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Shooter wins gold for Australia

Adam Vidler

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Australian shooter Daniel Repacholi has won gold at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. (Getty)

Australian shooter Daniel Repacholi has won gold at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. (Getty) Getty

Australian shooter Daniel Repacholi has won gold in the men's 10m air pistol event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Repacholi edged ahead in the final with a score of 199.5, just beating Indian silver medalist Prakash Nanjapappa's effort of 198.2.

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The Australian shooter, now 32, took up the sport when he was 14.

He has competed in the past three Olympics at Athens, Beijing and London, and won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

Repacholi was also the first shooter in Australia to hold all the junior national pistol records at once.

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