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Kazakhstan wins first medal of Paris Olympics

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Paris, July 27 (HS). Kazakhstan won its first medal of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Saturday when it beat Germany 17-5 in the bronze medal match of the 10m air rifle mixed team event in Chateauroux.

Kazakh shooters Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev won the first round 21.4-20.7 to take a 2-0 lead. Germany's Anna Jansen and Maximilian Ulbrich managed to equalise at 3-3 and 4-4 but could never take the lead

Le and Satpayev won the next three rounds to make the score 10-4. Although the Germans managed to equalise, the Kazakhs eventually secured a comfortable win.

China later won the first gold of the Paris Games by defeating the Republic of Korea in the final of the event.

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