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Live Update Commonwealth Games 2018, Day 8 in Gold Coast: Sushil Kumar, Rahul Aware Add Golds to Medal Tally
On Day 8 of the 2018 CWG, India's first Gold medal came from the Wrestling mat where Rahul Aware beat Steven Takahashi in the final of the Men's 57kg freestyle wrestling event. After that, the legendary Sushil Kumar took centrestage and absolutely stormed away with the second Gold medal for the day. Before him, Tejaswini Sawant added Silver in the Women's 50m Prone final. Wrestler Babita Kumari also bagged Silver, while Kiran came away with Bronze. Outside the CWG, India's Kidambi Srikanth has become World Number 1.
Day 7 round-up:India dominated the range and the ring as Shreyasi Singh's double trap gold shored up the medal tally while the entire men's Indian boxing contingent made the semifinals to be assured of podium finishes in an unprecedented performance on day 7 of the 21st Commonwealth Games, here on Wednesday.
On the overall medal tally, India held on the third position with 12 gold, four silver and eight bronze medals for a total of 24 so far. This number is expected to jump substantially once the wrestlers begin their campaign tomorrow and the boxing medals are finalised in the next two days.
The Belmont Shooting Centre in Brisbane continued to be a happy hunting ground for Indian shooters and for a fourth successive day the country had a medal to celebrate. Shreyasi, a silver-medallist from the 2014 edition, beat Australia's Emma Cox in a shoot-off to improve the colour of her medal from the last time.
"This is the highest medal of my career, right up there. It is also very special because shooting is not going to be a part of the Commonwealth Games in 2022," said the 26-year-old.
"It would be the one to cherish for a very long time," she added.
There were a couple of bronze-medallists as well in Om Mitharval (50m pistol) and Ankur Mittal (men's double trap). And some disappointment too as 10m air pistol gold-medallist Jitu Rai signed off 8th in the 50m pistol final.
From the range to the Oxenford Studios and it only got better for India. All eight of the male Indian boxers entered the semifinals, while the redoubtable M C Mary Kom (48kg) entered the final.
"It was difficult in the sense that this girl would just not come to me. I had to be careful because she was perhaps waiting for me to let my guard down," Mary Kom said of her defensive opponent, Anusha Dilrukshi Koddithuwakku of Sri Lanka.
Gaurav Solanki (52kg), Vikas Krishan (75kg) and Manish Kaushik (60kg) joined Manoj Kumar (69kg), Satish kumar (+91kg), Amit Panghal (49kg), Naman Tanwar (91kg) and Mohammed Husammuddin (56kg) in the semis, making for a very happy Indian boxing contingent, shepherded by Swedish coach Santiago Nieva.
There was good news from the hockey arena as well with India beating England in their final pool B clash to set up a semifinal with New Zealand. The spark that had been missing so far from their campaign was rediscovered to an extent and coach Sjoerd Marijne said he could finally recognize his team again.
On the badminton court, the stars of the mixed team's gold medal winning campaign began their singles run and with easy opponents in opening rounds and the likes of P V Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and K Srikanth hardly took less than 20 minutes each to move into the pre-quarters.
Most of the table tennis and squash players made their way into pre-quarters of their respective individual and doubles events. In squash, the spotlight is on defending gold medallists Joshna Chinnappa and Dipika Pallikal, who won their opening match today.
There was disappointment in the athletics arena where high jump hope Tejaswin Shankar ended up sixth after fouling all his attempts at 2.27m even though his personal best stands at 2.28m.
It's the first time I am experiencing something like this. I still have a lot of big competitions coming up this year. The biggest positive is that I could hold my nerve against these big competitors. I realised they are people like me, they are not gods, Shankar said later.
Also finishing sixth was Hima Das, but in the 400m women's race. She could, however, take solace from the fact that she achieved a personal best of 51.32sec.
Day 7 round-up:India dominated the range and the ring as Shreyasi Singh's double trap gold shored up the medal tally while the entire men's Indian boxing contingent made the semifinals to be assured of podium finishes in an unprecedented performance on day 7 of the 21st Commonwealth Games, here on Wednesday.
On the overall medal tally, India held on the third position with 12 gold, four silver and eight bronze medals for a total of 24 so far. This number is expected to jump substantially once the wrestlers begin their campaign tomorrow and the boxing medals are finalised in the next two days.
The Belmont Shooting Centre in Brisbane continued to be a happy hunting ground for Indian shooters and for a fourth successive day the country had a medal to celebrate. Shreyasi, a silver-medallist from the 2014 edition, beat Australia's Emma Cox in a shoot-off to improve the colour of her medal from the last time.
"This is the highest medal of my career, right up there. It is also very special because shooting is not going to be a part of the Commonwealth Games in 2022," said the 26-year-old.
"It would be the one to cherish for a very long time," she added.
There were a couple of bronze-medallists as well in Om Mitharval (50m pistol) and Ankur Mittal (men's double trap). And some disappointment too as 10m air pistol gold-medallist Jitu Rai signed off 8th in the 50m pistol final.
From the range to the Oxenford Studios and it only got better for India. All eight of the male Indian boxers entered the semifinals, while the redoubtable M C Mary Kom (48kg) entered the final.
"It was difficult in the sense that this girl would just not come to me. I had to be careful because she was perhaps waiting for me to let my guard down," Mary Kom said of her defensive opponent, Anusha Dilrukshi Koddithuwakku of Sri Lanka.
Gaurav Solanki (52kg), Vikas Krishan (75kg) and Manish Kaushik (60kg) joined Manoj Kumar (69kg), Satish kumar (+91kg), Amit Panghal (49kg), Naman Tanwar (91kg) and Mohammed Husammuddin (56kg) in the semis, making for a very happy Indian boxing contingent, shepherded by Swedish coach Santiago Nieva.
There was good news from the hockey arena as well with India beating England in their final pool B clash to set up a semifinal with New Zealand. The spark that had been missing so far from their campaign was rediscovered to an extent and coach Sjoerd Marijne said he could finally recognize his team again.
On the badminton court, the stars of the mixed team's gold medal winning campaign began their singles run and with easy opponents in opening rounds and the likes of P V Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and K Srikanth hardly took less than 20 minutes each to move into the pre-quarters.
Most of the table tennis and squash players made their way into pre-quarters of their respective individual and doubles events. In squash, the spotlight is on defending gold medallists Joshna Chinnappa and Dipika Pallikal, who won their opening match today.
There was disappointment in the athletics arena where high jump hope Tejaswin Shankar ended up sixth after fouling all his attempts at 2.27m even though his personal best stands at 2.28m.
It's the first time I am experiencing something like this. I still have a lot of big competitions coming up this year. The biggest positive is that I could hold my nerve against these big competitors. I realised they are people like me, they are not gods, Shankar said later.
Also finishing sixth was Hima Das, but in the 400m women's race. She could, however, take solace from the fact that she achieved a personal best of 51.32sec.
Table tennis: India's Manika Batra is playing her quarter-final against Yihan Zhou of Singapore. Mouma Das vs Mengyu Yu will be next.
Athletics: In the Women’s Long jump finals, India’s Nayana James and Neena Nellickal are among the 12 as they look to add to the medals tally and bring the first medal from track and field so far.
Nothing more precious than life. Winning gold for the 3rd time is indeed a proud moment for all of us but this is my tribute to those innocent kids who have lost their lives in an accident in #HimachalPradesh #CWG2018 pic.twitter.com/XAa6exYhEY
— Sushil Kumar (@WrestlerSushil) April 12, 2018
Purnima Hembram's best attempt at shot put in Heptathlon was above 11.75m which is still less than her PB of 11.93m. She collected 645 points from that round to take her points tally to 2565 points from three events.
Badminton: In the Men’s doubles, Satwik Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty have beaten Aatish Lubah/Christopher Paul 21-8, 21-12 to qualify for the Quarter-finals.
Badminton: Indian ace Saina Nehwal has progressed to the quarterfinal after Jessica Li, her opponent retired early in the second game. Saina won the first game 21-4 and was leading the second game 2-0.
Squash: In the Mixed Doubles Quarterfinal, India’s Joshna Chinappa/Harinder Sandhu have lost to Joelle King/Paul Coll 10-11/10-11.
Table tennis: Harmeet Desai/Sanil Shetty beat Paul McCreery/Ashely Robinson 11-4, 12-10, 11-9 in the Round of 16 tie.
Table tennis: In Men's doubles Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan have beaten their Sri Lankan opponents Buwaneka Mudiyanselage Jayasingha/ Imesh Ranasingha 11-3, 11-4, 12-10 in the Round of 16.
Squash: The mixed doubles pairing of Dipika Pallikal and Sourav Ghosal beat the Welsh duo Peter Creed and Tesni Evans 11-8, 11-10 in the quarter-finals.
Proud moment. With love & blessings of fellow Indians I have Won Gold for 3rd time in #CommonwealthGames2018 .This award is a tribute to my parents, my guru Satpal Ji & @yogrishiramdev ji and kids who passed away in #HimachalPradesh bus accident #Jaihind #CWG2018
— Sushil Kumar (@WrestlerSushil) April 12, 2018
This Gold medal marks a big comeback for Sushil Kumar, for whom this is the first major bit of competition since the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Congratulations 🎊@WrestlerSushil phelwan ji for winning gold🥇. U are an inspiration 💪🏼
— Sakshi Malik (@SakshiMalik) April 12, 2018
While we celebrate the success on the wrestling mat, there is good news from table tennis, where Mouma Das and Manika Batra came back strongly from an one-game deficit to prevail over the English pair of Tin-Tin Ho and Maria Tsaptsinos 3-1 (12-14, 11-3, 11-7, 11-6). In another quarter-final, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Pooja Sahasrabudhe had a comfortable 3-0 (11-6, 11-7, 14-12) over Canada's Alicia Cote and Mo Zhang.
34 year old Sushil Kumar took only 80 seconds to complete the bout.
34 year old Sushil Kumar took only 80 seconds to complete the bout.
Wrestling: Sushil Kumar's Gold makes it four medals in the sport, of which two have been Gold while there has also been one Silver and one Bronze from the mat today. This is Sushil's third consecutive Commonwealth Games Gold medal.
Sushil has begun the final in excellent manner, his technical superiority is seeing him get the better of the opponent. And he has raced away to a 10-0 lead.
Wrestling: India's Sushil Kumar's time has come. He is fighting Johannes Botha for the Gold medal in the Men's 74kg freestyle event final.
There is one more bout before the Sushil Kumar Gold medal match. Not too long to go, for hopefully another Gold medal.
On Day 8 of the 2018 CWG, India's first Gold medal came from the Wrestling mat where Rahul Aware beat Steven Takahashi in the final of the Men's 57kg freestyle wrestling event. Before him, Tejaswini Sawant added Silver in the Women's 50m Prone final. Wrestler Babita Kumari also bagged Silver, while Kiran came away with Bronze. Outside the CWG, India's Kidambi Srikanth has become World Number 1.
Wrestling: Kiran has wrapped up the Bronze medal via repechage after she beat Katouskia Pariadhaven through technical superiority in the Women's 76kg freestyle category.
Wrestling: Out of a possible three Gold medals from the mat today, India have been able to get one Gold and one Silver so far. Up next is the legendary Sushil Kumar who will be up against Johannes Botha.
Wrestling: Rahul Aware has clinched the first Gold for India on the mat after beating Canada's Steven Takahashi in the Men's 57kg freestyle category 15-7.
Wrestling: Time for Rahul Aware's Gold medal match against Steven Takahashi in the Men's 57 kg freestyle category. Of the two, Rahul has fought one extra bout.
Wrestling: India's next medal prospect is Rahul Aware in the Men's 57kg Freestyle category. He will be up against Steven Takahashi.
Wrestling: Babit Kumari is unable to get the job done, as Diana clinches Gold by beating her 5-2. Babita settles for Silver at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
But the Canandian Diana is giving Babita a hard time on the mat. The Indian is under pressure as Diana has picked up four points to take a three point lead at the end of the second period.
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