(Shooting News) Tokyo Paralympics 2021 Live Update: Avani Lekhara scripted history by winning the Bronze medal in the Women's 50m Rifle 3P SH1 at the Tokyo Paralympics. She shot a 445.9 in the final to be placed third in the event. She had earlier won the Gold medal in Women's R2 – 10m air rifle SH1 and is the second Indian athlete after Joginder Singh Bedi in the 1984 Stoke Mandeville/New York to win multiple medals in a single edition of the Paralympic Games.

Avani is the only Indian woman to win a Gold medal and also win multiple medals in a single edition of the Paralympic Games, this is India’s 12th medal at the Tokyo Paralympics and there are more events to come.

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