Russian shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina won gold in women’s 10-meter air pistol at the Tokyo Olympics five years after taking silver at the Rio de Janeiro Games. Tokyo2020
Batsarashkina shot an Olympic-record 240.3 points, finishing 0.9 ahead of Bulgaria’s Antoaneta Kostadinova.’s Anna Korakaki’s three-year-old record of 587 points to lead qualifying.
The 52-year-old Salukvadze first competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics for the Soviet Union, winning a gold and a silver. She added a bronze at the 2008 Beijing Games and became the first mother/son duo to compete at the same games with Tsotne Machavariani in 2016.Batsarashkina, ranked 10th in the world, was third in qualifying and moved ahead of Kostadinova with a 10.7 with three shots to go. The 25-year-old Russian closed out with a 10.2 to earn the gold she just missed in Rio.
Kostadinova had some solid finishes after returning, but was ranked 45th in the world heading into the Tokyo Olympics.
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