SINGAPORE – National shooter Jasmine Ser will get another shot at Olympic glory this year after earning qualification to the Rio de Janeiro Games in the women’s 50m three-positions (3P) event.

The 25-year-old, who made her Olympics debut at the 2012 London Games, booked her berth for this August’s Rio Olympics yesterday after winning gold in the event at the Asian Qualifiers in New Delhi yesterday with a score of 458.0 points.

Iran’s Mahlagha Jambozorg clinched the silver on 455.4 points, while South Korean Lee Kyerim rounded up the top-three with 443.5 points – the result means that both players have also secured a spot at the Rio Olympics.

Ser’s achievement in India is made all the more remarkable as she had been suffering from a bad bout of food poisoning since arriving there last Wednesday.

She was hospitalised on Friday and put on an intravenous drip, and she subsequently failed to nail one of the two Olympic spots in the 10m air rifle event on Saturday despite making the final.

Ser, who competed at the 2012 London Games on an unused quota place, was naturally ecstatic about overcoming the odds to make the Rio Games in the final Asian qualifying event.

“I am extremely happy yet tired that I’ve made the Olympics,” she said.

“It has been a very tough journey towards qualification over the past two years. I’ve been trying to qualify during each World Cup but had always missed it by an inch, so I’m really relieved and glad that I finally got it this time round.”

There was double joy for Singapore yesterday as another national shooter clinched a second ticket to Rio via the women’s 25m pistol.

Teo Shun Xie also qualified for the Olympics, after the Republic was granted a quota place in the event.

Teo had finished sixth in the event during the qualifiers, but still earned one of the three tickets to the Games available as South Korea – who completed a clean sweep of the medals – were only allocated one spot, having already taken up one quota place at a previous qualifier.

Akiko Sato of Japan finished fourth to take the final Olympic slot, while Chinese Taipei’s Wu Chia-ying, who finished fifth, had already earned a berth at an earlier event.

According to the Singapore National Olympic Council, this is the first time since 1964 that the Republic will be sending two shooters for the Games.

“I honestly didn’t think I could qualify (for the Olympics) because I did badly in the semi-finals,” said Teo, who will be competing in the Games for the first time.

“So I’m very glad that we managed to pull through, especially after such a tough few days.

“I’m grateful to the support of our team manager and coach and team mates, because we all looked after each other during this period of time.”