Air Pistol, 10 metres, Team, Mixed

The 10 m air pistol event was the first ever mixed shooting event at the Olympics. It was also the first team shooting event after 97 years, as shooting team events were discontinued after the 1924 Games. While in 1924 team events had at least four members per team, the teams in Tokyo consisted only of two shooters, so it was more of a pairs event. At the World Championships this event was first held in 2018 and had been won by Vitalina Batsarashkina/Artyom Chernousov, while silver went to Wang Qian/Wang Mengyi and bronze to Olena Kostevych/Oleh Omelchuk. Batsarashkina had already won Olympic gold in the women’s event two days earlier and the Chinese pair Jiang Ranxin/Pang Wei had each won a bronze medal in their individual events. The world record holders for the first qualification round, Manu Bhaker/Saurabh Chaudhary of India, also took part. They had scored 586 of 600 at the World Cup in München in May 2019, and both had won individual gold at the 2018 Youth Olympics.

The Indian pair won the first qualification stage followed by Batsarashkina/Chernousov and Jiang/Pang, after which eight teams qualified for the second stage. As Bhaker/Chaudhary only finished seventh in the second qualification stage, they did not reach the medal finals. At this stage the top two teams contested a gold medal match, while the third and fourth placed teams went to the bronze medal match. After six series of the gold medal match Batsarashkina/Chernousov led by 8 to 4, but the next four series were won by Jiang/Pang to give them a 12-8 lead. In the 13th series Jiang/Pang had the first chance to win gold but Batsarashkina/Chernousov won the next two series to equalize at 14-14. Thus, the last series decided the outcome and the Chinese pair won gold. The bronze medal match was decided in the 14th series and gave Ukraine their first shooting medal of the Tokyo Games.