Indian para shooter Singhraj Adhana won a bronze medal in the P1 10m Air Pistol SH1 event at the Tokyo Paralympics on Tuesday. This is India‘s eighth medal at the ongoing Games. 

Adhana, who qualified for the eight-man final in sixth place, finished with a final score of 216.8 from his 20 shots. Manish Narwal, the other Indian in contention who topped the qualification with a score of 575, was eliminated at a lowly seventh with 135.8 points.

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He finished behind the Chinese duo of Yang Chao and Huang Xing in the first and second places respectively. 

Yang smashed his own paralympic record with a score of 237.9, surpassing his total of 198.2 from the 2016 Rio Paralympics. 

Athletes in SH1 category have an impairment affecting one arm and/or the legs, for example resulting from amputations or spinal cord injuries. P1 is a classification for the men’s 10 air pistol competition.

Some shooters compete in a seated position, while others take aim in a standing position as defined in the rules.

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Adhana dropped out of the medal places after a poor 19th shot, but prevented a Chinese clean sweep as he surpassed Xiaolong Lou with an impeccable final attempt. 

Earlier today, shooter Rubina Fracis finished seventh in the eight-woman P2 Air Rifle SH1 final. She had a total of 128.1 points when she was eliminated. 

Iran’s Sareh Javanmardi broke Rubina’s world record score of 239.2 to clinch gold. Rubina held the previous world record with 238.1 points, which she shot at the World Shooting Para Sport World Cup in Lima, Peru, earlier this year.

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Turkey’s Aysegul Pehlivanlar won the silver with a score of 234.5, while Hungary’s Krisztina David bagged the bronze medal with 210.5 points. 

India have so far won eight medals at the ongoing Paralympics, doubling their previus best medal tallies from the 2016 and 1984 Paralympics in Rio and Mandeville/NewYork respectively. The medals include two golds, four silvers and two bronze.