This, in effect, enabled him to retain the title for the third time in succession and also push Rana to the second spot, as in the previous year. The bronze was taken by Parvinder Singh of the BSF.

The Navyman, combining with Tapas Kumar Sikdar and Binod Kumar Singh, also helped his team win the gold in the Open category.

The other individual gold went to Charan Singh of the Army in the Open category of the 10m air rifle event while Mahavir Singh, also of the Army, clinched the silver but a clean sweep of medals was prevented by Maharashtra's Chetan Deshmukh, who won the bronze in a tie-break.

Results (all men)

Air Rifle Open (10 metre): Charan Singh (Army) 670, Mahavir Singh (Army) 669.1, Chetan Deshmukh(Rly) 666.0 (9.8), Raj Kumar (Army) 666.9 (9.2), Ashok Kumar Shahi (Army) 666.9 (8.8), Praveen Rawat (Del) 664.8, T.C. Pallangappa (Army) 662.7, Raj Kumar (BSF) 653.7.

Team (Open -- 10m): Army (TC Pallangappa, Raj Kumar, Mahavir Singh ) 1709, BSF (Iqbal Ahmed, Rajh Kumar, Akeleshs Rai) 1683, Navy (Bishnu Nag, Pt. Raghunath, Deepak K Dubey) 1661.

Civilians: Railways (Joydeep Banerjee), Shyamal Das, Pankaj Poddar) 1683, Punjab (Jaspreet Singh Dhaliwal, Abhinav Bindra, Jatinder Singh) 1632, Maharashtra (Nilesh Rane, Amol Golatkar, Pravin Dhurve) 1629.

Juniors: Army (Sudhir Paul, Ravinder Prakash, Sunil Kumar) 1682, Delhi (Amanveer Singh Wadalia, Praveen Rawat, Deepak Nautiyal) 1673, Navy (Subhajit Debnath, Vijay Kumar, Manoj Kumar) 1539.

Free Pistol Open (50m): Satendra Kumar (Navy) 643.7, Jaspal Rana (Del) 637.4, Parvinder Singh (BSF) 633.9, D.S. Jadhav (BS) 635.8, Raj Kumar (Army) 625.0, Binod Kumar Singh (Navy) 619.7, Ved Prakash (Army) 619.4, Samresh Jung (Del)618.8.

Civilians: Subhash Rana (Delhi) 530, N. Shanmugam (TN) 526, Hemant Jadhav (Mah) 514.

Juniors: Subhash Rana (Del) 530, Vijay Kumar (Army) 516, Jay Narayan (Army) 508;

Junior Civilians: Abhinav Yadav (UP) 462, Anshumali Divedi (UP) 350, Prabhakaran Lali (UP) 224.

Team (Open): Navy (Tapas Kumar Sikdar, Satendra Kumar, Binod Kumar Singh) 1612, Delhi (Vivek Singh, Jaspal Rana, Samresh Jung) 1602, Army (Dhyan Singh Ved Prakash, Kamal Singh) 1582.

Juniors: Army (Vijay Kumar, Jay Narayan, Mohammed Kalamuddin) 1531, Uttar Pradesh (Anunay Yadav, Kamal Sain, Anubhav Dhillon) 1473, Delhi (Amit Kumar Koslia, Alok Singh, Subhash Rana) 1454.

Civilians: Maharashtra (Shyam Bali, Hemant Jadhav, Pradeep Kumar) 1514, Punjab (NS Bhogal, T.s. Dhillon, Santokh Singh) 1456, Uttar Pradesh (Anunay Yadav, Abhinav Yadav, Kamal Sain) 1439.