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  • India at CWG 2022 Day 4 wrap: Shushila and Vijay carry house Judo medals, girls’s crew enters Garden bowls finals

    It used to be some other memorable day for India on the Commonwealth Video games as 3 extra medals had been added to the tally.

    Shushila Devi Likambam and Vijay Kumar Yadav introduced in silver and bronze medals in Judo respectively, whilst Harjinder Kaur added to the Indian weightlifting contingent’s tally in Birmingham.

    The desk tennis and badminton groups have confident India medals whilst the Indian Garden Bowls crew created historical past as they entered their first-ever last.

    Alternatively, there have been a couple of disappointments alongside the best way, as Joshna Chinappa crashed out of the ladies’s singles festival and weightlifter Ajay Singh overlooked out on a medal by means of a whisker.

    The Indian males’s hockey crew additionally had a disappointing day as they let a three-goal merit slip to be held to a 4-4 draw of their 2d sport.

    JUDO: SHUSHILA DEVI WINS SECOND CWG SILVER

    Judoka Shushila Devi Likmabam received her 2d silver on the Commonwealth Video games after shedding the general to Michaela Whitebooi of South Africa within the girls’s 48kg last.

    The fit used to be lightly poised however Likmabam misplaced the bout after Whitebooi used to be ready to execute a throwdown. This used to be Shushila’s 2d silver medal on the Commonwealth Video games, together with her earlier one coming at Glasgow in 2014.

    JUDO: VIJAY KUMAR GETS BRONZE

    Judoka Vijay Kumar Yadav pulled off an implausible efficiency to win the bronze medal with victory over Petros Christodoulides of Cyprus within the males’s 60kg tournament.

    The 26-year-old Yadav, who received the Commonwealth Championships in 2018 and 2019, had misplaced to Joshua Katz of Australia within the quarterfinal however made amends within the repechage.

    WEIGHTLIFTING: HARJINDER CLAIMS BRONZE

    Harjinder Kaur lifted 212 kgs within the girls’s 71kg weightlifting class to win the bronze medal.

    The Indian weightlifter did not have a perfect get started as she failed in her first try however made amends in the rest ones so as to add some other medal to India’s tally.

    WEIGHTLIFTING: AJAY SINGH MISSES OUT ON MEDAL

    Indian weightlifter Ajay Singh overlooked out on a medal by means of a whisker within the males’s 81kg weightlifting finals of the Commonwealth Video games 2022.

    Singh placed on an excellent effort throughout the grab spherical, however couldn’t fairly grasp directly to the highest spot. He used to be in medal rivalry for an important period of time ahead of falling brief.

    LAWN BOWLS: WOMEN’S FOURS TEAM ASSURED OF MEDAL FINISH

    The ladies’s fours crew of Pretty Choubey, Pinki, Nayanmoni Saikia and Rupa Rani Tirkey confident India of a ancient medal in Garden Bowls when they reached the general of the contest.

    India will face South Africa within the gold medal fit on Tuesday, August 2.

    TABLE TENNIS: DEFENDING CHAMPIONS REACH FINAL

    The Indian males’s desk tennis crew have an opportunity of preserving their crown as they defeated Nigeria within the semifinals on Monday.

    Achanta Kamal, Sathyan Gnanasekaran had been in tremendous shape at the day and the crew will face Singapore within the last on 2d August.

    BADMINTON: INDIA REACH FINAL

    Protecting champions India placed on a display in opposition to Singapore within the semi-final of the combined crew badminton tournament as they secured a 3-0 win to e book their spot within the last of the development on Tuesday.

    India can be going through the Malaysian crew within the all-important last because the Indian contingent will glance to shield their crown.

    SQUASH: SOURAV GHOSAL INTO SEMIS

    India’s ace squash participant Saurav Ghosal entered the semis of the lads’s squash singles as he defeated Scotland’s Greg Lobban on Monday.

    Ghosal, who’s ranked fifteenth within the males’s department, will now have the risk to make sure that India will win a medal within the tournament.

    SQUASH: CHINAPPA CRASHES OUT

    Whilst Ghosal advanced, Joshna Chinappa used to be sadly knocked out within the quarterfinals degree of the squash girls’s singles on Monday.

    Chinappa misplaced the fit by means of a margin of 3-0 to Canada’s Hollie Naughton, who used to be too sturdy for the Indian megastar at the day.

    BOXING: HUSSAMUDIN JOINS PANGHAL IN QUARTERS

    India’s Mohammed Hussamudin was the second one boxer on Monday to qualify for the quarterfinals of boxing, after Amit Panghal.

    Panghal had secured his spot within the quarters previous within the day with a win over Namri Berri of Vanuatu by means of a unanimous verdict.

    Hussamudin had defeated Salim Hossain of Bangladesh by means of unanimous choice (5-0) of their spherical of 16 bout.

    HOCKEY: INDIA HELD TO A DRAW BY ENGLAND

    Hosts England staged an implausible comeback to stun India to protected a 4-4 draw on Monday. The Indian crew had taken a 3-0 lead however 3 yellow playing cards all the way through the sport got here again to chunk them because the English gamers used their guy merit to complete impact.

    India will face Canada subsequent on third August.

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