Indian shooters won two more gold medals and an unexpected bronze came from the 20 km walk at the Commonwealth Games here on Saturday but there was heartbreak as tennis star Sania Mirza could manage only a silver in the singles event on the sixth day of competition.
Indian shooters won two more gold medals and an unexpected bronze came from the 20 km walk at the Commonwealth Games here on Saturday but there was heartbreak as tennis star Sania Mirza could manage only a silver in the singles event on the sixth day of competition.
Wrestlers Yogeshwar Dutt and Narsingh Yadav also won gold medals. Shooter Gagan Narang picked up his fourth gold ufffd the most that anyone has got so far at the Games ufffdby winning the men's 50-metre rifle 3 position event, while Harpreet Singh and Vijay Kumar topped in the men's 25-metre centre fire pistol pairs event, taking India's gold tally to 24, of which a good dozen have come from the sharpshooters.
India thus surpassed their gold tally of the last CWG in Melbourne (2006) where they garnered 22 gold medals.
Later in the evening, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi beat fellow Indians Somdev Devvarman/Rohan Bopanna 6-3, 7-6 for a bronze in the doubles event.
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