Indian grapplers continued to excel by assuring themselves of at least four silver medals while young Indian boxer Mandeep Jangra also secured a medal on the seventh day of competitions in the 20th Commonwealth Games here on Wednesday.

Indian wrestlers provided the cheer to the Indian contingent with Bijneesh Bajrang, Satyawart Kadian, Lalita and Sakshi Malik assuring themselves of at least a silver medal each by entering the finals of their respective events here today.

India were currently placed sixth in the medals standing with a total of 36 medals, including 10 gold, 15 silver and 11 bronze medals.

Australia (34-31-36) continue to be at top but England (33-34-27) are fast catching them. Canada (17-05-18) are placed third, followed by hosts Scotland (13-11-13) and New Zealand (11-9-11).

While Bajrang and Kadian advanced to the finals of the men’s 61kg and 97kg freestyle categories, Lalita and Sakshi booked their berths in the summit clash of women’s 53kg and 58kg respectively.

Bajrang ensured a berth in the final after beating Amas Daniel of Nigeria 3-2 in a hard-fought semi-final bout. Bajrang, the 2013 World Championship bronze medallist, was 0-2 down in the first minute of the semi-final bout but made a superb comeback to take a 5-2 lead after the first period of three minutes and then maintained his lead till the end.

In the men’s 97kg category, Kadian started his campaign on a resounding note and took less than two minutes to overpower Uduwila Manjula of Sri Lanka to storm into the quarterfinals.

The referee stopped the bout in 1:45 min of the first period after Kadian led by 10 points. Kadian, the 2014 Asian Championships bronze medallist, won the bout 4-0.

Kadian then defeated Soso Tamarau of Nigeria 3-1 to advance to the semi-finals, where he got the better of Englishman Leon Rattigan 3-1 to seal his place in the title clash, where Arjun Gill of Canada awaits him.

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