Dreams Know No Gender: Yashaswini Deswal Wins Gold At Shooting World Cup, Secures 9th Olympic Quota

Indian girls continue to make us proud. Yashaswini Singh Deswal won the Gold in the 10m air pistol event in ISSF World Cup, and secured India’s ninth Olympic spot.

The 22-year -old former junior world champion, Yashaswini, beat Ukraine’s world number one Olena Kostevych in the women’s 10m air pistol finals in the Shooting World Cup to win gold.

Yashawini recorded the highest score of 236.7 in the eight-woman final, followed by Olena with 234.8. Serbia’s Jasmina Milavonovic ended up with bronze scoring 215.7.

This has been an amazing week for Indian women in Sports. Earlier this week PV Sindhu became the 1st Indian shuttler to win gold at World Championships, followed by Manasi Joshi who brought us gold at the BWF Para World Championships.

The icing on the cake: Mary Kom was awarded Asia’s Best Woman Athlete.

All these strong women in Indian sports have proved that “Dreams Know No Gender“. And we as a society need to change the way we treat our daughters and give them a fair chance to achieve their goals.

At I For Her, we salute these women who are proving to the world that girls are no less. And we are thankful to their parents who are working relentlessly to give their daughters the best possible chance at achieving their dreams!