Commonwealth Games: 15-year-old shooter Anish Bhanwala wins gold in 25m pistol event

15-year-old shooter Anish Bhanwala won the gold medal in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol at the Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast on Friday.

Bhanwala is the youngest Indian to ever win the gold at the Commonwealth Games.

The Haryana teenagershot down the CWG record in the final with a score of 30 including four series of 5 each.

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Australia's Sergei Evglevski claimed the silver with 28, while the bronze medal went to Sam Gowin (17) of England.

India's other entrant in the event, Neeraj Kumar (13) was the second shooter to be eliminated in the finals after a shoot-off.

By winning the gold, Anish bettered team-mate Manu Bhaker, who had become the youngest Indian Commonwealth Games gold medallist earlier this week when she emerged champion in the 10m air rifle finals.

In the qualifications, Anish had scored 580 to finish top of the tally while Neeraj was second best with 579.

Anish scored 286 in stage 1 and 294 in stage 2 qualifying, while Neeraj had 291 in stage 1 and 288 in stage 2.

Earlier in the day, 37-year-old shooter Tejaswini Sawant had clinched the coveted the gold medal in the women's 50 meters Rifle 3 Positions.

India has won 16 gold medals so far at the CWG beating the gold medal tally set at Glasgow.