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Another day at the Gold Coast, another gold medal. Much like how day one provided reasons to be cheerful with Mirabai Chanu securing gold in the 48kg weightlifting competition, day two brought more success.
Second gold medal
Mirabai's state-mate Sanjita Chanu delivered India's second gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games when she triumphed in the Women's 53kg weightlifting category. Sanjita registered a weight of 84 kg in the Snatch and then went on to lift 108 kg in the Clean and Jerk for a total score of 192 kg. She completed five of her six lifts, failing with her final effort of 112 kg alone.
However, it didn't matter as Papua New Guinea's Loa Dika Toua, her only competitor failed with her final lift to give the Indian the gold. Dika Toua, the defending champion in this category from the previous edition in Glasgow fought till the end, but couldn't overtake Sanjita, falling 10 kg short in the end with a total score of 183 kg.
This win meant back-to-back CWG gold medals for Sanjita who triumphed in Glasgow in the 48kg category. Incidentally, both Sanjita and Mirabai competed in the same category in the last Games, claiming gold and silver respectively. This was a sweet moment for Sanjita in her new weight category.
Lather wins bronze
While it was just the one gold medal for the day, weightlifting did bring India another medal when Deepak Lather claimed bronze in the Men's 69kg category. The competition was close with the top three separated by just four kilos, but Lather had to settle for bronze with a total score of 295 kg behind Gareth Evans of Wales (299 kg) and Indika Dissanayake of Sri Lanka (297 kg).
After having secured a weight of 136 kg in the Snatch, Lather attempted a final lift of 162 kg in the Clean & Jerk in an attempt to claim the gold, but he failed with his left meaning he had to settle for the bronze medal. Lather is just 18 and was competing in a new weight category after having competed in the 62kg category at the Commonwealth Championships two years ago in Pune, where he won gold and at the World Championships in Houston that same year.
The lone disappointment from weightlifting came in the Women's 58kg competition where Saraswati Rout failed in all three of her attempts in the Snatch to crash out of the competition.
Best of the rest
Boxing
Naman Tanwar beat Tanzania's Haruna Mhando in his Round of 16 bout in the Men's 91kg category. Tanwar won with a comfortable unanimous decision in his favour from the judges.
Tanwar will face Samoa's Frank Masoe in the quarterfinals on April 10.
Amit was also a winner in his Round of 16 match in the 46-49kg category, getting the better of Tetteh Sulehmanu of Ghana. He will face Aqeel Ahmed of Scotland in the quarters, also on April 10.
Squash
It was a disappointing day for India in squash. Two of the three players in action suffered losses.
Vikram Malhotra was beaten 1-3 by Nick Matthew of England in the Men's Singles round of 16. Dipika Pallikal meanwhile lost in straight games to England's Alison Waters in her Round of 16 singles encounter.
Joshna Chinappa was the lone victor, beating Australia's Tamika Saxby to move into the Women's Singles quarters.
Hockey
After the disappointing start yesterday, the Indian eves rebounded with a 4-1 win over Malaysia. Gurjit Kaur scored a brace with Lalremsiami and Rani adding the other two.
Badminton
India continued their dominant run in the Mixed Team event, beating Scotland 5-0. Saina Nehwal started slowly but found her groove to win in straight games to get India off and running and the team didn't break a sweat from then on.
Cycling
In the Women's Sprint, Aleena Reji and Deborah Deborah made it past qualifying, but lost in the heats for quarters.
In the Women's 3000m Individual Pursuit, Sonali Mayanglambam and Amrita Reghunath failed to qualify for the medal rounds. Manjeet Singh in the Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit also could not get past qualifying.
India had three cyclists in the Men's Keirin event, but none of them managed to break into the next round.
Lawn Bowls
The Indian women's team beat England in Round 3 action in Section B of the Women's Fours event.
There was to be no luck for Pinki on Day 2. After losing both her matches on day one, it was two more losses on day two in round three and four of her Section D action in the Women's Singles.
Women's Fours, Section B: Round 3 - England 9-21 India
Women's Singles, Section D: Round 3 - Lita Tikoisuva (Fiji) 21-12 Pinki (India), Round 4 - Emma Firyana Saroji (Malaysia) 21-9 Pinki (India)
In team competition, the Indian men narrowly lost out to England in their Section A match, losing 14-15. The team has one win so far from three matches and plays it's final group match tomorrow against South Africa. But India beat Samoa in the men's pairs event.
Men's Triples, Section A: Round 3 - England 15-14 India
Men's Pairs, Section D: Round 4 - India 26-4 Samoa
Swimming
There was just the one swimmer in action today for India, Kiran Tak in the Women's S9 100m Backstroke para event. It was to be a forgettable day for her as she was disqualified from the race. She was still allowed to compete in the medal swim where she finished last.
Gymnastics
In Women's Artistic Gymnastics Qualifications competition at birthday girl, Pranati Nayak, qualified for the Vault Finals while Pranati Das qualified for the Individual All-Around Finals.
