Scotland shooters Kay Copland and Jen McIntosh claimed gold in the women's 50m rifle prone pairs in Delhi on Monday after edging out England in the final.

Copland and McIntosh finished level on points with English duo Michelle Smith and Sharon Lee as both pairs scored 1,169.

However, Scotland claimed victory due to a higher count on the x-ring - a smaller ring inside the maximum 10 ring on the targets.

McIntosh was delighted to help secure her country's fourth gold medal of the games but said she had to overcome challenging conditions to do so.

She said: "It was pretty tough. It wasn't easy out there today. The wind was up. It was quite strong. We shoot on a reasonably sheltered range back home so it was bit of a struggle.

"It is an absolutely incredible feeling to win. Very satisfying. I hoped we were capable of gold but I didn't quite expect it."

There were no Home Nations golds in the athletics events on Monday but Abi Oyepitan claimed silver in the women's 200metres.

Hockey heartbreak

There was disappointment for the England women's hockey team as they were dumped out at the semi-final stage by Australia.

England failed to convert their territorial dominance and eventually slipped to a 1-0 defeat at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium.

They will now have the chance to play for the bronze medal but that came as no consolation to captain Kate Walsh.

"It's just horrible knowing that we were so close again to getting to a final," she said.

"We were all over them - we definitely had the lions' share of possession, we had the most penetration, they sat off.

"We did everything right against a team that sits off, we just couldn't get the touch or the corner to finish them off."

England's only gold medal of the day came in the lawn bowls, Ellen Falkner and Amy Monkhouse combining for victory in the women's pairs.

Falkner and Monkhouse secured the win on a tie-break, where they triumphed 5-2 to defeat Malaysia's HJ Ismail Nor Hashimah and Khalid Zuraini.

Wales duo Anwen Butten and Hannah Smith won bronze, beating Australia on a tie-break.

In the corresponding men's competition, Merv King and Stuart Airey of England suffered a 1.5-0.5 defeat to South Africa pair Shaun Addinall and Gerald Baker in the final, collecting silver.

Darren Burnett and Neil Speirs were beaten to bronze by Malaysia in the third/fourth-placed match.

Boxing success

Northern Ireland boxer Paddy Barnes guaranteed at least a silver medal after seeing off Indian fighter Amandeep Singh in the semi-finals of the light-flyweight tournament.

Wales teenager Sean McGoldrick and England's Tom Stalker also booked spots in the finals of the bantamweight and lightweight divisions respectively.

England welterweight Callum Smith then continued the Home Nations' success in boxing as he also progressed to the final.

He will battle Patrick Gallagher for the gold medal after the Northern Irishman survived a frantic final minute to see off India's Dilbag Singh.

One of the Home Nations is also certain to take gold in the light-heavyweight division as Scotland's Callum Johnson and Thomas McCarthy, of Northern Ireland, set up a showdown in the final, with Welsh fighter Jermaine Asare left with a bronze after losing his semi-final against the former.

Haroon Khan, brother of light-welterweight world champion Amir, lost his flyweight semi-final but thinks his decision to switch to Pakistan after not being included in the GB elite squad has been vindicated with his bronze medal.

He said: "I think I've proved my point to the selectors. There wasn't a British boxer in my category (in the semi-finals). I would love to see (the selectors) now. I should have won that medal for England."

England's Bradley Saunders held off a late surge from Louis Colin to reach the final of the light-welterweight division and Northern Ireland's Eamonn O'Kane beat Wales' Keiran Harding to ensure at least silver at middleweight.

Steven Ward of Northern Ireland and Simon Vallily of England will face each other in the heavyweight final, while England's Anthony Agogo progressed to the middleweight final as the Home Nations are guaranteed a huge haul of medals in the boxing events.