“I sincerely congratulate you on your brilliant triumph and Olympic record.
You adequately opposed experienced and eminent rivals, in a bitter struggle won gold at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo, ”the Kremlin website quotes Putin as saying.
Batsarashkina won the gold medal in the air pistol shooting tournament from 10 m.
Earlier, Dmitry Peskov reacted to the first gold of the Russians at the Olympics.