Slovakia wins gold in para-shooting

It is already the 11th medal for the country at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.

Veronika Vadovičová won gold in para-shooting.Veronika Vadovičová won gold in para-shooting. (Source: Roman Benický, Slovak Paralympic Committee)

Slovakia won its 11th medal on the last day of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.

Veronika Vadovičová took gold in the R6 - Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 event. She even broke the Paralympic record in the finals with a score of 248.9 points, the SITA newswire reported.

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Anna Normann of Sweden finished second and Juan Antonio Saavedra Reinaldo of Spain was third.

Vadovičová is an experienced para-shooter and the most successful Slovak Paralympic athlete. She has four gold medals, one silver and one bronze medal from the Paralympic Games.

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In Tokyo, Slovak Paralympic athletes won altogether 11 medals; five were gold, two silver and four bronze, SITA reported.

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