Anjali settles for silver

Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat stumbled in the final and settled for silver in women's 10m air rifle as the individual events got underway in the Commonwealth Shooting Championship in Melbourne on Monday.

Anjali, who earlier won two gold medals in team events, finished with a total of 498.7 points (398 + 100.7) behind Singapore's Jingna Zang 500.1 (396 + 104.1).

Australia's Suzan Maccready claimed the bronze with a score of 492.6 (391 + 101.6), according to an NRAI release.

Going into the final, Anjali, who is making a comeback after her disastrous outing in Athens Olympics last August, was two points clear of Jingna on 398.

But she managed only a poor score of 100.7 in the final which helped Jingna to edge her in the battle of nerves.

The other Indian in the fray, Pournima Zanane finished fifth with a total of 491.2 (390 + 101.2).

Meanwhile, India continued their impressive show in the team events adding two more gold medals to the kitty.

With this India's total medal count has gone up 16 including eight gold, six silver and two bronze medals.

In men's centre fire pistol, veteran stars Ashok Pandit (569) and Jaspal Rana (585) combined to give India the gold with a total of 1154 points out of 1200.

Australia (1136) and Wales (1121) won the silver and bronze medals respectively.

The other team gold came from men's free rifle three position through Sushil Ghale (1147) and Sanjeev Rajput (1132) who set a new meet record of 2279/2400.

Hosts Australia again settled for the silver with 2262 ahead of Wales who claimed the bronze with 2256 points.