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India win two golds, three silver in shooting at CWG

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Press Trust of India Glasgow
Indian marksmen returned with a rich haul of five medals, including two gold through Rahi Sanorbat and Apurvi Chandela, from the shooting ranges to completely dominate the event so far in the 20th Commonwewalth Games here today.

After yesterday's one gold and one silver, the Indians bagged two gold and three silver today to accumulate seven medals (3, 4, 0) from shooting so far.

India could not win a medal in only men's and women's skeet and newly introduced Queen's Prize pairs and bagged at least a medal in all the five events held so far.

It was an all-Indian affair in the women's 25m pistol event and Sanorbat beat Anisa Sayyed in the gold-medal match 8-2 to cap a brilliant second day of shooting competitions at the Barry Buddon Centre ar Dundee near here.
 

Australia's Lalita Yauhleuskaya bagged the bronze medal.

Earlier, 23-year-old Sanorbat and Sayyed, 33, finished first and second in the semifinals to set up an all-Indian final.

Sanorbat had won two gold medals in 2010 CWG in Delhi besides also becoming India's first pistol shooter to win gold medal in World Cup, in South Korea, last year.

Sayyed had also won two gold medals in 2010 CWG.

Young Rajasthan girl Apurvi, earlier, got India its second gold from the shooting range winning the 10m Air Rifle event today as compatriot Ayonika Paul boosted the medal tally with a silver.

Prakash Najappa had got a silver in the 10m Air Pistol event.

21-year-old Chandela led from the beginning to win the yellow metal with a score of 206.7 while Ayonika finished a creditable second with a score of 204.9.

It was only fitting that the Jaipur girl, who started shooting only six years back after watching Abhinav Bindra get gold in the Beijing Olympics, won in the legendary shooter's pet event.

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First Published: Jul 26 2014 | 11:56 PM IST

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