Olha Kharlan / Photo from National Olympic Committee of Ukraine
Ukraine bagged its first bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro when 25-year-old athlete Olha Kharlan from the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv won her bout in the Fencing Women's Sabre individual competition against France's Manon Brunet late on Monday.
The score in the bronze medal bout was 15:10.
Earlier, Kharlan beat Mexico's Ursula Gonzalez Garate (15:8) in the round of 32, countrywoman Alina Komashchuk (15:8) in the round of 16, and Italy's Loreta Gulotta in the fourth quarterfinal (15:14).
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