October 11, 2010 12:27 PM

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Indian shooters bag one more medal

On the eighth Day of the Commonwealth Games, the only medal so far for India came in shooting, as Tejaswini Sawant and Meena Kumari won bronze in women's 50 meter Rifle Prone pairs event with 1168 points. Scotland won gold while England earned the Silver. Both Scotland and England were at 1169 points but Scotish duo clinched the top spot hitting the Bull's eye. In skeet pairs. Mairaj Ahmad Khan and P Allan Danials will try to add another medal to India's already rich shooting medal haul. In Badminton Women's Singles, India's Saina Nehwal and Aditi Mutatkar advanced to last 8. Saina beat Northern Ireland's Caroline Black 21-0, 21-2 while Aditi defeated Scotland's Kirsti Glamour 21-11, 21-17. But India's S Thomas and Aparna Balan lost in the mixed Doubles category.India also lost its Rugby sevens match against Wales by 7-53. Yesterday, India regained the second spot from England on the medals tally with an impressive haul of five gold, five Silver and five Bronze medals. With one more bronze today India's overall medal tally has gone up to to 29 Gold, 22 Silver and 23 Bronze, just one gold short of its best performance at the 2002 Manchester Games. Australia are heading the medal table with a total haul of 61 gold, 39 silver and 37 Bronze. 13 more gold medals are to be decided today. Athletics will offer the highest number of medals today with 7 golds while Aquatics Diving, Lawn Bowls will each account for 2 golds. One gold will be at stake in the weightlifting event, while Shooting will offer one more. In Athletics, Krishna Poonia, Harwant Kaur and Seema Antil are competing in Women’s Discus Throw event. In 800 meters women's race, Home hopes wrest with Tintu Luka who delighted the crowd by leading all the way to win her semi-final. In weightlifting, only one gold will be decided today, in men's 105 plus Kilogram weight category and Sarabjit will carry the Indian hopes in this event. 20 bronze medals will be decided in Boxing while in Badminton quarter final and elimination matches will be played in Singles, doubles and Mixed doubles in both men and women categories. Indian players will also be seen in action in Table-tennis and Squash. In Hockey final classification matches will be played in women's category and Indian team will face Canada to decide the fifth-sixth position.

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