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Spain has won its first gold medal at the Tokyo Games by firing two shotguns at a base of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.
Before it became a shooting range for the first Tokyo Olympics in 1964, the land of Asake served in 1940 as a military academy for the youths of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Five years later, when World War II ended with the Asian country as a defeated power, the United States commandeered this field to house its cavalry division.
Alberto Fernández
has entered the track like a rock star.
Like when he takes to the stages of the towns of Madrid and Toledo to give a guitar recital by a music group called Los Geiperman.
Fátima Gálvez
has entered more nervous than her partner.
He staggered from side to side during the public address presentations of this shooting final in the trap mode (Olympic pit).
A nervousness that has led him to miss the first three shots at the plate.
Luckily for the Spanish couple, their rivals from San Marino, for shooters
Alessandra Perilli
and
Gian Marco Berti
, did not start very well either.
Of the 50 flying saucers that have come out, the Spanish shooters have broken 41. One more than the couple from San Marino.
Enough to achieve the desired gold.
Gálvez, 34 years old, from Cordoba from Baena and a nurse by profession, is her third participation in the Olympic Games.
Fernández, triple world champion, a native of Belvís de la Jara, a town of 1,000 inhabitants in Toledo, is his fourth Games.
Both were in all the medal pools.
They fulfilled their predictions by qualifying for the final.
The money was already insured.
At the Asaka shooting range, 35 kilometers from the Olympic Village, the Spanish mixed trap couple (Olympic pit) has won the fourth medal for Spain at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
And, at last, this was golden.
San Marino, a country with little more than 60 kilometers of extension in its land and with 34,000 inhabitants, has obtained more medals in Tokyo than in the rest of the Olympics in which it participated since its debut 61 years ago, in Rome 1960. It was precisely Alessandra Perilli who took the podium in the women's trap shooting event on Thursday and gave the first medal in history to San Marino.
This time he has taken the silver.
It is the country with the smallest population in the world to obtain an Olympic medal.
In their joint record, Gálvez and Fernández have already climbed to the top of the podium in the mixed team competition of the Cyprus World Cup in 2017.
Guitarist Alberto, who lives in the municipality of Illescas (Toledo), was the first Spaniard to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.
Fátima Gálvez
was an Olympic diploma in London 2012 and Rio 2016. Always touching a medal that she will finally be able to take to Baena, a municipality of Córdoba of 19,000 inhabitants.
According to the writers Pepe Díaz García and José Manuel Rodríguez in the book Huertas in the book 341 Historias de Grandeza, the Cordoba shooter, the youngest of four sisters, began her shooting practice at the age of nine thanks to her love of hunting his father Pío Luis.
"My father had a shotgun that was bigger than me. He took me to the fairs to practice and at 11 I already started to compete and win some cups," the shooter said in an interview with EL MUNDO before the Rio 2016 Games.
At the time, he complained that "due to financial and personal problems I have been about to quit several times."
The Shooting Federation did not pay her, she said they wanted to favor other female shooters ...
A nurse by profession, Gálvez is now studying a degree in Psychology.
The Olympic berth in Tokyo secured it in June 2019, with gold at the Minsk European Games.
The trap medal is Spain's fourth Olympic in this discipline and the first for teams since María Quintanal Zubizarreta won silver in the pit category in Athens 2004. A sweet ending for a couple who did not start these Games well.
Gálvez was thirteenth in the individual contest and Fernández ninth.
Separately, none of them even got through to the final.
But that no longer matters after the gold obtained.
The day started cloudy in Tokyo.
In the first round of qualifying, Spain came third in the standings with 49 hits from 50 shots, with a single miss from Fátima Gálvez.
In the second round, a plenary session lifted the Spanish shooters to first place.
In the third round, with 50 targets ahead and 99 points, they could even allow a failure to contest the final.
Two failed, but they ended up co-leading the classification with 148 points with the same points as the San Marino couple.
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