BERWICK’S best shooters have only one target at the upcoming Glasgow Commonwealth Games – gold.
Lalita Yauhleuskaya and Laetisha Scanlan have shot their way into the Australian Commonwealth Games team and both come with a wealth of experience and form behind them.
Scanlan, 24, shot brilliantly at the Tuscon World Cup event last month to win her second World Cup gold medal and already has a Commonwealth Games gold in her trophy cabinet from a successful pairs campaign at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010.
Scanlan said last month to the Pakenham Gazette she thought she had secured her place on the team.
“This was our last Commonwealth Games selection match and I’m pretty sure it sealed the deal for me to go,” Scanlan said.
“I get to defend my medal and it’s going to be exciting going to Scotland – I’ve only been there once and never shot there… Scotland isn’t the warmest place in the world but I’m looking forward to it.”
Yauhleuskaya, 50, has shot across the globe, for her native Belarus and her adopted country Australia, and has competed at five Olympic Games – London, Beijing, Athens, Sydney and Atlanta.
Yauhleuskaya has competed for Australia at the Commonwealth Games before – winning in Manchester, where she won three golds in the 25m pistol individual and pairs events and the 10m air pistol, as well as gold at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games in the 25m pistol pairs event and the 10m air pistol individual and pairs events along with a pair of silver medals in Delhi in 2010.
