Sports shooter Veronika Major won a bronze medal in the women's 25-meter sport pistol event at the Paris Olympics, after qualifying in first place in Friday's preliminary competition for Saturday's final, where she finished in third place.
The sports shooter from Keszthely reached the finals in first place in Friday's basic competition with an Olympic-high setting, and then performed fantastically again in Saturday's finals and took third place with 31 points.
Chateauroux, August 3, 2024 Third place Major Veronika after the final of the women's sport pistol event at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics at the shooting range in Chateauroux on August 3, 2024. MTI/Zsolt Czeglédi
Jang Jin from South Korea won the gold medal, while Camille Jedrzejewski of France finished second representing the hosts.
Major Veronika won an Olympic medal as a Hungarian sports shooter after twenty years, after Diána Igaly (skeet) won the gold in Athens.
The Hungarian Olympic team now has six medals in Paris: Hubert Kós won in the men's 200m backstroke, the men's dueling team won, the men's saber team and Kristóf Milák won silver in the men's 200m butterfly, while Eszter Muhari was the winner in the women's dueling individual competition last Saturday. third.
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