“I congratulate Vitalina Batsarashkina and Artem Chernousov, the coaches of the Russian national team and the Russian Shooting Union with the silver medal of the Olympic Games in Tokyo in the new Olympic discipline - mixed teams,” the press service of the Ministry of Sports quotes Matytsin.

According to the minister, Batsarashkina and Chernousov showed a very high level performance and pretended to win until the last minutes of the final game.

“For a long time, Batsarashkina and Chernousov were in the lead in the score and lost the gold medal to Chinese athletes only in the end.

I note that for Batsarashkina this is already the second medal won at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

She has previously won individual competitions in this discipline, ”he said.

The Russian team consisting of Vitalina Batsarashkina and Artem Chernousov scored 14 points.

The victory was won by the representatives of China Jiang Ransin and Pan Wei, who collected 16 points.

The bronze was won by the Ukrainians Elena Kostevich and Oleg Omelchuk, who won the match for the third place against Serbs Damir Mikeca and Zorana Arunovic - 16:12.

Earlier it was reported that Batsarashkina and Chernousov won the Olympic Games silver in air pistol shooting.