The teenager from Clacton-on-Sea, who has been competing for only two years, shot a personal best to secure a victory which also saw her qualify for the senior women's team.

 

“I just wanted to shoot consistently today so to get a score of 64 (from 75) was a great boost," said Bond. 

 

"It has been my long term ambition to reach the qualification standard for the GB national squad – and to do it at the Australian Olympic shooting venue was the icing on the cake.”

 

Bond comes from a successful shooting family as her brother David is a former world junior champion.

 

"I wanted to acheive what my brother did, and to persue it even further," said Bond, whose victory will see her earmark as a potential candidate for honours in London 2012.

 

"My brother David didn't go to the Olympic Games but I was able to see his success from a first hand point of view."

 

There was more success for Team GB with Rachel Cawthorn winning two silvers in the canoeing and both the men's and women's gymnastics teams taking bronze.

 

Cawthorn was second in the K1,500 metres and hours later teamed up with Louisa Sawers to claim silver in the WK2 500m.

 

Cawthorn took up the sport two years ago after being part of a talent identification programme. She admitted that this had been a very exciting period in her life and suggested that her success had rather taken her by surprise.

 

She said: “I wasn’t expecting this success so early. This is definitely the best performance of my career so far and the experience is one I will never forget.

 

"This is a real boost for my ambition to be selected for the 2012 London Olympic Games.”

 

In the gymnastics, the British men's team of Daniel Keatings, Louis Smith, Daniel Purvis and Kristian Thomas narrowly missed out on the silver medal, edged out by China and Japan.

 

In the women's event, 12-year-olds Niamh Rippin, Nicole Hibbert, Danusia Francis and 13-year-old Jordan Lipton beat Australia by the narrowest of margins in a high-quality competition.

 

British table tennis pair Paul Drinkhall, who had carried the British flag at the opening ceremony yesterday, and Darius Knight are assured of a medal after dominating the first day of the men's team event, winning each of the day's four rounds 3-0.

 

But the badminton team look to have missed out on medals in the team event following a 3-2 defeat by Singapore.