Indians continue to do well: C'wealth shooting

Jaspal Rana and Naresh Kumar won the gold in the Standard Pistol despite Naresh losing 10 points after his pistol malfunctioned for the third time. Naresh could manage only 547 but Rana scored a healthy 571 to take the team on top.

Vivek Singh fired a 568 in the same event for the silver in the badge honours.

The Indians won another gold in Rapidfire Pistol despite having a low score. Mukesh Kumar and Poonam Kumar shot a 558 and 556 respectively but that was enough for the top spot. Raunak Pandit scored 567 for a gold in the badge event, national coach Prof Sunny Thomas informed over phone from Bisley.

In the women's Rifle 3 Position, the pair of Anjali Vedpathak and Kuheli Ganguly won a silver for India with respective scores of 573 and 554.

The team of Harinder Singh Bedi and Saravdeep Mann missed out on a medal in the Shotgun Skeet (Clay Pigeon) event after Mann shot only 20 in his fifth and last attempt for a score of 89. Harinder, who had perfect scores in the first four attempts and 24 in the fifth, however, grabbed the gold in badge with a brilliant 99 out of 100.

With Sunday's victories, the Indians have so far won five gold, three silver and two bronze medals with one more to go in the team events. The individual events will start on Tuesday.

On Saturday, India won two golds, one silver and one bronze but Abhinav Bindra disappointed in the World Cup finals in Munich.

Anjali Vedpathak and Anuja Tere won the gold in Air Rifle for women with a combined score of 787. Anjali shot 394 while Anuja tallied 393.

The third Indian in the event Meena Kumari, not part of the team but who would be considered for the badge honours for individual performance, also shot a 393.

In the free pistol team event for men, Samaresh Jung shot 554 and Ved Prakash tallied 544 to win the second gold of the day for India with a combined tally of 1098. Vivek Singh, in the fray for the badge honours, shot a 553.

Meanwhile, Bindra failed to make it to the medal round of the World Cup finals in Munich. Bindra, the only Indian to feature in the competition of the top ten shooters in the world, shot a 592 and finished last. The top eight moved into the medal round with the cut-off being 594.

Earlier, Bindra and Charan Singh had created a new championship record in the Air Rifle pairs event to win the first gold for India in the Commonwealth shooting on Friday. Bindra shot 590 points while Charan Singh scored 586.

In women's Air Pistol event in Commonwealth championships on Saturday, Sonia Rana and Shilpi Singh shot a combined score of 747 to win the silver. Sonia shot 374 while Shilpi fired 373. Shweta Chaudhary scored 374 in the same event for the badge honours.

A P Subbiah and Satguru Das won a bronze in the Rifle Prone team event.

Jaspal Rana and Ved Prakash had won a bronze medal in the Air Pistol for men.