Indian archer Pooja finished the ranking round at the 29th spot with a total of 513 points in the Recurve archery event of the Paralympics Games in Rio on Saturday. She will face Poland's Milena Olszewska on Thursday in the round of 32.
Pooja started the event with a total of 47 points from her first six arrows as she scored 9, 8,8, 8, 7 and 7.
In the second set, the Indian improved her performance as she added another 50 points to her score after getting scores of 10, 9, 8, 8, 8 and 7 points.
But the third series saw her slip down as she scored 43 points with arrows of 9, 8, 8, 7, 6 and 5. She scored another 45 points from her fourth series as she scored 9, 9, 7, 7, 7 and 6.
In the fifth and sixth series, she only managed to score 41 points with scores of 9, 7, 7, 7, 6 and 5 in the fifth series and 9, 8, 8, 7, 6 and 6 points in the sixth series.
Earlier, shooter Naresh Kumar Sharma could not make the final after he was knocked out in the qualification round of the mixed 10 metre air rifle prone shooting event.
Sharma finished the event at the 44th position after aggregating 606.5 in the qualifying round at the Olympic Shooting Centre.
He started by scoring 100.6 points from his first of four series. In the second series, he shot 101.9 points, that got his total up to 202.5 points at the completion of the first two series.
Virtually out of the competition after a below-par performance in the first two series, Naresh could only manage 98.6 and 101.4 points from his third and fourth series respectively.