Day 10: India add eight gold medals to the kitty, courtesy MC Mary Kom, Gaurav Solanki, Sanjeev Rajput, Neeraj Chopra, Sumit Malik, Vinesh Phogat, Manika Batra and Vikas Krishan. All these players take the gold medal count to 25. Boxers Manish Kaushik and Amit Phangal bag silver too. Now India’s medal tally has swelled to 59.
The Indian hockey teams, men’s and women’s, had an ordinary show in their bronze medal matches against England. The men lost 1-2, and the women lost 0-6. While Manika Batra sealed a place in final of women’s singles table tennis defeating world no 4 Tianwei Peng. In badminton, Kidambi Srikanth, Saina Nehwal have made it to the finals. The doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy won the bronze medal match against Australian pair 21-19, 21-19.
