October 8, 2010 4:53 PM

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Indian archers and shooters pick 3 more gold medals

There has been no relenting in the gold rush by Indian archers and shooters in the Commonwealth games today as they were right on target to pick up 3 more golds. Ace shooters Gagan Narang and Imran Hasan Khan set on fire in the shooting range. They won gold in the Men's 50 metres rifle-3 positioning pairs creating a new games record. Gagan Narang has achieved a hat Rick 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 . Mansher Singh and Manavjeet Sandhu also won a silver medal in men's trap pair 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 semi-finals. Dola Banerjee said, it was splendid team work that succeeded for India. In Archery, the Men's recurve team also added one more medal by winning Bronze today. The team comprising of Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Roy and Jayant Talukdar defeated England 221-218India 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. In the semi-finals played a short while ago Somdev easily beat Mat Ebden of Australia. Somdev won the first set 6-3 and quickly wrapped up the second set 6-1. Exuding confidence, a victorious Somdev Devvarman said, he was happy to move into the final. As expected, Sania Mirza moved into the women's tennis singles final defeating Australia's Olivia Rogowska in 1-6, 6-4, 6-4. She was overjoyed after her victorySouth Africa held defending champion Australia to a 1-1 draw today and moved atop Pool A n the Commonwealth Games women's hockey competition. India's women's hockey team defeated Trinidad and Tobbago by seven nil. India has so far won 17 gold, 12 silver and 11 bronze medals. Australia continues to top in the medal tally. England is at third place. 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. Indian hopes prevail in Archery with the men's team in competition in the semifinals of the recurve category. 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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