Sunday, October 10, 2010

CWG: India at the second spot with 29 gold medals

Bangalore: India got 5 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 5 bronze medals, a total of 15 medals on Sunday, which made India, gain the second spot at the Common Wealth Games 2010.

The hosts raked up gold, silver and medals from wrestling, archery, shooting, athletics and tennis on another very fruitful day of competitions.

Ranchi-born teenage shooter Deepika Kumari set the tone with a gold in the women''s individual recurve at the archery range.

Fellow-archer Rahul Banerjee (men's individual recurve), Harpreet Singh (men's 25m centre fire pistol) and world freestyle wrestling champion Sushil Kumar (66kg) followed suit before Somdev Devvarman lived up to his billing as the top seed by winning the men's singles gold. The silverware provided earlier in the day by Vijay Kumar (centre fire pistol) and freestyle grapplers Anuj Kumar (84kg) and Joginder Kumar (120kg) was boosted in the evening by field athletes Vikas Gowda (men's discus) and Malliakal Prajusha (women's long jump).

The 15 medals increased the country's haul to an impressive 29-22-22.

England tallied 25-45-30 while Australia are lying far ahead in the top spot by grabbing 61 gold, 35 silver and 36 bronze. The day commenced in splendid fashion with 17-year-old Deepika Kumari stunning 2004 Athens Olympics bronze medallist Alison James Williamson 6-0, by showing amazing precision and steady nerves in windy conditions to win her second recurve gold of the Games

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