Dan Rivers won a bronze medal for England at the Commonwealth Games in the 10m air rifle at the Barry Buddon shooting centre in Dundee.
Rivers, 23, from Didcot, had qualified for the final with a Games record score ahead of team-mate Ken Parr in second.
But the duo were usurped by Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra and Abdullah Baki of Bangladesh in a tense encounter.
Rivers made sure of England's first shooting medal of Glasgow 2014 when he held his nerve to score 10.1 in a shoot-off with India's Ravi Kumar, who could only manage 9.6, after the pair finished level after 16 shots.
However, having fought back to tie with Baki after 18 shots, his 9.4 was bettered by his opponent's 9.8 meaning Rivers had to settle for bronze.
Bindra, the 2008 Olympic champion, eventually took gold to win a ninth Commonwealth medal, with Baki picking up silver.
Parr, 26, from Croydon, finished fifth.
Rivers compared his medal-winning shot to a penalty shoot-out in football.
"The heart rate, as soon as you see you are tied on the screen, it just goes up even more," he said.
"You just have to pick your timing, go between the beats, and do your best. Nerves of steel? Or hit and hope? We try to train under pressure but on this scale nothing compares. It's like a penalty shoot-out in front of a packed stadium."
Rivers also goes in the 50m three positions event and the 50m rifle prone later in the week, and actually rates this event as his weakest of the three.
Likewise, Parr has two more chances to get himself on the podium.
"I'm bit disappointed really," he said. "I let a couple of bad shots go and you get punished in these finals.
"Dan and I shot really well this morning, finishing top two. I thought I had a British record until I saw he was above me. But when it comes to the finals that counts for nothing. It's great that Dan got a medal, though. "
Mike Bamsey of Wales made the final but could only finish seventh.
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