在周日的里约奥运会赛场上，张梦雪为中国队摘下首金，也为自己的妈妈送上了最棒的生日礼物。这位初次征战奥运会的姑娘成功夺得女子10米气手枪冠军。
After an assured display of precision shooting at the Deodoro range, the 25-year-old beamed: "It happened to be my mother`s birthday yesterday (Saturday) so this will be the best gift for her."
这位25岁的运动员在德奥多罗赛区展示了她自信精准的枪法后，终于绽开笑容：“昨天（周六）刚好是我妈妈的生日，所以这是给她最好的生日礼物。”
The woman from Jinan produced a perfect 10.9 on her 17th shot to comfortably hold off Russian teenager Vitalina Batsarashkina.
这位济南女孩在第17枪时打出了完美的10.9环，轻松拉开了与俄罗斯选手Vitalina Batsarashkina 的差距。
"I am so excited," said Zhang, who only made her international debut last year.
“我十分兴奋，”张梦雪说道，她去年才开始参加国际大赛。
"I am still feeling the competition, I am still in that mood, and winning at the Olympic Games was my goal since I was young. Now I have the medal."
“我现在还能感觉到比赛的气氛，还处在那样的情绪中。我从小就梦想着当奥运冠军，现在我终于拿到了这块金牌。”
Saving her best till last after scraping into the eight-shooter final in seventh place she reported: "I was pretty calm for the final actually, because the qualification was a bit tough for me."
将最佳状态保持到最后的她在以资格赛第七位的排名跻身决赛。她回忆道：“我在决赛中十分冷静，因为入围决赛对于我来说就挺难的了。”
Zhang grabbed her chance to take the title after her compatriot Guo Wenjun, the champion in 2008 and London 2012, misfired badly in qualifying to miss out on the final.
而2008和2012年奥运会冠军、同队队友郭文珺由于严重失误而无缘决赛，张梦雪则抓住了机会，一举夺冠。
Another big name missing was the Ukrainian world number one and Athens 2004 champion, Olena Kostevych.
另一位未入围决赛的名将则是世界排名第一，2004年雅典奥运会冠军获得者，乌克兰选手奥莱纳•科斯特夫齐。
One of the two Russian teens who made it to the final, Ekaterina Korshunova, was the first to fall by the wayside.
而Ekaterina Korshunova，入围决赛的两名俄罗斯少年选手之一，则是第一位被淘汰的选手。
She was followed by Serbia`s Bobana Velickovic and Spain`s Sonia Franquet as Zhang moved menacingly into the lead.
随后被淘汰的是塞尔维亚选手Bobana Velickovic以及西班牙选手Sonia Franquet，而张梦雪却很快地取得了领先地位。
Breathing down her neck was Batsarashkina as Egypt shooter Afaf Elhodhod departed, exit stage left.
在埃及选手Afaf Elhodhod 被淘汰后，Batsarashkina紧咬张梦雪其后。
Mexico`s Alejandra Zavala Vazquez took fourth, leaving Zhang, Korakaki and Batsarashkina to fight out the medals.
墨西哥选手Alejandra Zavala Vazquez排名第四，留下张梦雪，Korakaki以及Batsarashkina 三人争夺奖牌。
With her pinpoint fourth last effort she pulled two points clear, to seal her country`s first of what they will expect to be many golds in Brazil after their opening day`s haul of two silvers and three bronze, not to mention making a mother back home proud.
她最后的精确射击令两件事变得明朗起来：在本届奥运会力争多金的中国代表队比赛首日仅获两银三铜，铩羽而归的情况下，张梦雪将中国队本届奥运会首枚金牌稳稳地收入囊中，更不用说这也会令远在家中的母亲倍感骄傲了。
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