At this Tokyo Olympics, some countries have marked the first medal in history.
This is San Marino in Europe. The area of the land surrounded by Italy is about the same as Lake Towada, which straddles Aomori and Akita prefectures, and has a population of about 34,000.
The first Olympic medalist in this small country was 33-year-old Alessandra Perilli, who participated in a women's shooting trap.
Shooting traps are an event in which you compete for the number of shots of a target called clay that has been released into the air.
Perilli, who became the third Olympics, passed the qualifying in 2nd place, and in the final on the 29th by the top 6 players, he shot 19 out of the first 25 clays and finished in 3rd place.
After that, according to the rule of squeezing out the lowest player every 5 shots, Perilli temporarily retreated to 4th place out of 4 players, but shot down the 35th clay under pressure with accurate shooting and destroyed it. On the contrary, the Australian player removed it, so he remained in the last three. After finishing the competition in 3rd place with 29 points out of 40 points, Perilli smiled at the spectators' seats and made a guts pose with his right hand, hugging his coach and showing his joy.
At the award ceremony, I grabbed the bronze medal around my neck and looked closely, with tears in my eyes.
The website of the San Marino Olympic Committee tells Perilli, "I really wanted a medal, so I thought I couldn't finish in 4th place. I want to tell young people that I should never give up."
San Marino has been participating in the Olympic Games since the 1960 Rome Games, and the official Instagram of the Olympic Games introduces its feat as "becoming the smallest country in history to win medals."