China win first gold medal of Paris Olympics in air rifle shooting; Kazakhstan clinch first medal of 2024 Games

The first gold medal of the Paris Olympics 2024 was won by China Saturday as the Yuting Huang-Lihao Sheng pair won the top prize in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team shooting event. Yuting Huang and Lihao Sheng defeated Lihao Sheng South Korea’s Jihyeon Keum-Hajun Park 16-12 in the gold medal match.

Keum and Park won silver for Korea.

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The first medal of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games was won by Kazakhstan’s Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev who defeated Germany’s Anna Janssen and Maximilian Ulbrich 17-5 in the same event to win the bronze medal.

Two Indian pairs – Ramita Jindal-Arjun Babuta and Elavenil Valarivan-Sandeep Singh – were also part of the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event but failed to reach the medal round after finishing sixth and 12th respectively.

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Only the top four teams from the qualification reach the final of mixed team events.

Gold medallist Yuting Huang-Lihao Sheng had topped the qualification with a 632.2 score, followed by the silver medal winners South Koreans who recorded a score of 631.4.

Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev of Kazakhstan were third with a score of 630.8 and Germany’s Anna Janssen and Maximilian Ulbrich (629.7) were fourth.

Ramita-Arjun pair had scored 628.7, while Elavenil-Sandeep managed of 626.3.