Gold Coast: Indian shooter Neeraj Kumar topped Stage 1 of the qualifying round in the men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event at the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG) here on Thursday.

Neeraj piled up a total of 291 points to claim the pole position ahead of England’s Sam Gowin who registered 287.

Anish, the other in Indian in the fray, scored 286 to take the third spot.