Wales also got itself on the top step of the podium for the first time in Delhi with European champion Dai Greene winning the 400m hurdles gold ahead of South African defending champion Louis Van Zyl.

His Welsh training partner Rhys Williams was third.

"I am on such a high at this moment. This winter is going to be so easy with all these medals keeping me warm," said Greene.

"There couldn't be any better ending."

Nigeria's Muizat Odumosu took the women's crown, running the race of her life to beat Scotland's Eilidh Child and Jamaica's Nickiesha Boden.

But the women's 200m final failed to go ahead due to a protest from the semi-finals held earlier in the evening involving fastest qualifier Elena Artymata of Cyprus.

She was disqualified for stepping out of her lane with her appeal later turned down.

Eight gold medals were decided in front of a packed Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, as the Games' ticketing woes started being addressed.

Canada's Alice Falaiye won the women's long jump final but the event suffered a worrying moment when Nigeria's Comfort Onyali was stretchered off.

Another Canadian, Nicole Forrester, leapt 1.91 meters to win the women's high jump ahead of Sheree Francis of Jamaica, with Levern Spencer winning bronze -- only the second ever medal for the tiny island of St Lucia.

In the men's discus, Australia's Benn Harradine threw 65.45 meters to take the title, but the big cheers were reserved for local hope Vikas Gowda who grabbed silver ahead of England's Carl Myerscough in bronze.

Baptiste came of age in the 200m, powering over the line in 20.45 seconds ahead of Jamaica's Lansford Spence and Wales' Christian Malcolm and he is now looking forward to tougher opposition.

"Obviously next for me is the tough job of trying to compete with Usain Bolt and the rest of the big guys, but I'm looking forward to it," he said.

Despite 800m world record holder Rudisha not being here, Kenya proved it has plenty of depth in its squad with World Indoor Championships silver medalist Lalang striding to the title.

He led a Kenyan clean sweep with Richard Kipagat second and Abraham Kiplangat third, but their times were well off Steve Cram's Commonwealth record and some five seconds behind Rudisha's 1:41. 1 world best.

"It was not so difficult. We were likely to win the medals and I want to congratulate the guys who ran the race," said Lalang.

"We had planned it to finish one-two-three and it worked great. We didn't say before who had to win, we just let it be decided in the race who was the best."

Meanwhile, Australia's Olympic silver medalist Sally Pearson, who was sensationally stripped of her 100m sprint gold for a false start, put the disappointment behind her to be the fastest into the 100m hurdles final.

Pearson clocked 13. 2 seconds ahead of Canada's Angela Whyte to be clear favorite in the absence of world No.1 Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Canada.

"I have to just move on as best as I can and focus on my real event. That's what I'm here for," she said of the 100m drama.

Another high-profile athlete to miss the Games is South Africa's world 800m champion Caster Semenya.

She pulled out with a back injury just months after the International Association of Athletics Federations ended a controversial probe into her gender that saw her sidelined for almost 11 months.

With Semenya out, Kenya's Nancy Langat, who has already won the 1,500m here, is favorite for the title and she comfortably eased into Monday's final.

Pakistan gained a measure of revenge for their hockey humbling when they claimed their first Commonwealth Games wrestling titles for 40 years, winning two golds through Azhar Hussain in the 55kg and Muhammad Inam in the 84kg.

However, not all the Games' problems have disappeared.

Australia clinched both cycling road race golds, but an eerily quiet Delhi resembled a ghost town as the organizers' hair-trigger security concerns kept spectators away.

Rochelle Gilmore and Allan Davis triumphed on a course, which should have shown off this teeming city of almost 18 million people at its best.

But with TV helicopters relaying majestic views of the riders who passed iconic Connaught Place, India Gate and Parliament House, Delhi organizers were once again embarrassed by yet another event played out with nobody watching.

Apart from soldiers and police, the riders only had the heat, dirt, wild dogs and monkeys for company.

"There wasn't much atmosphere. The crowd was very bare apart from the armed guards everywhere," said English cyclist Katie Conclough.

"It was a shame to have had this big event and not have many people out there to watch it."

In track and field, England's Leon Baptiste streaked to the men's 200m title as Kenya's Boaz Lalang made the most of David Rudisha's no-show to win the 800m.

Lalang led a Kenyan clean sweep of the event - the first for 56 years.

Wales won their first gold in Delhi with European champion Dai Greene taking the 400m hurdles.

Nigeria's Muizat Odumosu took the women's crown but the 200m final failed to go ahead due to a protest from the semi-finals held earlier in the evening.

In weightlifting, Samoa's Niusila Opeloge gave his family and country their second gold of the day when he clinched the 105kg heavyweight title.

Earlier, sister Ele Opeloge won the women's +75kg super-heavyweight title.

Her victory followed Faavae Faauliuli's triumph in the men's 94kg on Saturday which was Samoa's first ever Commonwealth Games gold medal.

India's archers, wrestlers, shooters and a tennis star Sunday bagged five golds between them to take the count to 29 and set the country on course for its biggest gold haul in the Commonwealth Games.

Two archery gold and one each from the shooting range, wrestling arena and tennis stadium took the tally to 29, just one short of the record 30 gold bagged at Manchester Games eight years ago.

Deepika Kumari, the 16-year-old archery sensation, set off Sunday's gold haul by winning in the individual recurve. The daughter of an auto-rickshaw driver in Ranchi, she became India's first individual gold winner from archery in the Games. She beat Athens Olympics bronze medalist Alison Jane Williamson of England 6-0.

Rahul Banerjee also won a gold in individual recurve event while Jayanta Talukdar and veteran Dola Banerjee and got a bronze each.

With four medals coming their way Sunday, India ended their campaign in archery with a rich haul of eight medals - three gold, one silver and four bronze.

Rising tennis star Somdev Devvarman rounded off the day bagging the gold in the men's single's.

There was no let up in the shooters good showing with Harpreet Singh taking the gold in the men's 25 meters center fire pistol event while the silver went to Vijay Kumar after a dramatic four-way shoot-off and former world champion Manavjit Singh Sandhu trapped the bronze.

The fourth gold of the day came from Olympics bonze medalist wrestler Sushil Kumar in the freestyle 66 kg category.

Joginder Kumar and Anuj Kumar won the silver in the freestyle 120kg and 84kg category respectively. Anil Kumar won the bronze in the 55 kg category.

It was an all Indian affair in the women's tennis doubles for the bronze that saw Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthi beating Nirupama Sanjeev and Poojashree Venkatesha.

Vikas Gowda won the silver in the men's discus with his season's best throw of 63.69m.