CWG shooting: Indians pick up two more golds (Lead)
October 8th, 2010 - 5:10 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Indian shooters struck two more golds at the ranges with Gagan Narang and Imran Hasan Khan winning the men’s 50-metre rifle three-position event and Vijay Kumar claiming top honours in the men’s 25-metre rapid fire pistol at the Commonwealth Games here Friday.
Gurpreet Singh also got a bronze in the 25-metre rapid fire pistol event at the Karni Singh Shooting Range.
Indian shooters have so far collected nine gold medals in the competition.
Gagan and Imran set up a new Games record with a cumulative score of 2325, erasing the old mark of 2300 by the Canadian pair of Michael Dion and Wayne Sorensen at the Victoria Games in 1994.
England and Scotland were tied for the second place with 2308 points. But England won the silver on the basis of 105 perfect 10s while Scotland had to settle for the bronze with 104 perfect 10s.
England pair James Huckle and Kenny Parr shot a total of 2308. Huckle shot 1158 (prone 391, standing 383, kneeling 384) while Parr had a total of 1150 (prone 391, standing 375, kneeling 384).
Scotland’s Jonathan Hammond totalled 1160 (prone 398, standing 371, kneeling 391) while Neil Stirton shot 1148 (prone 395, standing 372, kneeling 381).
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