Commonwealth Games 2022 and India
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India's results, day-wise
29 July
August 1, 2022: The Times of India
BADMINTON: Team: India bt Pakistan 3-0 (B Sumeeth Reddy/Machimanda Ponnappa bt Muhammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti/Ghazala Siddique 21-9 21-12; Kidambi Srikanth bt Murad Ali 21-7 21-12; PV Sindhu bt Mahoor Shahzad 21-7 21-6) BOXING: Men: 63. 5kg: Shiva Thapa bt Suleman Baloch (Pak) 5-0. CRICKET: Women: Australia beat India by three wickets. Brief scores: India: 154/8 in 20 overs (Harmanpreet Kaur 52, Shafali Verma 48, Jess Jonassen 4/22) lost to Australia: 157 for 7 in 20 overs (Ashleigh Gardner 52 not out; Renuka Singh 4/18, Deepti Sharma 2/24). CYCLING: Men: Sprint Team (Ronaldo Laitonjam, Y Rojit Singh, David Beckham Elkatohchoongo; 44. 702s) 6th in qualification round; 4000m Team pursuit (Venkappa Kengalagutti, Dinesh Kumar, Vishavjeet Singh 4:12. 865s. 6th); Women: Sprint Team (51. 433. Shushikala Agashe, Triyasha Paul, Mayuri Lute. 51. 433s. 7th) HOCKEY: Women: Pool A: India 5 (Gurjit Kaur 3, 39; Neha Goyal 28; Sangita Kumari 36; Salima Tete 56) bt Ghana 0. LAWN BOWL: Women: Singles: Tania Choudhary lost to Dee Hoggan (Sco) 10-21; lost to Daphne Arthur-Almond (Fal) 20-21; Men: Triples India (Chandan Kumar Singh, Navneet Singh, Mridul Borgohain) lost New Zealand 6-23. lost to Scotland 12-19. TABLE TENNIS: Men: India bt Barbados 3-0 (Harmeet Desai/G Sathiyan bt Kevin Farley/Tyrese Knight 11-9, 11-9, 11-4; Sharath Kamal bt Ramon Maxwell 11-5, 11-3, 11-3; Sathiyan bt Tyrese Knight 11-4, 11-4, 11-5); Women: India bt South Africa 3-0 (Sreeja Akula/Reeth Tennison bt Lailaa Edwards/Danisha Patel 11-7 11-7 11-5; Manika Batra bt Musfique Kalam 11-5 11-3 11-2; Akula bt Patel 11-5 11-3 11-6) SWIMMING: Men: 100m backstroke: Heat 4: 3. Srihari Nataraj (54. 68s); 50m butterfly: Heat 6: 8. Sajan Prakash (25. 01s); 400m freestyle: Heat 3: 8. Kushagra Rawat (3:57. 45s). TRIATHLON: Men: Sprint Distance (final): 30. Adarsh Muralidharan Nair Sinimol (1:00. 38s); 33. Vishwanath Yadav (1:02. 52s); Women: Sprint Distance (final): 26. Pragnya Mohan (1:07. 27s); 28. Sanjana Sunil Joshi (1:09. 00s)
30 July
July 31, 2022: The Times of India
A THLETICS: Men: Marathon: 12. Nitendra S ingh Rawat (2:19. 22s) B ADMINTON: Mixed Team: Group A: India bt S ri Lanka 5-0 (Ashwini Ponnappa/S atwiksairaj Rankireddy bt Sachin Dias/ T hilini Hendahewa 21-14, 21-9; Lakshya Sen bt Niluka Karunatne 21-18 ,21-5; Akarshi Kashyap bt Suhasni Vidanage 21-3 21-9; B Sumeeth Reddy/Chirag Shetty bt Dumindu Abeywickrama/Sachin Dias 21-10, 21-13; Gayatri Gopichand/Tressa Jolly bt Thilini Hendahewa/Vidara Suhasni Vidanage 21-18, 21-6). BOXING: Men: 57kg: R32: Mohammad Hussamuddin bt Amzolele Dyeyi (South Africa) 5-0. CYCLING: Men: 4000m Team Pursuit: 6th India (Vishwajeet Singh, Naman Kapil, Venkappa Kengalagutti, Anantha Narayanan, Dinesh Kumar) 4:12. 865s. Sprint: 6th India (Ronaldo Laitonjam, David Beckham Elkatohchoongo, Y Rojit Singh) 44. 702s; Women: Sprint: 20. Mayuri Lute (11. 542s), 23. Trisha Paul (11. 813s). Team: 7th India (Mayuri, Triyasha, Shushikal Agash) 51. 433s. GYMNASTICS: Men: All-around: 16. Yogeshwar Singh (73. 600 Q). Team: India 8. (Yogeshwar, Saif Tamboli, Satyajit Mondal) 108. 900 pts. Floor Exercise: 30. Yogeshwar (11. 300), 40. Mondal (7. 850); Pommel Horse: 29. Yogeshwar (11. 200); Rings: 28. Yogeshwar (11. 950); Vault: 9. Mondal (13. 475, Reserve 1), 14. Yogeshwar (12. 950); Parallel Bars: 9. Tamboli (14. 050, R1). , 18. Yogeshwar (13. 450). Horizontal Bar: 19. Yogeshwar (12. 900). LAWN BOWLS: Women: Tania Choudhary lost to Laura Daniels (Wal) 10-21; Men: Triples (Navneet Singh, Mridul Borgohain, Chandan Kumar Singh) tied against Malta 16-16. SQUASH: Men: R32: Saurav Ghosal bt Shameel Wakeel (Sri) 11-4, 11-4, 11-6; Ramit Tandon lost to Christopher Binnie (Jam) w/o. R64: Abhay Singh bt Joe Chapman (BVG) 11-5, 11-5, 11-5;
Women: R32: Joshana Chinappa bt Meagan Best (Bar) 11-8, 11-9, 12-10; Sunayna Sara Kuruvilla lost to Aifa Azman (Mal) 8-11, 7-11, 7-11. R64: Anahat Singh bt Jada Ross (St V & G) 11-5, 11-2, 11-0. SWIMMING: Men: 100m backstroke (semis): 4. Srihari Nataraj (54. 55s Q); 100m backstroke S9 (Final): 8. Ashish Kumar Singh (1:18. 21s); 200m freestyle (Heat 3): 8. Kushagra Rawat (1:54. 55s). TABLE TENNIS: Men: India bt Northern Ireland 3-0 (Sharath Kamal/Harmeet Desai bt James Skelton /Owen Cathcart 11-3, 9-11, 11-6, 11-1; Sanil Shetty bt Paul McCreery 11-5, 15-13, 11-6; Harmeet Desai bt Owen Cathcart 5-11, 11-11-9, 12-14, 11-3, 11-6); Women: Team: Group II: India bt Guyana 3-0 (Sreeja Akula/Reeth Tennison bt Natalie Cummings/Chelsea Edghill 11-5, 11-7, 11-7; Manika Batra bt Thuraia Thomas 11-1, 11-3, 11-3; Reeth bt Edghill 11-7, 14-12, 13-11). WEIGHTLIFTING: Men: 55kg: Silver: Sanket Sargar 248kg (113kg+135kg). 61kg: Bronze: P Gururaja 269kg (118kg+151kg); Women: 49kg: Gold: S Mirabai Chanu 201 kg GR (88 CR GR, 113 GR).
31 July 2022
August 1, 2022: The Times of India
August 1, 2022: The Times of India
Gold
Egged on by idol and CWG gold medallist Mirabai Chanu, reigning Youth Olympic champion Jeremy Lalrinnunga (19) battled pain to lift a record 140kg in snatch & 160kg in clean & jerk to register 300kg, a new CWG mark (in 67kg) Hours later, Achinta Sheuli (20) fulfilled his dad’s last wish to win India’s third gold, lifting a record 313kg (143kg in snatch & 170kg clean & jerk) in the 73kg category
Silver
Bindyarani Devi won silver in the women’s 55kg category late on Saturday. India’s medals so far have all been won by weightlifters
CRICKET:
Indian women beat Pak (99) by 8 wkts to boost their chances of a semis berth. Smriti Mandhana hit 63* as India won in 11. 4 overs
BADMINTON:
Mixed Team: Pool A: India bt Australia 3-0 (Kidambi Srikanth bt Lin Xiang Ying 21-14 21-13; PV Sindhu bt Chen Wendy Hsuan-Yu 21-10 21-12; Sumeeth/Chirag bt Tran Hoang Pham/Jack Yu 21-16 21-19). BOXING: Men: 63. 5kg: R16: Shiva Thapa lost to Reese Lynch (Sco) 1-4; 92kg: R16: Sanjeet lost to Ato Leau Plodzicki-Faoagali (Sam) 2-3; Women: 50kg: R16: Nikhat Zareen bt Helena Ismael Bagao (Moz) RSC 70kg: R16: Lovlina Borgohain (70kg) bt Ariana Nicholson (NZ) 5-0. CRICKET: Women: India beat Pakistan by 8 wickets. Brief Scores: Pakistan: 99 allout in 18 overs (Muneeba Ali 32; Sneh Rana 2/15) lost to India: 102/2 in 11. 4 overs (Smriti Mandhana 63; Tuba Hassan 1/18). CYCLING: Men: Sprint (pre-quarters): Ronaldo Laitonjam (10. 011) lost to Matthew Glaetzer (Aus) by 0. 162s. Qualifying Round: 13. Laitonjam (10. 012s), 18. David Beckham (10. 120), 23. Esow Alben (10. 361). GYMNASTICS: Men: All-Around (final): 15. Yogeshwar Singh (74. 700 points). Women: Team: 9. India (102. 650). All-Around: 16. Ruthuja Nataraj (46. 250 Q), 25. Pranati Nayak (43. 600 R2). Vault: 3. Pranati (13. 275 Q), 12. Protisha Samanta (11. 950). Uneven Bars: 15. Ruthuja (11. 950 R3), 35. Pranati (9. 250). Balance Beam: 22. Ruthuja (11. 350), 26. Pranati (11. 000). Floor Exercise: 31. Ruthuja (10. 650); 35. Pranati (9. 650) HOCKEY: Women: India 3 (Vandana Katariya 26, 48; Gurjit Kaur 28) bt Wales 1 (Xenna Hughes 45) LAWN BOWLS: Men: Pair (Pre-quarters): India (Dinesh Kumar/Sunil Bahadur) bt England 18-15; Women: Tania Choudhary bt Shauna O’Neill (NI) 21-12. SQUASH: Women: R16: Joshna Chinappa bt Kaitlyn Watts (NZ) 11-8 9-11 11-4 11-6. SWIMMING: Men: 100m backstroke (Final): 7. Srihari Nataraj (54. 31s); 50m backstroke: Heat 6: 2. Srihari Natraj (25. 52s Q) 200m butterfly: Heat 3: 4. Sajan Prakash (1:58:99s R) TABLE TENNIS: Men: Team (Quarters): India bt Bangladesh 3-0 (Harmeet Desai/Sathiyan Gnansekaran bt Ramhimilian Bawm/ Mohutasin Ahmed Ridoy 11-8 11-6 11-2; Sharath Kamal bt Md Rifat Sibbar 11-4 11-7 11-2; Gnansekaran bt Ridoy 11-2 11-3 11-5); Women: Quarters: India lost to Malaysia 2-3 (Reeth Tennison/Sreeja Akula lost to Karen Lyne/Li Sian Alice Chang 7-11 6-11 11-5 6-11; Manika Batra bt Ying Ho 11-8 11-5 8-11 9-11 11-3; Akula bt Li Sian Alice Chang 11-6 11-6 11-9; Batra lost to Karen Lyne 6-11 3-11 9-11; Ying Ho bt Tennison 10-12 11-8 6-11 11-9 11-9). WEIGHTLIFTING: Men: 67kg: Gold: Jeremy Lalrinnunga 300 kg (140 kg + 160 kg); Women: 55kg: Silver: Bindyarani Devi 202kg (86kg+116kg); 59kg: 7. Popy Hazarika 183kg (81kg+102kg).
1 August 2022
August 2, 2022: The Times of India
Judoka L Shushila Devi won silver after losing her women’s 48kg final at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. She had also won silver at the Glasgow CWG in 2014. Later, Vijay Yadav won bronze in the men’s 60kg category
ACHINTA: ADVERSITY TO ACHIEVEMENT
Achinta Sheuli, 21, who broke several CWG records on way to a gold in men’s weightlifting 73kg category on Sunday night, realised the wish of his late father, who was a rickshawpuller. He helped his mother with stitching and embroidery work which kept the family afloat even as he trained at a gym in his spare time
Four Indian women created history in a sport very few would have heard of back home – lawn bowls. They entered the final of women’s fours event, defeating New Zealand 16-13 in the semis, and assuring India of at least a silver. They will meet South Africa in the final today This special bunch is led by 38-year-old Lovely Chaubey, a constable with Jharkhand Police. Rupa Rani Tirkey, who too is from Ranchi, works in the sports department. Pinki is a sports teacher at DPS R K Puram in New Delhi while Nayanmoni Saikia comes from a farming family in Assam and works in the state’s forest department
LASHYA BEATS WORLD CHAMP:
India beat Singapore 3-0 in badminton mixed team event, with Lakshya Sen downing world champion Loh Kean Yew. The final’s against Malaysia
DON’T MISS TODAY
Badminton Mixed team final, 10pm Lawn bowls: Women’s fours gold medal match: Ind vs SA, 4. 15 pm Weightlifting: Women’s 76kg: Punam Yadav, 2 pm; Men’s 96kg Vikas Thakur 6. 30 pm
