VERSAILLES, France : Hungary's Michelle Gulyas showed the steady eye and hand of a sharpshooter to win the women's Modern Pentathlon gold medal with a world record points haul at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
Paris 2024 Olympics - Modern Pentathlon - Women's Victory Ceremony - Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France - August 11, 2024. Gold Medallist Michelle Gulyas of Hungary celebrates on the podium. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
France's Elodie Clouvel took the silver, after starting the final laser run with a 13 second advantage but losing it with a series of agonising misses in the target shooting, in front of her home crowd.Gulyas finished with 1,461 points, nine more than Clouvel, whose time in hitting all the laser targets during four shooting stops in the 3,000 metre run was by far the slowest of the field.
Britain's reigning champion Kate French had withdrawn earlier due to sickness. Her absence opened the door for Germany's Annika Zillekens as reserve.
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