Aberdeen's Neil Stirton (left) with his silver medal. David Phelps (centre) took gold with England's Kenneth Parr earning bronze.
Aberdeen shooter Neil Stirton picked up his fourth Commonwealth Games medal with silver in the men’s 50m rifle prone on Tuesday morning.
Stirton had picked up a medal of each colour in his three previous Games and added a second silver yesterday, missing out on gold by 1.1 points to a record-breaking effort from Wales’ David Phelps.
After qualifying fourth in the morning session, narrowly ahead of Scotland team-mate Leonard Thomson, Stirton did his best to keep pace with Phelps and was the last man going toe-to-toe with the Welshman in the final elimination, finishing with a score of 247.7
The 37-year-old will go for his second medal of the Games when the 50m rifle 3 positions starts on Saturday.
Stirton won his first Commonwealth medal in Melbourne 12 years ago with a silver in the 50m prone pairs, the event he subsequently won four years later in Delhi. His bronze medal also came in India, finishing third in the 50m 3 positions pairs.
