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Final 10m Air Pistol Women

Vitalina Batsarashkina from ROC team takes Gold in dramatic Final

XXXII Olympic Games (Shooting Sport from 23.07 till 3.08) · Tokyo, JPN

On the second day of competition at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, Vitalina Batsarashkina from ROC team won Gold in 10m Air Pistol Women. In a bitter struggle, the Silver medalist of the 2016 Olympics won with the last shot and set an Olympic record despite the referee's mistake.

Silver went to Antoaneta Kostadinova from Bulgaria.

-I’m very happy that I’m the first person who takes the medal for Bulgaria finally. It happens for the first time since 2004. My emotions are very big. Everything happens because of my coach, my family, country, people who love the shooting sport. Thank you everybody for all support, - told Antoaneta after the Final. 

 

The third place took Ranxin Jiang from People’s Republic of China.

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