--- title: Rio 2016 Olympics: Virginia Thrasher Wins Gold for Team USA description: Virginia Thrasher of the U.S. won the women’s 10m air rifle gold medal as she defeated China’s Du Li with a final round total of 208.0 canonical: https://time.com/4442001/rio-2016-olympics-virginia-thrasher/ author: Sports Illustrated article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-06T15:53:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:49:01.003Z article:section: Sports og:title: Shooter Virginia Thrasher Wins Team USA's First Gold Medal of Rio Olympics og:description: Thrasher was a surprise winner og:url: https://time.com/4442001/rio-2016-olympics-virginia-thrasher/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt757ed03294114715/6988a178e20a870d55a91f6f/virginia-thrasher1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Shooting - Olympics: Day 1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shooter Virginia Thrasher Wins Team USA's First Gold Medal of Rio Olympics twitter:description: Thrasher was a surprise winner twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt757ed03294114715/6988a178e20a870d55a91f6f/virginia-thrasher1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Shooter Virginia Thrasher Wins Team USA's First Gold Medal of Rio Olympics > Sponsored content. 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She’s that dominant._ by [Chris Chavez / Sports Illustrated](https://time.com/author/sports-illustrated/) ## Chris Chavez / Sports Illustrated Aug 6, 2016 3:53 PM UTC  Virginia Thrasher shows her gold medal after winning the 10-meter air rifle on Aug. 6, 2016. Virginia Thrasher shows her gold medal after winning the 10-meter air rifle on Aug. 6, 2016.Sam Greenwood—Getty Images by [Chris Chavez / Sports Illustrated](https://time.com/author/sports-illustrated/) ## Chris Chavez / Sports Illustrated Aug 6, 2016 3:53 PM UTC Virginia Thrasher of the U.S. won the women’s 10m air rifle gold medal as she defeated China’s Du Li with a final round total of 208.0 on Saturday morning. This was the first gold medal handed out at the 2016 Rio Olympics—and the first gold medal of what’s expected to be a strong medal haul for Team USA. Thrasher was a surprise winner as she was not [picked by SI to medal](http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/08/01/rio-2016-olympics-medal-picks-predictions-projected-medal-count) despite being the NCAA champion from West Virginia. China’s Yi Siling settled for bronze. Du previously won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.This is the fifth time in history that the United States has won the first gold medal at the Olympics with 1896, 1904, ’24, ’52, ’56, ’84 and 2000 being the previous occasions, according to [sports-reference.com](http://sports-reference.com/). Women have done it on three occasions. _This_ [_article_](http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/08/06/rio-olympics-team-usa-first-gold-medal-virginia-thrasher-shooting) _originally appeared on_ [_SI.com_](http://www.si.com/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4442001/rio-2016-olympics-virginia-thrasher/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4442001/rio-2016-olympics-virginia-thrasher/"},"headline":"Shooter Virginia Thrasher Wins Team USA's First Gold Medal of Rio Olympics","datePublished":"2016-08-06T15:53:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:49:01.003Z","description":"Thrasher was a surprise winner","url":"https://time.com/4442001/rio-2016-olympics-virginia-thrasher/","keywords":["2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics","Summer Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt757ed03294114715/6988a178e20a870d55a91f6f/virginia-thrasher1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Chavez / Sports Illustrated"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt757ed03294114715/6988a178e20a870d55a91f6f/virginia-thrasher1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Shooting - Olympics: Day 1","caption":"Shooting - Olympics: Day 1","creditText":"Sam Greenwood—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-rio-de-janiero-olympics/","name":"2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4442001/rio-2016-olympics-virginia-thrasher/","name":"Shooter Virginia Thrasher Wins Team USA's First Gold Medal of Rio Olympics"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Meet The Female Wrestler Looking To Make History In Rio","description":"An Olympic gold medal is never a sure thing. 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