Thu, Oct 07 10 08:22 PM
New Delhi, Oct 7 (PTI) It was business as usual for Indian shooters in the 19th Commonwealth Games as they added two more gold medals and a silver to their kitty at the Dr Karni Singh Range here today. Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh opened the day''s account by bagging the yellow metal in men''s 25-metre rapid fire pistol pairs event, while Ronjan Sodhi ended it on high by winning a silver in men''s double trap. Gurpreet then combined with Omkar Singh to clinch one more gold for the hosts in 10-metre air pistol, late in the evening. There, was, however, disappointment for women shooters Tejaswini Sawant and Lajja Gausami as none of them managed to win a medal in 50-metre rifle 3 position. Winner of the last World Cup final in Turkey and a world record holder in double trap, Sodhi prevailed in a pulsating three-way shoot-off to clinch silver after England''s Steven Walton bagged the gold medal scoring 190 points. The event went into shoot-off after Sodhi, Asher Noria and Isle of Man''s Timothy James Kneale were locked at 186 points after the regulation round. In the three-way shoot-off, a fired-up Sodhi clinched the issue with a clinical performance after both Kneale and Noria missed their targets. There was still hope for Noria to aim for bronze in the two-way shoot-off, but pressure, probably, did him in. Fresh from his exploits at the Junior World Championship in Munich, Noria, in a high-pressure two-way shoot-off with Kneale, fumbled to give the island nation its first medal in shooting. .
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