NEW DELHI, Aug 8: India ended its Commonwealth Games campaign on a high enhancing its tally of Gold Medals by four more ending fourth on Medal Tally only behind Australia, England and Canada.
It had been a marvellous final day for the Indian contingent at the Commonwealth Games on Monday, clinching four of the five Gold Medals at stake in which India had figured in the final encounters. India also won silver in men’s hockey and a bronze in men’s table tennis.
With the final day heroics, India finished fourth in the medals tally with 22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze. In badminton, India made a clean sweep winning the men’s and women’s singles and men’s doubles while it also won Gold in men’s table tennis.
PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen clinched the women’s and men’s singles titles in badminton to give India a good start. Sindhu beat Canada’s Michelle Li in the women’s singles final while Lakshya Sen defeated Malaysia’s Tze Yong NG in three games in badminton men’s singles. The badminton men’s doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy then beat England’s Ben Lane/Sean Vendy to make it three gold medals from badminton.
In table tennis, Achanta Sharath Kamal clinched yet another gold medal from the Games as he won the men’s singles final defeating England’s Liam Pitchford. G Sathiyan won the TT men’s singles bronze medal earlier in the day. However, the men’s hockey team was trounced by Australia 0-7 in the final ending up with a silver in its bag.
(Manas Dasgupta)
