India wins 21 golds at SAG

India’s medal tally on the penultimate day of the South Asian games stands at 88 gold, 53 silver and 29 bronze medals taking the country’s total medal haul to 170.

Indian Boxers Amandeep, Suranjoy Singh and Chote Lal won golds in Light fly weight , Fly weight and Feather weight categories.

In 50 M Breaststroke Arjun Jayaprakash won the gold with a new meet record. Shubha Chittaranjan won her second gold in the 50M Freestyle and Sneha Thirugnanasambandam won the silver. The Indian men and women’s team also won the gold in 4x 100 metre medley.

The Indian womens football team also won the gold defeating Nepal 3-1 in the final. In taekwondo, India won one gold, one silver and two bronze in addition to three bronze in Karate.

Reshmi Bose and Prajusha could only manage a silver and bronze in women’s long jump.

Sunil Kumar and Mohammed Yunus won a gold and silver in the men’s 5000 metre race.

Both the men and women’s team won the gold in the 4x400 metre relay.

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India leads medal tally at South Asian Games on Day four

India's brilliant run at the 11th South Asian Games continued on Day four of the competition in Dhaka, as the table leaders won six more gold medals, with some dominant performances in Judo, Badminton and Cycling.

India had a tally of 11 gold, 1 silver and 5 bronze at the end of Day Four.

India on Monday began fourth day in the 11th South Asian Games with their third gold when Mahita Mohan topped the women's 50km road race mass start.

The Silver went to Sri lanka’s Lasanthi Krishna and the bronze to Rameswari Devi of India.

With this win India’s medal tally in the games has gone up to 7 with five gold and two bronze.

For Mahita, this was her second gold as she had earlier clinched a team title in the women's 30km time trial event.

Mahita clocked 1 hour 25 minutes 42 seconds to finish first ahead of Lasanthi Krishna Goonathilaka of Sri Lanka.

For the Indian cyclists, this was third gold in as many consecutive days.

The men's team on Sunday won the 80km time trial.

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