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India's shooters started off in fine fashion on Thursday, with Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh winning a gold medal in the Pairs 25 metres Rapid Fire pistol event at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range.
The duo created a new Games record, with a final total of 1162, as each shot 293 in the second stage.
Malaysia's Hafiz Adzha and Hasli Izwan took the silver with a tally of 1144 while Australia settled for bronze, scoring 1125.
This is the sixth gold medal for India in the shooting event, taking their tally to 12 gold medals in the Games.
However, there was a bit of disappointment for India, as crowd favourite Tejaswini Sawant and Lajjakumar Gauswami failed to win a medal in the women's 50 metres Rifle-3 Positions.
Sixteen-year-old Australian Alethea Sedgman won the gold in the event with a total score of 676 after shooting 101 in the final round.
Singapore's duo Jasmine Xiang Wei (672.6) Aqilah Sudhir (671.3) claimed the silver and bronze medals respectively.
Sawant failed to qualify for the finals after finishing ninth in qualification with a total score of 568.
Gauswami qualified for the finals, but failed to make an impact, finishing sixth in the standings with a tally of 666.8 and 96.8 in the final.