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TOKYO Russian shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina won the women s 10-metre pistol event at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday to claim the gold medal that narrowly eluded her five years ago in Rio.
Batsarashkina mounted a spectacular charge over the closing shots to win gold at the Asaka Shooting Range with an Olympic record of 240.3. Bulgarian Antoaneta Kostadinova won silver with 239.4, while the bronze went to Jiang Ranxin of China.
There was no dream medal for Georgian Nino Salukvadze, who became the first female athlete to compete at nine Olympics. The 52-year-old, who won the 25m pistol gold at the 1988 Seoul Games, did not get to the final and finished 31st.
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Archery - Mixed Team - 1/8 Finals - Yumenoshima Archery Field, Tokyo, Japan - July 24, 2021. Diananda Choirunisa of Indonesia and Agata Riau Ega Salsabilla of Indonesia during competition REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
July 24, 2021
By Ju-min Park
TOKYO (Reuters) -U.S. archer Mackenzie Brown bemoaned the lack of fans on Saturday after she and Brady Ellison – both unvaccinated against COVID-19 – crashed out of the mixed event, as South Korea won its first Tokyo 2020 gold with a record-breaking run.
She and world number one Ellison, seeded second in an event making its Olympic debut, lost in the first round to Indonesian 15th seeds Diananda Choirunisa and Riau Salsabilla.