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India began their Day 3 campaign of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast with weightlifter Sathish Kumar Sivalingam winning gold in the men’s 77kg event which extending the country’s overall medal tally to five. Sathish, who had also won a gold four years ago is Glasgow, lifted a combined effort of 317kg, to become the first Indian weightlifter to bag back-to-back gold medals at the Commonwealth games.
Satish had qualified for the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast after winning a gold medal at the Commonwealth Senior Weightlifting Championships in Australia. Earlier, weightlifter Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu won gold in the women’s 53kg event and teenaged debutant Deepak Lather claimed bronze in the men’s 69kg event.
Prasanta Patnaik