Elavenil Valarivan smashes world record to clinch gold in 10m air rifle trials
Elavenil Valarivan shot a 253 in the 10m air rifle trials final, surpassing the world record of 252.4, enroute to winning the gold medal in the senior women's category. She also clinched gold in the junior event while Mehuli Ghosh, who had won two golds earlier, had to settle for silver this time.
Indian youngsters continued their dominating display at the 18th KSS shooting championship on Tuesday. Teenager
West Bengal's teen shooting sensation Mehuli Ghosh, who won two golds on Monday in the same event had to settle for silver with a score of 251.7 while Manini Kaushik from Rajasthan bagged the bronze with 230.9 in the senior category.
The selection trail 5 was held simultaneously with the KSS Memorial Shooting Championship which saw Elavenil top the charts with a qualification score of 632.2 while Ghosh scored 629.7 and Kaushik took the third spot with 629.1.
These points will be considered while the Asian Games and World Championships selections take place.
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