Shooter Maheshwari Chauhan clinches 21st Paris Olympics quota with Sylve in Doha. shooting news

Shooter Maheshwari Chauhan secured India’s 21st quota place for the Paris Olympics by winning a silver medal in the women’s skeet event on the concluding day of the ISSF Final Olympic Qualification Championship Shotgun in Doha on Sunday. Maheshwari, who was competing in her first ISSF final, lost 3-4 to Chile’s Francisco Croveto Chadid in the shoot-off for the gold as both were tied on 54 hits each in the 60-shot final.

This is India’s second Paris quota place in women’s skeet.

“I’m thrilled. It’s taken a lot of hard work over the years to get here. I’m a little disappointed about the shoot-off, but overall, it’s been very satisfying,” Maheshwari said after the final. “

The day started with the Indian on top of the qualification pile, but a score of 23 in the final round meant she would finish fourth and qualify for the top six finals. However, his 121 points gave him a new national record.

Given that Chadid had already secured a quota place in the competitions and China’s Jiang Yiting, the sixth qualifier, was ineligible because her country had already exhausted its quotas in the competition, Maheshwari’s fight was against three others (Kazakhstan Asem Oribe of Azerbaijan was accompanied by Rigina Meftakhetdinova of Azerbaijan and The. Top qualifier Victoria Larsson of Sweden).

In the first elimination stage (after 20 shots), the Indian was second behind Chadd after missing two shots.

Kazakh Orinbay was the first to be eliminated with five misses in the first 20 goals. The quota was confirmed when Regina missed five of 30 and were eliminated from the next match. Sweden’s Victoria will claim the other available quota.

This perhaps calmed Maheshwari’s nerves and as the final progressed, she became stronger and reached the leader after 50 shots. Both had missed by five at that stage.

Maheshwari had three chances to win the gold, but it did not happen and she completely missed the gold in the third shoot-off round to give Chadid the gold. PTI early morning

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