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Shooter Fatima Galvez earns gold for Spain
Baku, June 16, AZERTAC
Spain's Fatima Galvez won the gold medal in the women's trap at the Baku Shooting Centre on Tuesday.
She defeated Arianna Perilli in the final, the silver medallist earning San Marino its first appearance on the podium of the Games.
The bronze medal match was an all-Russian affair, with Elena Tkach emerging victorious against Tatiana Barsuk.
Galvez said: “I trained a lot for these Games because in my last competition, two or three weeks ago, the semi-final was not so good, and I could only finish third. Since then, I have been training more to get ready for this.”
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