Seonaid McIntosh’s bid to get Team GB’s Olympic campaign off to a flying start wilted in the soaring Tokyo temperatures.

With the thermometer touching 35 degrees and humidity making life uncomfortable, the 25-year-old Scot failed to progress through qualifying in the women’s 10m rifle, the first event of the Games.

Only the top eight shooters progressed and McIntosh - a World Cup silver medallist two years ago - could only finish 12th.

“I struggled a bit with fatigue and the heat,” she admitted.

“I’m mostly happy with how I fought through it and while the last couple of shots weren’t great, I’m pleased with how I performed overall.”

McIntosh is Britain’s most successful rifle shooter of all-time, though her target event is next week’s 50m competition, where she fires from three positions, kneeling, prone and standing.

And she knows there is a target on her back for that, after becoming the first British woman to win a World Championship gold in 2019.

“If you’d have asked me a year ago, I would have said this was a sighter for the 50m but the last year this event has got a lot better and I knew I was perfectly capable of winning a medal,” she added.

“I don’t really know about next week - I need to process this first and work out what to take forward. It’s a very different event and it’s about keeping that fight.”

McIntosh was born into shooting as the daughter of Shirley, a gold medallist at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, and Donald, who also represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games eight years later.

And if she had any worries about first day nerves then sister Jennifer competed in the same event, traditionally the first medal of the Games, at both London and Rio.

“I don’t think it was a factor, my sister has been in the same position and it’s not a thing you think about unless you let yourself,” she added.

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