Australia has established an unassailable lead in the Commonwealth Games medal tally winning 44 gold medals. India continues to be at the second position with 20 golds. The hosts added 6 more gold on Friday in Shooting, Wrestling and Archery. 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 has performed the feat of achieving a hatrick by bagging three golds in the on-going Games. Vijay Kumar won gold for India in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol shooting with a new Games record. Omkar Singh won a gold in 10 meter air pistol 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 have created history for India, as their's is the first hold gold medal in Archery which has been included in the games after a gap of 28 years. The Indian trio defeated England 207-206. Earlier, they had dumped Malaysia in the semifinals. In Wrestling, India have continued with their outstanding performance. The women grapplers bagged 2 gold and a silver medal today in freestyle wrestling. Anita won a gold in 67 kg category by defeating Canada's Buydens. Alka Tomar brought laurels for the country in 59kg category by beating Canada's Tonya Verbeek who had won the gold in the previous games. Babita Kumari also clinched a silver medal in the 51kg category. 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 on Friday. The team comprising of Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Roy and Jayant Talukdar defeated England 221-218.In Tennis, India's Somdev Devvarman has entered the Men's Singles final. Somdev easily beat Mat Ebden of Australia. The Indian 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 three sets 1-6, 6-4, 6-4. In the Men's doubles semifinal event, Indian duo of Somdev Devvarman and Rohan Bopanna lost to England's R.D. Hutchins and Skupsi 6-3, 3-6, 4-6. The famed duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi also made their exit in the Men's Doubles. The pair lost in straight sets 2-6, 2-6 to their Australian rivals. In women hockey, India defeated Trinidad and Tobbago by 7-nil. South Africa held defending champion Australia to a 1-1 draw on Friday and moved to the top of Pool A. Ashish Kumar added to India's kitty Silver. He won the medal in artistic gymnastics.In the Women's ten thousand meters race, India got the bronze when Kavita Rout finished third.
News On AIR | October 8, 2010 10:21 PM
Indian archers, shooters, wrestlers shine on 5th day