Flames of success rising high! Tejaswini Sawant, Anish Bhanwala win gold in Commonwealth Games

NewsBharati    13-Apr-2018
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Gold Coast, April 12: In a series of medal rush, India won its 16th gold in Gold Coast Commonwealth Games with shooter Tejaswini Sawant winning gold in the women’s 50m rifle 3 position finals and Anish Bhanwala sets game record and becomes the youngest Gold Medalist from India in Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol.

With Bhanwala’s gold, India have matched the 16 gold medals won four years ago at the Glasgow CWG.

Making India proud with its 15th gold in CW Games at the Belmont Shooting Centre on Friday, Sawant - who yesterday claimed silver in the women’s 50m rifle prone shot a CWG record total of 457.9 for her second medal of the Gold Coast Games and seventh at the CWG overall, following two golds in 2006 and a pair of silvers and a bronze in 2010.

 

Indian shooter Anish Bhanwala shoots a perfect score on his final series to win the gold medal and break the Games record in the 25m pistol shooting event.

Anish Bhanwala, all of 15 years of age, became the youngest Indian to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal when he showed impeccable nerves in the final of the 25m rapid fire pistol shooting event. Having waited for so many days after the start of the Games to showcase his class, the Haryana lad shot down the Games record in the final with 30 including four series of 5 each.

The debutant held the lead at every post, coming up with a five to put the gold beyond Australia’s Sergei Evglevski, son of Lalita Yauhleuskya who won bronze in the 25m pistol in the Sydney Olympic Games. India’s other entrant was the second shooter to be eliminated. Anish’s team-mate Manu Bhaker had become the youngest Indian Commonwealth Games gold medallist earlier this week when she won the 10m air rifle final. Both are Jaspal Rana’s proteges.

For the Arjuna awardee, who in 2010 became the first Indian sportswoman to win gold at the World Shooting Championship, her two medals in successive days will put in shade her disappointing showing at the 2016 Rio Olympics.