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Adriana Ruano: the Guatemalan with masterful aim who set an Olympic record in Paris 2024
The 29-year-old shooter won Guatemala’s first gold medal at the Olympic Games and also set a new Olympic record on July 31.
Adriana Ruano is experiencing the greatest sporting glory in Guatemala with her gold medal. (Photo Prensa Libre: AFP)
July 31, 2024 is a day for posterity because it is the date on which Guatemala won its first gold medal at the Olympic Games.
It was thanks to Adriana Ruano in hunting gun shooting (Olympic trap) that she achieved the most coveted medal for any country in the largest sporting event on the planet.
Ruano gave a demonstration of marksmanship at the Chateauroux Shooting Range after having qualified first in third position with a score of 122 out of 125, to subsequently make history in the final round by hitting 45 out of 50 plates.
This score not only earned her the gold medal against the Italian Silvana Stanco (40), but also served to set a new Olympic record.
The record that the Guatemalan managed to surpass had been achieved by the Slovak Zuzana Rehak in the Tokyo 2020 edition on July 28, 2021 (the Games in the Asian country were delayed a year but the name was not changed) when she hit 43 plates.
That record was broken on July 31, lasting just three years before Adriana Ruano dethroned him in Paris 2024.
Had she continued with more shots, the Guatemalan could even have reached the world record held by American Ashley Carrol since March 4, 2018 with a total of 48 targets shot down.
After her consecration in Paris, Adriana Ruano became the first female medalist for Guatemala in the Olympic Games and she did so celebrating a gold medal.
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