September 20, 2024

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India at CWG 2022 Day 7 wrap: Sudhir wins sixth gold for India, Murali Sreeshankar wins lengthy leap silver

Some other eventful day for the Indian contingent on the Commonwealth Video games noticed the medal’s tally build up with extra confident to be added to the column within the coming days.

Para powerlifter Sudhir claimed the country’s 6th gold medal at CWG whilst Murali Sreeshankar lived as much as expectancies on 4th August in Birmingham. The boxing stars additionally inspired and feature been confident of medals because the likes of PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen stepped forward to the following spherical in badminton.

The hockey males’s crew stepped forward to the semifinals, regardless that it was once a blended day in squash.

PARA POWERLIFTING: SUDHIR WINS GOLD

Parapowerlifter Sudhir on Thursday, August 4 added to India’s gold medal tally on the Commonwealth Video games 2022 in Birmingham as he received the lads’s heavyweight match with a brand new Video games document.

Sudhir, who hails from Sonipat in Haryana, set a brand new Commonwealth Video games document together with his 2d elevate of 212kg, with which he received 134.5 issues, which helped him clinch the gold medal. Sudhir’s frame weight was once indexed at 87.30kg together with his rack top at 14.

ATHLETICS: MURALI CLAIMS SILVER

Murali Sreeshankar scripted historical past for India on Thursday, August 4 because the teen from Kerala turned into the primary male lengthy jumper to win a Silver medal on the Commonwealth Video games.

The 23-year-old were given at the podium with a leap of 8.08 m.

Murali Sreeshankar joins Suresh Babu in an elite checklist as the one second Indian male lengthy jumper to win a medal.

ATHLETICS: HIMA DAS QUALIFIES FOR 200 M SEMIFINAL

Hima Das certified for the semi-finals of the Girls’s 200m warmth of the Commonwealth Video games 2022 in Birmingham on 4th August.

The 22-year-old from Assam completed on most sensible after completing the race in 23.42 seconds.

ATHLETICS: MANJU BALA ADVANCES, SARITA SINGH MISSES OUT

India’s Manju Bala complex to the ladies’s hammer throw last with a throw of 59.68m however Sarita Singh neglected out. The cut-off for qualification was once 68.00m however Manju controlled to qualify as a result of she completed within the most sensible 12.

BADMINTON: PV SINDHU ADVANCES

With a most sensible effort, PV Sindhu certified for the Spherical of 16 within the badminton ladies’s singles of the Commonwealth Video games 2022. The 2-time Olympic medallist defeated Maldives’ Fathimath Nabaaha Abdul Razzaq 21-4, 21-11 within the Spherical of 32 fit on the NEC Badminton Display Courtroom in Birmingham.

BADMINTON: SRIKANTH PROGRESSES TO THE MEN’S ROUND OF 16

Kidambi Srikanth defeated Uganda’s Daniel Wanagaliya 21-9, 21-9 within the Spherical of 32 fit at NEC Corridor 5 to growth to the lads’s singles spherical of 16.

Srikanth appeared dominating proper from the outset and made gentle paintings of the participant from Uganda.

BOXING: AMIT PANGHAL ASSURED OF MEDAL

Indian boxer Amit Panghal confident himself of a Commonwealth Video games medal with a complete win over Lennon Mulligan of Scotland as he stormed into the lads’s flyweight (51kg) semifinals on Thursday.

Panghal received the bout by the use of unanimous resolution.

BOXING: JAISMINE REACHES SEMIS

Jaismine Lamboriya confident India any other medal from boxing with a scientific efficiency on Thursday.

Jaismine defeated Troy Garton of New Zealand to succeed in the semifinals of the ladies’s light-weight (60 kg) class.

BOXING: SAGAR STORMS INTO SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT SEMIS

Tremendous Heavyweight boxer Sagar Ahlawat ensured any other medal for India after profitable his (+92kg) quarter-final towards Seychelles’ Keddy Agnes on the Commonwealth Video games on Thursday.

Previous, Sagar defeated India’s No. 1 tremendous heavyweight and 2020 Tokyo quarterfinalist Satish Kumar 5-0 and reigning nationwide champion Narender within the trials for males’s +92kg to e book his position for the Commonwealth Video games.

BOXING: TOKAS ENSURES 7TH BOXING MEDAL

India’s Rohit Tokas bulldozed his means into the semifinals of the Welterweight boxing class with an emphatic 5-0 win over Niue’s Xavier Mata’afa-Ikinofo on Thursday.

The Indian boxer was once awarded the win by the use of unanimous resolution and were given the outcome via a 5-0 margin.

HOCKEY: INDIA MEN’S TEAM REACHES SEMIS

A Harmanpreet Singh hattrick ensured India’s protected passage into the lads’s hockey semifinals on Thursday because the crew defeated Wales 4-1.

The free-scoring Indian crew could have their last 4 fit on sixth August.

SQUASH: DIPIKA-SOURAV ADVANCE, JOSHNA-HARINDER BOW OUT

Reigning international champions Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal stormed into the blended doubles squash quarter-finals on the Commonwealth Video games 2022 on Thursday, August 4. Dipika and Saurav, the highest seeds, defeated Emily Whitlock and Peter Creed of Wales 2-0 within the Spherical of 16 blended doubles fit.

The skilled blended doubles duo of Joshna Chinappa and Harinderpal Sandhu, then again, suffered an 8-11 11th of September defeat of their spherical of 16 fit towards Australia’s Donna Lobban and Cameron Pilley.

PARA TABLE TENNIS: BHAVINA, SONALBEN REACH SEMIS, BABY SAHANA CRASHES OUT

India’s ace para desk tennis avid gamers Bhavina Patel and Sonalben Patel reached the semifinal of the ladies’s singles class on the ongoing Commonwealth Video games 2022 in Birmingham on Thursday. Sonalben defeated Nigeria’s Chinenye Obiora whilst Bhavina beat Akanisi Latu of Fiji on the ongoing Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham on Thursday.

Child Sahana Ravi crashed out of the ladies’s singles festival after shedding to Yang Qian of Australia.

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