On fire! Heena Sidhu gifts India its 11th Gold in Commonwealth Games
Gold Coast, April 10: Hallmarking India’s 11th gold in Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, Heena Sidhu won the women’s 25m pistol final at the Belmont Shooting Centre. India have so far won 20 medals, including 11 gold, four silver and five bronze Down Under.
Heena Sidhu breaks the Commonwealth Games record on her way to clinching gold in the women's 25m pistol shooting event. Brilliant shooting as Heena sets the Games record by hitting the target 38 times out of her 50 shots. After winning silver in the 10m air pistol event, she swaps the colour of her medal to gold in the 25m pistol event. Annu, on the other hand, couldn't build on her strong start and finished sixth.
Heena Sidhu kept her nerve throughout the Russian Roulette of a women’s 25m pistol and shot gold to quash some of the criticism around her selection ahead of the teenager Manu Bhaker for the event. Coming through qualification only in third place, she kept teasing the guillotine and beat Australian Elena Galiabovitch to win India’s 11th gold in this Commonwealth Games and her first individual gold in three editions of the Commonwealth Games.
Annu Raj Singh, who was second in qualification, was unable to find her rhythm and went out in sixth place. It is tough to imagine what Heena Sidhu’s scores would have been if indeed the 28-year-old dentist from Mumbai did not shoot in Gold Coast with the sensation of pins and needles in her index finger (the trigger finger) as she pointed out after finishing with a silver in the 10m air pistol two days ago.