After finishing tied with 54 hits in the 60-shot final, Maheshwari lost 3-4 to Chile's Francisca Crovatto Chadid in the gold medal shoot-off. It was a brilliant performance as it was the maiden ISSF final for the Jalore shooter. Her performance also secured India the second Paris quota place in women's skeet.

"I'm thrilled. It's taken many years of hard work to get here. I'm a little disappointed about the shoot-off, but overall, it was very satisfying," Maheshwari said after the final.

The day started with the Indian being on top of the qualification pile, but a final round score of 23 meant she would qualify for the top six finals in fourth place. However, his 121 points gave him a new national record.

Given that Chadid had already secured a quota place in the competitions and sixth qualifier Jiang Yiting of China was ineligible as her country had already exhausted its quota in the event, Maheshwari's fight against three others (Kazakhstan Assem Oribe was with Azerbaijan's Rigina Meftakhetdinova and). Top qualifier Victoria Larsson of Sweden).

In the first elimination stage (after 20 shots), the Indian was second behind Chadid after missing two shots.

Kazakh Orinbay was the first to be eliminated with five misses in the first two goals. The quota was confirmed when Rigina was eliminated after missing fifth place in the 30. Sweden's Victoria will claim the other available quota.

This probably calmed Maheshwari's nerves and as Fina progressed, she got stronger and reached the leader after 50 shots. Both had missed five times at that stage.

Maheshwari had three chances to win the gold, but it did not happen and in the third shoot-off round she completely missed the gold to Chadid.