{"id":333640,"date":"2021-08-30T02:05:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333640"},"modified":"2021-08-30T02:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:35:56","slug":"shooter-avani-lekhara-becomes-first-indian-woman-to-win-gold-at-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shooter-avani-lekhara-becomes-first-indian-woman-to-win-gold-at-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooter Avani Lekhara becomes first Indian woman to win gold at Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333641\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AvaniLekhara_TokyoParalympics_300821_1200x800_Twitter_DDSports.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/AvaniLekhara_TokyoParalympics_300821_1200x800_Twitter_DDSports.jpg 750w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/AvaniLekhara_TokyoParalympics_300821_1200x800_Twitter_DDSports-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/AvaniLekhara_TokyoParalympics_300821_1200x800_Twitter_DDSports-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/AvaniLekhara_TokyoParalympics_300821_1200x800_Twitter_DDSports-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">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,\u00a0\u00a0firing her way to the top of the podium in the R-2 women\u2019s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Avani completed with a world record equalling total of 249.6, which is also a new Paralympic record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">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","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,\u00a0\u00a0firing 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;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":333641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,53],"tags":[14557,14555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333642,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333640\/revisions\/333642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}