Fernanda Russo won the first medal for Argentina and qualified for Paris 2024

In the women’s 10-meter air rifle event at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Fernanda Russo from Cordoba won the first medal for Argentina by obtaining second place, and thus qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.La excitement flooded the Pudahuel Shooting Range when the Argentine got the ticket for the next Olympics along with the silver medal that made her a triple Pan American silver medalist in Toronto 2015 and bronze at Lima 2019-. The podium was completed by athletes Sagen Maddalena – who won gold with a new Pan American record (249.5) – and Mary Tucker, who won the bronze medal. “I can’t believe it, it’s weird because you always work for this, but every time it happens it never ceases to amaze me. This is reaffirming to myself that I can, every time I tried, I succeeded,” said the Cordoba native to TyC Sports at the end of the event. Next Monday, the Argentinian – who will participate for the third time in the Olympics after her presence in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 – will appear together with Alexis Eberhardt in the mixed team 10-meter air rifle event from 9 a.m. in search of a new achievement. It was expected that the United States would play 1-2-3, luckily we didn’t let them. The truth is that I was waiting more for the place than the medal,” Russo later acknowledged.

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