Vitalina Batsarashkina

[2] Batsarashkina had a more masculine upbringing: She did not like dresses, painted walls, was friends with boys, liked going hunting with their grandpas.

Her first notable international success was at the 2014 European Junior Championships in Moscow, reaching the third place in the 10 m air pistol event and collecting 179.2 points in the final.

In the same year and in the same discipline she finished second at the World Junior Championships in Granada, collecting 198.2 points in the final.

In 2015, Batsarashkina won gold at the Junior World Cup in Suhl, progressing to 200.2 points in the 10 m pistol final.

She qualified to the final with the best result (390), but failed to win gold as Chinese Zhang Mengxue finished with an Olympic record.

While finishing fourth in both pistol events (10 m and 25 m), Batsarashkina and Chernousov claimed Russia's first gold medal.

However, she and Chernousov again won a gold medal, once again defeating their previous opponents Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec.

[18] For her achievements at the 2020 Olympics, she received more than 21 million rubles from the Russian federal and regional budgets.