India dominates South Asian Shooting

India dominates South Asian Shooting, bags six more gold
8 July 2009. Favourites India continued their domination to secure six out of eight golds decided on the fourth day, to stay atop of the medals tally with 20 golds, 10 silvers and five bronzes. While Pakistan secured thye other two gold medals, Pakistan maintained their second place in the medal tally with two golds, five silvers and four bronzes. Bangladesh bagged two silvers and three bronzes on Wednesday to raise their medal tally to five silvers and as many bronzes while Sri Lanka secured two silvers and four bronzes to stay in the fourth position. Harveen wins gold in women's air pistol
In the women's 10m air pistol event, India's Harveen Srao bagged gold with a score of 479.5, silver was won by Pakistan's Mehush Mashud while India's Heena Sidhu won the bronze.
India also won the women's air pistol team event with a score of 1131, Bangladesh won the silver with a score of 1095 while Sri Lanka took the bronze scoring 1092 points. Ashok Pandit wins gold in standard pistol
In the 25m standard pistol event, veteran shooter from India, Ashok Pandit shot 566 to claim the gold, Vijay Kumar of India won the silver with a score of 561 while bronze was won by Pakistan's Mustakim Shah who shot 551.
The Indian men's team finished top in the standard pistol team event scoring 1677 points, 39 points clear of the second-placed Pakistan, who made 1638 points. Bangladesh came third with 1403 points. Rajput wins gold in men's three-position
In the men's 50m rifle three position event, gold went to India's Sanjeev Rajput, who scored 1165 points while his compatriot Imran Hassan Khan shot 1150 to win the silver while Sri Lanka's SMS Samarakun finished third with 1142 points.
Indian men's team also bagged gold in the 50m rifle three position team event with a score of 3437 while Bangladesh finished second with a score of 3358. Pakistan bagged bronze with a score of 3348. Silver for Mairaj in men's skeet
Mairaj Khan of India won the silver in the men's skeet event after shooting a score of 112. Pakistan's Raja Munir bagged the gold with a score of 114 while another Pakistani shooter Ahmed Usman won the bronze with a score of 110.
Pakistan bagged gold in the skeet team event while India and Bangladesh finished second and third respectively.