2018 Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, live updates: Lifter Punam Yadav, shooter Manu Bhaker win gold, Heena Sidhu silver

Weightlifter Punam Yadav’s began India’s campaign on a brilliant note on Sunday when she won the women’s 69 kg gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. India’s medal bag swelled further when Manu Bhaker won the women’s 10m air pistol gold with Heena Sidhu taking silver. The fourth day of competitions at the XXI Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast will see as many as 31 medals decided across eight sports events – athletics, track cycling, gymnastics, swimming, shooting, table tennis and weightlifting. It will be another big day for India, who will look to add more gold in weightlifting as well as shooting and athletics. In weightlifting, India are expected to win more medals via Seema (75 kg) and Vikas Thakur (94 kg). Get live updates of 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast here. (Medals tally | Live streaming | Full schedule of Indians on Sunday)

08:10 hrs IST: Veteran Indian boxer MC Mary Kom entered the semi-finals of the women’s 48 kg with a convincing victory over Megan Gordon of Scotland. The five-time world champion dominated her 18-year-old opponent throughout the one-sided quarter-final to claim a unanimous 5-0 verdict at the Oxenford Boxing Studios. Her entry into the last four stage confirms a bronze medal for Mary Kom. Although she has world titles and an Olympic bronze in her trophy cabinet, Mary is yet to win a medal at the CWG

08:08 hrs IST: Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash qualified for the semi-finals of men’s 100 metre butterfly. Sajan finished second in Heat 2, clocking 54.11 seconds, only behind Australia’s Grant Irvine, who finished with a timing of 53.89 at the Optus Aquatic Centre here

08:05 hrs IST: Imagine this is Manu Bhaker’s first Commonwealth Games and she is only 16! And she has won gold!

08:03 hrs IST:It is confirmed! Shooter Manu Bhaker has won the women’s 10m air pistol gold with Heena Sidhu taking bronze

07:59 hrs IST: Heena Sidhu is now 2nd! And Manu Bhaker top in women’s 10m air pistol event

07:58 hrs IST: Meanwhile, the women’s 10m air pistol finals is taking place with India’s Manu Bhaker at top and Heena Sidhu third

07:56 hrs IST: Yadav had claimed a silver at last year’s Commonwealth Championships, her first event after making the jump from 63 kg to 69 kg category. The bronze medal was won by Fiji’s Apolonia Vaivai with an effort of 216 kg (100 kg+116 kg). Earlier Mirabai Chanu (48 kg), Sanjita Chanu (53 kg), Sathish Sivalingam (77 kg) and Venkat Rahul Ragala (85 kg) had claimed gold medals

07:55 hrs IST: The gold rush continued in weightlifting for India as Punam Yadav added a fifth to the tally with a top finish in the 69 kg category. Yadav, a bronze-medallist from the 2014 Glasgow edition, lifted 222 kg (110 kg + 122 kg) to claim gold ahead of England’s Sarah Davies, who finished with 217 kg (95 kg+122 kg). The Englishwoman went for a 128 kg lift in her final clean and jerk attempt in pursuit of gold but could not complete it and dropped the bar

07:53 hrs IST: India’s Khushbir Kaur finished fourth in the women’s 20 kilometre race walk. She clocked 1 hour, 39 minutes and 21 seconds. Jemima Montag of Australia won the gold with a time of 1:32:50. New Zealand’s Alana Barber got the silver in 1:34:18 while Bethan Davies of Wales clocked 1:36:08 for the bronze

07:50 hrs IST: India staged a late comeback to beat England 2-1 in a a Pool A match of the women’s hockey competition. England skipper Alexandra Danson (1st minute) scored in the opening minute to put her team ahead right at the start. India hit back through Rani (42nd minute) and Gurjit (48th minute) in the second half to claim a hard-fought win

07:48 hrs IST: Australia’s Dane Bird-Smith produced a stunning burst in the final few hundred metres to win the first athletics medal at the Gold Coast Games in the men’s 20km walk

07:45 hrs IST: India’s Manish Singh and Irfan Kolothum Thodi registered disappointing performances in the men’s 20 kilometre race walk. Manish registered a time of 1 hour, 22 minutes and 22 seconds to take sixth spot. Irfan was even more disappointing, clocking 1:27:34 to finish 13th in a field of 15 athletes. Dane Bird-Smith of Australia claimed the title with a time of 1:19:34. He had to beat off a tough challenge from England’s Tom Bosworth who took the silver medal with 1:19:38. Samuel Ireri Gathimba got the bronze for athletics powerhouse Kenya with a time of 1:19:51

07:41 hrs IST: Indian shooters Manu Bhaker and Heena Sidhu qualified for the final of the women’s 10m Air Pistol event. The Indian shooters dominated the qualification stage, claiming the top two spots going into the final. Manu topped qualification with a total of 388 points. Heena qualified in second spot with 379 points

07:36 hrs IST: Punam Yadav had won a bronze in women’s 63 kg in Glasgow 2014

07:30 hrs IST: While Punam lifted 100 kg in snatch, she lifted 122 kg in clean and jerk

07:25 hrs IST: What a brilliant start to this Sunday with Punam Yadav’s gold, who lifted a total weight of 222 kg

07:20 hrs IST: And Punam Yadav has won the women’s 69 kg gold in weightlifting! India’s fifth from the discipline!

07:15 hrs IST: Punam’s attempt now in clean and jerk

0707 hrs IST: India’s Punam Yadav is in line for a medal in women’s weightlifting 79 kg

07:05 hrs IST: Hello and welcome to the live updates of Commonwealth Games

In shooting, women’s air pistol hopes will be on Heena Sidhu and teenager Manu Bhaker, in women’s skeet (Saniya Shaikh, Maheshwari Chauhan) and men’s 10m air rifle (Ravi Kumar, Deepak Kumar).

In athletics, India pin medal hopes on their 20km race walkers (KT Irfan and Manish Rawat; Kushbir Kaur and Soumya Baby).

In table tennis women’s team event, India take on England in the semi-final, and if they win, they will battle for gold against Australia or Singapore.

Swimming, the feature event of the games, will see as many as eight gold medals decided.

Hosts Australia led the medals table with 57 medals, 20 of them gold, after Saturday’s events. India were fourth with four gold, one silver and one bronze.