- July 25, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
TOKYO, July 25 (Reuters) – 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.
Later, American William Shaner won the men’s 10-metre rifle event with an Olympic record of 251.6, ahead of Sheng Lihao in a battle for the gold between the 20-year-old from Colorado and his teenaged Chinese opponent.
At 16 years and 233 days, Sheng (250.9) became the youngest shooter to win an Olympic medal. China also claimed the bronze through Asian Games champion Yang Haoran.
“Trained a lot of time for this. Having it delayed a year, more work had to be done, but it feels amazing,” Shaner said.
With the Chinese…
