Spain win Olympic's first ever trap mixed team gold

Spain’s Fatima Galvez and Alberto Fernandez came from behind to clinch the first-ever trap mixed team title in the Olympics.

The Spanish pair hit 41 out of 50 targets in the final to take gold at the Asaka Shooting Range.

But Galvez and Fernandez had to come from behind to win.

While things went well for Fernandez, who missed just one of his 25 shots, Galvez missed five of her first 10.

This led to Galvez receiving a pep talk from the team coach during the timeout.

She settled down on the restart and missed just two in the next 15 for a score of 17.

And so securing the inaugural trap mixed team title for Spain.

“It's so easy to compete with Fatima and it was like a dream for me, so I didn't feel the pressure of being in an Olympics game," explained Fernandez on how he kept calm to keep hitting targets.

“We have been competing for many years together, for the past five or six years. We feel so fit together, so it's like more a friendship competition for us.”

The silver went to the San Marino team of Alessandra Perilli and Gian Marco Berti, who scored 40.

Perilli scored 23, while Berti added 17.

The silver medal means that Perilli has won San Marino’s first two Olympic medals ever. She won her country’s first ever Olympic medal, a bronze, in the trap women shooting a few days earlier.

In the bronze-medal match, following a tense round of 50 shots, United States of America 2 and Slovakia 1 were tied on a score of 42.

The American pair, Madelynn Ann Bernau and Brian Burrows, scored 19 and 23 from respectively, while Slovakia 1’s Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova contributing 19 targets with partner Erik Varga adding 23.

This meant there was shoot-off.

Each team managed to score with their first two extra shots. But then Slovakia missed.

With the pressure on, Bernau, who had missed two of her last five shots, stepped up to shoot - and scored.

The USA won the bronze following the shoot-off +3 to +2. Slovakia missed the podium in fourth.

"When we needed to remain calm and strong," said Bernau on winning bronze in a shoot-off, "we did and that's all that mattered."

"It is such a crazy feeling right now. You train your whole life for this opportunity, this moment," added her partner Burrows.

"And that final was a rollercoaster of emotions, but we came out on top of that rollercoaster, so life is good right now."