Mumbai, Jan 12: Shooter Rhythm Sanhwan secured another Paris Olympics 2024 quota for India, clinching a bronze medal in women’s 25-meter pistol event at the ongoing Asian Shooting Championship in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday.
This is India’s 16th quota for shooting in the upcoming Olympics, surpassing the record tally of 15 for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, as per Olympics.com.
In the final, Rhythm shot 28/45 and settled for a bronze, with Republic of Korea Jiin Yang and Yeji Kim shooting 41/50 and 32/50 for gold and silver respectively.
A country can get a maximum of two quotas per event at the Paris Olympics. Since South Korea already had two quotas in this category, the Olympic quotas were given to India and Chinese Taipei. Rhythm secured the top spot in qualification round and had a combined score of 588 in the rapid and precision rounds.