Aruna Budda Reddy created history on Saturday when she became the first Indian to clinch an individual medal at the 2018 Gymnastics World Cup in Melbourne, Australia.

Aruna won a bronze medal with a score of 13.699 after her two attempts in the Women's Vault event while Slovenia's Tjasa Kysslef won the gold medal with a score of 13.800 and Australia's Emily Whitehead finished second with a score 13.699.

Aruna had a good start in the final, scoring 9.066 points on execution after choosing a difficulty level of 4.600, which gave her a total of 13.666

She chose a higher difficulty level of 4.800 in her second attempt, but could score only 8.833 on execution, which gave her a total of 13.633 points.

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Another Indian in the final, Pranati Nayak finished sixth with an average score of 13.416.

This was the third gymnastics medal for India at the world level.

Ashish Kumar was the first Indian to claim a gymnastics medal when he took bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.

Dipa Karmakar also took a bronze in women's vault in the subsequent Commonwealth Games in 2014, thus becoming the first female Indian gymnast to clinch a medal at the world level.

Dipa Karmakar became the first from the country to qualify for the Olympics.

She narrowly missed out on a bronze at the Rio Olympics in 2016 when she finished a creditable fourth in the final of the Olympic Games.

Dipa averaged 15.066 points to finish fourth.

Simone Biles of the US won the gold with an average of 15.966, while Maria Paseka (15.253) of Russia and Switzerland's Giulia Steingrubber (15.216) took home the silver and bronze medals respectively.

(With inputs from IANS)