Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang win 10m Air Rifle pairs Gold

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New Delhi, Oct 5: Shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang have won India its first gold medal.
 
Early on Day 2 of the Commonwealth Games, Bindra and Narang shot gold in the Pairs 10 m Air Rifle Mens event. Bindra scored 595 and Narang scored 598. They were were defending champions in Pairs event in Melbourne.

Dr AS Bindra, Abhinav Bindra’s father told NDTV: "Glad Abhinav has made the country proud."

 

There is plenty of sporting action in store through the day with 18 gold medals at stake. There will be some other big names in action too, including Somdev Devvarman, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati.

While Gagan Narang and Beijing gold medalist Abhinav Bindra featured in the pairs event as favourites for gold, world champion Tejaswini Sawant is also in action in the 50m 3P pairs shooting event.

On the opening day of the competition yesterday, India won four medals, including two bronze and two silver medals in Weightlifting.

GOLD MEDALS AT STAKE: Swimming (5), Cycling (3), Shooting (4), Weightlifting (2), Wrestling (3) and Gymnastics (1)

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.

The RK Khanna Tennis Stadium will witness two big matches as top-seed Somdev Devvarman will play his first-round singles match and Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati will play a Sri Lankan pair in their first-round match on Tuesday.

In archery, Dola Bannerji 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, Dipika  Pallikal, 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