Elavenil Valarivan won a Gold medal at the Shooting World Cup in Rio de Janeiro in the 10m air rifle category with 251.7 points in the final on Wednesday.

This is the 20-year-old’s first senior World Cup gold medal.India had already secured the maximum quota of two places in the 2020 Olympics in this event.

Valarivan is the third Indian to win a World Cup gold medal in this event, after Apurvi Chandela and Anjali Bhagwat.