Tejaswini Sawant [ Images ] and Avneet Kaur Sidhu won gold and silver respectively in the women's 10-metre air rifle shooting event at the Commonwealth Games [ Images ] in Melbourne [ Images ] on Monday.

Sawant scored 500.6 points while Sidhu shot 500.2 to equal the Games record.

Singapore's Sen Venassa Yong Yu won the bronze with 499.9 points.

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Earlier in the day, Abhinav Bindra [ Images ] and Gagan Narang [ Images ] added to India's [ Images ] gold haul at the shooting range, winning the men's 50 metre rifle three-position pairs event.

The India duo had a winning tally of 2287, which was far better than silver medallists Michael Brown and Ben Burge of Australia [ Images ], who aggregated 2269 points.

England's [ Images ] Jason Burrage and Chris Hector took bronze with 2269 points.