Fellow wrestlers Pooja Sihag and Pooja Gehlot won bronze medals in their respective weight categories, while in Lawn Bowls, the men’s fours, who emulated their women’s counterparts by reaching the final, were content with silver medals as they lost to Northern Ireland. Had gone. peak struggle.
In the absence of shooting and archery, the Indian medal race is on a slow but steady pace and some unexpected performances in table tennis and badminton saw the wrestlers win three more gold medals than they won on Friday. India is now fifth in the table behind Australia, England, Canada and New Zealand.
Boxer Jasmine lost in the semifinals and had to be content with a bronze medal in the women’s lightweight (over 57kg–60kg), as did Mohamed Hasamuddin in the men’s featherweight (over 54kg–57kg) by Ghana’s Joseph Comey. was defeated by 1-4. Points in the semi-finals. Three boxers, world champions Nikhat Zareen, Neetu and Amit Panghal, made it to the finals and will be hoping to add more gold to the Indian tally.
Five medals in wrestling, two in athletics, two in boxing and one medal in lawn ball raised India’s tally to 36 – 12 gold, 11 silver and 13 bronze with many more sets to be added over the next two days.
The day belonged to wrestlers especially Ravi Dahiya, Vinesh and Naveen who won three gold medals on Saturday.
Three-time Asian champion and World Championship bronze medalist Dahiya defeated his Nigerian rival Welson Abikevenimo 10-0 in the men’s freestyle 57kg final. He started cautiously but came into his own after the referee warned him to be too defensive. He sealed the victory with eight points in the next two minutes.
Vinesh Phogat was also impressive in her win. The veteran wrestler completed a hat-trick of gold medal at the Commonwealth Games by defeating Sri Lanka’s Chamodya Keshani Maduravalge Don in the women’s 53kg final.
Earlier, Priyanka Goswami and Avinash Sable started the day for India with two unexpected silver medals. Priyanka became the first Indian woman race walker to win a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games when she finished second to her Australian rival in the women’s 10km walk.
Sable was even more formidable after beating the Kenyan hegemony in the men’s 3000m steeplechase, becoming the first non-Kenyan to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games since 1994. He finished the race between two Kenyans in 8:11.15.
Indian lawn bowlers continued to make history as the men’s fours added a silver to the historic gold medal won by the women’s fours a few days back. The quartet of Chandan Kumar Singh, Dinesh Kumar, Navneet Singh and Sunil Bahadur put up a good fight but lost 5-18 to Northern Ireland at the Royal Leamington Spa.
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