Elavenil strikes gold at Junior Shooting World Cup
June 26, 2018 Shooting
The immensely talented Elavenil Valarivan shot her second International Shooting Sport Federation Junior World Cup gold of the year, winning the women’s 10m air rifle event at Suhl, Germany on Monday.
On competition day two of the year’s second and final ISSF Junior World Cup, Elavenil ended the eight-woman final with a score of 251.7 after 24 shots, a clear 0.8 ahead of China’s Zeru Wang, who won silver.
Chinese Taipei’s Ying-Shin Lin, who won the senior World Cup gold in the event earlier this month in Munich, won bronze with a score of 229.5.
This was India’s third gold of the competition and they continue to top the medal standings.
