Elavenil Valarivan clinched the women’s air rifle gold in the shooting World Cup in Rio de Janeiro.
The 20-year-old Elavenil shot 251.7 in the final to beat Seonaid Mcintosh of Britain by 1.1 point.
After qualifying in the fourth place with 629.4, Elavenil jumped into the lead after the top three were tied on 147.1 after 14 shots in the 24shot final. Elavenil enhanced the lead to 1.6 point over the Briton, before the last shot, and could get away with a below par 9.6 last shot.
“I am thrilled with this gold’’, said Elavenil, who was profuse in thanking mentor Gagan Narang.
This story is from the August 30, 2019 edition of The Hindu Mumbai.
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