China's Yang Qian wins the first gold medal of Tokyo 2020

China's Yang Qian has won the first gold medal of the 2020 Olympics after outlasting the field today in a nail-biting final in the women's 10-meter air rifle competition.

Anastasiia Galashina, competing for Russia led Yang 231.4 to 231.3 heading into the final two shots.

Galashina doubled the lead with a 10.8 on her next shot to Yang's 10.7.

But Galashina fired an astonishingly low 8.9 with her last shot, a few seconds before Yang clinched gold with a pedestrian but sufficient 9.8, her worst shot of the 24 she took in the final.

Switzerland's Nina Christen took bronze.

[Source: nbcolympics.com]

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