2014 Commonwealth Games, Day 4: As it happened...
Welcome to our live coverage of the Day 4 of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. After a productive day 3, India will continue the medal hunt in events as varied as badminton, shooting, table tennis and weightlifting.
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ATHLETICS: Flomena Cheyech Daniel of Kenya wins women's marathon, ahead of fellow Kenyan Caroline Kilel. Jess Trengove of Australia takes bronze.
TABLE TENNIS: Indian pair of Patkar and Kumaresan lost to Miao and Lay as Australia lead the bronze medal play-off 2-1.
ATHLETICS: Michael Shelley of Australia wins the Marathon gold medal. The 30-year-old was the silver medallist at the Delhi Games. This is the first medal of Day 4.
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SWIMMING: Sandeep Sejwal finished third best in Heat 3 of the men's 50m Breaststroke event behind G. Snyders of New Zealand and M. Tully of Scotland. The 25-year-old swimmer qualifies for the semis.
HOCKEY: In one lop-sided match, Australian women hockey team thrashed hosts Scotland 9-0 in a Pool B encounter.
SHOOTING: In another Double Trap event, Indian male shooters Ankur Mittal and Mohd Asab have qualified for the finals.
SHOOTING: Women's Double Trap Finals has begun, where Indian shooter Shreyasi Singh are Varsha Varman in contention for the medals.
TABLE TENNIS: 19-year-old Manika Batra defeated veteran Jian Fang Lay to draw level with Australia in the women's TT bronze medal fixture.
TABLE TENNIS: Shamini Kumaresan lost to Ziyu Zhang in the opening rubber of the women's Team Table Tennis bronze medal match.
TABLE TENNIS: Women's Team Bronze Medal match between India and Australia has begun at Scotstoun Sports Campus.
Usain Bolt is already in Glasgow
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And here is the list of medal winners for India
Gold - Sanjita Khumukchan - Women's Weightlifting (48 kg)
Gold - Sukhen Dey - Men's Weightlifting (56 kg)
Gold - Abhinav Bindra - Men's Shooting (10 metre air rifle)
Gold - Apurvi Chandela - Women's Shooting (10 metre air rifle)
Gold - Rahi Sarnobat - Women's Shooting (25 metre pistol)
Silver - Mirabai Chanu Saikhom - Women's Weightlifting (48 kg)
Silver - Shushila Likmabam - Women's Judo (48 kg)
Silver - Navjot Chana - Men's Judo (60 kg)
Silver - Malaika Goel - Women's Shooting (10 metre air pistol)
Silver - Prakash Nanjappa - Men's Shooting (10 metre air pistol)
Silver - Ayonika Paul - Women's Shooting (10 metre air rifle)
Silver - Anisa Sayyed - Women's Shooting (25 metre pistol)
Bronze - Ganesh Mali - Men's Weightlifting (56 kg)
Bronze - Kalpana Thoudam - Women's Judo (52 kg)
Bronze - Santoshi Matsa - Women's Weightlifting (53 kg)
Bronze - Rajwinder Kaur -Women's Judo (+78 kg)
Bronze - Omkar Otari - Men's Weightlifting (69 kg)
So far, India has won medals in three sports. As expected, shooters have contributed heavily with seven medals including three golds. Lifters followed with six, including two gold medals. And judokas have won four medals, but unluckily without a gold despite their valliant attempts.
In swimming, Sandeep Sejwal will be in men's 50m Breaststroke fray while, Sajan Prakash will be in men's 100m Butterfly. Tough heats await Indian swimmers!
On Day 1 of athletics, Om Parkash Singh Karhana will feature in men's Shot Put. Sharadha Narayana will be in women's 100m and Machettira Poovamma will compete in women's 400m. All of them will need to produce strong performance in the qualifyings.
Other events which will see Indian athletes in action are athletics, boxing, hockey, lawn bowls and swimming.
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In the team events, women peddlers will fight for the bronze medal against Australia. Their male counterparts, will play England for a place in the finals.
Indian shuttlers will play England in the semi-final of the Mixed Team event.
India's medal hopefuls on Day 4 are shooters Ankur Mittal and Mohd Asab in men's Double Trap and Shreyasi Singh and Varsha Varman in women's Double Trap. Lifters Punam Yadav and Vandana Gupta in Women's 63kg and Katulu Ravi Kumar and Sathish Sivalingam in Men's 77kg are among the favourites to win a medal in their respective events.
24 gold medals are in stake today and India will hope to win few more of those yellow medals with shooting and weightlifting offering two finals each.
Featured sports on Day 4 of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games are athletics, badminton, boxing, cycling (track), hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, shooting, squash, swimming, triathlon, table tennis and weightlifting.
Welcome to our live coverage of the Day 4 of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. After a productive day 3, India will continue the medal hunt in events as varied as badminton, shooting, table tennis and weightlifting.