NEW DELHI: India's top drawer marksmen were bang on target while freestyle grapplers Yogeshwar Dutt and Narsingh Pancham Yadav came up with a power-packed display to help India bag four gold medals but England nosed ahead of the hosts in the medals table at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
England caught up late with India's overall haul of 24 gold medals, but a much superior silverware heist helped them in standing one rung below front runners Australia and one above the hosts on the sixth day of competitions.
Rifle ace Gagan Narang won his fourth gold medal, just one short of compatriot Samaresh Jung's haul at Melbourne four years ago, winning the men's 50m 3-position event with a Games record aggregate 1262.2.
He will now aim to overhaul Jung's record haul on October 12 and 13 in the 50m prone (pairs and individual) event and become the new "Gold Finger".
Centre fire pistol shooting pair, Vijay Kumar and Harpreet Singh, and wrestlers Dutt (men's 60kg) and Yadav (men's 74kg) also snapped up their gold medals in impressive fashion to take the host country's gold tally to 24.
TEXT: PTI
IMAGES: AP
In Image: India's Narsingh Pancham Yadav displays his medal after winning against South Africa Richard Brian Addinall in the 74 kilogram category wrestling
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