Something about India’s first medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games is unusually neat.
Three women took very different routes to reach the same shooting range near Toyota City. One who stumbled into the sport through a friend’s daughter, another who began shooting almost as a college hobby before her family sold property to keep the dream alive, and a third who picked up a rifle through the NCC while hoping, at first, that it might lead to a government job.
On Sunday morning in Nagoya, those three stories converged.
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Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar and Vidarsa Vinod combined for a total of 1898 points to win silver in the women’s 10m air rifle team event, giving India its first medal of the Games. China finished on top with a Games record of 1904.2, while hosts Japan took bronze with 1897.1.