She had secured a quota for the Tokyo Paralympics after clinching gold at Peru's World Shooters Para-Sports Championship in June this year. She entered the competition as India's highest-ranked female para-shooter. The 21-year-old hails from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. She competes in 10m air pistol events. During the Para World Cup, she scored a total of 238.1 points in the event and surpassed the previous world record of 237.1 points set by Turkey's Aysegul Pehlivanlar.
Francis was born with a disability in her leg. She was just 16. She started her career with the support of her parents and took up the sport professionally in 2015. She credits her success to the support of many academies and coaches. She joined Olympic medallist Gagan Narang's shooting academy and played in her first international in 2017. The shooter told Firstpost that she wanted to pursue something else besides studies in school, so with the support of her father she got selected in the shooting academy. "That is how the interest developed," she added sharing how her journey started from there. She said her parents backed her dreams and that is how she took up shooting.