Rifle shooter Lee Yun-ri gained silver within the ladies’s 10-meter air rifle standing occasion Friday for South Korea’s first medal of the Paris Paralympics.
Lee completed in second place with 246.8 factors on the Chateauroux Capturing Centre in Chateauroux, south of Paris.
Avani Lekhara of India gained the gold medal with 249.7 factors, and Mona Agarwal of India gained bronze with 228.7 factors.
Lee led Lekhara by 0.8 level with one shot remaining however hit a 6.8 at hand the gold medal to the Indian athlete.
This occasion had SH1 classification, which means that athletes might help the burden of the rifle with their arms and shoot in a standing place.
Within the closing, two collection of 5 pictures have been fired at first, with the proper rating being 10.9, and Lee took the lead with 104.2 factors.
These 10 pictures have been adopted by single pictures. Eliminations of the lowest-scoring finalists began after the twelfth shot and continued for each two pictures till two shooters have been left standing to battle for the gold.
By way of 22 pictures, Lee and Lekhara have been tied at 229.3 factors. Then along with her penultimate shot, Lee hit a ten.7 to Lekhara’s 9.9.
Lekhara then scored a ten.5 along with her closing shot. Lee solely wanted to hit a 9.8 for the gold and her worst rating within the closing as much as that time had been 10.0.
However Lee solely managed a 6.8 to accept the silver.
Some followers clapped earlier than Lee pulled her set off for her closing shot, however Lee denied she was distracted by the noise. As a substitute, she blamed the low rating on an premature stiffening of her proper knee.
“I fed off the vitality of the gang, and I used to be in a position to benefit from the competitors due to these followers,” Lee stated. “My proper knee stiffened on the finish. Again on the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, I shot a zero due to this situation. At the very least I nonetheless obtained the silver medal as a result of my leg stiffened on the finish.”
That is Lee’s fifth Paralympics. She gained gold within the ladies’s 50m rifle 3 positions occasion in 2008 in Beijing, and added bronze in the identical occasion eight years later in Rio de Janeiro.
Lee missed the rostrum in Tokyo three years in the past.
“Since I have already got a gold medal and a bronze medal, I assumed I might be pleased with a silver medal right here,” Lee stated. “And when my knee stiffened, I wasn’t disillusioned. I used to be simply glad I had completed my purpose.”
Lee will compete in her major occasion, 50m rifle 3 positions, on Tuesday.
“I’ll attempt to win a gold medal there and put our nationwide flag on the very prime,” she stated. (Yonhap)
