Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang shot down the country’s first gold medal in the Commonwealth Games on the second day of competitions on Tuesday before Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed added the second one at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range.

Deepak Sharma and Omkar Singh later fetched a silver medal from the shooting arena to make it a superb beginning for the top drawer Indian squad which is expected to considerably swell the country’s medal chest and help in their bid to finish second in the Games.

Bindra, India’s only individual Olympic gold medal winner, and world record holder Narang fired in unison in the men’s 10m air rifle pairs event with a Games record of 1193.

The pair broke its own record of 1189 set four years ago in Melbourne.

Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed brought home the second gold in women’s 25m pistol pairs, also created a new championship record of 1156, in the process, and relegated the previous record setters to the second spot.

The duo bettered the eight-year-old mark of 1150 by Australia’s Lalita Yauhleuskaya and Lindia Ryan created at Manchester while also pushing the fancied Aussie duo to the silver standard.

Sharma and Omkar ended up second in the men’s 50m pair’s event behind Lim Swee Hon and Gai Bin of Singapore to round off an excellent morning for the sharp shooters on the first day of competitions.

The two shooting gold medals also lifted the country to the second spot from Monday night’s seventh in the medals table behind leaders Australia.

On Monday India had secured two silver and as many bronze from the weightlifting arena.

“Many thought I am a dictator, since I had imposed a gag order on the shooters prior to the Games. But whatever I was doing, I was doing for the country. And we have got the reward for that,” said a beaming national coach Sunny Thomas.

Elsewhere, Indian swimmer Virdhawal Khade was the lone competitor to remain in fray from seven others when he made the semifinals of the 50m buttefly.

Khade, who on Monday helped the men’s freestyle sprint quartet to become the first from the country to reach a swimming final in Games history, clocked 24.72s for eighth position.

But six others – Arjun Muralidharan (Men’s 50m fly), Jyotsana Pansare, Fariha Zaman (women’s 100m backstroke), Talasha Satish Prabhu (women’s 100m freestyle), Aaron D’Souza and Rohit Havaldar (men’s 200m freestyle) hardly made a splash and exited.

Para sport swimmers brought some smiles as Kiran Tak (00:38.79) and Anjani Patel (00:47.64) progressed to the semifinals in the 50m S9 Freestyle women category.