India on top with 19 medals at Commonwealth Shooting

Indian shooters continued their brilliant form in the Commonwealth Shooting Championships by sweeping three of the four gold medals on offer on the third day of the competition at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range here Sunday.

India's 2006 Commonwealth Games hero Samresh Jung teamed up with Zakir Khan to bag the gold in the men's 10m air pistol badge and pairs event. The Indian duo had a combined score of 1158 and both marksmen had identical scores of 579.

The silver went to the English pair of Michael Gault (571) and Nick Baxter (566), who aggregated 1137, while Australia's Christopher Roberts (568) and Alfio Casagrande (559) took the bronze medal with a total of 1127.

In the men's 25-metre rapid fire pistol badge and pairs, India made a clean sweep of all the medals with Vijay Kumar (588) bagging the gold while Gurpreet Singh (576) and Pemba Tamang (564) won the silver and bronze medals respectively.

The third gold of the day came from Meena Kumar (671.9) in the women's 50m rifle 3-position event while the silver went to Lajja Gauswami (670.7). England's Sharon Lee (666.8) had to remain content with the bronze medal.

Indians Mohammed Ashab and Vikram Bhatnagar bagged the silver and bronze in the men's double trap while the gold went to Englishman Steven Scott.

India now stand atop the medals table with nine golds, six silvers and four bronze medals. England are second with eight medals (2 golds, 3 silvers and 3 bronzes) followed by Scotland at third position with one gold medal.