Antoaneta Kostadinova won the gold medal at the international sport shooting tournament MASPED CUP in Budapest, Hungary.
Kostadinova reached the 10m air pistol final with the best qualification score of 583 points, just one point short of her personal best and the Bulgarian national record. She was flawless in the decisive final and deservedly claimed first place and the gold medal.
Four Olympic medalists competed in the women’s 10m final. Behind Antoaneta Kostadinova, Hungary’s Sara Fabian took the silver medal. Fabian is a European champion in the standard pistol event. The bronze went to Camille Jedrzejewski, an Olympic medalist from Paris 2024.
Miroslava Mincheva narrowly missed out on a place in the final eight. She finished ninth with 567 points, just two inner tens short of a place in the final. Adiel Ilieva finished 17th with 556 points.
In the men’s pistol event, Samuil Donkov reached the final with the second-best score of 578 points and finished eighth in the decisive round.
The Bulgarian shooters will continue their participation on Friday with small-bore pistol – precision shooting.
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