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Final Olympic Qualification Championship Rifle: Reigning Asian Games champion Palak Gulia and the second teenager in the squad Sainyam, kept the Indian shooting squad on course for a 20th Paris Olympic quota place, reaching the final of the women’s 10m air pistol in the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Final Olympic Qualification Championship Rifle/Pistol at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

The final will be held on Sunday.

Both Palak, in the first qualification relay, and Sainyam, in the second, shot identical scores of 578 to take the sixth and seventh qualification spots, giving India a boost in their endeavour to grab one of the two available quota places.