Complex sentence: In her lone Olympic competition, Barbara Gilders narrowly missed the medals podium; emerging from the preliminaries in third place, Gilders ended up fourth overall with a score 120.76, the bronze medal went to Canada's Irene MacDonald at 121.40.
Split into simpler sentences: In her lone Olympic competition, Barbara Gilders narrowly missed the medals podium. Emerging from the preliminaries in third place, Gilders ended up fourth overall with a score 120.76; the bronze medal went to Canada's Irene MacDonald at 121.40.