Youngster shows nerves of steel to assert the women’s 10m gun event, before Chinese combine Du Li and Yi Siling
Virginia Thrasher claimed the primary ribbon of the city 2016 Games, with a score of 208 (Photo: Getty Images/Sam Greenwood) American stripling Virginia Thrasher surprised favoured rivals to win the primary ribbon of the city 2016 Olympic Games, showing nerves of steel to assert the women’s 10m gun event on Sat (6 August) morning.
Thrasher won the ribbon with a finals Olympic-record score of 208, before Du Li of China, UN agency had been dominant in qualifying, setting AN Olympic record of 420.7. Thrasher's performance was an enormous surprise, as she is hierarchic twenty three within the world. Thrasher beat cheat on gold medallist Du by one purpose. The 2012 Olympic champion, Yi Siling of China, claimed bronze.
Earlier this year, Thrasher became the primary freshman to win each individual NCAA rifle titles and helped Mountain State win the team title. She followed that by winning the America Olympic trials below a month later, earning a visit to city. Thrasher solely entered the Olympic trials with the goal of doing her best, not creating the Olympic team. "To me, it absolutely was simply another match to undertake and do my best. I wasn't extremely upset concerning the result. this is often on the far side my wildest dreams." She has already turned her mind to her studies at Mountain State University, wherever she is going to be a sophomore.
"I get home twenty hours before the primary category, therefore I’ll be in physics at 8:30 am," she said.
