China’s Mengyao Shi clinched the gold medal while Dong Lijie captured the silver medal and Pooja, who scored a total of 228.8, finished third in the event.
This was Pooja’s first World Cup medal. Earlier on March 2016, Pooja just missed out a medal after ending up fourth in the women’s 10m air rifle event. She had won a gold medal at the Asian Air Gun Championship in 2014.
Twenty-eight year old shooter had narrowly missed out on winning a quota berth for the 2016 Rio Olympics, is now looking forward to 2020 Tokyo Olympics.