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BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS: DAY 3 : DAILY REPORT : SHOOTING : At Long Last, Logvinenko Wins, Lets Emotions Flow

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Shooters from the Commonwealth of Independent States won gold medals Monday with Olympic-record scores.

Marina Logvinenko, an army officer, took the women’s sports pistol competition with 684.0 points at the Catalonian police academy range. Fellow officer Yuri Fedkin won the men’s air rifle event with 695.3 points.

Li Duihong of China earned a silver medal, edging Dorzhsuren Munkhbayar of Mongolia by a point in the women’s pistol, in which competitors fire two rapid series of five shots at a target revealed for three seconds. Roxane Thompson of Falmouth, Va., was 24th, Connie Petracek of Nashville 29th.

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Franck Badiou of France edged Johann Riederer of Germany for the silver medal in men’s air rifle by 0.02 of a point. Bob Foth of Colorado Springs, Colo., who was fourth in the 1988 Olympics and expected to contend for a medal, finished seventh.

Logvinenko was unable to compete in 1984 because of the Soviet-led boycott and failed to win a medal in 1988.

“So all those years of feeling bubbled up inside me now,” she said after her performance. “I had fairly serious hopes of winning here.”

Matt Dryke of Sumner, Wash., the ’84 Olympic gold medalist, is tied for second in skeet shooting after six of eight rounds. Dryke trails Zhang Shan of China, who has a perfect 150, by one shot.

MEDALISTS: SHOOTING

(Men’s Air Rifle)

GOLD Yuri Fedkin (CIS)

SILVER Franck Badiou (France)

BRONZE Johann Riederer (Germany)

(Women’s Sport Pistol)

GOLD Marina Logvinenko (CIS)

SILVER Li Duihong (China)

BRONZE Dorzhsuren Munkhbayar (Mongolia)

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