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Iranian shooters book two 2016 Rio Olympics spots

Sunday, 31 January 2016 1:31 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 31 January 2016 1:31 PM ]

Iranian female sports shooter Mahlagha Jambozorg

Iranian sports shooters have won two tickets for the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 2016 Asian Olympic Shooting Qualifying Tournament in India.

On Sunday, Iran’s 23-year-old markswoman Mahlagha Jambozorg vied for the top honor in the women’s 50-meter rifle three positions event at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in the Indian capital city of New Delhi.

Twenty five-year-old shooter Jasmine Xer of Singapore, who made her Olympics debut at the 2012 London Games, struck gold and booked her berth in the August Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a score of 458.0 points.

Jambozorg clinched the silver on 455.4 points and South Korean Lee Kyerim rounded up the podium with 443.5 points to claim the other two Olympic quotas available in the event.

Iran’s Pouriya Norouziyan also competed in the men’s 10-meter air rifle section of the 2016 Asian Olympic Shooting Qualifying Tournament on Saturday, and finished with 184.2 points to grab the bronze as well as a quota place in the Rio Olympics.

Naoya Okada from Japan seized the gold medal with a score of 208.1 points. The silver medal went to Kazakhstan’s Yuriy Yurkov, who recorded a final score of 206.3 points.

The 2016 Asian Olympic Shooting Qualifying Tournament opened in New Delhi, India, on January 27, and will finish on February 3. The tournament has brought together a total of 538 shooters from 30 Asian countries, including Bangladesh, China, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

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