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Brekke inspires shooters to gold

Johanne Brekke
Brekke was also a medal winner at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

British trio Johanne Brekke, Sharon Lee and Michelle Smith won gold in the prone team event at the European Shooting Championships in Croatia.

Brekke was the team's top scorer, tying for first place in the individual match with 593 but missing an individual medal after the tie-break.

She ended up in fifth, with Smith 11th on 591 and Lee finished 13th on 590.

Finland and Germany claimed silver and bronze medals respectively at the event in Osijek.



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