(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Venkat Rahul Ragala and veteran Sathish Kumar Sivalingam extended India's gold medal-hunting run in the weightlifting competitions, while the table tennis teams and the badminton mixed team advanced to the semi-finals at the Commonwealth Games yesterday.
A gold each from Venkat Rahul (85kg) and defending champion Sathish (77kg) lifted India to the fourth spot in the points table with a total of six medals (four gold, one silver and one bronze) all of them coming from the weightlifters in the first three days of the CWG here.
Also, India has got four gold medals in weightlifting competitions in an edition of the CWG for the first time.
Defending champion Sathish, from Tamil Nadu, registered a total of 317kg which included 144kg in snatch and 173kg in clean and jerk.
Venkat Rahul, the 21-year-old from Andhra Pradesh, lifted a total of 338kg 151kg in snatch and 187 in clean and jerk to bring maiden gold medal for India in this weight category.
Indian boxers L Sarita Devi (60kg), Manoj Kumar (69kg) and Mohamed Hussamuddin (56kg) entered the quarter-finals with respective wins over Barbados' Kimberly Gittens, Kassim Mbundwike of Tanzania and Boe Warawara of Vanuatu.
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