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Bianca Buitendag wins Team SA’s second medal

27 July 2021, 12:07 PM  |
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Silver medallist, Bianca Buitendag of South Africa wearing a protective face mask poses on the podium.

Silver medallist, Bianca Buitendag of South Africa wearing a protective face mask poses on the podium.

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Silver medallist, Bianca Buitendag of South Africa wearing a protective face mask poses on the podium.

Surfer Bianca Buitendag has won Team South Africa’s second medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games – another silver.

She was beaten in the final of the women’s event by four-time world champion, Clarissa Moore of the United States.

The American had better and more scoring waves than Buitendag and recorded 14.93 points to the South African’s 8.46 points.

Silver Medalist at the first ever Women’s Surfing @olympics competition ?❤️??#TeamSA#Olympics#Tokyo2020 #BiancaBuitendag pic.twitter.com/89fJB1dBjW

— Team South Africa (@TeamSA2020) July 27, 2021

Earlier, swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker won South Africa’s first medal when she finished second in the 100 meters breaststroke final.

Meanwhile, Yang Qian won her second gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, helping China sweep the new mixed team events in pistol and rifle shooting at the Asaka Shooting Range.

Three days after winning the first gold of the Games in women’s 10-metre rifle, the 21-year-old Yang combined with namesake Yang Haoran to win the mixed team event by beating Americans Mary Tucker and Lucas Kozeniesky 17-13.

Haoran had won the men’s individual bronze in Tokyo.

The teams were level at 11-11 before the Chinese pair stepped up and finished with a flourish.

Yulia Karimova and Sergey Kamenskiy, representing the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), claimed the bronze.

“I am very happy. It is special to win an event like this,” Yang Qian, an undergraduate economics and management student, told reporters.

“In the beginning, I was feeling so nervous and I had to keep fixing my mood. In the middle I saw the score and that I had a great shot, and felt relaxed.”

Earlier, compatriots Jiang Ranxin and Pang Wei outduelled their Russian rivals in a riveting contest to secure gold in the 10-metre air pistol mixed team event.

The Chinese pair sealed a 16-14 victory over newly crowned women’s Olympic champions Vitalina Batsarashkina and Artem Chernousov.

Jiang and Pang, bronze medallists in their individual pistol events in Tokyo, overcame an 8-4 deficit to lead 14-10 before the Russians staged a comeback to level the scores.

The Chinese shooters, however, held their nerve to reach the 16-point mark, displaying their strong camaraderie even in the presentation ceremony where they placed the medals on each other’s necks.

“It was his idea,” a beaming Jiang said.

“We think we needed team spirit in a mixed team event, so we wanted to show that with our action.”

Pang said Jiang’s final shots proved decisive.

“She was great, especially when I made some errors,” said Pang after claiming his fourth Olympic medal, which includes an individual gold from the 2008 Beijing Games.

“Largely thanks to her, we won by this narrow margin. I want to thank her for her great performance,” added the 35-year-old.

Batsarashkina could not be kept totally out of the limelight though as social media went abuzz with her “Witcher” medallion necklace.

Ukraine won the bronze medal match after Olena Kostevych and Oleh Omelchuk beat Serbians Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec 16-12.

South Korean pistol great Jin Jong-oh will return empty-handed from his fifth, and possibly final, Olympics as his pairing could not get through the qualification round.

The four-times Olympic gold medallist failed to qualify for the final of the men’s individual event.

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