By IANS,
New Delhi : India’s Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Mansher Singh won the silver medal in the men’s trap pairs’ event while the gold went to Australia’s famous duo Michael Diamond and Adam Vella at the Commonwealth Games here Friday.
World No.8 Diamond, a double Olympic champion, and world No.9 Vella, who won the bronze in the Athens Olympic Games, shot a total of 198 and broke the Games record of 192 set by Mansher and Manavjit at the 1998 Games in Kuala Lumpur.
Diamond, who won the gold at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, shot a perfect 100 while Vella had 98.
Former world champion Manavjit (98) and Mansher (99) also bettered their Games record by shooting 197.
The bronze went to England’s Aaron Heading (99) and Dave Kirk (94) with a combined score of 193.