By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: High Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed younger paralympic champion Avani Lekhara for clinching her 2nd gold medal on the ongoing Chateauroux 2022 International Capturing Para Game International Cup in France.
Lekhara shot 458.3 within the R8 – Ladies’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1 finals to take the gold forward of skilled Paralympic stars Veronica Vadovicova (456.6) of Slovakia and Sweden’s Anna Normann (441.9). Vadovicova and Normann took the silver and bronze respectively.
The 20-year-old Lekhara has already received the R2 – Ladies’s 10m Air Rifle Status SH1 gold with an international file effort on Day 1 and ensured India a quota for Paris 2024 Paralympics Video games.
“Happy with Avani Lekhara for successful some other Gold at Chateauroux 2022. Her decision to scale new heights is exceptional,” Modi tweeted. “I congratulate her in this feat and need her the easiest for the longer term,” he mentioned.