IN A yet another good day in the office, India bagged five medals in various events in the Commonwealth Games athletics competition here on Saturday. Avinash Sable broke his own national record to win a silver in the men’s 3000m steeplechase while Priyanka Goswami also clinched a medal of the same hue in the women’s 10,000m race walk on a productive day for India India won its second medal in lawn bowls competition at the Games as men’s fours team settled for a silver medal after losing to Northern Ireland. Boxer Jaismine Lamboriya clinched bronze medal in the women’s 60kg lightweight category. Goswami also scripted history as she became the first Indian woman to win a medal in race walk with a silver in 10,000m event.

 

With two silver, Indian athletics team’s medal count swelled to four and it has already gone past the number in 2018 Gold Coast where the country had won a gold, silver and bronze each in track and field. High jumper Tejaswin Shankar and long jumper Murali Sreeshankar had won a bronze and silver respectively in Birmingham. The 27-year-old Sable clocked 8:11.20s to better his earlier national record of 8:12.48 and finish behind Kenyan Abraham Kibiwot (8:11.15). Another Kenyan Amos Serem took the bronze with a time of 8:16.83. A farmer’s son from Mandwa village in Maharashtra’s Beed district, the Indian Armyman had the satisfaction of beating World Championships bronze medallist Conseslus Kipruto of Kenya who finished sixth here with a time of 8:34.96.