This Article is From Oct 10, 2010

CWG: Sushil leads India's bid for Gold on Day 7

CWG: Sushil leads India's bid for Gold on Day 7
New Delhi: With 35 Gold medals at stake on the seventh day of the Commonwealth Games, India will hope to add more to its kitty on Sunday. (See: CWG 2010 Medals Tally)

Hopes will be high when Olympic bronze winning wrestler Sushil Kumar gets on the floor on Sunday to compete in the Men's freestyle 66 kg category. So far, Indian wrestlers have been extremely impressive, winning Gold medals. (Read: On Day 6, Wrestling fetches more Gold for India)

Another sport that has been fetching medals in plenty for India is shooting. So far India has won 22 medals in Shooting and can expect more on the seventh day of the Commonwealth Games when Vijay Kumar, Harpreet Singh compete in the Men's Singles 25 m Centrefire Pistol Final. (CWG: Shooters Vijay Kumar, Harpreet Singh win Gold)

India's Mansher Singh, Manavjit Singh Sandhu, who won Silver in Pairs Trap event on Friday, will take part in the Men's Singles Trap Stage 2 final and hope to better.

In what promises to be a humdinger, a real high-voltage match for hockey fans from the sub-continent, India play archrivals Pakistan in their Pool A match. India thrashed Scotland 4-0 on Saturday. (Read: India thrash Scotland 4-0)

Both India and Pakistan will be competing for a berth in the semi-finals.

Indians archers will be aiming to bag two gold and two silver medals in the individual section when the archery competition concludes on Sunday. First and second seed duo of Deepika Kumari and Dola Banerjee will start off the proceedings in their respective quarterfinals.

In the afternoon session, top seed Rahul Banerjee and Jayanta Talukdar too will start off the quarters against their respective opponents as there could also be a possible final clash.

Dola's younger brother Rahul will face Matthew Masonwells in his quarterfinal that promises to be a thrilling clash with the Australian in fine form especially after their team triumph. Talukdar will take on veteran Simon Terry, known as Silver Fox in another tantalizing clash.

Weightlifter Geeta Rani will be leading India's campaign in 75kg category and will hope to make a podium finish.

35 GOLDS AT STAKE: Swimming (3), Archery (4), Athletics (8), Cycling (2), Lawn Bowls (4), Shooting (6), Tennis (2), Weightlifting (2), Wrestling (4)

Following is Sunday's schedule of Indian participation in the Commonwealth Games.

Wrestling:

Men's Freestyle 66 kg: Sushil Kumar

Athletics:

Women's 100m Hurdles: Anuradha Biswal, M M Anchu, Gayathry Govindaraj

Women's High Jump Final: Kavya Chottekalapanda, S Sahana

Women's Long Jump Final: Prajusha Maliakkal, Resmi Bose, Mayookha Johny Mathalikunnel

Women's 800m: Tintu Lukka, Sinimole Paulose

Women's Discus: Krishna Poonia, Harwant Kaur, Seema Antil

Women's 200m Final: Geetha Satti

Men's Discus Final: Vikas Shive Gowda

Cycling:

Women's 112 km Road Race: India

Men's 168 km Road Race: India

Diving:

Men's 1M Springboard: Rabikumar Singh Senjam, Hari Prasad Thimmarayappa

Hockey:

Men's Group A: India vs Pakistan

Lawn Bowls:

Women's Singles Group A: Farzana Khan

Men's Singles Group A: Mohammad Raja

Netball:

Women's India vs Jamaica

Shooting:

Women's Singles 10 m Air Rifle Qualification: Suma S Shirur, Kavitha Yadav

Men's Singles 25 m Centrefire Pistol Final: Vijay Kumar, Harpreet Singh

Men's Singles Trap Stage 2: Mansher Singh, Manavjit Singh Sandhu

Squash:

Men's Doubles: India vs Malaysia

Women's Doubles: India vs Kenya

Table Tennis:

Women's Singles: Poulomi Ghatak, Shamini Kumaresan, Prabhu Mamta

Tennis:

Men's Singles Final: Somdev Devvarman

Weightlifting:

Women's 75+ kg: Geeta Rani

Archery:

Women's Recurve Individual Quarters: Deepika Kumari, Dola Banerjee

Men's Recurve Individual Quarters: Rahul Banerjee, Jayanta Talukdar

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