Guwahati, Feb 9:
India plundered most of the gold on offer for a fourth successive day with swimmers, archers and track-and-field athletes ensuring that the host country’s top position on the medals tally remained unchallenged in the 12th South Asian Games here today.
Continuing their terrific show, Indians took their overall medal count to 122 (76 gold, 36 silver and 10 bronze).
Holding on to the distant second spot were Sri Lanka with 84 medals, including 17 gold, 36 silver and 31 bronze medals.
The most stunning performance today was by the swimmers, who swept 7 gold medals followed by track-and-field athletes and archers. The archers won all five golds of the day, while the athletes also won similar number of gold along with six silver and three bronze.
India also won both the men’s and women’s gold in volleyball after defeating Sri Lanka in both the finals.
In the last three days, Sri Lanka had been giving competition to the home country in swimming but today it was the local favourites who ruled the roost at the Dr Zakir Hussain Aquatics Complex here. (PTI)
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