2010 Delhi CWG: India aiming to bag maximum medals at the event
With 29 gold medals already in the bag, India is just one medal away from levelling its ever best record at Commonwealth Games. For India, so far, 30 has been the highest number of gold medals which its athletes bagged during the Commonwealth games held
in 2002 in Manchester. The Delhi Commonwealth Games has brought a chance for India to improve its medals record and in this regard; today can prove to be a historical day for the local spectators.
With India looking forward to improve its past record, the performance of its athletes has raised high hopes among the domestic spectators to expect any wonder from them. It seems that the dreams of Indian side with outdoing in most of the discipline of
the games held at their home grounds is about to come true. As there are still three days to go before the Games end, India has great chance to set its highest ever on the medal table.
As the competition for day seven began, India seemed jumping at the high notes as Archer Deepika Kumari grabbed a gold medal in the single event of the recurve category. During the competition, she out performed her close competitor Dola Banerjee who ended
up getting a bronze.
Harpreet Singh was the next to bag another gold medal for home side in the shooting range competition, which he won while competing in the 25 meters centre fire pistol shooting. The marvellous player ended up with two individual gold medals in the game.
Harpreet’s medal was 26th gold medal for the Indian side. As the day moved forward, Rahul Banerhee won 27th gold medal for the home land. Rahul was competing in men’s individual recurve. He made it to the gold medal after a sudden death
shootout.
The 28th gold medal won by Sushil Kumar in 66-kilogram men’s wrestling was quite certain for the Indian side. Ending in winning the gold with rather an ease, Sushil looked completely confident and in control before and during the competition.
He won his gold medal after defeating Heinrich Barnes of South Africa.
RK Khanna stadium proved to be the historical and fortunate place for the day, as India made it to its first gold in tennis, pushing India to an even better position at medal table with 29 golds. The 29th gold medal for the local field was attained
by Somdev Devvarman who beat Greg Jones from Australia with 6-4 and 6-2. Somedev, after pocketing the first set in a tennis single break, took the total control of the play culminating in outdoing the rival in five games in a row.
The day ended with Sandeep Singh and Shivendra Singha winning a double each as India defeated its bitter rival in a must win pool A match, making its place to the semi final of the men’s hockey event in the Delhi Commonwealth Games. Though throughout the
event the Indian hockey team looked shattered and under pressure, it managed to deliver when it mattered the most for the home side.
As the seventh day of the event ended, Australia was still dominating the medal table with an unmatchable 61 golds while a grand total of 137 medals. With 29 gold medals in the bag, India has managed to retain second position on the table. Indian side is
likely to break its previous record of 30 golds as the games would proceed on October 11.
The situation at medals table is rather getting interesting as England is competing India for the second position. It is worth mentioning over here that with 26 gold and 104 medals altogether already to its name, England is not far behind India. If England
side succeeds in bagging a few quick gold medals today, it can easily outdo its local competitors on the medal table. However, the announcement of financial support for the Indian gold medal winners by organizing committee has also boosted the morale of the
local players. We can conclude that no matter which country makes it to the second position on the medal table; we are definitely going to have some interesting competitions on rest of the days of the games.
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