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The 24-year Russian shooter still has plenty more chances to add to her haul.Īlso on Sunday, Nina Salukvadze of Georgia - who made history by becoming the first athlete to compete in nine Olympics - announced she will not return for a 10th Olympics after failing to qualify for the finals. "I still can't believe I won gold,'' Batsarashkina said through an interpreter.
Jian Ranxin of China took bronze after matching Greece's Anna Korakaki's three-year-old record of 587 points to lead qualifying. TOKYO - Russian shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina won gold in women's 10-meter air pistol at the Olympics on Sunday, five years after taking silver at the Rio de Janeiro Games.īatsarashkina just missed gold in Rio and followed through in Tokyo, shooting an Olympic-record 240.3 points to finish 0.9 ahead of Bulgaria's Antoaneta Kostadinova.
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