TOKYO (Reuters) – Fatima Galvez and Alberto Fernandez won Spain’s first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday with victory in the final of the new trap mixed team event at the Asaka Shooting Range. Switzerland’s Nina Christen won the gold in the women’s rifle three-position event with an Olympic record score, just ahead of the Russian Olympic Committee’s Yulia Zykova in silver. Galvez missed five of her first eight targets in the gold medal match, including the first three in a row, and needed a timeout. Americans Madelynn Bernau and Brian Burrows won the bronze in a shoot-off victory over women’s trap champion Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova and fellow Slovak Erik Varga after both pairs had shot 42. A second U.S. team, which included women’s trap silver medallist Kayle Browning, failed to reach the medal rounds.

Source: MetroXpress July 31, 2021 05:48 UTC