The 29-year-old Adriana Ruano won the Paris 2024 gold medal in the women’s trap event by setting up a new Olympic record. It was the historic first Olympic gold medal for the Central American country of Guatemala.
The top six performers in the qualification rounds participated in the women’s trap final event of the Paris 2024 Olympics. It was a tight battle between the two final competitors, Guatemalan Adriana Ruano and Italian Silvana Stanco, where the Guatemalan finished strongly with an Olympic record.
Adriana Ruano broke the Olympic record
Ruano was leading from the end of the stage 1 fight, as she was hardly off target. While silver medalist Stanco ended the battle with 40 points, Ruano scored 45 points to shine with the historic gold medal. Meanwhile, Australian Penny Smith scored 32 of her 40 shots to secure the bronze medal.
Ruano’s 45 points set the new Olympic record. The previous Olympic record was 43 by Slovakian Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova during Tokyo 2020.
How many Summer Olympics medals did Guatemala win?
Ruano secured the third Summer Olympics medal for Guatemala. Erick Barrondo was the first Guatemalan to win an Olympic medal by winning a silver in the men’s 20km race walk event at the London 2012 Olympics.
Guatemala has won two medals in the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympics and has already secured its best performance in an edition of the Summer Olympics history. Earlier, Jean Pierre Brol claimed a bronze medal in the men’s trap event at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Other performances in the women's trap event at the Paris 2024 Olympics
During the women’s trap event qualification rounds, Guatemalan Adriana Ruano finished in third place [122(+8)], behind the Spanish duo Mar Molne Magrina [123] and Fatima Galvez [122(+9)]. However, both Spanish shooters missed the podium finish, as Magrina (27) finished in the fourth position and Galvez (23) was eliminated from fifth place in the final round.
Indian shooters Rajeshwari Kumari and Shreyasi Singh both scored 113 points in the qualification rounds and finished in the 22nd and 23rd places, respectively.
