By Amlan Chakraborty
CHATEAUROUX, France (Reuters) -Britain’s Nathan Hales won the men’s trap event while Serbia’s Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec won the 10-metre air pistol mixed team gold at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday.
Hales won the gold with an Olympic record of 48. Qi Ying (44) of China won the silver, while Jean Pierre Brol (35) of Guatemala took bronze.
Earlier in the mixed team air pistol event, Arunovic and Mikec beat Sevval Ilayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikec of Turkey 16-14 at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre.
Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh claimed the bronze for India beating the South Korean pair Oh Ye-jin and Lee Won-ho 16-10.
Bhaker, who won bronze in the women’s individual event, became India’s first multi-medallist at an Olympic Games since the country’s independence in 1947.
In the gold medal contest, the Turkish pair of Tarhan and Dikec shrugged off a slow start to open up an 8-4 lead and were on the brink of victory at 14-12.
But Arunovic and Mikec staged a brilliant comeback to run away with the gold. The victorious duo hugged, tumbled and rolled on the floor in jubilation.
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in Chateauroux; editing by Peter Rutherford, Ken Ferris and Christian Radnedge)
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