CWG: India opens athletics account with silver, bronze in women's discus

Double Olympic-medallist Sushil Kumar and Rahul Aware pushed India's Gold medal tally to 14 on the eighth day of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018

Discus throwers Seema Punia and Navjeet Dhillon won the silver and bronze medals respectively in the women's discus finals at the ongoing 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast on Thursday.

Punia, after failing to cross the 60m-mark in five attempts out of six, settled for the silver medal. Her third and fifth throws were fouls.

Her first and best throw was 60.41m, while Dhillon's was 57.43m.

Dhillon's threw 55.61m, 56.22m, 54.09m and 57.43m, and fouled on her second and third attempt.

Double Olympic-medallist Sushil Kumar and Rahul Aware pushed India's Gold medal tally to 14 on the eighth day of the Gold