India's remarkable domination went uncontested for the fifth successive day as shooters, wushu players and track-and-field athletes annihilated competition to sweep most of the gold up for grabs on the fifth day of the 12th South Asian Games here on Wednesday.
With a whopping 194 medals, including 117 gold, 61 silver and 16 bronze medals, in the kitty, India sat pretty at the top of the table. Following the hosts in the second place were Sri lanka with an overall count of 133 (24 gold, 46 silver and 63 bronze medals).
The blue-riband event of athletics was expected to trigger gold rush for India and it went pretty much that way with athletes contributing 10 gold medals to the tally today.
Mayookha Johny (women's triple jump), M R Poovamma (women's 400m), Neeraj Chopra (men's javelin throw), Arokya Rajiv (men's 400m), Arjun (discus throw), J Surendhar (men's 110m hurdles), Gayathry (women's 100m hurdles), Ankit Sharma (men's long jump) and Sahana Kumari (women's high jump) and T Gopi (men's 10000m) clinched top honours.
Earlier, the Indians dominated the pool once again to pick five gold on the final day of the swimming competition.
Veerdhawal Khade clinched his first gold of the Games by winning the men's 50m butterfly event. Other gold winners for India were Shraddha Sudhir (200m medley for women), Jyotsna Pansare (50m butterfly for women) and both the men's and women's 4x100 medley relay teams.
In total, India won five gold, three silver and one bronze on the final day of the swimming event.
Khade clinched the gold in 50m butterfly for men in a Games record of 24.54 seconds. The Indian men's 4x100m medley team also set a new Games record of 3:49.78 while winning the gold.
Sri lanka was initially declared the winner of the women's 4x100m medley relay event while India took the silver. However, the lankan team was disqualified after one of their swimmers made a false start during the change of legs, leading to the upgradation India's silver into gold.
In Shillong, India clinched an overwhelming eight gold, one silver and two bronze medals on the final day of the wushu competition.
M Gyandash Singh with 18.53 points edged his rivals in Taijiquan and Taijijian men's section to open India's gold rush. l Sanatombi Chanu topped Taijiquan and Taijijian women section.
In men's Sanshou, India annexed three gold with Uchit Sharma (52kg), Ravi Panchal (56kg), Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh (60kg) emerging winners in their respective weight categories. Indian women ruled in Sanshou bagging all the three gold medals up for grabs with Y Sanathoi Devi (52kg), Anupama Devi (60kg), Puja Kadian (70kg) emerging champions.
The story was no different on the tennis courts either. In the men's doubles, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Vijay Prasanth defeated Divij Sharan and Sanam Singh 6-3, 6-4 to give the country the first gold and silver of the day. Ankita Rana then won the second gold for Indian in women's singles by beating Prerna Bhambri 6-1, 6-0 in the final.
In table tennis event being held in Shillong, reigning national champions Anthony Amalraj and Manika Batra clinched a hat-trick of gold medals each, helping India make another clean sweep by winning a maximum seven gold and five silver medals to sign off in resounding fashion.
Five-time former national champion Mouma Das denied reigning national champion Manika fourth gold after winning in a marathon battle.
Meanwhile, rising star Ruthvika Shivani created the biggest upset stunning P V Sindhu 21-11, 22-20 to win the women's singles gold medal with India bagging seven gold and five silver medals from badminton. K Srikanth become men's singles champion with 11-21, 21-14, 21-6 win over HS Prannoy. Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa beat Sikki Reddy and Kukapalli 21-9, 21-17.
Elsewhere, Indian men's football prevailed 3-2 over Maldives in a crucial match to reach the semi-finals.
Gaganpreet Singh struck twice as Indian men's hockey team thrashed Sri lanka 3-0 to set up a mouth-watering clash with arch-rivals Pakistan in the finals.