legs, for example the resulting of amputation or spinal cord injury.
Some shooters compete in a sitting position, while others aiming for a standing position as defined in the rules.
Iran Sareh Javanmardi won a gold medal with a world record score of 239.2.
Rubina holds a previous world record with 238.1.
It will always be the uphill task for Rubina after he shoots 6.6 horror in the first series.
He was still placed fourth after the end of the first competition with 93.1 points, because the elimination round began.
He tried but could not get back the lost land and was the second shooter to be removed in the eight women’s final.
Previously, he began well in the qualification to complete the seventh with 560 points and made the final.
At the end of the first series, Rubina was in 13th place with 91 points but Indian shooters moved to sixth place after a total of 187 at the end of the second series.
Rubina then moved to third place with 282 points in half the qualification.
In the next two series, Rubina recorded a score of 93 and 93 each and slipped into seventh place.
The 22-year-old child from Jabalpur at Madhya Pradesh has set a world record in the final at the World Cup in Lima, Peru in June.
He was born with a disturbance to his leg.
In May, he had contracted Covid-19 while in the national training camp.
He could not practice more than a month, until the days before the World Cup event in Lima, Peru, where he won gold at a female SH1 10m water gun and secured a quota for Tokyo.
Javanmardi also occupies qualifying round with a score of 572, a new paralympic game record for qualifications.
Rubina Francis finishes seventh in the 10m women’s air gun final
