Singapore, India claim gold at shooting range
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AUSTRALIA’S swimmers were back on the gold medal trail early on the second day of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow yesterday, while Wales was hit by a second doping shock.
Two gold medals were awarded in shooting yesterday with Singapore’s Teo Shun Xie taking the women’s 10-meter air pistol title while India’s Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra romped to victory in the men’s 10m air rifle event.
India got another medal when Malaika Goel finished runner-up to Teo. Dorothy Ludwig of Canada settled for the bronze medal.
Bangladesh’s Abdullah Baki took silver in the men’s air rifle, ahead of Englishman Daniel Rivers.
Welsh 400-meter hurdler Rhys Williams, son of 1970s Wales and British Lion rugby icon ‘JJ’, was withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games after failing a doping test.
It was the second failed doping test to hit the Wales team following that of 800 runner Gareth Warburton last week
The 30-year-old Williams, who had been named co-captain of his country’s team and had been due to have run in the 400 hurdles, said he had been left “devastated” by the news of his positive test.
“I am utterly devastated about the news of this anti-doping rule violation, which has come as a great shock to me,” he said.
In competition in the pool, the Australian men’s 4x100m freestyle relay team solidified their status as heavy favorites to retain the title as they qualified fastest ahead of England and Scotland for the final.
There was also a comfortable passage into the semifinals of the women’s 100 backstroke for another Aussie as Emily Seebholm broke her own Commonwealth Games record from Delhi four years ago in a time of 59:51 seconds.
And Australia’s Maddison Elliott pipped Stephanie Slater of England to qualify fastest for the women’s para-sport freestyle 100 S8 final.
England’s Fran Halsall, however, set a new Commonwealth Games record of 24:31 in qualifying fastest for the semifinals of the women’s 50 freestyle ahead of Australian sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell. The Campbell sisters had been part of the Aussie 4x100 freestyle relay team that broke the world record in claiming gold on Thursday.
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