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India at CWG 2018, Day 7: Shooters add more to medal tally, Indians cruise ahead in badminton, boxing

It was a good day for India in shooting, badminton, boxing, squash and hockey.

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India's Shreyasi Singh celebrates during the medal ceremony for the womens double trap during the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
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Indian shooters continued their medal rush at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Wednesday, as Shreyasi Singh won the gold while Om Prakash Mitharval and Ankur Mittal settled for the bronze in their events. India improved their medal tally to 24 medals including 12 gold, 4 silver and 8 bronze medals. 

Apart from shooting, it was a good day in badminton, boxing, squash and hockey for India. 

Shreyasi Singh held her nerve and capitalised on her opponent's lapses to win the women's double trap gold medal in the 21st Commonwealth Games on Wednesday. Shreyasi shot 96 in the finals and beat Australia's Emma Cox 2 shots to 1 in the shoot-off at Belmont Shooting Centre.

The other Indian contender in the field, Varsha Varman finished fourth with 86.

The 26-year-old Shreyasi, thus, improved on her silver medal-winning effort at the Glasgow Games four years ago.

Om Prakash Mitharval settled for the bronze medal in the men's 50m pistol event. Mitharwal, who also picked up the bronze in the men's 10m air pistol final, registered a score of 201.1 to finish at the third spot of the men's 50m pistol event.

Defending champion Jitu Rai, the other Indian in the fray, failed to add to his gold that he had won in men's 10m air pistol event as he posted a decidedly below score of 105, to finish at the bottom of the eight-man final.

Ankur Mittal added to the Indian shooting contingent's medal rush by winning a bronze in the men's double trap event of the 21st Commonwealth Games. Mittal finished third on the podium after scoring 53 in the finals at the Belmont Shooting Centre.

Mohammed Asab, the other Indian shooter in the six-man finals, finished in the fourth position, a climbdown from the bronze medal he won in Glasgow four years ago.

Boxing

MC Mary Kom defeated veteran Sri Lankan Anusha Dilruksh in an unanimous 5-0 verdict to book her place in the the final of the women's 48 kilogram category. Five-time world champion and Olympic bronze-medallist Mary Kom defeated a defensive Anusha Dilrukshi Koddithuwakku of Sri Lanka 5-0 to make the summit clash in her debut appearance at the Games.

Among the men, debutant Gaurav Solanki (52kg), world bronze-medallist Vikas Krishan (75kg) and Manish Kaushik (60 kg) made the semifinals to be assured of medals.

Meanwhile, Indian experienced boxer Sarita Devi slumped to a 0-5 loss to Australia's Anja Stridsman in the quarter-finals of the women's 60kg category.

Table Tennis

In table tennis, the Indian team of Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shankar Shetty thrashed Guyana's Shemar Britton and Christopher Franklin 11-6, 11-5, 11-7 in men's doubles round-of-32.

Maitreyee Sarkar continued India's dominance in Table Tennis by defeating Papua New Gineua's Vero Nime 11-2, 11-9, 11-2 to reach the next round in single's competition.

India's top paddlers, including the duo of Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, comfortably progressed to the round of 16 doubles table tennis competition.

Squash

Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa defeated the Welsh team of Evans and Saffery 2-1 in the women's squad doubles Pool C match. 

Badminton

Fit-again top seed P V Sindhu led the charge as Indian shuttlers made short work of their respective rivals to enter pre-quarterfinals of the singles competition in the Commonwealth Games here today. Sindhu, who sat out of the gold-winning team campaign because of an ankle injury, took just 18 minutes to oust Fiji's Andra Whiteside 21-6 21-3 in her first match of the competition.

Second seed Saina Nehwal, despite being exhausted considerably due to playing the entire team event, also took a mere 18 minutes to dispatch Elsie de Villiers of South Africa 21-3 21-1 in the round of 32 at the Carrara Sport and Leisure Centre.

Ruthivika Gadde too ensured that she wrapped up her match 18 minutes, sending Ghana's Grace Atipaka out of the competition with a 21-5 21-7 triumph.

In the men's draw, K Srikanth was also quite clinical as he got past Mauritian Aatish Lubah 21-13, 21-10.

Pranav Jerry Chopra and N. Sikki Reddy beat Burty Molia  and Karyn Gibson of Fiji in their mixed doubles round of 32.

Athletics

Nayana James and Neena Varakil made it to the finals of the women's long jump event after finishing ninth and 12th respectively overall in the qualification round in the Commonwealth Games. Nayana cleared 6.34m in her second attempt to finish fourth in Group B while Neena had a best effort of 6.24 to end at sixth in Group A.

The final will be held on Thursday. 

India's Hima Das finished 6th in the women's 400m final, clocks her personal best time of 51.32 seconds.

India's Tejaswin Shankar finishes 6th in Men's High Jump Final with the best attempt of 2.224 meters. Shankar bows out at 2.27m/7-05.25 after three missed attempts, and will finish sixth overall with a jump of 2.24m/7-04.25 in his first Commonwealth Games. 

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