by Our Sports Desk

England shotgun ace Charlotte Kerwood blasted her way to Commonwealth Games glory in the double trap.

The 27-year-old from Sussex was in devastating form at the Barry Buddon Centre in Dundee, nailing 94 of her 120 clays to claim her third individual Commonwealth gold medal.

Kerwood won her first gold at Manchester 2002 aged just 15 and would probably have more in her collection had the event not been excluded in Delhi last time out.

She finished two shots clear of India’s Shreyasi Singh, who claimed silver.

Rachel Parish, with whom Kerwood also won pairs gold at Melbourne 2006, made it a medal double for England by taking bronze.

The 33-year-old from Nottingham finished level with Canada’s Cynthia Meyer on 91 and triumphed in a sudden-death shoot-off. 

“It feels pretty good , I can’t quite believe it,” Kerwood said.

“The Commonwealth Games obviously like me, it’s a good event to come to.

“I was laughing because I didn’t realise I was five targets ahead at the start, so I thought ‘no pressure!’ Then I felt it was slipping away from me a little bit, which wasn’t good. But now it feels amazing.”

Kerwood will have little opportunity to celebrate, though, as she lines up in her favoured event, the Olympic trap, this morning.

“That will be good experience for tomorrow because now I know what to expect with the crowd and everything.

“There’s no time to celebrate yet. Tomorrow is what I have been training for. My coach thinks I was crazy going for this one as well but I’m going to be more confident now.”