Elavenil Valarivan wins gold in 10m Air Rifle at National Shooting Championship

New Delhi, December 14: Teenager Elavenil Valarivan beats favourites to pick up her first senior women's 10m Air Rifle National Championship title at the 61st National Shooting Championship on Thursday (December 14).

Elavenil closed out for the title with a score of 250.6, ahead of 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist, Apurvi Chandela of Rajasthan with 250.4. While, Mehuli Gosh settled for Bronze with 228.7.

Senior National Shooting Championship

Gold - Elavenil Valarivan
Silver - @apurvichandela
Bronze - Mehuli Ghosh

All 3 medalists in 10 m Air Rifle Women supported by OGQ. The most competitive event in India currently. 🔫🏅@GunForGlory @Joydeep709 #ProjectLeap @forglori pic.twitter.com/Xw6oWdyeTX

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Along with three medallists, the eight finalists of the women's 10m Air Rifle event included Rio Olympian, Ayonika Paul and current India internationals Pooja Ghatkar and Anjum Moudgil among others.

Elavenil also won the team gold in the event with the Gujarat team of Lajja Gauswami and Hema K.C besides herself, combining for a total of 1244.8, ahead of the Silver winning Maharashtra team by just 0.8 and a clear 1.8 ahead of the West Bengal team which won Bronze.

Thank you @narendramodi sir for the opportunity to be part of #gujratSports today #ElavenilValarivan from #sanskardham InSchool program won Gold Medal at National Shooting Championship with new finals national record, 1st from State of #Gujrat #gujratmodel #khelmahakumbh pic.twitter.com/3n7LfjLHNf

— Gagan Narang (@gaGunNarang) December 14, 2017

Meanwhile, Ghosh from West Bengal won a total of eight Gold medals on a single day. She won the Junior Women's, Women's Civilian and Junior Women's Civilian Championship golds by pushing back Elavenil to Silver in all three events.

She also won the women's Youth individual gold in the event, getting the better of Shreya Agrawal of Madhya Pradesh in the final with a new finals national record and team golds in all these four events with teammates Shreya Bandyopadhyay and Ayuishi Podder.

(With inputs from agencies)