Earlier, Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang set a Commonwealth record in the case of 10-meter air rifle scoring 1193 points. They fired in unison and broke his own record he had set four years ago in Melbourne where he had scored 1,189 points.
The second position was secured by England's James Huckle and Kenny Parr with 1,174 points while that of Bangladesh Abdullah Hel Baki and Maryland Asif Hussain Khan with 1173 points is awarded the bronze medal. These candidates were very far from the points managed by players of India.
Gagan managed six shots in his 598 points in a spectacular sequence 99,100,100,99,100,100 while Olympic gold medalist in Beijing, Bindra 100,98,99,100,99,99 reading sequence for a total of 595 points in the first shooting event Games.
National Coach of the Indian shooting team, Sunny Thomas, expressed his happiness for the success of the crew mates and is expecting to break the previous record of Indian shooters in this mega event.
However, he called on other difficult events coming up and wanted his shooters to be more focused and maintain momentum.
In another case, Sanjay Kumar entered the final of the 74kg Greco-Roman style wrestling and Anil Kumar qualified for the finals of the 96kg Greco-Roman style wrestling.
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