Total 15 medals were won by India today out of which five were Gold Medals. The second slot in total medal tally list lost yesterday by India to England was regained back with this large haul of medals today.
Yesterday by the end of the day England and India were both with 24 gold medals. But India lost second place in medals tally to England as the total number of medals including silver and bronze count was higher in England’s case. With addition of five more gold medals today India’s total tally of gold medals reaches to 29 on closing of day 7.
With a full strength of 17,000 match viewers in the stadium, the hockey pool decider match between India and Pakistan was witnessed by huge number of people across the borders.
The winner of the today’s hockey match was to go for semifinal whereas the loser is out of the game here onwards. India beat Pakistan 7-4 in the decider with much comfort and all the time remained in attacking mode. Whereas most of the time Pakistan was in defensive mode.
Reason could be that most of the Pakistan’s players were fresh with least experience whereas India team comprised of quite a good experienced players.
Today’s gold medal winners for India included Teen girl archer Deepika Kumari, Archer Rahul Banerjee both in individual recurve event in their respective sections.
Two bronze medals in archery came through Dola Banerjee and Jayanta Talukdar in Women and Men individual recurve event respectively.
Wrestler, World Champion, and Olympics medalist Sushil Kumar and Boxer Vijender Singh each bagged a gold medal for the country.
Shooter Harpreet Singh and Tennis Player Somdev Devvarman also got gold medal today. Now India is just one short in gold tally recorded in the Commonwealth Games held in Manchester in 2002.
Athletics was the area where India gained two silver medals today unexpectedly for the first time. In Athletics, the total medals tally now reaches to four.
The two silver medals came through Vikas Gowda in Men’s Discus and Malliakal Prajusha in women’s long jump.
The final tally for India at the end of day 7 is 29 gold, 22 silver and 22 bronze. England, with 26 gold, 45 silver and 30 bronze medals is at number three now.
Australia is topping the list with an unbeatable tally of 61 gold, 36 silver and 37 bronze.
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