Guwahati/Shillong, Feb. 10: Hosts India crossed the 100-medal mark in earning gold with an overall tally of 117 gold, 61 silver and 16 bronze medals. Sri Lanka were second with 24 gold, 46 silver and 63 bronze followed by Pakistan with seven gold, 20 silver and 32 bronze in the third place.
India also dominated the tennis courts in the 12th South Asian Games at the All Assam Tennis Association Complex at Chachal here, bagging all the three gold and as many silver medals at stake today.
In-form Ankita Raina of India clinched gold after posting a thumping 6-1, 6-0 victory against teammate Prerna Bhambri in the women's singles final.
In another all-India match, the duo of Ramkumar Ramanathan and Prasanth Vijay Sunder won gold getting the better of Divij Sharan and Sanam Singh 6-3, 6-4.
In mixed doubles final, also an all-India affair, the pair of Divij and Ankita confronted a fight in the second set after a cakewalk in the first against Sanam Singh and Prarthna Thombre to win 6-2, 7-6 (3).
The Indians have also ensured two more gold medals tomorrow by setting up an all-Indian title clash.
Tomorrow, Saketh Myneni will play Ramkumar Ramanathan in the men's singles final. In the women's doubles final, Prarthna Thombre and Sharrmadaa Balu of India will lock horns with Rishika Sunkara and Natasha Palha.
The Indians also swept the squash team event, lifting the men and women's titles in the round robin league tournament at the R.G. Baruah Sports Complex squash complex in Guwahati. Pakistan finished runners-up in both the events.
The men's team comprised Saurav Ghoshal, Kush Kumar and Ravi Dikshit and the women's team consisted of Dipika Pallikal, Joshana Chinappa, Sunayna Kuruvilla and Akanksha Salunkhe.
The Indian domination in the track and field events continued for the second straight day with the hosts bagging nine of the 14 gold medals at stake at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati.
In hockey, India handed a 3-0 defeat to Sri Lanka at the M. Tayebulla Hockey Stadium in Guwahati to set up Friday's title clash with arch- rival Pakistan, who have been unbeaten so far.
Sri Lankans Matthew Abeysinghe and Kimiko Raheem reigned at the Zakir Hussain Aquatics Complex with Abeysinghe accounting for 10 medals, including seven gold.
He added two gold and a silver to his overnight tally of five gold and one silver.
Kimiko tallied five gold and a silver. The Lankans missed another gold in 4x100 m women's relay with the team disqualified for a false start by Kimiko's sister Machiko Raheem. India were declared winners in the event. "We have defeated Indians after 25 years, which is an achievement. We are now focused on the Rio Olympics," said Abeysinghe.
India bagged five gold medals on the last day today.
In men's football, hosts India booked a semi-finals berth with a 3-2 victory over the Maldives at SAI sports complex in Guwahati.
In Shillong, 18-year-old Indian shuttler Ruthvika Shivani Gadde pulled off the surprise of the so far, defeating compatriot P.V. Sindhu 21-11, 22-20 in the women's badminton singles final here today.
Ruthvika blazed through the first game, but Sindhu came back to give her a tougher time in the second. Ultimately, Ruthvika prevailed against the more experienced Sindhu, whose most recent title came at the Malaysian Masters Grand Prix.
In table tennis, the women's singles table tennis final saw veteran Mouma Das overcome national champion Manika Batra in a gruelling seven-game encounter 4-3 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Sports Hall in the afternoon.
However, the men's final ended prematurely after G. Sathiyan had to pull out in the fourth game after an injury to his playing hand. That gave national men's champion Anthony Amalraj the gold medal.
In shooting at the Sports Shooting Range in Guwahati, hosts India tallied two gold in the 50-metre pistol men's team event through Omkar Singh, P.N. Prakash and Om Prakash and in the 10metre air rifle women's team event through Apurvi Chandela, Pooja Ghatkar and Koshy E. Susan.
India also had a very successful day in wushu, with the men and women's teams bagging top place in taijiquan and taijijian. M. Gyandas Singh grabbed the gold, Nepal's Hari Prashad Gole took the silver and Md Rahmotullah Kisor of Bangladesh got the bronze.
In the women's event, L Sanatombi Chanu took the gold, ahead of Sabita Rai (Nepal) and Komal Emmanuel of Pakistan.
In sanshou, India took home six gold medals and one silver. Yumnam Sanathoi Devi, Kesisham Arunpama Devi, Puja Kadian, Uchit Sharma, Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh and Ravi Panchal were India's gold medal winners.
