Shooter Shreyasi Singh gave India a spectacular gold on Wednesday when she clinched the women’s double trap final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. This is India's fourth gold medal in shooting in this CWG.
Shreyasi's Gold is India's 12th overall at the ongoing Commonwealth Games so far. With this, she has gone one step further from the Glasgow CWG when she brought home a silver
Shreyasi gave tough competition to Australia’s Emma Cox in the shootout to win the final round. With this, India got its first gold of the day.
Shreyasi has become the first Indian woman to win a Gold in the double trap event at the CWG
Another Indian in the fray, Varsha Varman, finished fourth.
On the game front, when the final round was ongoing, Shreyasi hit both clays in the shootoff, while Emma Cox missed one.
Earlier in the day, Shreyasi's male counterpart Om Mitharval was the first Indian to win a medal when he clinched the men’s 50m pistol bronze.
With Shreyasi Singh's gold and Mitharval's bronze in 50 m pistol event, India's medals tally has increased to 23
Gold - 12
Silver - 4
Bronze - 7
Shreyasi Singh is one of India’s top shotgun shooters. In the 2010 CWG in Delhi, she had represented India in two events. While she failed miserably in one, she went on to win silver at the trap event.
In the 2014 CWG in Glasgow, Shreyasi made a mark, notching up two medals.
The 26-year-old recently won a silver medal in the double trap event at the 2017 Commonwealth Shooting Championships. She bagged a bronze medal at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon in the double trap team event. Shreyasi won the medal along with Shagun Chowdhary and Varsha Varman. Eventually, she turned out to be a big medal contender for India at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia.
She will next take on in the women's trap event on April 13, aiming to become the first Indian to win both the trap events at the Commonwealth Games
Congratulations Shreyasi!
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