"Hoping she will win more medals": Para-athlete Avani Lekhara's father on daughter's gold medal victory
Oct 23, 2023
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], October 23 : Following Para-athlete Avani Lekhara's gold medal win in the Women's R2 10m Air Rifle Stand SH1 event in the Asian Para Games, her father said that the Indian shooter lived up to the expectations and hoped that she will win more medals for the country.
Indian para-shooter Lekhara won a gold medal in the women's R2 10-metre Air Rifle Standing SH1 category at the ongoing Asian Para Games at Hangzhou on Monday. Avani got 249.6 points and made a new Para Asian Games record.
"Avani Lekhara performed well as per expectations. There are four more matches she will play. I am hoping she will win more medals," her father Praveen Lekhara told ANI.
China's Zhong Yixin (247.5) and Zhang Cuiping (225.8) got the silver and bronze medals respectively.
So far, India has 17 medals at the games, with six gold, 6 silver and five bronze medals.
India has gold and silver each in para-shooting.
India's tally of 72 medals at the last Para Asian Games in Indonesia back in 2018 was the country's best-ever performance at the event.
The fourth Para Asian Games will go on from October 22 to October 28.
