Indian shooting ace Apurvi Chandela Wednesday attained the world number one position in the women’s 10m air rifle event while compatriot Anjum Moudgil rose to number two after consistent performances in recent years.
The rifle ace from Jaipuris among the five Indian shooters to have already secured 2020 Olympics quotasfor the country.
Chandela shot a worldrecord score of 252.9 to clinch gold at the International Shooting SportFederation (ISSF) World Cup in February. She is a gold medallist at the 2014Glasgow Commonwealth Game and a bronze winner in the next edition at GoldCoast.
In the 2018 Asian Games,Chandela had won a bronze medal in the 10m mixed rifle event. The shooter tookto twitter to share her joy on achieving the feat. “World Number 1 Touched amilestone in my shooting career today,” Chandela wrote on her twitter handle.
Whilethe 26-year-old Chandela has already booked a Tokyo Olympics berth, shenarrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fourth with a total score of 207.8,at the recently-concluded ISSF World Cup in Beijing. PTI