San Marino wins first ever Olympic medal
San Marino’s Alessandra Perilli won bronze in the shooting women’s trap at Tokyo 2020 which is the first Olympic medal the country has ever won. San Marino has a population of approximately 34,000 and becomes the NOC with the smallest population to win an Olympic medal.
Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova of Slovakia won gold and Kayle Browning of Team USA claimed silver.
Speaking after her historic medal, Perilli sad.
“We’ve gone through this whole process and won this medal as a team. Now the first person I’ve like to say thank-you too is Luka, my coach. “We’ve had ups and downs and we’ve succeed together. But we are like a big family and I think that’s what helped us to win.”
“During the final, when the fifth shooter went out, I thought, I don’t want to be one more time in fourth place, so I have to make it.”
“This isn’t my first Olympics but this is the first medal for me and for my country. We are a small country but very proud.”
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