New Delhi: Lajja Gauswami on Tuesday won a silver medal in 50 M Rifle 3 Position Women event, during the ISSF World Cup being held at Granada (Spain) from July 2 to July 12.

The 24-year-old Gauswami, a silver medallist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, shot 584 in the qualification round and 454 in the finals to bag the silver ahead of Norway's Malin Westerheim, who shot 443.9 in the finals.

Petra Zublasing of Italy won the gold after scoring 459.1 in the medal round.

Gauswami totalled 152.4 over three series in kneeling, scored 154.8 in prone and 146.8 while standing to win the country's first medal in the tournament, which started on July 3.

It is to be recalled, Gauswami had teamed up with Tejaswani Sawant to win silver in pairs 50-m rifle 3 position at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010.

Gauswami, who hails from Anand district in Gujarat, had also won gold in the women's 50m rifle 3 position, ahead of Maharashtra's Sawant and veteran Anjali Bhagwat at the IX Sardar Sajjan Singh Sethi Memorial Masters shooting competition last year.