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India continued to dominate at the shooting range where they garnered three gold and as many silver medals on the third day of competitions at the Commonwealth Games today.
Shooting gold medals were won by Gagan Narang,at the expense of Olympic champion and teammate Abhinav Bindra,and pistol shooters Omkar Singh and Anisa Sayyed,while two silver medals were brought home by Sarnobat Rahi,who finished second behind Anisa,and double trap duo of Ronjan Sondhi and Asher Noria.
There was a fourth gold for the host country earned through the effort of woman lifter Renu Bala Chanu in the 58 kg class. The fifth gold of Day 3 came from Rajender Kumar when he won the gold in the 55kg Greco-Roman style event.
Manoj Kumar and Sunil Kumar won silver and bronze medals for India in the 84kg and 66kg Greco-Roman wrestling category respectively.
India’s tally going into the evening session of competitions stood at 10 gold,8 silver and 3 bronze.
Earlier,Narang set the tone by firing a perfect 600 to equal his own world record on his way to upsetting Bindra to grab the men’s 10m individual air rifle singles title,his second gold medal of these Games.
He had teamed up with Bindra to clinch the 10m air rifle pairs gold – the first for the country in the Games on Tuesday.
Narang took a big lead over Bindra in the qualification round by scoring the perfect score while the Chandigarh shooter replied with 595.
The Hyderabad marksman,who had done a similar feat in the preliminaries in the Beijing World Cup two years ago,performed better in the finals too by scoring 103.6 as compared to Bindra’s 103.0 to settle the fight for the gold with an overall tally of 703.6,a new Games mark.
Incidentally Bindra had won the gold in the Beijing Olympics in the same event. Englishman James Huckle settled for the bronze.
There was a second 1-2 sweep by India in the women’s 25m pistol singles event with Anisa Sayyed (786.8) claiming the gold and Sarnobat Rahi (781) winning the silver to add to the title the duo won in pairs yesterday. Ng Pei Chin of Malaysia got the bronze (778.2).
Omkar Singh nailed the gold in men’s 50m pistol singles event with 653.6 points ahead of Singapore’s Bin Gai (649.6) and Lim Swee Hon (644.7). It was his second medal.
In double trap pairs for men,Sondhi and Noria finished just a point behind gold winners Steven Wolton and Steven Scott (189) while Malaysian duo Benjamin Chen Khor and Chye Chen Khor picked up the bronze with 185.
