October 8, 2010 5:27 PM

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Australia leads medal tally, India remains on 2nd position

Australia have taken a massive lead in the commonwealth Games with 37 golds in their kitty so far. India continues in second position with 17 gold, 12 Silver and 11 bronze. England is third.Indian archers and shooters were bang on target picking up 3 more golds today on the fifth day. Ace shooters Gagan Narang and Imran Hasan Khan won gold in the Men's 50 metres rifle-3 positioning pairs creating a new games record. Gagan Narang achieved a hatrick bagging three golds in the 2010 games. Gagan had earlier won two golds in the 10 metre air-rifle pairs and individual events. Vijay Kumar won gold for India in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol shooting with a Games record. Gurpreet Singh bagged the Bronze in the same event.The first gold of the day for India was bagged by women Archers Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumari and Bombayala Devi in the recurve team category. The Women Archers created history for India as they won the first medal in Archery that was included in the games after a gap of 28 years. The Indian trio defeated England 207-206, they had earlier dumped Malaysia in the semifinals. Mansher Singh and Manavjeet Sandhu won a silver medal for the country in the men's trap pair shooting. In Archery, the Men's recurve team won Bronze today. The team comprising of Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Roy and Jayant Talukdar defeated England 221-218 India hopes for more medals in Wrestling, as three indian women have entered the finals of free style wrestling. India's women grapplers Anita in the 69 kg category, Alka Tomar in 59 Kg and Babita Kumari in 51 kg will wrestle for gold today. In Tennis, India's Somdev Devvarman has entered the Men's Singles final. Somdev easily beat Mat Ebden of Australia. Somdev won the first set 6-3 and quickly wrapped up the second set 6-1. In women's singles Sania Mirza moved into the final defeating Australia's Olivia Rogowska in 1-6, 6-4, 6-4. In women hockey, India defeated Trinidad and Tobbago by 7-nil. South Africa held defending champion Australia to a 1-1 draw today and moved atop Pool A. India's Chandrakant Mali will be hunting for gold in men's 85 kilogram category in weightlifting. In Shooting, the Pairs trap of Women will see the duo of Shreyasi Singh and Seema Tomar in action. In Boxing, Vijender Singh in 75 kg category and Paramjit Samota in 91 kg category are competing today. The first medals of Badminton and Table-Tennis events will also be decided today. India also has one assured medal in badminton as Indian team contests Malaysia in the mixed team event final.

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