Gunasekaran and Shivpal win gold for India in 7th World Military games

Track and field para-athletics runner Anandan Gunasekaran won his third gold medal in the World Military Games. Javelin Thrower Shivpal Singh also clinched another gold for India. Both wins simply added to India's great run at the 7th CISM World Military Games in China.

3 gold medals for Anandan Gunasekaran

Anandan clinched his first gold medal in the 100m event by clocking a total of 12.00 seconds. He earned his second gold winning the 400m race as well. He won a third gold medal in the 200m event with a clocked time of 24.31 seconds while Colombian para-athlete,  Fajardo Pardo Teodicelo, won the silver medal with a time of 26.11 seconds.

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India clinches gold in the Javelin event

Shivpal Singh further increased India's medal tally by beating Polish Javelin thrower, Krukowski Marcin (78.17m) with an 83.33m throw. The bronze medal was awarded to Sri Lanka's, Ranasinghe Mudiyaneselage Sumedha Jagath for a throw of 75.35m.

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India's other medal tallies

2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist, Gurpreet Singh, was awarded the bronze medal with a score of 585. Ukraine's Korostylov Pavlo won gold whereas the silver medal went to China's Yao Zhaonan.

Virender and Aneesh Kumar Surendran Pillai clinched the gold medal in the shot put event. With this, India took its medal tally to a total of 7 medals, including an impressive 6 gold medals and 1 bronze medal.

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India start their campaign with the boxing event

The Indian contingent started their campaign with Boxing. In the welterweight category (60-64kg), Sandeep Kumar faced Rasulov Jakhongir whereas Satish Kumar faced Nascimento Cosme in the super heavy(91kg) category. In the lightweight(56-60 kg) category, Amit was paired opposite Andrade Douglas. While Harsh Lakhra will be fighting Zhou di in the light heavy(75-81) category.

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(With inputs from agencies)