India’s Elavenil Valarivan, while performing brilliantly, won the gold medal in the women’s 10 meter air rifle category at the ISSF World Cup released here. This is Valarivan’s first year in the senior level. He scored 251.7 on Wednesday and captured gold.
The 20-year-old Valarivan is the third Indian player to win gold in the 10-meter air rifle event of the ISSF World Cup after Chandela and Anjali Bhagwat.India has already achieved a maximum of two Olympic quotas in this event. So Ying-Shin Lin of Chinese Taipei got one quota while Iran won the second quota.
Olympic medalist Gagan Narang congratulated Valarivan on Twitter, “National Sports Day just got better. Ilavenil Valarivan won his gold in the Senior World Cup on the same day that GNSF (Gagan Narang Sports Promotion Foundation) was awarded the National for its work. Being awarded the Sports Promotion Award. “