Ban Hyojin beat 17-year-old Chinese Huang Yuting to win gold by 0.1 in a shoot-off after tying for 251.8 points, setting an Olympic record for both of them with the score.
The nervous-looking high schooler breathed a sigh of relief after rounding off her shot to win gold when she thought she had lost to her Chinese counterpart.
Huang won her second medal of the Paris Games after she and teammate Sheng Lihao won gold in the 10-meter mixed team air rifle on Saturday, July 27.
Swiss international Audrey Gogniat took the bronze medal Monday when she was eliminated on 230.3, while Sagen Maddalena was fourth for the United States.
