{"id":28027,"date":"2018-04-14T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=28027"},"modified":"2018-04-14T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:23:29","slug":"2018-commonwealth-games-shooting-sanjeev-rajput-wins-gold-in-mens-50m-rifle-3-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/2018-commonwealth-games-shooting-sanjeev-rajput-wins-gold-in-mens-50m-rifle-3-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Commonwealth Games shooting: Sanjeev Rajput wins gold in men\u2019s 50m rifle 3 positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanjeev Rajput won India\u2019s seventh gold medal in shooting on Saturday, finishing first in the final of the men\u2019s 50m rifle 3 positions event at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>Rajput shot a Commonwealth Games record of 454.5 in the final to clinch his maiden Commonwealth Games gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Gregor Sych finished in second position whilst England\u2019s Dean Bale rounded up the podium. Another Indian Chain Singh finished fifth.<\/p>\n<p>In the qualification, Rajput scored 391 in kneeling, 399 in prone and 390 in standing, while Chain Singh, who was placed second, shot 389 398 and 379 for a cumulative score of 1166 .<\/p>\n<p>In prone Rajput shot three 100s and a 99.<\/p>\n<p>Rajput has previously won a silver in the same shooting event at the 2014 Glasgow Games and was a bronze medal winner in the 2006 edition of the Games held in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanjeev Rajput won India\u2019s seventh gold medal in shooting on Saturday, finishing first in the final of the men\u2019s 50m rifle 3 positions event at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Rajput shot a Commonwealth Games record of 454.5 in the final to clinch his maiden Commonwealth Games gold medal. Canada\u2019s Gregor Sych finished in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28029,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027\/revisions\/28029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}