Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, player of Madhya Pradesh State Shooting Academy, won a gold medal in 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men at ISSF Junior World Championships, Lima (Peru).
Aishwarya continued her stellar performance to bag the gold medal in the final with a score of 463.4. Along with this, Aishwarya also set a new world record at the junior level. Earlier this world record was held by Filip Napejshal of Czech Republic, which he made on November 19, 2019 in China with 462.9 points.
Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare Yashodhara Raje Scindia congratulated her for the brilliant performance. She said that this will serve as an inspiration to other shooters of the academy. In the coming times, more players from our academy will be able to lift their laurels in world-class competitions.
Aishwarya, who represented the country at the Tokyo Olympics, topped the qualification round with 1185 points. Even in the final match, Aishwarya continued her performance to set a world record with 463.6 points and won the gold medal. France's Lucas Bernard Denis Kries finished second with 456.5 points, while America's Gavin Raymond Le Barnick was third with 446.6 points.
Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar is bieng trained under the guidance of Suma Shirur, Chief Instructor of Shooting Academy. Aishwarya Pratap also performed brilliantly in the qualification round. She equaled the world record with 1185 points.
Aishwarya Pratap has created a world record for the second time in this event of the World Championships. Earlier in the Junior World Cup, she set a new world record by scoring 459.3 points in the 50m rifle three position. She set this record in the 2019 ISSF Junior World Cup played in Suhl, Germany.