Olympic Shooting 2016: Medal Winners and Scores After Saturday's Results

The United States scooped up the first gold medal of the 2016 Olympic Games as prodigious talent Virginia Thrasher won the women's 10-metre air rifle event in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.

The 19-year-old defeated Du Li in the first shock of the competition, as the Chinese athlete claimed the silver medal. Reigning champion Yi Siling grabbed bronze as the Games started with a bang at the Olympic Shooting Centre.

Thrasher edged Du 208-207, breaking the Olympic record.

The Rio Games' official Twitter account shared the American's gold medal moment:

Here are the final standings for the event:

Place	Athlete	Country	Score
Gold	Virginia Thrasher	United States	208.0
Silver	Du Li	China	207.0
Bronze	Yi Siling	China	185.4

Du had been expected to win the competition after dominating in qualifying, but the 34-year-old met her match when the world-ranked No. 23 rose to the occasion in dramatic circumstances.

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Du was the gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, capturing victory on the final shot, and won the small-bore rifle competition at the 2008 Beijing Games. Yi won gold in 10-metre air rifle at the 2012 London Olympics. 

Russian Daria Vdovina had been in contention but finished fifth. Germany's Barbara Engleder also made a push but couldn't find the quality to place herself on the rostrum.

Vietnam Claim Men's 10-Metre Air Pistol

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Hoang Xuan Vinh of Vietnam pipped the field to the gold medal with his last shot as home favourite and world No. 1 Felipe Almeida Wu claimed Brazil's first medal of the Games.

Wu was set for the gold but had to settle for second place as the Vietnam sharpshooter made a late dramatic bid.

China's world ranked No. 10 shooter, Pang Wei, grabbed bronze to complete the podium line up.

Here are the final standings for the event:

Place	Athlete	Country	Score
Gold	Hoang Xuan Vinh	Vietnam	202.5
Silver	Felipe Almeida Wu	Brazil	202.1
Bronze	Pang Wei	China	180.4

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The 41-year-old was a shock winner as the shooting events produced the surprising results of the day.

The Vietnam shooter's reputation is short of Wu's, who was expected to prevail at his home Games.

The day belonged to Thrasher as she earned the right to stardom as Rio's first gold medalist.

The teenager wasn't expected to threaten the medal podium but produced the performance of a lifetime to get America off to the perfect start in South America.