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CWG : Sushil Kumar enters 74kg wrestling finals; India 7th in medal tally

Ace Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar entered the finals in the 74kg category after defeating Nigerian wrestler Bibo 8-4 in ongoing Glasgow commonwealth games on Tuesday.Rajeev Tomar, another Indian wrestler also entered finals in the 125kg category after defeating New Zealand wrestler Marcus Carney 11-1.Indian shooters Gagan Narang and Sanjeev Rajput advanced to the finals of the men's 50m rifle 3-position final. Narang finished 2nd, while Rajput was placed 4th in the qualifying.Olympic silver medallist Vijay Kumar crashed out in the 25m rapid fire pistol shooting. The other Indian in the event, Harpreet Singh advanced to the finals.Nigerian teenage weight lifter Chika Amalaha has been provisionally suspended from the Commonwealth Games after testing positive in a doping test taken after she won gold in the women's 53kg category, the Commonwealth Games Federation announced on Tuesday. In case if the test is found positive, India's Bronze medalist Santoshi Matsa may be upgraded to silver medal and Swati Singh may get the Bronze.In the medal tally, with seven gold 12 silver and seven bronze India is on 7th place with a total of 26. With 87 medals Australia tops the tally followed by England with 74 medals.

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