The star-studded shooting squad was expectedly on target, while the track-and-field athletes continued their golden run as India held on firmly to the top spot by remaining way ahead of competition on sixth day of the 12th South Asian Games here on Thursday.
Hitting a double century of medals, the Indian contingent has so far garnered 237 medals, including 139 gold, 78 silver and 20 bronze. Consistent at the second position are the Sri lankans with 151 medals 25 gold, 50 silver and 76 bronze in all.
India dominated the shooting ranges grabbing all the five gold medals on offer. However, Olympic bronze-medallist Gagan Narang had to be content with a silver in men's individual 50m rifle prone event on the second day of the shooting competitions.
'Gold finger' Samaresh Jung rolled back the years as he won the gold in men's individual 25m center fire pistol.
Narang, who won a bronze in 10m air rifle in 2012 Olympics, was leading till the fifth series but could not sustain it till the end. Chain Singh shot a total of 184.1, while Narang had 183.1.
later, the Indian team comprising Chain Singh, Narang and Surendra Singh Rathod, won the gold in 50m rifle prone event with a total score of 1871.5.
In men's 25m center fire pistol, Jung beat the likes of Pemba Tamang and Vijay Kumar to win the gold. Jung shot a total of 580 points to clinch the gold in a tough field.
Indians swept the individual event of women's 50m rifle prone event while also winning the team gold. Kuheli Ganguly bagged the gold with a total score of 619.9, while lajja Gauswami and Anuja Jung grabbed the silver and bronze with 608.2 and 607.5 points, respectively.
The trio of Ganguly, Gauswami and Jung then took the gold in the team event, leaving the silver and bronze for Pakistan and Sri lanka, respectively.
It was not any different on the tennis courts where India bagged the remaining two Gold medals on offer to cap a memorable cleansweep.
Ramkumar Ramanathan beat compatriot Saketh Myneni 7-5, 6-3 in the men's singles final to clinch gold on the concluding day of the tennis event.
In the women's doubles final, also an all-Indian affair, the duo of Prarthana Thombre and Sharrmadaa Baluuishika took the gold after defeating the pair of Rishika Sunkara and Natasha Palha 7-5, 2-6, 10-4 in the final.
Indians won all the gold and silver medals on offer in five events men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles. Remarkably, finals of the five events were all-Indian affairs.
There was slight disappointment on the football field though where the defending champion Indian women's team was held to yet another goalless draw, this time by a resilient Nepal who thus confirmed their final berth for a second successive time. India (five points) face Bangladesh (six) in what will be the last match for both nations on Saturday to decide which team will face Nepal in the finl on February 15.
Athletes win 11 gold
India ruled the roost on track and field by winning 11 gold medals out of 12 on offer with javelin thrower Suman Devi coming up with the best show on the third and penultimate day of athletics competition.
Suman Devi (women's javelin), Renjith Maheswary (men's triple jump), Om Prakash Karhana (men's shot put), P U Chitra (women's 1500m), Ajoy Kumar Saroj (men's 1500m), Jauna Murmu (women's 400m hurdles), Dharun Ayyasamy (men's 400m hurdles), l Surya (women's 10,000m), Srabani Nanda (women's 200m) and men's and women's 4x400 relay teams won gold for India in a show of overwhelming dominance.
India also won seven silver and one bronze. Sri lanka were left with just one gold medal with Suranjaya de Silva finishing first in men's 200m race.
India have so far won 26 gold, 22 silver and eight bronze medals in three days.
Suman, who won the women's javelin event and her effort of 59.45m was a mere eight centimetre outside Annu Rani's national record of 59.53m.