Reigning Asian Games champion Palak Gulia bagged the twentieth Paris Olympic quota place in capturing for the nation, clinching the bronze medal within the girls’s 10m air pistol occasion on the ISSF Final Olympic Qualification Championship (Rifle and Pistol) in Rio De Janeiro on Sunday. The 18-year-old from Jhajjar, Haryana, who had received a person gold and staff silver within the 10m air pistol on the Hangzhou Asian Games, overcame a gradual begin within the 24-shot ultimate, displaying nerves of metal to climb steadily up the leaderboard and ultimately find yourself scoring 217.6.

She ultimately bowed out after the twenty second shot to accept third place.

Armenia’s Elmira Karapetyan received gold, whereas Thai teenager Kamonlak Saencha clinched the silver and the second out there quota place.

India have now clinched a most of 16 Paris Olympic spots out there to a rustic in pistol and rifle occasions.

The nation’s shotgun shooters can nonetheless earn 4 Paris berths in males’s and ladies’s lure and skeet occasions when the ISSF Final Olympic Qualification Championship (Shotgun) commences in Doha on April 19.

Palak and Sainyam had certified for the eight-woman ultimate on Saturday positioned sixth and seventh respectively with an identical scores of 578.

Save Karpetyan, who had already booked her quota in earlier competitions, all different finalists may declare the out there Paris berths.

Both Palak and Sainyam had a forgettable begin to the ultimate, however got here again strongly at the same time as Saencha and the skilled Veronika Major of Hungary threatened to drag away from the sphere within the early phases with some chic capturing.

Palak and Sainyam had been struggling to get previous the fifth place earlier than the eliminations began. However, issues turned the Indians’ means as Major suffered a meltdown.

Ahead of the nineteenth shot, Palak took a 0.6 lead over Major with Sainyam exiting in fifth place.

The Hungarian couldn’t hit the 10-ring because the Indian did it as soon as and sealed the quota place.

Karapetyan (240.7) clinched gold on the ultimate shot as Saencha (240.5) crumbled with a poor shot which fetched her 8.6.

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