Indian shooters strike gold, archers win bronze

THE INDIAN women's archery team scripted history when they won an unexpected bronze medal in the women's compound team event in New Delhi on Thursday. The team which comprised of Gagandeep Kaur, Jhano Hansdah and Bheigyabati Chanu defeated Malaysia by 223-219 at Yamuna Sports Complex. On the victory, an elated Gagandeep said that it's the first medal for India in Games archery. I am excited to be part of this. We tried our best in the semi-finals but it did not happen.

India was defeated by Canada in the semi-finals by a seven point difference with a score of 224-217. England bagged the gold medal.

In tennis, India's top seed, Somdev Devvarman advanced to the semi-finals in the men's singles tennis event at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday.

Meanwhile, at the Karni Singh Shooting range, Indian shooters Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh struck gold in the Pairs 25 metres Rapid Fire pistol event. With this the duo also scripted a new Games record with a final total of 1162. Both of them shot 293 each in the second stage.

Hafiz Adzha and Hasli Izwan of Malaysia took silver in the Pairs event. Their total score was 1144 and Australia ended up winning bronze with a score of 1125.

This is the sixth gold medal for India in the shooting event and the total number of golds won by India so far is 12. However, India's favourite Tejaswini Sawant's incapability of making it through the finals in the womens 50 metres Rifle-3 Positions was a more disappointing one.

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