<p class="title">Young Mehuli Ghosh settled for the silver medal after forcing a shoot-off in the women's 10m air rifle event with a perfect final shot of 10.9 while Apurvi Chandela secured bronze in the Commonwealth Games here today.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 17-year Ghosh shot an excellent 10.9 to take the finals into a shoot-off with Singapore's Martina Lindsay Veloso, the eventual gold medallist with a games record score of 247.2.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ghosh also aggregated a record 247.2 but a 9.9 in the shoot-off put paid to her hopes of claiming the top prize, as Veloso shot 10.3.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Defending champions Chandela totalled 225.3 to finish third on the podium.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chandela had earlier smashed her own Commonwealth Games qualifying record from four years back by scoring 423.2.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chandela's sequence of scores over four series in the qualifying read a very impressive 105.7 105.2 106.1 106.2. While Ghosh was fifth in the qualifying with 413.7 following scores of 104.3 103.7 102.2 and 103.5 over four series.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, Ghosh, a bronze medallist in her maiden ISSF World Cup outing in Mexico last month, produced a better performance to topple her more experienced compatriot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trained by Olympian Joydeep Karmakar, Ghosh showed her fighting abilities all through but fell short by just 0.4 in the end.</p>
<p class="title">Young Mehuli Ghosh settled for the silver medal after forcing a shoot-off in the women's 10m air rifle event with a perfect final shot of 10.9 while Apurvi Chandela secured bronze in the Commonwealth Games here today.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 17-year Ghosh shot an excellent 10.9 to take the finals into a shoot-off with Singapore's Martina Lindsay Veloso, the eventual gold medallist with a games record score of 247.2.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ghosh also aggregated a record 247.2 but a 9.9 in the shoot-off put paid to her hopes of claiming the top prize, as Veloso shot 10.3.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Defending champions Chandela totalled 225.3 to finish third on the podium.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chandela had earlier smashed her own Commonwealth Games qualifying record from four years back by scoring 423.2.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chandela's sequence of scores over four series in the qualifying read a very impressive 105.7 105.2 106.1 106.2. While Ghosh was fifth in the qualifying with 413.7 following scores of 104.3 103.7 102.2 and 103.5 over four series.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, Ghosh, a bronze medallist in her maiden ISSF World Cup outing in Mexico last month, produced a better performance to topple her more experienced compatriot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trained by Olympian Joydeep Karmakar, Ghosh showed her fighting abilities all through but fell short by just 0.4 in the end.</p>