Chiara Leone does the same as Nina Christen. Like her teammate three years ago, the Aargau native becomes Olympic champion in the 50 m air rifle three-position match.
02.08.2024, 11:57
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- Chiara Leone wins the first gold medal for Switzerland at the Olympic Games in Paris.
- The 26-year-old wins the 50 m air rifle three-position match.
The 26-year-old Leone, who had finished third in the qualification the day before, was among the leaders in the final right from the start. After the kneeling position at the start, she led the classification, after a further 15 shots in the prone position she took third place, in the final standing shooting, the most difficult part of the competition, she then advanced to the very top.
The final phase at the range in Châteauroux, around 250 kilometers south of Paris, was, as almost always in shooting, not for the faint-hearted. Before the last shot, the 45th in this competition, Leone had a comfortable lead of seven tenths over her only remaining competitor, the American Sagen Maddalena.
A starting position that could have caused nervousness. But the woman from Aargau, who had already become European champion in this discipline two months ago, kept her cool and above all her steady hand, and even went one better: she scored 10.8 points, one tenth below the maximum.
Leone is only the second Swiss woman to win Olympic gold in shooting, after Christen made her debut three years ago in Tokyo. Overall, this is the eighth gold medal at the Olympic Games for the Swiss shooting delegation.
They celebrated for the first time in Paris in the shooting camp, and of course the whole of Switzerland with them, on Monday. Audrey Goignat from Jura broke the Swiss medal spell by winning bronze in the 10 m air rifle competition at these Games.
