Virginia native Ginny Thrasher, 19, shoots her way to first U.S. gold medal in Rio
Three years ago, then-West Springfield High junior Ginny Thrasher was the 45th-best junior air rifle shooter in the U.S. Saturday morning, the 19-year-old NCAA national champion stepped into the first medal event of the Rio Games — the women’s 10-meter air rifle finals — and did this:
GOLDEN GINNY! #TeamUSA‘s first medal. #TeamUSA‘s first #Gold! pic.twitter.com/Ew62Pl9svB
— USA Shooting (@USAShooting) August 6, 2016
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USA’s Virginia ‘Ginny’ Thrasher with her 10m air rifle gold at #Rio2016.https://t.co/u4VZkPzQwP pic.twitter.com/n1s8ohVmAq
— Sportstar (@sportstarweb) August 6, 2016
Thrasher, a Springfield, Va., native who first fired a gun five years ago when she felled a whitetail deer while hunting with her grandfather, was one of eight competitors to emerge from the 50-woman qualification round this morning. She began her finals bid with a stunning bullseye that yielded a perfect score of 10.9, eventually outlasting Serbia’s top-ranked Andrea Arsovic and China’s defending Olympic champion Siling Yi.
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