Commonwealth Games 2018 – Day 6: Highlights and Medal Standing
Medal Standing
|
Rank |
Country |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
|
1 |
Australia |
50 |
38 |
42 |
130 |
|
2 |
England |
24 |
29 |
21 |
74 |
|
3 |
India |
11 |
4 |
6 |
21 |
|
4 |
New Zealand |
9 |
10 |
7 |
26 |
|
5 |
South Africa |
9 |
6 |
6 |
21 |
|
28 |
Pakistan |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
Highlights
· Australian athletes dominated the Athletics event as they took 8 Gold medals followed by Jamaica whose athletes added 5 medals to their tally.
· The men’s Cycling event was won by Australia’s Cameron Meyer and the women’s event was won by Australia’s Katrin Garfoot.
· A proud day for Nigeria as their athletes took 6 medals in 4 events to dominate the sport of Para Powerlifting at the commonwealth games today.
· India’s Heena Sidhu won a Gold medal for her country in the Women’s 25m Pistol Finals after beating Australia’s Elena Galiabovitch and Malaysia’s Alia Sazana Azahari who won Silver and Bronze respectively.
· The Swimming event had been dominated by Australia from Day 1 and Day 5 wasn’t as surprise at all. Australian athletes showed their competitive nature as they scored 13 overall medals from this event.
· With a total of 130 medals Australia are firmly leading ahead from England who have only 74 medals to their name so far.
