Mona Agarwal
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| Born | 8 November 1987 Sikar, Rajasthan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para-shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mona Agarwal (born 8 November 1987)[1] is an Indian para shooter from Rajasthan. She competes in women's 10m air rifle SH1 category. She qualified to represent India at the 2024 Summer Paralympics at Paris.[2] She won a quota place for the Paris Paralympics winning gold at the WSPS Para Shooting World Cup at New Delhi in March 2024.[3] She won a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.[4]
Agarwal was born in Sikar, Rajasthan. She took up shooting in December 2021 after trying different other sports including volleyball. Her husband, Ravindra Chaudhary, a former wheelchair basketball player, suffered brain injury in an accident, and is under rehab at home. She got a polio attack when she was nine months old.[2] She shifted to Jaipur after marriage.[5] Due to stigma against girls, she could not complete her schooling. After two elder sisters, her parents wanted a boy but Mona was an 'unwanted' child in the conservative family. But her maternal grandmother, Geetha Devi, supported her.[5] She has two children.
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