COMMONWEALTH GAMES : Women provide triple delight to headline golden day for India

Indian weightlifter Punam, shooter Bhaker win gold at CWG

Indian weightlifter Punam, shooter Bhaker win gold at CWG

She clinched the gold medal in the women's 69kg weightlifting event. Yadav failed to lift 122 kg in her second clean and jerk but sealed the gold medal with 122 kg in her third attempt. Even in my wildest dream I had not thought that I will beat an Olympic medallist and world number four,"Batra told PTI after her shock win over Feng Tianwei".

The super teenager Manu Bhaker comfortably won the precious yellow metal in women's 10 air pistol while Heena Sidhu staged a remarkable recovery to secure silver at Gold Coast on day four of the 21st Commonwealth Games.

Heena registered 234 to make it 1-2 for India at the top of the podium.

She further said when Punam won the Bronze at Glasgow four years back they had not money to distribute candies among the villagers to celebrate it.

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16-year-old shooting sensation Manu Bhaker, who won golds at the ISSF World Cup and ISSF Junior World Cup recently, scored 240.9 to win India's sixth gold. Bhaker had earlier shot a qualifying CWG record score of 388/400 in her first appearance at the quadrennial games.

Sidhu too did well to win silver after she was on the verge of elimination at one stage.

Ravi Kumar added a further medal with his third-placed finish in the men's 10m air rifle event on Sunday. England's Sarah Davies had to settle for silver after failing to lift 128kg in her final clean and jerk attempt. We were not that great some years ago but we are alright now. "She was capable of pulling it off", Yadav said after the medal ceremony. "I am working with the Indian Railways now", she added proudly.

This is not the first time that she has secured a medal at an worldwide sporting event as she has earlier secured a bronze medal in the same weight category at the Commonwealth Games of 2014 that were held in Glasgow, Scotland.

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