China wins first gold medal of Tokyo Olympics in women’s rifle competition

China’s Yang Qian won the archetypal golden medal of the Tokyo Olympics successful the women’s 10-meter firearm contention connected Saturday.

The metallic went to Russian shooter Anastasiia Galashina and the bronze medal to Switzerland’s Nina Christen.

Galashina led the contention for the golden successful the last until she cracked nether unit and signed disconnected with her lowest people of 8.9 for a full of 251.1.

Yang responded to the unit by firing 9.8 to snatch the golden with an Olympic grounds of 251.8.

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Norwegian Jeanette Hegg Duestad had acceptable an Olympic qualifying grounds of 632.9 to scope the last but finished conscionable extracurricular the medals.

(Reporting by Mari Saito; further reporting by Amlan Chakraborty; Editing by Peter Rutherford)