Gold Coast 2018: Canada, India chase the hosts Australia, England in medal hunt

Gold Coast 2018: Canada, India chase the hosts Australia, England in medal hunt: While Australia continues to be undisputed leader in the medals tally with 57 medals, including 20 gold, India and Canada are locked in a close battle for position three behind England. At the end of competitions on Day 3 of the XXIst Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast while India added two lifting gold medals to its tally, Canada got a little better with three more gold medals as England remained firmly saddled in position 2 with 14 gold medals in its tally of 33.

What Canada and India had common on day 3 was gold medals in weightlifting. India has all its four gold medals from weightlifting, Maude Charron became Team Canada's first weightlifter to top the podium on the Gold Coast. The Canadian won the 63kg category with a Commonwealth Games record setting clean and jerk of 122kg.

For India Shatish Kumar in 77 kg and Ragala Venkat Rahul in 86 kg category won gold medals to keep their country in close run with Canada in medals tally.

In artistic gymnastics ,Ellie Black of Canada took top honours in the women's individual all-around, striking gold for the second time in two days. The world bronze medallist, cliched gold in the women's team event the day before, and came back to win the women's individual all-around after a stellar floor routine.

In hockey, while India suffered a last minute reverse to split points with its traditional rival and neighbour Pakistan with a 2-2 draw, Canada got full points with a solitary goal win over Scotland

For Canada, it was a big day in the Gold Coast 2018 pool, with a double podium in the women's 100m backstroke. World champion Kylie Masse topped the podium winning the event in 58.63 seconds lowering her Commonwealth Games record, while Taylor Ruck claimed her third medal of the Games touching the wall at 58.97s to claim bronze. However, that wasn't Ruck's only podium of the day, the 17-year-old also raced to silver in the 50m freestyle and joined Penny Oleshiak, Kayla Sanchez and Rebecca Smith to secure silver in 4x200m free relay.

Paralympic swimmer Aurelie Rivard also claimed silver in the women's SM10 200m individual medley.

—PTC News