Yet another medal-laden day for India

The swimmers picked up as many as 7 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze while the wrestlers clinched all the four yellow metals on offer on Sunday to help India add 38 medals (22 gold, 10 silver, 6 bronze) on Day 7. India’s total medal count stands at 252 (132 gold, 79 silver, 41 bronze), leaving behind host Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Nepal has won 165 medals (45 gold, 44 silver, 76 bronze) while Sri Lanka has collected 197 (36 gold, 68 silver, 93 bronze). Handball players added one gold and one silver by winning the women’s event while finishing runner-up in the men’s final. In fencing also, India picked up all the three gold on offer by finishing on top of the podium in the team events of men’s epee, men’s sabre and women’s foil.

It was a gold rush for Indians in the swimming pool with Kushagra Rawat picking the first top prize of the day in men’s 400m freestyle event with a timing of 3:49.76. Supriya Mondal then added another gold in men’s 200m butterfly, clocking 2:02.45.

Indians won both the 50m backstroke men and women’s events through Srihari Natraj (24.78) and Mana Patel (28.94) while the 4x200m freestyle relay men and women’s teams also picked up yellow metals. The seventh swimming gold of the day for India was collected by Apeksha Fernandes in women’s 200m butterfly with a timing of 2:21.83.

In wrestling, Indians continued their complete domination by clinching four gold medals with Sakshi Malik leading the charge. While Sakshi was unstoppable on her way to the top podium finish in the 62kg category, Ravinder clinched gold in the men’s freestyle 61kg. Pawan Kumar (men’s freestyle 86kg) and Anshu (women’s 59kg) also won a gold each in their respective categories.

In boxing, seven Indians entered the finals with Vikas Krishan (men’s 69kg) and Pinki Rani (women’s 51kg) leading the charge.