MEDAL ALERT
Slovakia’s Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova has set an Olympic record in women’s trap to deny the United States a third-straight shotgun gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
Rehak Stefecekova hit 43 of 50 targets on a breezy day at Asaka Shooting Range, beating American Kayle Browning.
Alessandro Perilli took bronze to earn the first medal in San Marino’s 61-year Olympic history.
Americans Vincent Hancock and Amber English opened the shotgun events by sweeping skeet on Tuesday.
A 37-year-old police officer, Rehak Stefecekova took silver at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games, and missed Rio in 2016 due to the birth of her son.
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MEDAL ALERT
Australiaâs Jessica Fox has made Olympic history at the Tokyo Games as the first gold medalist in womenâs canoe slalom.
Fox made the last run of the final and crushed it, beating rival and silver-medalist Mallory Franklin of Britain with a winning run of 105.04 seconds through the rapids of of the Kasai Canoe Slalom Center.
It was a clean run without the mistakes and penalty seconds that prevented her from winning gold in the kayak slalom two days earlier, when she won bronze.
The womenâs canoe slalom is one of 18 new events introduced to the Olympics this year in a push for gender equity. It replaced the menâs double canoe slalom.
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