Olympics-Shooting-Germany's Junghaenel wins rifle gold
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Henri Junghaenel of Germany walked away with a gold medal in his first Olympic Games on Friday by winning the 50 meter rifle prone event.
Having scraped into the finals in the last of eight positions, the 28-year-old Junghaenel established an early lead with several successive 10.8 shots, shy of the perfect 10.9.
Kim Jonghyun, 31, of South Korea, won his second Olympic silver with a perfect 10.9 shoot-off with Russia's Kirill Grigoryan, who took the bronze.
Junghaenel finished with a 209.5, 1.3 points over Kim, but shy of his 2013 world record finals score of 211.2.
(Reporting by Mary Milliken; Editing by Alison Williams)
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