Silver in commonwelths

[percypepper]

young James huckle and ken parr won silver in the mens pairs 10 metre air today and
England's Julia Lyndall and Gorgs Geikie got the bronze in pairs 25 metre pistol
colin

[delta1]

Congratulations to them, fine achievements.

[Hemmers]

Yes, very well done to them. The Ladies 3-Positional smallbore was won by Singapore (who set a new Games record in the process). India equalled the old record in second, and Scotland's Jen McIntosh and Kay Copland steamed in to take Bronze just one point behind India.

Mick Gault and Nick Baxter came 5th in the Men's Free Pistol Pairs.
This puts the pressure a little on Mick as this is his last Games, and he needs 4 medals to become the all-time most successful Commonwealth Athlete.
He should be able to manage it though from the remaining individual and pairs events.

[barrow_matt]

A great result but what about the Indian pair who won Gold with 1193!!

10m Air Rifle Pairs

1. India - 1193
2. England - 1174
3. Bangladesh - 1173

[Hemmers]

That's why Abhinav Bindra is often regarded as the finest air rifle shooter in the world today, although he had a "bad" day today, shooting a mere 595, compared to Gagan Narang's 598.

Superb shooting, which set a new Games Record, surpassing their own record of 1189 from 2006.

[RobF]

good stuff.

wacked off a e-flea in ear to BBC about their complete lack of mention of the shooting medals...