Indian sportsmen kick starts the medals tally in commonwealth games. Gururaja bagged silver in the category of 56 kg weightlifting. Izhar Ahmed (Malaysia) has won gold with a new Commonwealth Games record of 261 kg while Gururaja followed him with 249 kg. Gururaja who hails from Karnataka has overcome many hardships to reach the present position. Hailing from the family of a truck driver, he started his career as a wrestler. However a coach found him to be much fit for weightlifting and advised him to change his field. And of course the advice did prove to be perfect!