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Indian players continue winning in Commonwealth Games with 28 Gold, 19 Silver, 22 Bronze | India players continued to bag more medals at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games here on Sunday, as Archer Rahul Banerjee and Wrestler Sushil Kumar won gold medal apiece, inspiring Discuss Thrower Vikas Gauda to win Silver medal in the evening. Wrestler Sushil
Kumar clinched 28th gold medal for the country, as he defeated South African player
Heinrich Barnes 7-0 in the 66-kilogram category of the freestyle wrestling competition
at the XIX Commonwealth Games here on Sunday. Sushil’s gold medal led Indian medal
tally reach 66 total with 28 Gold, 18 Silver and 20 Bronze medals in the kitty
. It helped India remain firmly positioned on second place in the over all medal
tally. Earlier, archer Rahul Banerjee won the 27th gold in the men's individual
recurve event by defeating Canada 's Jason Lyon. Banerjee won gold after an intense
shootout against his Canadian opponent in the final. Meanwhile, Manavjit Singh
Sandhu won bronze for India in singles trap event and Jayanta Talukdar too won
bronze in the men's individual recurve event. Earlier today, India 's Harpreet
Singh won gold in 25 metre centrefire pistol shooting, taking his individual total
to two gold. Archer Deepika Kumari too beat England 's Alison Jane to win gold
in the Women's Recurve Individual event. The Gold came after archer Dola Banerjee
of India beat Malaysia 's Anbarasi Subramaniam to win a Bronze medal in the same
event. Deepika bagged Gold by beating England 's Alison Jane Williamson. Earlier,
Dola had lost out to England 's Williamson in the semis. Manavjit Singh Sandhu
won Bronze for India in singles trap event and Jayanta Talukdar too won Bronze
in the men's individual recurve event. In the Commonwealth Games Women's cycling
competition, Australian women's team won the Gold Medal. Rochelle Gilmore of Australia
won the race in 2 hours, 49 minutes and 30 seconds beating Elizabeth Armistead
of England who in turn snatched the Silver from Gilmore's teammate Chloe Hosking
who was placed third in the morning race staged over eight laps of a 14-km course.
The bikers raced across scenic empty streets enveloped in a high-security blanket
that kept spectators away. The race conducted in a fenced off and barricaded course
had elaborate security including heli-borne teams, commando hit teams and quick
reaction teams providing athletes foolproof security. Reacting upon her today’s
success, Gilmore said, "It was a lot of pressure. There was a lot of positive
energy, yes, but pressure that was on the road team to win a Gold medal was pretty
intense to live up to expectations of the track team. There had been lot of chances
for the track team to win Gold but we had only one chance for a Gold medal. So
the pressure was really on." She, however, credited her entire team for today’s
win. On Saturday evening, till last reports arrived, India 's medal tally stood
at 69: 28 Gold, 19 Silver, 22 Bronze medals. England stood at third position in
the medal tally with 99 medals; 25 Gold, 45 Silver, and 29 Bronze medals. Australia
continued to top the medal chart with 125 medals; 57 Gold, 33 Silver, and 35 Bronze medals.
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