Archer Deepika and shooter Harpreet clinch gold
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NEW DELHI: Teenage archer Deepika Kumari announced her arrival at the world stage by upsetting an Olympic bronze medallist to win the recurve gold while pistol shooter Harpreet Singh added another to help India leap past England into the second spot at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
The 17-year-old Ranchi-born Deepika, daughter of an autorickshaw owner, stunned 2004 Athens Olympics bronze medallist Alison James Williamson 6-0, showing amazing precision and steady nerves in windy conditions to win her second gold of the Games.
The reigning world cadet teenage champion, has already captured the team title with senior archer Dola Banerjee, who won the bronze today, and Bombayala Devi Laishram.
Incidentally Dola lost 2-6 to her English rival in the semis while Deepika outclassed Malaysia's Anbarasi Subramaniam to reach the final. Later Dola beat Anbarasi 6-2 in the bronze play-off.
Harpreet Singh clinched the gold in the individual men's 25m centre fire pistol as the hosts leapfrogged England and occupied the second spot in the medals table that they had relinquished last night.
With these two gold medals India's tally stood at 26, just four short of their record tally at Manchester in 2002, and gave them an overall medal haul of 26-17-19.
It also helped the host nation open up a two-gold lead over England and a second spot in the table below Australia, who had a tally of 56 gold, with more in the offing later in the day.
England - who stood second because of their larger number of silverware - had 24-43-29 to their credit last night while Australia was far ahead of the rest last evening with a seemingly unreachable 55-30-31. (the times of india)
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