American teenager Virginia Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, holding her nerve against two Chinese Olympic champions to clinch the women's 10m air rifle event.
The 19-year-old US college champion, competing in her first Olympics, edged out China's Du Li, who won gold in Athens in 2004, with an Olympic-record score of 208 in the sport's new finals format.
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