Paralympic Games: Macedonian athlete Wins Gold, breaks world and olympic records


Macedonian athlete Olivera Nakovska-Bikova set Friday a world record in a 10m air pistol event at the Paralympic Games, held in London.

Competing at a qualification round, Nakovska-Bikova scored 381 points, thus achieving the best result in the world.

The Macedonian paralympic holds the top spot ahead of Friday's final.

Air pistol is a speciality of Olivera Nakovska-Bikova. She was fifth at the Paralympic Games in Beijing and came in sixth four years before in Athens.


Update: Nakovska-Bikova won the Gold Medal, first gold medal at Paralympic games after 20 years. Interestingly enough, Jovanovski won gold for Macedonia at the 92' paralympic games in Barcelona in the same sport (10m Air Pistol).

Nakovska Bikova apart from setting a world record, she also set an Olympic record in the final round by scoring 94.7, which brought her combined total to 475.7.