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India set for record gold haul, thrash Pakistan in hockey
Sunday, October 10, 2010 09:59:56 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: India
scored an emphatic win over arch-rivals Pakistan in men's hockey
for a semifinal berth as archers, wrestlers, shooters and a tennis
star Sunday bagged five golds between them to take the count to 29
and set the country on course for its biggest gold haul in the
Commonwealth Games.
In a fast paced match at the overflowing Major Dhyan Chand
Stadium, India dominated Pakistan almost from the go, hammering
the first goal within minutes and going for the break at 4-2. On
resumption the Indian men did not let Pakistan gain the upper hand
and scored at regular intervals to keep the pressure and win 7-4
for a
semifinal clash with England.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and party general
secretary Rahul Gandhi were among the thousands of spectators
cheering India to go for the win, raising hopes of a medal in
hockey too at the Delhi Commonwealth Games.
Two archery gold and one each from the shooting range, wrestling
arena and tennis stadium took the tally to 29, just one short of
the record 30 gold bagged at Manchester Games eight years ago.
India's medal count at 2100 IST stood at 29 gold, 22 silver and 22
bronze for a total of 73. Australia led the table with 60 gold, 36
silver and 35 bronze. England came third with 25-45-30.
Deepika Kumari, the 16-year-old archery sensation, set off
Sunday's gold haul by winning in the individual recurve. The
daughter of an auto-rickshaw driver in Ranchi, she became India's
first individual gold winner from archery in the Games. She beat
Athens Olympics bronze medallist Alison Jane Williamson of England
6-0.
Rahul Banerjee also won a gold in individual recurve event while
Jayanta Talukdar and veteran Dola Banerjee and got a bronze each.
With four medals coming their way Sunday, India ended their
campaign in archery with a rich haul of eight medals -- three
gold, one silver and four bronze.
Rising tennis star Somdev Devvarman rounded off the day bagging
the gold in the men's single's.
There was no let up in the shooters good showing with Harpreet
Singh taking the gold in the men's 25 metres centre fire pistol
event while the silver went to Vijay Kumar after a dramatic
four-way shoot-off and former world champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu
trapped the bronze.
The fourth gold of the day came from Olympics bonze medallist
wrestler Sushil Kumar in the freestyle 66 kg category.
Joginder Kumar and Anuj Kumar won the silver in the freestyle
120kg ande 84kg category respectively. Anil Kumar won the bronze
in the 55 kg category.
It was an all Indian affair in the women's tennis doubles for the
bronze that saw Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthi beating
Nirupama Sanjeev and Poojashree Venkatesha.
Vikas Gowda won the silver in the men's discus with his season's
best throw of 63.69m.
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