New Delhi:
With two gold and two silver medals under the belt, shooters gave India a big boost in the medals tally on the second day of the Commonwealth Games.
Shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang won India its first gold medal. The Indian pair shot gold in the Pairs 10 m Air Rifle Mens event with a Commonwealth Games' record 1,193 points at the Karni Singh ranges, 19 clear of England pair James Huckle and Kenny Parr. Bangladesh's Abdullah Hel Baki and Mohammad Asif Hossain Khan took bronze.
(See: CWG 2010 medals tally)Bindra and Narang, who will also compete in the 10-meter air rifle individual event on Wednesday, broke their own record of 1,189 set at Melbourne four years ago.
In the men's pairs, Bindra tallied 595 points, which included two 100s. Narang, 27, the current world record holder in the event with a mark of 600, did even better as the Indians took a three-point lead over the England pair by the third round. Narang's 598 consisted of four 100s and two 99s.
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Congratulate Bindra and Narang on their achievement)Speaking to NDTV, Bindra said he was delighted to have won the first gold for the country. "All eyes were on us, I am delighted we have won 1st gold." (
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"It was a tough win as shooting is an internal sport. We both shot well today," he said.
The second gold was clinched by Anisa Syyed & Rahi Sarnobat in 25m Standard Pistol Pairs event. Deepak Sharma and Omkar Singh won silver medal in pairs 50 m Pistol event.
World champion Tejaswini Sawant is also in action in the 50m 3P pairs shooting event.
GOLD MEDALS AT STAKE ON TUESDAY: Swimming (5), Cycling (3), Shooting (4), Weightlifting (2), Wrestling (3) and Gymnastics (1)
On the opening day of the competition yesterday, India won four medals, including two bronze and two silver medals in Weightlifting.
India is currently placed at the seventh slot behind England and hope to move up as Shooting events are lined up for today.
The Indian men's hockey team will also start their Commonwealth Games campaign today. They will play against Malaysia in Pool A at 8:30pm.
In archery, Dola Bannerjee will feature in the recurve individual event.
The following is the Tuesday's complete schedule of Indian participation at the Commonwealth Games.
Swimming:
100m Backstroke Women: Fariha Zaman, Jyotsna Pansare
100m Breaststroke Men: Puneet Rana, Agnishwar Jayaprakash, Sandeep Sejwal
100m Freestyle Women: Talasha Satish Prabhu, Jyotsna Pansare
200m Freestyle Men: Rohit Rajendra Havaldar, Aaron Agnel Dsouza
50m Butterfly Men: Arjun Muralidharan, Virdhawal Vikram Khade
Archery:
Recurve Individual Women: Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumari, Bombayala Devi Laishram.
Recurve Individual Men : Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Rai, Jayanta Talukdar
Compound Individual Women : Bheigyabati Chanu, Jhano Hansdah, Gagandeep Kaur
Compound Individual Men: Ritul Chatterjee, Jignas Chittibomma, Chinna Raju Srither
Boxing:
Lightflyweight (49kg) Men: Amandeep Singh
Bantamweight (56kg) Men: Akhil Kumar
Light Welterweight (64kg) Men: Manoj Kumar
Middleweight (75kg) Men: Vijender Singh
Heavyweight (91kg) Men: Manpreet Singh
Flyweight (52kg) Men: Suranjoy Singh
Lightweight (60kg) Men: Jai Bhagwan
Welterweight (69 kg) Men: Dilbag Singh
Light Heavyweight (81kg) Men: Dinesh Kumar
Super Heavyweight (91 kg+) Men: Paramjeet Samota
Cycling:
Individual Pursuit Men: Sombir
500m Time Trial Women: Chabungbam Rameshwori Devi, Mahitha Mohan,Kumari Rejani Vijaya
1000m Time Trial Men: Bikram Singh Okram, Amrit Singh
40km Points Race Men: Rajendra Kumar Bishnoi, Atul Kumar Singh, Satbir Singh
Gymnastics Artistic:
Team Final & Individual Qualification Women: Priti Das, Rohit Jaiswal, Roma Dilip Joglekar, Dipa Karmakar, Ashish Kumar, Meenakshi, Partha Mondal, Rakesh Kumar Patra, Debjani Samanta, Mayank Srivastava
Hockey:
Men Group A: India vs Malaysia
Lawn Bowls:
Pairs Men Group B: India vs Namibia
Triples Women Group B: India vs Botswana
Pairs Men Group B: India vs New Zealand
Triples Men Group A: India vs Wales
Pairs Women Group A: India vs Northern Ireland
Triples Men Group A: India vs Namibia
Netball:
Women Group A: Australia vs India
Shooting:
Pairs 25 m Pistol Women: Rahi Sarnobat, Anisa Sayyed
Pairs 10 m Air Rifle Men: Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang
Pairs 50 m Pistol Men: Deepak Sharma, Omkar Singh
Pairs 50 m Rifle 3 Positions Women: Lajjakumari Gauswami, Tejaswini Sawant
Squash:
Men's Singles: Saurav Ghosal, Sandeep Jangra, Harinder Pal Sandhu, Siddharth Suchde
Women's Singles: Anaka Alankamony, Joshna Chinappa, Anwesha Reddy
Table Tennis:
Women: Mouma Das, Poulomi Ghatak, Shamini Kumaresan,
Prabhu Mamta, Madhurika Suhas Patkar
Men: Achanta Sharath Kamal, Amalraj Anthony, Abishek
Ravichandran, Soumyadeep Roy, Subhajit Saha
Tennis:
Singles Men 1st Round: Somdev Devvarman vs Devin Mullings (BAH)
Doubles Men 1st Round: Mahesh Bhupathi/ Leander Paes vs
Dineshkanthan /Jayawickreme (SL)
Weightlifting:
62kg Men Group B: Omkar Shekhar Otari, Rustam Sarang
53kg Women Group A: Swati Singh
Wrestling:
60 kg Men: Ravinder Singh
74 kg Men: Sanjay
96 kg Men: Anil Kumar