Sushma Rana and Satguru Das came up with sterling performances to bag the individual and team gold in the women's 25m Sport Pistol and men's 50m Rifle Prone respectively as India once again swept all the four gold medals decided in shooting in the 9th SAF Games in Islamabad on Saturday.
India have won a whopping 14 gold, three silver and four bronze medals so far with three more events still to be held in the Games.
Sushma was in her elements and showed her prowess in great measure scoring 96, 96 and 97. In the precision series, she began with a modest 93 but then lost concentration to hit only 90 points in the next round. She, however, soon recovered to shot 99 to finish with 571, way ahead of second placed K G N Perara of Sri Lanka (557).
The Indian thus set a new meet record erasing Kunti Malik's 558 set in Chennai in 1995.
However, India's Saroja Kumari missed the bronze medal by a whisker to Sri Lanka's Shyamalie Wijesooriya (645.2) finishing on 645.1 points.
Sushma along with Saroja Kumari (549) and Shweta Choudhury (549) also garnered the team gold for India.
In the 50m Rifle Prone event, Das was the only shooter to score a perfect 100 (in his fifth round) and was consistent all through. He ended with a tally of 588 in the preliminary round and shot 101.5 in the final to claim the individual gold with a total of 689.5 points.
Pakistan's Wasim claimed the silver with 687.5 points and Taufiq (Bangldesh, 682.4) the bronze.
