2016 Rio Olympics - Shooting - Final - Women's 10m Air Rifle Finals - Olympic Shooting Centre - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 06/08/2016. Barbara Engleder (GER) of Germany reacts. REUTERS/Jeremy Lee
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Barbara Engleder of Germany won gold in the closely fought women's 50 metre rifle three position event on Thursday, her first medal in her fourth and probably last Olympic Games.
The 33-year-old Engleder ranked at or near the top through the kneeling, prone and standing positions of the competition for a total score of 458.6, finishing just 0.2 of a point ahead of first-time Olympian Zhang Binbin of China, who mounted a late surge.
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