India complete century of medals

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India complete century of medals

Friday, 06 December 2019 | Agencies | Kathmandu

Led by strong performances by wushu players and swimmers, India breached the 100-medal mark by winning a whopping 50 medals on the fourth day of competitions to consolidate its top position in the South Asian Games here on Thursday.

India secured its best medal haul on a single day so far in the Games to lead the medal tally with 58 Gold, 41 Silver and 19 Bronze for a total of 118 medals to leave hosts Nepal far behind in the second spot.

India added 26 Gold, 18 Silver and 6 Bronze on Thursday.

The bulk of India’s medals came from swimming, wushu, weightlifting and athletics. India’s Gold rush was triggered by wushu with as many as seven yellow metals coming from it.

Suraj Singh fetched the first wushu Gold of the day in men’s gunshu all-round event before Y Sanathoi Devi (women’s sansou 52kg), Punam (women’s 75kg), Deepika (women’s 70kg), Sushila (women’s 65kg), Roshibina Devi (women’s 60kg) and Sunil Singh (men’s 52kg) also clinched top spots in their respective events.

Swimming accounted for the most medals for India on Thursday with 11, of which four were Gold, six Silver and one Bronze.

Taekwondo players’ impressive show also continued as they gave India six medals  — 3 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze.

Track and field athletes had a relatively quieter day after leading from the front in the past two days as they pocketed six medals, including one Gold, on Thursday.

Triple jumper Karthik Unnikrishnan was the lone Gold winner in athletics as he cleared a distance of 16.47m while compatriot Mohammed Salahuddin jumped 16.16m to win the Silver.

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