CWG'14: Gowda Lands Discus Gold, Wrestlers Yogeshwar, Babita Triumph

Gowda's best throw came on his third attempt, as he bettered his throw each time from 60.63m to 62.09 to 63.64. But his fourth and sixth attempts were disqualified with the fifth reading 62.17m.

In the wrestling arena. Olympic bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt beat Jevon Balfour of Canada in the men's freestyle 65kg category final. The Indian was declared the winner on grounds of technical superiority after he took a 10-0 lead within 1.53 minutes of the first period.

Babita Kumari began the country's gold conquest on the mat Thursday by putting on a stunning show to prevail over Canada's Brittanee Laverdure in the women's 55kg freestyle category summit clash at the SECC Hall.

The 24-year-old Babita, who had bagged the silver in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, won 9-2 against the 32-year-old Brittanee, who ended up injuring her finger during the bout.

Babita dominated most of the proceedings and it was only in the last 15 seconds that Brittanne managed to open her scoring but by then it was all over.

India's grappler Geetika Jakhar had to settle for the silver medal after she lost the women's freestyle 63 kg final to Canada's Danielle Lappage.The 28-year-old Geetika proved no match for the 23-year-old Danielle, who won 7-0.

Wrestler Pawan Kumar earlier came from behind to win against Pakistan's Muhammad Inam to clinch the bronze medal in the men's freestlye 86kg category. The two wrestlers were tied at 6-6 but Pawan was adjudged the winner since he scored the last point.

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