Dhaka, Jan. 31: India added four gold medals on Day Three of the 11th South Asian Games to keep the lead on the medal standings here on Sunday.
Judokas Balvinder Singh and Vikram Solanki bagged a gold each while weightlifter Omkar Otari and men’s cycling quartet also won gold.India now have five golds and a bronze in their kitty. The women’s cycling team had clinched gold in 30-km time-trial on Saturday.India began their day with a gold in the men’s 80-km road team time-trial event held from Bangladesh Krida Shiksha Pratisthan Khulna to Gopalganj.The men’s quartet of Rajendra Bishnoi, Amandeep Singh, Harpreet Singh and Sabu Ganager clocked 1 hour 44 minutes 11.81 seconds to finish ahead of Pakistan.The Pakistan team clocked 1:45:59.11s for silver, while Bangladesh had to be content with bronze with a timing of 1:46:44.11s.Indian increased their medal tally with two golds in the men’s judo event.In the 73kg category, Balvinder defeated Karamat Butt of Pakistan to take gold. Deepak Krishna (Nepal) and Habibur Rahman (Bangladesh) took the bronze medals.In the 90kg category, Solanki got the better of Dewalage Krishan Priyadarshana of Sri Lanka en route to gold. Mohammad Taufiq (Afghanistan) and Toriqul Islam (Bangladesh) settled for the bronze medals.The fourth gold for India came in the men’s 62kg weightlifting where Otari pipped Pakistan’s Mohammad Istiaq Ghafoor in a close finish at the National Sport Gymnasium complex. Another Indian Rustam Sarang bagged the bronze.All the three medal winners lifted 258 kgs in aggregate but Omkar, who weighs 61.30kgs, topped on basis of his lesser body-weight. — PTI