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Bronze medal for Greece in air pistol by Korakaki

First medal in sport since 1920

Newsroom August 7 06:40

Anna Korakaki has won the first medal (bronze) for Greece in the 10m air pistol in the Rio2016 Games. Korakaki totalled 177.7 points and coming ion third after China’s Zhang Mengxue (gold-199.4 pt) and Russian Vitalina Batsarashkina (silver-197.1 pt). It is the first medal for Greece in the sport since for 94 years!

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