Star grappler Babita Kumari gave India its first medal in Wrestling at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games today.

Babita settled for the second position after she lost to Canada's Diana Weicker, 2-5, in the Final of the 53 kg category. Sushil Kumar in 74 kg category and Rahul Aware in 57 kgs will play for Gold medals, in a short while from now. Kiran in the 76 kg, who lost her last-4 bout, will be slugging out in the repechage for a Bronze medal.

Earlier in the day, Indian shooter Tejaswini Sawant bagged a Silver medal in the Women's 50-metre Rifle Prone event. She finished second with a score of 618.9 points, behind Singapore's Martina Veloso who created a Games record with a score of 621. It was India's 12th medal in Shooting. Of the total 26 medals, the Shooters have 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze.

In Stage 1 of the Qualification of the Men's 25-metre Rapid Fire Pistol event, Neeraj Kumar finished at the top, while Anish was third. Stage 2 is yet to begin.

In Badminton, PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth secured a quarterfinal berth after winning their respective Round-of-16 matches. Saina Nehwal yet to play her pre-quarterfinal. The teams of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa, and Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N. Sikki Reddy have progressed to the last-8.

In Table Tennis, Achanta Sharath Kamal, Manika Batra, Mouma Das and Harmeet Desai have made it to the quarterfinals. The pairs of Achanta and Mouma, Manika and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, and Sanil Shetty and Madhurika Patkar also booked a place in the Mixed Doubles last-8.

In Men's Triple Jump, Arpinder Singh and AV Rakesh Babu qualified to the Finals. Women Discus Throwers Seema Punia and Navjeet Dhillon will feature in the Finals later today, while Nayana James and Nellickal Neena will be trying their luck in the Women's Long Jump.

In Women's Hockey, India will take on Australia in the semi-finals. All India Radio will broadcast live commentary on the match. It can be heard on the Rajdhani, FM Gold and other channels from 4:40 pm onwards. India is currently third in the medals tally, with 12 Gold, 6 Silver and 8 Bronze. Australia continues to be at the top, with England second.