Bengaluru, March 22: Elavenil Valarivan of India bagged gold in the 10m Air Rifle Women Junior at the ISSF Junior World Cup in Sydney on Thursday (March 22).
Elavenil, who finished 28th in last year's Junior World Championship in Suhl, secured the win with a 10.7 in her 24th shot, compensating the 9.6 she nailed in her previous one to better Chinese Taipei's Lin Ying-Shin.
The 18-year-old, who's competing in her second ISSF event, claimed gold with 249.8 points, also making, at the end of the qualification round, a new Qualification World Record with 631.4 points.
In her first final participation, Elavenil Valarivan Elavenil of India 🇮🇳 climbed atop the Junior World Cup podium in Sydney. #ISSFJWC pic.twitter.com/BWCq2ro9rq
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India's other finalists - Shreya Agrawal and Zeena Khitta - finished sixth and seventh, respectively.
Elavenil, Shreya and Zeena also climbed atop the team podium taking gold, while Chinese Taipei's Lin, Tsai Yi-Ting and Hung Chen-Ching finished second. The team bronze medal went to Zhu, Wang and Gao Mingwei of China.
Meanwhile, Arjun Babuta won his second Junior World Cup medal after clinching bronze in the men's 10m Air Rifle event.
The 19-year-old, who scored 226.3 points, finished below China's Liu Yuqi (247.1) and Hungary's Zalan Pekler (246.0).
Arjun's countrymen Surya Pratap Singh and Shahu Tushar Mane finished sixth and eighth respectively.
Arjun had won the bronze medal in Gabala, Azerbaijan in 2016 and was the silver medalist at last year's Asian Championship in Wako City, Japan.