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Sergei Evglevski has won gold in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol in the Tokyo Olympic Games nomination trials.

Victoria's Sergei Evglevski took an important first step towards his Olympic dream when winning the gold medal in the men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol in the Tokyo Olympic Games nomination trials at the Brisbane International Shooting Centre.

In the first of two Tokyo Olympic Games 25m Rapid Fire Pistol events to be held this weekend, Evglevski recorded 31 points to defeat ACT's Thomas Ashmore (24 points) with West Australia's Scott Anderson (18) earning the bronze medal.

Evglevski, who won the silver medal in the event at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, is the son of six-time Olympian Lalita Yauhleuskaya and he is aiming to follow in his mother's sizeable Olympic footsteps.

He fired a world-class qualifying score of 583 points out of a possible 600, including consecutive rounds of 98, 99 and 98 out of 100 in the second stage.

Earlier, Victoria's Elena Galiabovitch, a 2016 Olympian and a 2018 Commonwealth Games silver and bronze medallist, claimed the women's 10m Air Pistol in a dominant display.

Although qualifying second behind three-time Olympian, Queensland's Dina Aspandiyarova, Galiabovitch was untroubled when registering 239.3 points to outshoot NSW's Dannielle Moleman (235) and Aspandiyarova (212).