The home country’s domination was such that in the three individual events of the day, India swept all the three medals in two while winning a gold and a bronze in the remaining one.
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Gold medallist shooter of India, Chain Singh, middle, silver medalist shooter of Bangladesh, M. Chowdhury, right, and bronze medallist shooter of India, Gagan Narang, left, during the award ceremony of the 10m Air Rifle Men’s Individual event in shooting at the 12th South Asian Games 2016 in Guwahati. A notable participant in the Sri Lankan team which won Bronze in the 50-metre rifle prone women’s team event, is Upeshika Egodawela. Sri Lanka (1686) and Pakistan (1656) won the silver and bronze respectively. Another from the Indian boxing hub of Haryana, 20-year- old Dheeraj Rangi, who had secured a silver medal at the World Military Games in South Korea last year, defeated Pakistan’s Ahmed Ali in the 60kg gold medal bout. Besides, the boxers and shooters’ good show, the Indian women’s football team also won the gold medal, defeating Nepal 4-0 in the summit clash. Olympics bronze medallist MC Mary Kom, Commonwealth Games silver medallist L Devendro Singh, world championship bronze medallist Shiva Thapa, former world champion Vikas Krishan, Manoj Kumar and Pooja Rani will all be gunning for gold in their respective weight categories.
The triathlon mixed relay team of Pallawi Retiwala, Dilip Kumar, Sorohni Devil and Dhiraj Sawant added the day’s first gold medal to take India’s gold medal count to 157. Bangladesh won Bronze after posting a score of 3398.
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He will take on W Ruwan Thilina of Sri Lanka in the gold medal fight tomorrow.
