Indian archers, shooters and wrestlers continued their winning spree by grabbing 4 more golds on the fifth day of the games. Ace shooters Gagan Narang and Imran Hasan Khan won gold in the Men's 50 metres rifle-3 positioning pairs creating a new games record. Gagan Narang achieved a hatrick bagging three golds in the 2010 games. Gagan had earlier won two golds in the 10 metre air-rifle pairs and individual events. Vijay Kumar won gold for India in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol shooting with a Games record. Gurpreet Singh bagged the Bronze in the same event. The first gold of the day for India was bagged by women Archers Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumari and Bombayala Devi in the recurve team category. The Women Archers created history for India as they won the first medal in Archery that was included in the games after a gap of 28 years. The Indian trio defeated England 207-206, they had earlier dumped Malaysia in the semifinals. Mansher Singh and Manavjeet Sandhu won a silver medal for the country in the men's trap pair shooting. In Archery, the Men's recurve team won Bronze today. The team comprising of Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Roy and Jayant Talukdar defeated England 221-218.
News On AIR | October 8, 2010 6:39 PM
Indian archers, shooters and wrestlers shine on 5th day