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Commonwealth Games 2018 Day 8 Highlights: Aussies beat India in Women’s Hockey SF; Punia, Dhillon win medals in Discus throw
This blog will keep a track of India's performance in the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2018.
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Women’s Hockey Semi-Final: Australia has defeated India 1-0. Grace Stewart scored for the Aussies. India will now play against England on April 14 for the bronze medal.
Women’s Hockey Semi-Final: Australia have taken the lead with a goal by Grace Stewart (3rd Quarter).
Table Tennis | Women's Singles Quarterfinal 3: India’s Mouma Das has lost to Singapore's Mengyu Yu in the QF. Mouma lost 1-4 against the Singaporean.
Women's Discus throw final: India’s Seema Punia clinches a silver medal just ahead of Navjeet Dhillon, who bags a bronze medal. Australia’s Dani Stevens has won the gold.
Seema made a massive throw of 60.41 m while Dhillion’s best today was 57.43 m.
Women's Long Jump Final: Nayana James and Nellickal V Neena finish 10th and 12th respectively.
Table Tennis | Women's Singles Quarterfinal 3: India’s Mouma Das trails Singapore’s Mengyu Yu 1-4. (Image: CWG 2018 website)
Badminton | Women's Doubles Round of 16: India’s Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy beat Singapore’s Ren-Ne Ong and Jia Ying Crystal Wong 2-0 (21-18, 21-13) to enter the Quarter-Finals.
Indian Chef-de-Mission denies issuing upgraded accreditation to shooter's father
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Kiran claims bronze in women's 76 kg freestyle
Rahul Aware wins gold in men's 57 kg freestyle
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Tejaswini Sawant bags silver in women's 50m rifle prone
Tejaswini Sawant bags silver in 50m rifle prone finals
Here's a list of upcoming matches for medals:
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Here's a quick recap of events at the Commonwealth Games 2018 so far:
Indian wrestlers get easy wins in qualifying rounds
Badminton | Women's Singles Round of 16: Saina Nehwal defeated Isle of Man’s Jessica Li today. This was after Li retired from the match midway. Nehwal had won the first game 21-04 and was leading in the second game 2-0 when the play ended.
Nehwal will play Canada’s Rachel Honderich in the Quarter-Final.
Maharashtra government announces cash rewards for medal winners
The Maharashtra government today announced cash prizes for those who bagged medals in the ongoing Commonwealth Games Gold Coast.
A release issued by the Chief Minister's office stated that Madhurika Patkar and Pooja Sahasrabuddhe, both from Thane, and Sanil Shetty have bagged gold in table tennis.
Also, Chirag C Shetty of Vile Parle has bagged a gold medal in badminton. Besides, Heena Sidhu, who lives in the Mumbai suburb of Goregaon, has won a gold and silver medal in two categories of pistol shooting, it said.
The release stated that each gold medal winner will be rewarded with a cash prize of Rs 50 lakh, silver medallists with Rs 30 lakh and bronze winners will be awarded Rs 20 lakh each.
Besides, their coaches shall be honoured with Rs 12.5 lakh, Rs 7.5 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, respectively for each gold, silver and bronze medal won by the players from the state.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sports Minister Vinod Tawde congratulated the winners. (PTI)
With two medals from Seema Punia and Navjeet Dhillon in Women’s Discus throw, India’s medal tally is:
Gold: 14
Silver: 07
Bronze: 10
Left: India's Babita Kumari won the silver medal in Women’s Freestyle 53kg Nordic, playing against Canada's Diana Weicker.
Right: Rahul Aware won the gold medal in men's freestyle 57kg wrestling on Thursday. (Images: PTI)
Women’s Hockey Semi-Final: Australia has defeated India 1-0. Grace Stewart scored for the Aussies. India will now play against England on April 14 for the bronze medal.
Women’s Hockey Semi-Final: Australia have taken the lead with a goal by Grace Stewart (3rd Quarter).
Squash dispatch | Dipika Pallikal- Saurav Ghosal advance to Semis, Chinappa-Sandhu crash out
Indian duo Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal have advanced to the Semi-Finals of the Squash mixed double's event even as compatriots Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Pal Sandhu crashed out of the CWG 2018 today.
The fifth seeded pair, who had a shaky pre-quarterfinal match against a Malaysian duo, was in terrific touch in the quarterfinal match against third seed Tesni Evans and Peter Creed of Wales.
The match witnessed a surfeit of rallies and eventually it was the skill in finding the corners and nick that mattered. Both Saurav and Dipika never left anything to chance and played with a lot of confidence to script a 11-8, 11-10 win and stun the fancied opponents.
They will face top seeds Joelle King and Paul Coll of New Zealand in the semifinals tomorrow.
Coll and King ousted the other pairing of Chinappa and Sandhu and even their best efforts could not help the Indians against the Kiwis.
To say that the New Zealanders managed to scrape through would be right, as the match could not have gone closer with the final score reading 11-10 11-10 in favour of Coll and King.
Men’s Squash update
Vikram Malhotra and Ramit Tandon continued their good work with a solid win over the Jamaican pair of Christopher Binnie and Lewis Walters 11-4 11-10 for a place in the men's doubles quarterfinals.
The Indian pair had got a walkover from Sierra Leone's Ernest Jombla and Yusif Mansaray in their last pool match.
Malhotra and Tandon will next face the fourth seeded pairing of England's James Declan and Willstrop James in the quarterfinals tomorrow. (PTI)
Table Tennis | Women's Singles Quarterfinal 3: India’s Mouma Das has lost to Singapore's Mengyu Yu in the QF. Mouma lost 1-4 against the Singaporean.
Women's Discus throw final: India’s Seema Punia clinches a silver medal just ahead of Navjeet Dhillon, who bags a bronze medal. Australia’s Dani Stevens has won the gold.
Seema made a massive throw of 60.41 m while Dhillion’s best today was 57.43 m.
Women's Long Jump Final: Nayana James and Nellickal V Neena finish 10th and 12th respectively.
Table Tennis | Women's Singles Quarterfinal 3: India’s Mouma Das trails Singapore’s Mengyu Yu 1-4. (Image: CWG 2018 website)
India vs Australia, Women’s Hockey Semi-Final witnesses no goals in the first quarter.
Australia 0-0 India, end of First Quarter
Women’s Hockey Semi-Final: India vs Australia is under way.
Table Tennis | Women's Singles Quarterfinal 3: India’s Mouma Das trails Singapore’s Mengyu Yu 0-2.
Women's Long Jump Final: Nayana James and Nellickal V Neena continue to trail after three attempts each. They are currently at the bottom of the table.
Badminton | Women's Doubles Round of 16: India’s Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy beat Singapore’s Ren-Ne Ong and Jia Ying Crystal Wong 2-0 (21-18, 21-13) to enter the Quarter-Finals.
Here’s how the Women’s Hockey team has performed so far at CWG 2018 (in Pool A):
India 2-3 Wales (April 5)
India 4-1 Malaysia (April 6)
India 1-2 England (April 8)
India 1-0 South Africa (April 10)
A win today against Australia would take them to the final while a loss would place them against either England or New Zealand in the Third-Place match for the bronze medal.
The Men’s Hockey team will be playing their Semi-Final match against New Zealand tomorrow.
Reminder: India will take on Australia in the Women’s Hockey Semi-Final at 16:45 IST.
Women's Long Jump Final:
Nayana James has jumped 6.05 m while Nellickal V Neena has jumped 6.01 m in their second attempts. Both are in the bottom half of the table, after the first round.
Badminton: Women's Doubles Round of 16
India’s Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy are currently playing against Singapore’s Ren-Ne Ong and Jia Ying Crystal Wong in their Women's Doubles Round of 16 match.
India is currently having a slight advantage over Singapore after around 8 minutes in Game 1.
Women's Long Jump Final: India’s Nayana James has jumped 6.14 m and Nellickal V Neena have jumped 5.90 m, in her first attempts respectively.
Women's Long Jump Final has begun. Nellickal V Neena and Nayana James are representing India.
Indian Chef-de-Mission denies issuing upgraded accreditation to shooter's father
India's Chef-de-mission for the Commonwealth Games, Vikram Sisodia today denied issuing accreditation to the father of a shooter, who tried to enter the athletes lounge at the Belmont Shooting Center in Brisbane city.
"It has been reported in one of the newspaper that one of the shooters father Mr Vinay Varman has been issued upgrade pass or accreditation from the Chef De Mission's office...no accreditation upgrade Pass has been issued from the CDM office to any shooter's father or to any personal coach from the shooting contingent," Sisodia said in a brief statement.
Double trap shooter Varsha Varman's father Vinay Varman had tried to enter the athletes' lounge at the range but was stopped by the officials of the National Rifles Association of India.
Varsha had finished fourth in the women's double trap event yesterday. (PTI)
Table Tennis | Indian men's doubles pair of Achanta Sharath and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran move into quarterfinals of CWG 2018.
Squash | Indian pair Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal enter semi-finals in mixed doubles after defeating Welsh pair Tesni Evans and Peter Creed.