Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 10:57am on 21 Sep 2026,Monday Sports
Elavenil Valarivan won two silver medals on Day 1 of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya on Sunday. She first won team silver in the 10m air rifle with Sonam Uttam Maskar and Vidarsa K Vinod, India's first medal of these Games. Later, she led the individual final for most of the way but finished 0.6 behind Japan's Hinata Taichi, who set an Asian Games record with 253.0. Elavenil scored 252.4. The two-time Olympian said her approach has changed. "Lately I've started to enjoy the sport," she said. On her first Games medal, she added, "I'm going to cherish it to the core."
