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Korakaki wins gold for Greece in 25m pistol!

First athlete to win two medals for Greece in 104 years!

Newsroom August 9 10:31

Anna Korakaki has won the first gold medal for Greece in the Rio 2016 Olynpicsm, after winning in the 25m pistol final against German Monika Karsch. The 20-year-old girl becomes only the second athlete for Greece in the modern Olympic games to win two medals in the same Games after Konstantinos Tsiklitiras won 2 medals in 1912! Korakaki won the first three rounds against her opponent giving her a 6-0 lead, but Karsch won the next three rounds making the score 6-6. In the final round of 5 shots Korakaki beat her opponent on the last shot.

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