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  India gets its 31st medal, shooters bag gold, two silvers
  Oct 12, 2010 04.50 PM
 

World Champion Tejaswini Sawant won the silver in the women's 50 metre prone event and 'Goldfinger' Samresh Jung and Chandrasekhar Kumar Chaudhary got the silver in the men's 25 metre standard pistol pairs' event.

India, Australia and Canada were tied for the gold with 759 point in the women's 10 metre air pistol. Canada got the bronze on the basis of lesser number of perfect 10s; they shot 14, while India and Australia had 21 each. India bagged the gold on the basis of count-back.

In women’s shooting Heena (384) and Annu (375) clinched the 14th gold medal. The silver went to Australian shooters Dina Aspandiyarova (384) and Pamela McKenzie (375) and Canadian duo Dorothy Ludwig (380) and Lynda Hare (379) settled for the bronze.

Tejaswini India's first women's world champion got the silver with a score of 594 and Welsh's Johanne Brekke settled for the bronze with 593 points.

Jung (561) and Chaudhary (542) got the silver with a score of 1,103 in the men's 25 metre standard pistol. The Gold went to Singapore's Bin Gai (564) and Lip Meng Poh (552) with a total score of 1,116.

 
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