On Sunday, India started its shooting campaign at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast with three medals, while the country’s dominance continued in weightlifting after four golds in the sport till Saturday. Punam Yadav brought the day’s first medal for India when she won the women’s 69 kg weightlifting gold. Later in the day, Vikas Thakur won bronze in men’s 94kg weightlifting to clinch India’s fifth medal of the day. Earlier, shooting starlet Manu Bhaker pipped Heena Sidhu to win the women’s 10m air pistol gold, with the latter winning the silver.

Ravi Kumar then added a bronze medal to India’s tally in the men’s 10m air rifle event. Punam Yadav lifted a maximum of 100kg in the snatch event and 122kg in the clean and jerk event to win the women’s 69kg weightlifting title with a combined lift of 222kg. England’s Sarah Davies, who lifted 122kg in clean and jerk, won silver with a combined lift of 217kg, having earlier lifted 95kg in snatch.

Fiji’s Apolonia Vaivai won the bronze medal with a combined lift of 216 kg.Punam Yadav had earlier won bronze in women’s 63kg weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In the men’s 94kg event, Thakur lifted 159kg in snatch and 192kg in clean and jerk for a combined lift of 351kg. The 16-year-old shooting sensation Manu Bhaker, who won golds at the ISSF World Cup and ISSF Junior World Cup recently, scored 240.9 to win India’s sixth gold. Bhaker’s score is also a new Commonwealth Games record.