Silver for Team GB’s Rutter in skeet shooting
Great Britain’s Amber Rutter takes silver in a dramatic and controversial final of the women’s skeet shooting as Francisca Crovetto Chadid claims gold in a shoot-off.
Great Britain’s Amber Rutter had to settle for silver in a dramatic and controversial final of the women’s skeet shooting.
The 26-year-old finished in a tie of 55 shots out of 60 targets with Chile’s Francisca Crovetto Chadid.
They went to a shoot-off and were still tied after three rounds but, in a moment of contention, Rutter was called to have missed a shot which slow motion replays appeared to show she hit.
The call stood and Crovetto Chadid, 34, took both her next shots to make history and clinch her country’s first ever shooting gold medal.
Former world champion Rutter takes a medal just over three months after giving birth to her first child, Tommy, on 25 April.
It is Team GB’s second shooting medal in Paris after Nathan Hales won gold by setting a new Games record in the men’s trap shooting final.
Austen Smith, of the United States, took the bronze with 45 shots.
More to follow.
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