Rajput, who had teamed up with Gagan on Monday to clinch the team gold, outshone his more accomplished compatriot by shooting a score of 1272.9 (1172+100.9), improving on the previous meet record of 1260.2 set by Pemmiaha Subbiah 11 years ago in New Zealand.
Gagan settled for silver with a score of 1269 (1168+101.1), while another Indian Hasan Imran Khan took home the bronze medal, scoring 1259.6 (1161+98.6).
India fetched the second gold in the 25M centre fire pistol team event. Vijay Kumar teamed up with with Mahender Singh to claim the top honours notch as the duo shot a combined score of 1159.
The silver in the event went to Welshmen Alan Green and Steve Pengelly (1131), while England’s Michael Gault and Iqbal Ubhi (1103) bagged the bronze.
Hosts women shooters, however, failed to pocket a gold on Tuesday. In the 10M Air Rifle team competition, Priya Aggarwal and Neha Sapte had to be content with a silver medal after shooting a total of 782, way behind gold medal winners Akhter Sharmm Ratna and Sadiya Sultana of Bangladesh, who scored 790.
Besides clinching the gold, Ratna and Sultana also broke the meet record of 789 set by India’s Suma Dixit and Anjali Bhagwat in 1999. The bronze in this event went to England’s Sheree Cox and Sharon Lee (780).
In the individual competition too, Bangladesh dominated with Akhter (396) notching up the gold and Sultana (394) picking up the silver. Priya took home the bronze (393).
In the individual trap competition, Shreyasi Singh managed a silver (89), three points behind gold winner Kirsty Barr of Northern Ireland. The bronze medal went to Scotland’s Shona Marshall (86).
By adding the consolation badges that are given to the third shooter in a team event, India’s tally comes to 23 gold, 16 silver and nine bronze medals.