AFP, Incheon :
Narantuya Chuluunbadrakh became the first Mongolian to win a shooting gold medal in the Asian Games when she clinched the women’s 50m rifle prone title on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old mother of one from Ulaanbaatar finished the final with 624.1 points, just four off the world record of 628 set by German Beate Gauss at the world championships in Spain this month.
“Our previous best was a team silver four years ago, so this is really, really special,” Chuluunbadrakh told AFP. “More so, since this is also my best score.
“It is too early to think of the future because the Olympics is still two years away, but I want to perform better in next year’s World Cup.
“Hope this medal will inspire more women to take up shooting in Mongolia.”
As the Mongolian woman, who finished 10th in Guangzhou four years ago, celebrated her title, a tight finish ensued for the silver between Nur Binti Taibi of Malaysia and Eum Bit-Na of South Korea.
Both scored 620.6 and had an identical 39 inner 10s, but the Malaysian’s superior final series score of 103.5 placed her second.
