India shines at 12th South Asian games with 27 Gold followed by Sri Lanka, Pakistan

Guwahati : India continued to dominate in the 12th South Asian Games (SAG) in third day with 27 Gold medals and secured top position in medal tally followed by Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

India had won 27 Gold, 12 Siver, 3 Bronze medals while Sri Lanka won 8 Gold, 17 Silver, 12 Bronze and Pakisan athletes bagged 2 Gold, 4 Siver and 7 Bronze medals.

Bangladesh secured fourth position with 2 Gold, 2 Silver, 13 Bronze while Nepal won 3 Silver, 5 Bronze and Afghanistan bagged 1 Silver, 3 Bronze medals in the 11 days long multi sporting event held in Guwahati and Shillong.

Indian wrestlers continued with their brilliant performance in the mega sporting event with 9 Gold while swimmers of the host country bagged 8 Gold and weightlifters had won 6 Gold medals.

Indian women today brought laurels for the country.

Cyclist Lidiyamol Sunny Menamparambil won the Gold medal in the Women’s 40 KM Criterium Race (Cycling) event while Manorama Devi Tongbram got the Silver medal.

In Weightlifting Indian lifters continued to reign with Sambo Lapung winning Gold in Men’s 69 Kg event and Saraswati Rout bagging the Gold medal in the Women’s 58 Kg event.

Sri Lanka continued with their brilliant performance in the Games with Gold in Cycling and Weightlifting.

On the other hand Sri Lankan swimmers had so far bagged 5 Gold, 6 Silver and 5 Bronze medals.

Sri Lankan swimmer Matthew Abeyshinge alone won four Gold medals in various swimming events.

In wushu Taolu Changquan female, Y Sapna Devi of India won the Gold while Susmita Tamang of Nepal bagged the Silver and Nazia Parvez of Pakistan won the Bronze medal.

In Man category, PLH Lakshan of Sri Lanka won Gold, Bijay Sinjali of Nepal bagged Silver and Anjul Namdeo of India won Bronze medal.

In women hockey, India had defeated Nepal by 24-0 goals.

For India, Barla and Yendala scored 4 goals each, while Rani, Kaur, Neha and Deepika scored 3 goals each.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)