India's Tamang shoots gold - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1054801.cms IANS[ THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2005 05:53:24 PM ] MELBOURNE: India's little known Pemba Tamang on Thursday won the men's rapid fire pistol gold, while Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Meena Kumari managed silver medals in different events at the Commonwealth Shooting Championship here. Harveen Sarao and Vijay Kumar won a bronze each to take India's overall tally to 11 gold, eight silver and five bronze medals in the championships. Tamang scored 760.6 points (565 in the qualifying round and 195.6 in the finals) to win the gold. Melody Igorov of Canada won the silver with 750.6 (559+191.6) and Vijay Kumar the bronze with 748.3 (564+184.3). In the men's double trap event, Olympic silver medallist Rathore finished second with 168 (130+3, behind his coach and local man Russell Mark, who scored 173 (134+39). Rathore, who won the Olympic silver in the same event at Athens last year, was tied for the second spot with Australia's Casselle Nathan (127+41) at the same score, 168, in the finals. The tie was broken on the fifth station with the Indian winning. Rathore was not disappointed with the results, but looked ahead to tougher tests this year. "I view things with a long-term perspective. I have chosen to focus my strengths on more important competitions this year like the World Shotgun Championships at Lonato, Italy, in May and the World Cup Shooting Final in Dubai in November," said the Delhi-based shooter. "Nevertheless, each day that I walk into my sports field I try and give my best, the overall idea being to constantly compete and win against the world's best so as to raise the average standard of our performance at the world stage," Rathore said. In the women's air pistol event, Sarao won the bronze with a score of 472.5 (372+100.5).