VINESH, SUMIT ADD TWO GOLDS TO MEDALS TALLY

Vipin Kashana finished fifth with a best effort of 77.87m.

Jinson Johnson, meanwhile, clocked 3 minutes and 37.86 seconds to finish fifth in the 12-man field. In the process, he bettered the earlier 23-year-old national record of 3:38.00 set by Bahadur Prasd in 1995.

Arpinder finished an agonising fourth in the men’s triple jump event. Cameroon’s Marcel Mayack II produced a personal best of 16.80m to put the Indian out of medal contention. Arpinder’s best effort was a 16.46m jump.

In the men’s 4x400m relay, the Indians had to pull out after Amoj Jacob hurt a hamstring. Consequently, A. Dharun, Jacob, Muhammed Anas and Rajiv Arokia could not even complete one lap during the race.

The women’s 4x400m relay team of Sonia Baishya, M. Poovamma Raju, Laxmanbhai Gayakwad Saritaben and Hima Das finished seventh.

Indian athletes thus ended their Gold Coast campaign with one gold, a silver and a bronze, the same number and colour as in the last Games in Glasgow in 2014.

— Agencies Gold Coast, April 14: There was no stopping the gold rush in wrestling as two more were added to the tally by Vinesh Phogat (50kg) and Sumit (125kg) but Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik (62kg) had to be content with a third place finish in the Commonwealth Games here.

Adding another bronze to the count on Saturday was Somveer, in the 86kg category.

India signed off their wrestling campaign at the Games with five gold, three silver and four bronze medals. The overall count was one less than the medals achieved in the 2014 edition of the Games but India kept their gold medal count at five, the number achieved the last time.

Sakshi went out of gold medal contention in the first round itself after losses to Canada’s Michelle Fazzari and Nigeria’s Aminat Adeniyi following a win over Cameroon’s Berthe Ngolle. — PTI