It’s the golden hour for Francisca Crovetto Chadid.

The 34-year-old Chilean sport shooter won the Women’s Skeet Final on Sunday to give Chile its first medal of the 2024 Paris Games and become the nation’s first-ever female Olympic champion in any sport.

It’s only the third gold medal in Chilean Olympic history and the first gold for the country in 20 years. Additionally, it is Chile’s first medal of any kind in any sport since 2008 Beijing Games.

Crovetto won the gold in a shoot-off, hitting her last two targets for the win after a disputed call to give Great Britain’s Amber Rutter a miss for a shot that television replays showed had seemed to clip the target.

Crovetto and Rutter had finished equal on 55 out of 60 to force the shoot-off.

Crovetto prevailed 7-6 in the tiebreaker.

“This is way sport goes, unfortunately. l truly believe I did hit that last target. I just don’t want it to take away from any of the other girls’ performances,” Rutter said, calling for video reviews at future competitions to ensure “a level playing field.”

USA’s Austen Jewell Smith clinched the bronze.

Crovetto represented Chile at the 2012 London Games, where she competed as the nation’s lone shooter in the women’s skeet. She placed eighth in the qualifying rounds of her event by one point behind Sweden’s Therese Lundqvist, with a total score of 66 targets.^[6]

At the 2016 Rio Games, she was again Chile’s lone representative in the sport shooting, finishing in 19th.

She represented Chile at the 2020 Tokyo Games.