CWG 2018: Shreyasi Singh bags 12th gold for India in women’s double-trap

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Gold Coast: Shooter Shreyasi Singh fetched India their 12th gold at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast by improving the colour of her second medal in the Commonwealth Games double trap event, having won silver four years earlier in Glagow.

The 26-year-old hailing from Delhi won a shoot-off for the gold medal against Australian Emma Cox who missed 12 of her 30 shots in the fourth round.

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The two shooters finished with identical scores of 96 from their 120 shots in four rounds. In the shoot-off, Shreyasi shot both birds while Emma Cox, an ISSF World Cup winner in 2016, missed one and ceded gold to the Indian in dramatic fashion.

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