Olympic shooter Nino Salukvadze is retiring after 10 Olympic Games

At the 2024 Olympics, she became the first female athlete ever to compete at the Games 10 times.

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00:00After a record 10th Olympic participation, Georgian shooter Nino Salukvadze confirmed

00:09she's retiring.

00:11In Paris, she became the only female athlete to compete for 36 years straight at the Games.

00:19Salukvadze, now 55, won her first gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics when she was 19

00:29Georgia was still part of the Soviet Union.

00:32She was supposed to leave after Tokyo 2020, but decided to take one more shot because

00:39of her coach and mentor, her father.

00:42Salukvadze's father died before the Olympics, but lived enough to see her daughter qualify

01:02for Paris 2024.

01:05The pistol shooter retires after winning three medals, one gold, one silver and one bronze.