India's good showing at the Commonwealth Shooting Championships 2017 continued on Friday with Olympian Prakash Nanjappa and double-trapper Ankur Mittal winning the gold medal in Brisbane, Australia. This takes India's gold count to five.
Prakash led yet another Indian clean sweep at the men's 50m pistol with World Cup Final bronze medallist Amanpreet Singh winning silver and Jitu Rai, his second bronze of the competition. Ankur Mittal added more glitter to his best-ever international year with the double trap gold and Sreyasi Singh also won silver in the women's double trap to round off another profitable day's outing for India.
India has so far won fifteen medals from the competition.
It was Jitu Rai who topped the qualification round of the 50M Pistol with a 559 with Amanpreet qualifying in third with 543 and Prakash in fourth with 542. It was the same pattern at the start of the eight-man final with Jitu again the strongest off the blocks. The lead fluctuated for most parts between Jitu and Amanpreet, but Prakash caught up from the 18th shot of the 24-shot final, pipped Jitu by 0.2 at the end of the 20th and beat Amanpreet by 0.4 eventually to emerge triumphant.
Three Indians also qualified for the men's double trap while two qualified in the women's event. The medals however came to Ankur Mittal who won gold beating England's Matthew French to silver, while Shreyasi Singh, won silver in the women's event.