Sri Lanka's first boxing gold medal at a Commonwealth Games in 72 years, won by bantamweight Manju Wanniarachchi, was among the highlights on the penultimate day of competition in Delhi.
With 29 gold medals awarded in total, Wanniarachchi's victory over Welshman Sean McGoldrick only came about via a countback because the judges believed he had shown more aggression throughout after the pair finished locked together on 7-7.
Sri Lanka did manage two silver medals and a bronze in the 1950 Games in Auckland but not since Barney Henricus in the 1938 Empire Games in Sydney had a Sri Lankan tasted victory in the ring at this event.
Northern Irishman Paddy Barnes beat Namibian Jafet Uutoni 8-4 to claim the light flyweight title, England's Thomas Stalker easily beat Scot Josh Taylor to take the lightweight crown, and Barnes' countryman Patrick Gallagher downed Stalker's compatriot Callum Smith 11-6 in the welterweight division.
Scot Callum Johnson crushed Northern Ireland's Thomas McCarthy 8-1 in the light heavyweight class, local Suranjoy Mayengbam had a walkover in the flyweight category after Kenyan Benson Njangiru didn't compete and Indian Manoj Kumar thrashed Englishman Bradley Saunders 11-2 in the light welterweight division.
Northern Irish middleweight Eamonn O'Kane made short work of England's Anthony Ogogo, winning 16-4, while English heavyweight Simon Vallily knocked Northern Ireland's Steven Ward out in the first round and in the super heavyweight division Indian Paramjeet Samota beat Trinidad's Tariq Abdul Haqq 5-1.
In the cycling individual time trials Canadian Tara Whitten clocked 38:59.30 to beat Kiwi Linda Villumsen (39:04.15) and Englishwoman Julia Shaw (39:09.52) in the women's 29km event while Scot David Millar (47:18.66) won the 40km men's title from England's Alex Dowsett (48:13.48) and Australian Luke Durbridge (48:19.22).
The men's 10m platform diving title went to English world champion Tom Daley, who finished strongly to tally 538.35 points and easily beat Australia's Olympic champion Matthew Mitcham (509.15), with Malaysian Bryan Lomas (487.15) taking bronze.
In the women's singles final of the lawn bowls New Zealander Val Smith proved no match for Natalie Melmore, the Englishwoman winning the first set 7-6 before running away to an 11-2 triumph in the second.
Welshman Robert Weale had to overcome a lapse late in the second set as his Australian opponent Leif Selby fought back superbly but he eventually prevailed in the tie-break to take out the lawn bowls men's singles.
Singaporean Bin Gai won gold in the men's 25m standard pistol shooting with a final total of 570 enough to comfortably account for Roger Daniel (563) of Trinidad and Indian Samaresh Jung (559).
Englishman Parag Patel (396) narrowly won the full bore singles from Australian James Corbett (395) and Northern Ireland's David Calvert (393) while in the pairs Kiwis Mike Collings and John Snowden (588) combined to down Scots Angus McLeod and Ian Shaw (587) and Patel and Jon Underwood (584).
Pei Ng of Malaysia won a shootoff against local Heena Sidhu after the pair couldn't be separated in regulation with matching totals of 383 in the women's 10m air pistol, while Australian Dina Aspandiyarova (380) was third.
Englishman Jonathan Hammond (595) narrowly beat Australian Warren Potent (594) in the men's singles 50m rifle prone, with Northern Ireland's Matthew Hall (593) taking bronze and the men's singles skeet gold went to England's Richard Brickell (144) in a shootoff from Georgios Achilleos (144) with another Cypriot, Andreas Chaskios (143) in