New Delhi: Ace Indian rifle shooter Gagan Narang on Wednesday fired a perfect 600 to equal his own world record on his way to upsetting Olympic gold medalist and compatriot Abhinav Bindra and grabbing the men's 10m individual air rifle title in the Commmonwealth Games on Wednesday.
Narang, who had teamed up with Bindra to clinch the 10m air rifle pairs gold - the first for the country on Tuesday - took a giant stride in the qualification round by scoring the perfect 600 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.
The 1-2 sweep of the medals by Indian marksmen, that left Englishman James Huckle to settle for the bronze, boosted India's tally of medals on the third day of competitions to 13, out of which six are of the golden variety.
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