China’s Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao picked up the primary gold medal of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Saturday as they topped South Korea’s Keum Ji-hyeon and Park Ha-jun within the 10-meter air rifle combined workforce, 16-12.
It’s China’s 68th medal within the sport of capturing and twenty seventh gold medal. It was Huang’s first medal within the sport and Sheng’s second medal. Sheng received a silver medal within the 10-meter air rifle on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Sheng Lihao L and Huang Yuting of China pose for pictures after the 10m Air Rifle Blended Workforce Gold Medal Match of Capturing on the nineteenth Asian Video games in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 26, 2023. (Shan Yuqi/Xinhua by way of Getty Photos)
The Chinese language pair’s win in Paris adopted their gold medal victory within the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan final yr.
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It’s the primary Olympic medals for the South Korean pair. Keum received a gold medal within the ladies’s 10-meter air rifle on the World Cup earlier this yr.
Kazakhstan’s Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev had been awarded the primary medals of the Paris Olympics on Saturday as they defeated Germany’s Anna Janssen and Maximilian Ulbrich for bronze.
The Kazakhstan workforce received the match 17-5. Le and Satpayey topped Nice Britain’s Seonaid McIntosh and Michael Bargeron on Thursday.
Kazakhstan’s Alexandra Le and Kazakhstan’s Islam Satpayev compete within the capturing 10m air rifle combined workforce Bronze Medal throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games at Chateauroux Capturing Centre on July 29, 2024. (ALAIN JOCARD/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
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Kazakhstan took house eight medals, all bronze, on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. The workforce had 17 whole medals, together with 10 bronze, 5 silver and two gold, on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Video games.
The Kazakhstan workforce solely had three medals within the sport going into bronze medal match. The workforce received two silver and a bronze and now have extra bronze so as to add to their whole.
Sergey Belyayev had two silver medals within the males’s 50-meter rifle susceptible and the lads’s 50-meter susceptible meter rifle three positions within the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Vladimir Vokhmyanin received the lads’s 25-meter speedy hearth pistol.
China’s Yang Qian and Yang Haoran received gold over america’ Mary Tucker and Lucas Kozeniesky. The Russian Olympic Committee’s Yulia Karimova and Sergey Kamenskiy topped South Korea’s Kwon Eun-ji and Nam Tae-yun for the bronze medal.
South Korea’s Keum Jihyeon competes within the capturing 10m Air Rifle Blended Workforce Gold Medal throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games at Chateauroux Capturing Centre on July 29, 2024. (ALAIN JOCARD/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
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These had been the primary medals handed out within the Olympics.
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