India bags 12 gold as weightlifting event ends

The Indian women’s hockey team opened their account by beating Nepal 24-0.

On the first day on Saturday, India had won two gold and two silver while they won a gold, a silver and a bronze yesterday.

In the Long Jump Indian Women captured gold and silver medal. In table tennis, Indian men’s and women’s teams bagged gold. Pakistan and Sri Lanka won the silver and bronze respectively.

This is his third gold medal in a singles event at the 12th South Asian Games.At the end of day three of the South Asian Games, Sri Lanka was placed second with eight Gold medals, behind India with 28 Gold medals.

India’s M. Punshiva Meitei clinched a gold medal in wushu in the men’s taolu competition (Nanquan & Nangun).

The womens team comprising Deepika Kumari, Bombayla Devi and Laxmirani Majhi defeated the Sri Lankan trio Dilhara Salgado, Anuradha Karunaratne and Suchini Ubeysiri, without losing a set by 6-0.

India’s mixed pair of Rai and Deepika added a second gold to their kitty with a 6-0 cakewalk against the Bangladeshi duo of Sojeb Shiek and Beauty Ray.

The athletes of hosts India however had been the dominating force with 14 gold medals, with cyclist Bidyaluxmi Tourangbam winning the first gold in 30km individual time trial.

Recurve Mixed Team Bhutanese player Karma and Jigme Norbu won Bronze.

Indian swimmers swept seven gold medals, followed by the track-and-field athletes and archers, with five each. Sri Lanka’s Himasha Eshan is the favourite after his season’s best effort of 10.36 seconds in a domestic event.

After a near flawless round in the team event where he shot 15 ideal 10s out of a possible 16, Verma lost to compatriot Rajat Chauhan by two points in the individual final as both of them returned with two gold medals each.

Rio Olympics bound shot-putter Manpreet Kaur stole the limelight as Indians pocketed five gold medals on the opening day of the event.

Later on Lakmal Jayasuriya won a silver medal in the Men’s 56kg Weightlifting event lifting a total weight of 239kgs – 111kgs in snatch and 128kgs in clean and jerk.

Mohd. Mahfizur Rahman of Bangladesh was third in 17:12.0. In men’s +105 kg category, Gurdeep Singh finished in second place with a total lift of 345 kg.

Medal tally in women section rose to 6 gold medals and 6 gold medals in men section in weightlifting.

The 2016 South Asian Games is underway in Guwahati and Shillong.

The second half was a similar story. The Nepal defence looked clueless in front of the attacking display by the Indian Eves as they went on to score 13 more goals.

“As per the advice from the coach, I just tried to put up my natural performance that helped me beat the Sri Lankan and Nepalese counterparts to reach the final”, said Rina, who joined Bangladesh Army in 2014 after winning a gold medal in the 2013 Bangladesh Games.

Three cheers to our sports stars for making us proud.

Sushila Panwar secured the lone gold medal for India today in women’s +75 kg category as she lifted a total of 198kg. However, after two days of domination in the pool, India shared the spoils with Sri Lanka in the swimming competition. “The squad showcased attacking football in our first match against the Maldives and we have worked on converting our chances in the training sessions for a better result against Sri Lanka”, Dar said in a release on Monday.