Anish Bhanwala broke wins a gold medal in the Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol to take India’s medal tally to 34 on Day 9 of Commonwealth Games 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia. With the feat, the 15-year old became the youngest medallist for India in the history of CWG.
The teenager shot a score of 30/40 in the final after topping qualification to give India 16th gold medal, surpassing Glasgow CWG 2014 tally of 15 golds. His score of 30 is the same as that of Rio Olympic silver medallist in 2016.
Anish, who needed a perfect five, got all the shots right in the final round to break the Games record in his debut. India have now taken six gold medals in shooting after Jitu Rai, Manu Bhaker, Heena Sidhu, Tejaswini Sawant and Shreyasi Singh.
Born on September 26, 2002, in Sonipat, Haryana, the prodigy has also won gold medals at the ISSF Junior World Cup and the ISSF Junior World Championships
The teenager shot a score of 30/40 in the final after topping qualification to give India 16th gold medal, surpassing Glasgow CWG 2014 tally of 15 golds. His score of 30 is the same as that of Rio Olympic silver medallist in 2016.
Anish, who needed a perfect five, got all the shots right in the final round to break the Games record in his debut. India have now taken six gold medals in shooting after Jitu Rai, Manu Bhaker, Heena Sidhu, Tejaswini Sawant and Shreyasi Singh.
Born on September 26, 2002, in Sonipat, Haryana, the prodigy has also won gold medals at the ISSF Junior World Cup and the ISSF Junior World Championships
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