TEAM SCOTLAND'S shooters added further silverware overnight to the already impressive Commonwealth Games medal tally, with a bronze and a silver taking the count ever-closer to the pre-Games target of 30 medals.

In the Queen's Prize Fullbore Rifle pairs, Ian Shaw and Sandy Walker finished day one in fourth place. However, on day two in Gold Coast, they stepped up their performance to leapfrog into third position and grab the bronze medal.

Shaw and Walker's medal-winning exploits were closely followed by Neil Stirton's appearance in the 50m Rifle Prone final. Stirton is something of a Commonwealth Games stalwart having already won three medals in previous Games.

The 37-year-old from Aberdeen added further to his personal haul, winning silver overnight to claim his fourth Games medal and his first-ever in an individual event, with his previous trio of medals all being won in pairs events.

The athletics continued in the Carrara Stadium, with flag-bearer Eilidh Doyle putting in a solid run to make the final of the 400m hurdles. The 31-year-old has won silver medals in both the previous Commonwealth Games and looks to be in the form of her life as she bids to go one better this time around. Her competition in the final will be stiff though, with the Jamaican hurdlers looking particularly strong.

There was mixed fortunes for the Scots in the 800m, with former Diamond League winner Jake Wightman finishing second in his heat to progress but Guy Learmonth failed to secure a qualification spot and so was eliminated.

Scotland's swimmers continued to perform strongly in the pool overnight with both the men's and women's 4x100m medley relay teams progressing to the finals while the race to really watch out for will be the men's 200m individual medley, in which three Scots feature.

Duncan Scott, who has already picked up an incredible five medals at these Games, will be looking for further silverware while Dan Wallace is also a medal hope and Mark Szaranek, who earlier in the week won silver in the 400m individual medley, completes the Scots in the line-up.

Scotland's cyclists made a real mark in the velodrome but with the track cycling now finished, the action moved onto the road.

Katie Archibald, who was the star of the member of the track team, narrowly failed to add to her medal haul, finishing in fourth place in the women's individual time trial, just two seconds behind England's hayley Simmonds in the bronze medal position.

Neah Evans also put in an impressive performance, finishing in eighth place.

In the men's race, John Archibald finished in eleventh position while gold medallist from earlier in the week Mark Stewart was sixteenth.

In the netball competition, Scotland suffered an agonising defeat, losing by a single point to Malawi. The Scots were the underdogs going into the match, as they are ranked in ninth position in the world, three places behind the Malawians, who are ranked sixth.

However, the Scots fell just short, ultimately losing out 51-50 in a nail-biter of a finish.