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The action will hot up on fifth day of the XIXth Commonwealth Games as a total of 43 gold medals will be up for grabs in various disciplines. India's star on day fourth with two gold medals Gurpreet Singh has a chance to increase his tally to four, as he will compete in the 10m Air Pistol Men singles and 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol Men events. He can expect tough competition from compatriots and gold medal winners Vijay Kumar and Omkar Singh. The women's archery team in the recurve competition will battle to make it to the finals and win more medals for the hosts as the compound team did on Thursday. Swimming has 10 medals at stake. In boxing too, Olympic bronze medallist Vijender Singh will be in action along with Jai Bhagwan as they will try and maintain the Indian pugilists' perfect start to the competition. The Indian women's hockey team will take on minnows Trinidad and Tobago while squash will see the likes of Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa. Gold medals at stake on fifth day: Swimming (11) Archery (2) Athletics (8) Badminton (1) Cycling (3) Gymnastics (5) Shooting (5) Squash (2) Table-tennis (1), Weightlifting (2), Wrestling (3). Following is Friday's complete schedule of Indian participation: Swimming: 50m Freestyle Men: Aaron Agnel Dsouza, Arjun Jayaprakash, Virdhawal Vikram Khade, Anshul Kothari. 200m Backstroke Women: Arti Bajarang Ghorpade, Ananya Panigrahi. 1500m Freestyle Men: Mandar Anandrao Divase, Ullalmath Adaveeshaiah Pu Gagan. 400m Freestyle Women: Surabhi Tipre. 200m Individual Medley Men: Agnishwar Jayaprakash, Rehan Jahangir Poncha. 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Women: Pooja Raghava Alva, Shubha Chittaranjan, Ghorpade Arti Bajarang, Talasha Satish Prabhu, Sneha Thirugnanasambandam, Surabhi Tipre Archery: Recurve Team Women Semifinals: Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumari, Bombayala Devi Laishram Athletics: Decathlon 110m Hurdles: JOSEPH Vinod Pulimoottil, Bharat Inder Singh 110m Hurdles Men: Muthuswamy Pandi, Siddhanth Thingalaya 800m Men: Manjit,Pankaj Dimri,Francis Sagayaraj Pathi Boxing: Light Weight (60kg) Men: Jai Bhagwan Welter Weight (69 kg) Men: Dilbag Singh Middle Weight (75kg) Men: Vijender Singh Super Heavy Weight (+91 kg): Paramjeet Samota Cycling: 3000m Individual Pursuit Women: Ch. Rameshwori Devi, Mahitha Mohan, P.O. Sayona Team Sprint Men: Rajesh Chandrashekhar, Amrit Singh, Bikram Singh Hockey: Women Group A: Trinidad and Tobago vs India Lawn bowls: Triples Men:India vs Scotland, India vs Canada Pairs Women: India vs Canada, India vs New Zealand Triples Women: Namibia vs India, India vs New Zealand Pairs Men: Jersey vs India, England vs India Squash: Men's Singles: Saurav Ghosal, Sandeep Jangra, Harinder Pal Sandhu, Siddharth Suchde Women's Singles: Anaka Alankamony, Joshna Chinappa, Surbhi Misra, Dipika Pallikal,Anwesha Reddy Shooting: Singles 10m Air Pistol Men: Gurpreet Singh, Omkar Singh 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol Men: Vijay Kumar, Gurpreet Singh.

CWG: 43 gold medals at stake, all eyes upon Indian shooters