The Jammu & Kashmir shooter, who serves with the Indian Army, has been in great form since the 35th National Games in Thiruvananthapuram last year, and, going into the final this afternoon, placed second behind Narang with a card of 625.7 points.
Having shot a record 628.9 points in qualification, Narang was undoubtedly the man to beat in the final. But things turned topsy-turvy right from the start. It was Chain Singh and Pakistani Umar Siddique who shared the lead after the first three shots as Narang fell behind marginally with a 9.7 off his second shot.
Siddique continued to remain in the lead after the second round as Chain Singh suffered a slump in fortunes managing only a 9.5 and 9.7 with his fifth and sixth shots.
Narang, with a fine 10.8 and 10.5 in the third sequence, was back in the lead after the third round and stayed there through the next two rounds before his team-mate forged ahead after the sixth.
Though ahead, albeit narrowly, the Army shooter held his nerve through the remaining part of the final, and was eventually successful in edging Narang, with a card of 204.6 points; the latter finished with 203.7.
Siddique, the early leader who was last to be eliminated before the final series, placed third with 182.2.
With Surendra Singh Rathod compiling 616.9 in qualification, India had little difficulty in bagging the team gold for the event with a total of 1871.5 points. Pakistan finished second with 1838.2 pushing Sri Lanka (1625.7) to the third spot.
Indian shooters held sway in the other events too as Samresh Jung led the home team to a 1-2-3 in the men’s 25m centre-fire pistol, for which the team title was held back on account of lack of sufficient entries.
Only India and Pakistan were in the fray, and Jung, who returned a total of 580, scoring 293 in precision and 287 in rapid had little trouble.
Pemba Tamang won silver for the event with 579. It took Vijay Kumar a bit of an effort to complete the sweep; he won the bronze after a shoot-off with Mustafa Ghulam and Maqbool Hussain for the bronze medal.
The trio finished on 577 each before Vijay Kumar took the decider scoring 48 while his challengers scored 47.
It proved to be an easy outing for India yet again in women’s 50m rifle prone.
Kuheli Gangulee, Lajja Gauswami and Anuja Jung provided the host nation with its second clean sweep of the day.
Kuheli took the gold with a 619.9 over 60 shots while Lajja and Anuja finished in that order with totals of 608.2 and 607.5 respectively.
The combined total of 1835.6 returned by the trio also helped India to the gold medal in the team event, leaving Pakistan (1805.4) and Sri Lanka (1801.8) in the silver and bronze medal positions.
The results:
Men: 50m rifle prone: 1. Chain Singh (Ind), 204.5, 2. Gagan Narang (Ind), 203.7, 3. Umar Siddique (Pak), 182.2.
Team: 1. India, 1871.5, 2. Pakistan, 1638.2, 3. Sri Lanka, 1825.7.
25m centre-fire pistol: 1. Samresh Jung (Ind), 580, 2. Pemba Tamang (Ind), 579, 3. Vijay Kumar, 577.
Women: 50m rifle prone: 1. Kuheli Gangulee (Ind), 619.9, 2. Lajja Gauswami (Ind), 608.2, 3. Anuja Jung (Ind), 607.5.
Team: 1. India, 1835.6, 2. Pakistan, 1805.4, 3. Sri Lanka, 1801.8.
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