{"id":13232,"date":"2021-12-21T07:02:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T07:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=13232"},"modified":"2021-12-21T07:03:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T07:03:24","slug":"shooter-avani-lekhara-becomes-first-indian-woman-to-win-gold-at-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=13232","title":{"rendered":"**  Shooter Avani Lekhara becomes first Indian woman to win gold at Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 19- year-old Shooter Avani Lekhara created history on August 30 and became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics,&nbsp;&nbsp;firing her way to the top of the podium in the R-2 women\u2019s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avani completed with a world record equalling total of 249.6, which is also a new Paralympic record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is\u00a0 the\u00a0\u00a0fourth Indian athlete to win a Paralympics gold after swimmer Murlikant Petkar (1972), javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia (2004 and 2016) and high jumper Thangavelu Mariyappan (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aug 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 19- year-old Shooter Avani Lekhara created history on August 30 and became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics,&nbsp;&nbsp;firing her way to the top of the podium in the R-2 women\u2019s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event here. Avani completed with a world record equalling total of 249.6, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=13232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Shooter Avani Lekhara becomes first Indian woman to win gold at Paralympics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,12,22,21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-records-india-national","category-sports","category-top-10-in-asia","category-top-10-in-the-world","category-women-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13234,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions\/13234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}