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3rd Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018: shooting sport recap

The 3rd edition of the Games officially opened on October 6th and closed on October 18th.
Australia was represented by Target Rifle Australia’s Victoria (Tori) Rossiter and Alex Hoberg in the Individual
events with both performing well to make the finals in a top class field.
Tori in 4th place in a field of 20 with a 624.3 finishing 8th in the finals and

Alex in 4th place in a field of 20 with a 623.4 finishing 5th in the finals
Congratulations to you both.

The Individual medals were won as follows

Event Date Medal Name Nation

10m Air Rifle Men 7 OCT 2018 Gold SHAMAKOV Grigorii RUS
Silver MANE Shahu Tushar IND

Bronze MITROVIC Aleksa SRB

10m Air Rifle Women 8 OCT 2018 Gold GRUNDSOEE Stephanie Laura Scurrah DEN

Silver GHOSH Mehuli IND

Bronze MALIC Marija SRB

In the Mixed Pairs match Tori Rossiter (AUS) and Hayk Babayan (ARM) progressed to the Quarter Finals of the
10m Air Rifle Mixed Teams event at the 2018 Youth Olympics. Tori and Hayk had a narrow win in their round of 16
match 10 to 9 over the mixed pair from Germany and Sri Lanka. Alex Hoberg and Farida Darwish were defeated in
their round of 16 match 10 points to 6.
Victoria Rossiter (AUS) and Hayk Babayan (ARM) were eventually defeated in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed International
Team Quarterfinals at the YOG by the Russia/Mexico mixed team 10-4.

Photos by Nicolo Zangirolami)