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Nationality | India | ||||||||||||
Born |
Amritsar, Punjab, India |
23 October 1997 ||||||||||||
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) (2014) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) (2014) | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Malaika Goel (born 23 October 1997) is an Indian shooter. She won the silver medal in the Women's 10m Air Pistol competition at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
She started her shooting career in 2008. In 2012, Goel won a silver medal at the senior national championships in the 10 meter Air Pistol competition. In the same year, she also won a silver at the Asian Air Gun Championships in China in the juniors category. In its 2013 event held in Tehran, Goel scoring 197.7 points won the gold medal in the Youth section.
In the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she won the silver medal having scored 197.1 points. She left behind Dorothy Ludwig of Canada with Bronze medal.