Palak Gulia, India's start shooter and Asian Games 2023 gold medalist earned India's 20th Paris Olympics quota in shooting by finishing third position in the final of 10m air pistol at ISSF Final Olympic Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday.

This was India's 20th quota in shooting and eighth quota in pistol shooting. With this quota, India now have won 16 of the 16 available quotas in rifle and pistol shooting along with four in the shotgun.

After a shaky start, Palak Guila finished with 217.6 points after bowing out in his 22nd shot, in a 24-shot final. Armenia's Elmira Karapetyan won gold, while Kamonlak Saencha from Thailand won silver.

Elmira Karapetyan already had earned a quota for her country and that's why all the other seven finalists had the chance to grab the available two quotas.

After the rocky start, Indian shooters Palak and Sainyam could not keep up with the competition given by Veronika Major of Hungary and Kamonlak Sanecha. Though Palak and Sainyam struggled to get over the fifth position, Veronika's elimination from the competition helped them a lot. Meantime, the Indians started getting better too. Ahead of the 19th shot, Palak took a 0.6 lead over Veronika and fixed her place at number three. Sainyam meantime finished fifth.

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Indian Athletes who have qualified for Paris Olympics 2024

Number	Athlete	Sport	Event	Status
1	Bhowneesh Mendiratta	Shooting	Men's trap	Quota
2	Rudrankksh Patil	Shooting	Men's 10m air rifle	Quota
3	Swapnil Kusale	Shooting	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions	Quota
4	Akhil Sheoran	Shooting	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions	Quota
5	Mehuli Ghosh	Shooting	Women's 10m air rifle	Quota
6	Sift Kaur Samra	Shooting	Women's 50m rifle 3 positions	Quota
7	Rajeshwari Kumari	Shooting	Women's trap	Quota
8	Akshdeep Singh	Athletics	Men's 20km race walk	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
9	Priyanka Goswami	Athletics	Women's 20km race walk	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
10	Vikas Singh	Athletics	Men's 20km race walk	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
11	Paramjeet Bisht	Athletics	Men's 20km race walk	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
12	Murali Sreeshankar	Athletics	Men's long jump	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
13	Avinash Sable	Athletics	Men's 3000m steeplechase	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
14	Neeraj Chopra	Athletics	Men's javelin throw	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
15	Parul Chaudhary	Athletics	Women's 3000m steeplechase	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
16	Antim Panghal	Wrestling	Women's 53kg	Quota
17	Nikhat Zareen	Boxing	Women's 50kg	Quota
18	Preeti Pawar	Boxing	Women's 54kg	Quota
19	Parveen Hooda	Boxing	Women's 57kg	Quota
20	Lovlina Borgohain	Boxing	Women's 75kg	Quota
21	Kishore Jena	Athletics	Men's javelin throw	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
22	Team India	Hockey	Men's hockey	Direct
23	Sarabjot Singh	Shooting	Men's 10m air pistol	Quota
24	Arjun Babuta	Shooting	Men's 10m air rifle	Quota
25	Tilottama Sen	Shooting	Women's 10m air rifle	Quota
26	Manu Bhaker	Shooting	Women's 25m pistol	Quota
27	Anish Bhanwala	Shooting	Men's 25m rapid fire pistol	Quota
28	Shriyanka Sadangi	Shooting	Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions	Quota
29	Dhiraj Bommadevara	Archery	Men's recurve	Quota
30	Varun Tomar	Shooting	Men's 10m air pistol	Quota
31	Esha Singh	Shooting	Women's 10m air pistol	Quota
32	Rhythm Sangwan	Shooting	Women's 25m pistol	Quota
33	Vijayveer Sidhu	Shooting	Men's 25m rapid fire pistol	Quota
34	Raiza Dhillon	Shooting	Women's skeet	Quota
35	Anantjeet Singh Naruka	Shooting	Men's skeet	Quota
36	Suraj Panwar	Athletics	Men's 20km race walk	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
37	Servin Sebastian	Athletics	Men's 20km race walk	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
38	Arshpreet Singh	Athletics	Men's 20km race walk	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
39	Vishnu Saravanan	Sailing	Men’s One Person Dinghy	Quota
40	Anush Agarwalla	Equestrian	Dressage	Quota
41	Indian men's team	Table tennis	Men's team and two in men's singles	Quota (Ranking)
42	Indian women's team	Table tennis	Women's team and two in women's singles	Quota (Ranking)
43	Ram Baboo	Athletics	Men's 20km race walk	Direct (Met qualifying standard)
44	Palak Gulia	Shooting	Women's 10m air pistol	Quota

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