Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela on 11 April 2015 won Bronze medal in the 10-metre air rifle event at the (International Shooting Sport Federation) ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup in Changwon, South Korea.
In this world cup, Pejcic Snjezana of Croatia with score of 209.1 won gold medal.
Ivana Maksimovic of Serbia with score of 207.7 won the silver medal.
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- Apurvi Chandela won the bronze after she shot score of 185.6 in the qualifying fifth final round.
- Apurvi Chandela has qualified for the 2016 Olympics, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Apurvi Chandela is the second Indian marksman after pistol shooter Jitu Rai to qualify for the Rio Olympics
- About Apurvi Chandela:
- She is an Indian shooter who competes in the 10 metre air rifle event.
- In 2012, Chandela won the gold medal in the 10 metres air rifle event at the National shooting championships in New Delhi
- In 2014, she won four medals at the Intershoot Championships at the The Hague, that included two individual and two team medals.
- She won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games inGlasgow, having scored 206.7 points in final, in the process creating a new games record.