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Shooter wins S’pore’s first gold in Glasgow

SINGAPORE — Shooter Teo Shun Xie clinched Singapore’s first medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow yesterday — a gold in the women’s 10m air pistol.

SINGAPORE — Shooter Teo Shun Xie clinched Singapore’s first medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow yesterday — a gold in the women’s 10m air pistol.

Ms Teo, a 25-year-old research officer, came tops in the elimination-style final shootout involving eight shooters.

Ms Heena Sidhu, India’s world No 4 and 2013 ISSF World Cup final winner, topped the qualifying, but was the second to be eliminated.

With India’s Malaika Goel left to beat as the field was whittled down to the final two, Ms Teo held her nerve to score 19.9 with her final two shots against Ms Goel’s 19.2, clinching gold with a total score of 198.6.

Ms Goel settled for silver with a total of 197.1, while Canada’s Dorothy Ludwig claimed the bronze in 177.2.

“I’m really happy that I managed to win this, and especially with this new final format (for shooting),” said Ms Teo in an interview after the medal ceremony yesterday at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre in Dundee.

“I didn’t know that Sidhu was the World Cup winner. I just kept my focus on my shots till the last shot and couldn’t really react to winning until I laid down my pistol.”

Added Ms Teo: “I didn’t really do well in qualification, but with this new format, it allowed me to catch up. I had a few bad shots in the beginning of the final but I kept reminding myself that the target is the same one I’ve been training with here for the past week.

“I hope to get into the finals of the 25m pistol and fight my way to another medal again. I also hope my medal will encourage my team-mates to keep their faith in themselves and achieve good results.”

A silver medallist in this event at the South-east Asian Games last December in Myanmar, Ms Teo entered the final as the fifth-highest qualifier with 377 points. She hardly had time to celebrate her gold medal victory yesterday, as she was first ushered to doping control before taking a phone call from Singapore President Tony Tan.

Ms Teo will be competing in the women’s 25m pistol qualification round at 4pm today.

At the last Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, shooting delivered five of the 11 gold medals that Singapore won, with table-tennis responsible for the rest. The 11-strong shooting contingent will be looking to Ms Teo to inspire them to more success.

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