Russian shooter Batsarashkina wins women's 10m air pistol at Tokyo Olympics

Sports Sunday 25/July/2021 07:57 AM
By: xinhua
Russian shooter Batsarashkina wins women's 10m air pistol at Tokyo Olympics
Vitalina Batsarashkina of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) competes during the Tokyo 2020 women's 10m air pistol final in Tokyo.

Tokyo: Russian markswoman Vitalina Batsarashkina won the women's 10m air pistol gold at the Tokyo Olympics with an Olympic record of 240.3 points here on Sunday.

Veteran Antoaneta Kostadinova of Bulgaria, who held a 0.9-point advantage before the two final shots, had to settle for the silver, scoring a sub-par 9.0 points in her last shot.

China's Jiang Ranxin took the bronze.