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Commonwealth Games: On penultimate day, India
closing in on 100 medals
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 09:29:33 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Boxers and paddlers picked up four gold between them in a late
evening suge at the Commonwealth Games here Wednesday to take
India's gold tally to 36 and the overall medal count to 95 as the
hosts and England were locked in a neck-and-neck race for the
second spot in the medal table on the Games penultimate day.
At 2100 IST, India were at the second spot thanks to Paramjit
Samota's gold in the 91+ kg category.
Two other boxers won gold, with Manoj Kumar defeating Bradley
Saunders of England 11-2 in the 64 kg category and Suranjoy
Mayengbam Singh taking one in the 52-kg category after his Kenyan
opponent Benson Njangiru gave him a walkover.
The Indian table tennis pair of Sharath Kamal and Shubhajit Saha
bagged the men's doubles gold beating Singaporeans Gao Ning and
Yang Zi 3-2 in a nerve-wracking final.
With the doubles win, Sharath more than made up for his singles
loss to Yang earlier in the day. The Indian pair beat the
Singaporeans 9-11, 12-10, 11-4, 5-11, 11-8 in the summit clash.
India is in the running for three more gold Thursday ahead of the
closing ceremony in the evening - one from Saina Nehwal and the
women's doubles team in badminton and another from men's hockey,
though the Indians will be taking on world champions Australia.
As at 2100 IST, besides 36 gold, India has so far won 26 silver
and 33 bronze medals for a total of 95, its highest in the Games
that began 80 years ago as British empire games and became the
Commonwealth Games in 1978.
England have 35 gold and their oveall count is 136 with 56 silver
and 45 bronze. Australia lead the table with 71 gold, 48 silver
and 46 bronze for a total of 165 medals.
There was also some bad news on the athletics front where Rani
Yadav failed the dope test after the 20 km walk.
Rani tested positive for banned anabolic agent 19-Norandrosterone,
the Commonwealth Games Federation said. The 20-year-old, who
finished sixth in the competition Saturday, has provisionally been
suspended pending a hearing.
This is the third positive test of the Games, Nigerian sprinter
and women's 100m champion Oludamola Osayomi, and her team-mate,
the 110m hurdler Samuel Okon, being the other two. Both tested
positive for using the banned stimulant Methylexaneamine.
Osayomi has been stripped of her gold medal, and all her results
in the Games nullified.
Though the shooters did not win a gold Wednesday, their medal
tally of 30 surpassed their Melbourne Games count of 27. However,
they won 14 gold in Delhi while they had got 16 in Melbourne four
years ago.
Pistol shooter Heena Sidhu missed the gold by 0.3 points and
Samresh Jung settled for the bronze while Gagan Narang failed to
qualify for the final of the 50 metre rifle prone individual
event. Narang, however, emerged as the best shooter with four
golds.
In the men's 25 metre standard pistol, Samresh won the bronze with
a score of 559 while the gold went to Singapore's Bin Gai, who
shot a total of 570. Trinidad and Tobago's Daniel Peter Rogers got
the silver with a score of 563.
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