Denmark’s Stephanie Grundsoee Wins Gold in Tense Shoot-out at Buenos Aires 2018
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STORY HEADLINE: DENMARK’S STEPHANIE GRUNDSOEE WINS GOLD IN TENSE SHOOT-OUT AT BUENOS AIRES 2018
DATE: 8 October, 2018
LOCATION: Buenos Aires, Argentina
LANGUAGE: English, Danish
STORY SCRIPT:
Stephanie Grundsoee won the first gold of day two of competition in the women’s 10m Air Rifle at the Summer Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018.
She narrowly beat India’s Mehuli Ghosh finishing in the final round of shooting on 248.7 points to the silver medallist’s total of 248 points. Marija Malic of Serbia won bronze with a score of 226.2.
Stephanie, who is 18, recently finished in the top 20 in senior competition at her sport’s World Cup in Munich.
For individual shooting events at Buenos Aires 2018 shots are fired at a ten ring target in the qualification. Men and women have to fire 60 shots in 75 minutes. The final consists of two five-shot series to be fired in command in a time of 50 seconds.
Eliminations of the lowest scoring finalists begin after the 12 shots and continue after every two shots until the gold and silver medals are decided. There is a total of 24 shots in the final.
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