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India's Kyanan Derius Chenai won Gold today in the Men's 50 Birds Trap event overcoming his closest rival Ryan Bugeja of Malta by a solitary point after a Herculean battle that went back-and-forth for the duration of the contest. Michael McNabb of Australia won the bronze.

This six member event went through a round of qualifying where Kyanan scored 111 to Ryan's 110 after 5 consistent rounds of shooting where he scored 23-22-22-22-22. Ryan on the other hand started brilliantly shooting a 23-24 in his opening two rounds, but fell off the pace slightly with scored of 21 in each of his next three attempts.

Carrying that slender lead of one into the finals, Kyanan held on to it for much of the contest until the last few shots where after a momentary lapse of concentration Ryan first tied the match and then took a one shot lead very near the end. Kyanan then rallied back to level the scores, and then pulled ahead by one right at the very end.

With a strong family contingent from Kohlapur cheering the lad on, it was heartening to see the resolve Kyanan showed in the face of adversity to emerge a true winner. Next up for this Hybrid School, Ooty student are the National Games in Jaipur come December.

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Following up his Gold medal winning perfromance from yesterday young Ankush Bhardwaj from Haryana notched up a Bronze in the 10m Air Pistol event. Matthew James Hendry from Canada won the Gold with an impressive combined score of 653.1. Christopher Chia of Singapore won the Silver.

In an event where the preliminaries were absolutely critical to the final outcome - Matthew shot a consistent 557 never once faltering below 91. Christopher would have been in the lead had it not been for a poor second round score of 87 which left him in with a chance just 2 points off the pace. Ankush was four points further behind as he struggled with his second, third and fourth rounds shooting 88-90-91. The other two competitors in the event Arron Wilson from Australia and Kristian Callaghan from England were miles behind with scores of 538 and 537 respectively.

Fighting an uphill battle in the finals Ankush shot a decent 94.9, what would be disappointing for the youngster was the fact that he only crossed 10.0 on three occasions. Christopher on his part blew a golden opportunity to take the lead when he shot a disastrous 7.2 in his fourth attempt.

Matthew went on to score a 96.1 to Christopher's 95.7 to sail through to an easy win.

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In the 42-kg Men's Wrestling event, Ajit Patil of India won all three of his matches in a round robin event featuring just four competitors. In what proved to be a decisive bout he comprehensively beat Salamat Ali of Pakistan by 5 points to 1, winning the first round 3-0 and the second 2-1. Ali meanwhile went on to defeat Jack Longthorne of England and Jonathon Babulall of Canada to secure the Silver medal. Jonathon edged out Longthorne for the Bronze.

In the 46-kg category there were only three competitors. Deepak Kumar of India emerged victorious beating Ali Haider (Pakistan, Silver) and James Luu (Canada, Bronze) for top spot.

A few of the events in the games have an incredibly poor turnout casting a question mark on the sanctity of some of the medals that are being won!

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Earlier in the day, Rushad Damania of India could not take his brilliant form from the prelims of the Men's 25m Prone Shooting event into the finals as he finished just outside the medal positions in 4th place with a total score of 679.3.

The gold was won by Englishman James Huckle (total of 687.6), who brilliantly shot above 10.0 in 8 of his 10 shots in the final round. Huckle had a lead of 2 (585 to Matthew Hall's 583) going into the finals. Even though Hall had the highest score in the final, he could not overturn the 2 point deficit and had to settle for silver (total of 686.5). Rory McAlpine secured the Bronze with a total score of 681.4.

Interestingly, James Huckle is English, Matthew Hall is from Northern Ireland and Rory Mcalpine is Scottish, which makes a British clean sweep of the event.

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Yukar Sibi and N Laxmi Devi produced commendable performances to win India a couple more Silver medals in Weightlifting.

Aricco Jumitih of Malaysia lifted an outstanding 119kg in the Snatch and followed it up with 148kg in the Clean-and-Jerk to comfortably win Gold in the 62-kg category. Yukar finished a comfortable 2nd with lifts of 112 and 147 in the two categories respectively to get a combined score of 257.

Charles Ssekyaaya of Uganda gave his country their first medal of the games, picking up the Bronze with a combined lift of 215kg.

Moments earlier N Laxmi from Manipur had won the silver in the Women's 53kg category with a combined lift of 149kg. Zoe Smith from England won the event with a pair of outstanding lifts of 72kg and 87kg in the Snatch and Clean-and-Jerk rounds respectively. Laxmi was 5kg below Zoe in both segments. Fayema Akther registered Bangladesh's first medals of the games winning the Bronze with a combined lift of 143kg.

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In the Men's Triple Jump, Dheeraj Mishra of India narrowly edged out Benjamin Walker of England by 0.01m to secure Gold. The Thane born youngster would be a tad disappointed with his leap of 15.42 well below his 15.78 in the SAF Games in Sri Lanka, but was delighted to take home a medal all the same.

Speaking at the occasion Dheeraj said that the coaching camp prior to the Games was instrumental in him finding some form and building his confidence after a poor showing at the Junior Asian Games where he finished well down the pecking order.

In fact for a large part of the event it seemed that Dheeraj would run away with the competition until Benjamin set hearts racing producing a leap of 15.41 in his fifth attempt. Boipelo Rakola Motlhatlhego of South Africa won the Bronze.

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The Men's Hammer throw was one of the most emmotionally charged events of the day with the crowd getting behind every athlete as they wound up for their throws. India won two medals in this event - Narayan Chandrodaya (Silver) & Ejaj Ahmed (Bronze). Peter Smith started the England revival in the games winning Gold with a throw of 68.38. He was a tad lucky fouling four of his six attempts, but doing just enough to pull out a win over Narayan by just 1 meter.

The Women's Javelin meanwhile saw India grab a Bronze as Poonam Rani threw 44.25m in her sixth and final attempt. Bianca Maurer of Australia won the first Gold in the Games for her team with an outstanding throw of 49.87 in her 5th attempt. Philippa Charlesworth of New Zealand won the Silver (also their first medal in the Games).

In the Men's Shot Put Jasdeep Singh of India won a creditable Bronze with a throw of 18.10m. Jasdeep had taken the lead after three attempts, but a throw of 18.41 by Stephen Andries Brink in the 4th round pushed him into 2nd place. Curtis Griffith Parker of England came out of the blue throwing 18.56 in his final attempt to push everyone else down the ladder.

In the Women's Pole Vault an emotional Jade Ive (Eng) claimed top spot with a new Games Record leap of 4.05m. Ariane Courteau Beaumont (3.90) of Canada won the Silver and Abigail Haywood (3.80) of England the Bronze.

The Women's 100m final featured no Indian players, nonetheless a fairly raucous crowd got behind Shaunna Thompson as she decimated the competition winning the event in 11.46 secs, a new Games recod. A couple of Australians Eloise Graf & Lauren O'Sullivan came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In a thrilling Men's 100m encounter Shehan Sadaruwan Abeypitiyage of Sri Lanka won the dash to the line piping Gambian Suwaibou Sanneh and St. Kitts & Nevis runner Jason Rogers to the post in a Games record time of 10.43secs.

The final medal of the day for India came in the form of a surprise performance from Gayathri Govindharaj in the Women's 100m Hurdles . Gayathri with a time of 14.00 secs was 0.12 behind Kierre Beckles of Barbados, who won their solitary medal of the Games so far. Brianna Beahan of Australia came in third with a time of 14.08secs.

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