Commonwealth Games 2014, Day 1: Sanjita, Dey headline India's day

Men’s Weightlifting -56kg: India’s Dey strikes gold!

India’s Sukhen Dey has won the gold medal with a superb display in the clean and jerk. He lifted 139 kg even as the other competitors struggled. He ended up with a total weight of 248. Malaysia’s Z MD Pisol bagged the silver. While India’s Ganesh Mali bagged the bronze with a total weight of 244.

Squash results

Women’s singles squash: Anaka Alankamony lost in round of 32 vs Malaysia’s D Arnold 6-11, 8-11, 6-11. She had beaten Kenya’s K Nimji in round of 62.

Mahesh Mangaonkar beat Kenya’s H Reel in round of 64 before succumbing to England’s P Barker 4-11, 6-11, 2-11 in round of 32 men’s singles.

HP Sandhu won his round of 64 match against Norther Ireland’s M Craig before losing to A Clyne of Scotland 2-3 in a five-match battle.

Saurav Goshal won his round of 62 men’s singles match against St Vincent and the Grenadine’s J Snagg before beating New Zealand’s P Coll 11-4, 11-4, 11-7 in the round of 32.

Dipika Pallikal has beaten Trinidad & Tobago’s C Knaggs in the round of 64 women’s singles.

Joshana Chinappa beat Welsh D Saffery in the round of 32 women’s singles

Men’s Weightlifting -56kg: India’s Mali makes a good start

Ganesh Mali tops snatch in Men’s 56 kg with a lift of 111 kg – an excellent chance of getting a medal. Another Indian S Dey was third best with a lift of 109 kg.

Judo -52kg: Thoudam gets a bronze

Kalpana Thoudam beats NIR’s Kearney to add another medal to India’s tally - a bronze this time.

Judo -60kg judo: India’s Chana settles for silver

Chana was brilliant all day but he lost to England’s Ashely Mckenzie in the final. Both judokas had a waza-ari each but Chana had 3 shidos (penalties) to McKenzie’s 1 and that proved to be the crucial difference.

Women’s 48kg weightlifting: India’s Khumukcham wins gold

India’s 20-year-old Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu has won the gold in the 48 kg women’s weightlifting category. India’s 19-year-old Saikhom Mirabai Chanu also clinched the silver in the event. Nigeria’s N Opara took the bronze.

Khumukcham had a total weight of 173 – 77 in snatch and 96 in clean and jerk Chanu had a total of 170 – 75 in snatch and 95 in clean and jerk Opara had a total of 162 – 70 in snatch and 92 in clean and jerk

Women’s Judo: Likmabam wins silver in -48kg category, Thoudam wins bronze in -52kg

India’s Shushila Likmabam won the silver in the 48kg category. She lost against Scotland’s Kimberley Renicks by an Ippon. Later, Kalpana Thoudam won her bronze medal contest against Northern Ireland’s L Kearney – the Indian committed fewer penalties than her opponent.

Women’s hockey: India 4-2 Canada

FT. India win 4-2.

India 4-2 Cananda. GOAL! Jaspreet finds the target again.

India 3-2 Cananda. This is looking closely. India gifted away a PC through some sloppy defending and Canada took advantage. Super deflection off the PC by K Wishart gives Cananda their second goal.

India 3-1 Cananda. India had a PC and they have scored again – through Jaspreet Kaur in the 38 min! Nice deception – opened up her shoulders at the last moment and pushed it past the keeper.

India had a PC and they have scored! They re-rake the lead with a brilliant deflection from Poonam Rani. India 2-1 Cananda.

India took the lead against Canada, only to see the latter equalise with 10 minutes left in the first half. The Indian goal came about as a result of a superb run from Vandana and a brilliant finish from Rani! Cananda struck back soon with a fine field goal. The score is 1-1.

The Indian women taking on Canada in their first group match. In the match before this, South Africa beat a hapless Trinidad and Tobago 16-0. Yes, 16-0!!

Bindra’s last CWG

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Judo

JUDO: Thoudam has lost in women’s -52kg semifinals to Scot L Renicks. Squash

HP Sandhu beat NIR’s M Craig 11-9, 11-5, 11-5 to advance to last 32 in men’s singles squash.

M Mangaonkar beat Kenya’s H Reel 11-1, 11-5, 11-7 to advance to last 32 in men’s singles squash.

Judo: S Likmabam into final as well

WIN! India’s S Likmabam beats C Rayner of Australia 3-0 in the -48kg semis. She moves into the gold medal round. So India are now assured of at least two silvers from the Judo competition.

Judo: Nandal into bronze medal match

India’s M Nandal, who had lost in the quarters to GB’s Oates 0-1, has won in the repechage round. He beat Cameroon’s Nama Etoga and moved into the bronze medal match.

Chana assures India of a medal

Chana through to finals of JUDO -60kg!! This guarantees a medal for India! It will be India’s first medal. He beats SA’s Le Grange by Waza-ari in a tough bout. The 30-year-old is employed with Punjab Police.

Table-tennis: Indian men, women win

India beat Barbados in table tennis women’s team competition.

Patkar and Kumaresan beat Harvey and Riley – 11-4, 11-4, 9-11, 11-3. Batra beat Riley – 11-2, 11-5, 11-2. Kumaresan beat Felix – 11-3, 11-2, 11-3.

India beat Vanuatu in table tennis men’s team competition.

Anthony and Shetty beat Lin and Shing 11-6, 11-5, 11-4 Shetty beat Shing 11-6, 11-2, 7-11, 11-1 Desai beat Lulu 11-2, 11-3, 11-5.

Nandal loses in last 8

Loss! India’s M Nandal has lost in the quarters to GB’s Oates 0-1.

More wins for the judokas

Win! India’s M Nandal has made it to the last 8 – he beat A Weithers of Barbados by Ippon.

WIN! India’s S Likmabam beats A Meyer by Ippon to reach the -48kg semis.

WIN! India’s N Chana beats Wales’ B Dodge by Ippon to reach the -60 kg semis.

Cycling: Men’s sprint qualifying

England’s P Hinds was fastest in 10.108 – avg speed of 71.230.

India A Nagi finished in 11th place – with a time of 11.114 (avg speed of 64.783). India’s A Singh finished 12th with a time of 11.193 (avg speed of 64.325).

WIN! India’s judokas make winning start

WIN! India’s N Chana beats Australia’s T Pappas 2-0 in -60 kg preliminary round of 16.

WIN! India’s M Nandal beats Malta’s J Saywell by Ippon! It was -66kg round of 32.

WIN! India’s S Likmabam beats Cameroon’s M Effa 2-0 with Ippon in women’s -48kg round of 16.

LOSS! India’s Shivani has lost her -57kg round of 16 match 0-3 against Canada’s Klimkait.

India beat Ghana in Mixed Team Badminton

India win Ghana 3-0.

- A Dewalkar and P Chopra have taken the first game against E Donkor and A Ayittey (GHA) 21-7, 21-11.

- India’s PV Sindhu beat S Amasah of Ghana in the first match of the Mixed Team Group stages against Ghana easily: 21-7, 21-5. The match lasted just 15 minutes for the top seed.

- P Kashyap beat Ghana’s D Sam 21-6, 21-16.

LOSS: Scotland has beaten India in Lawn Bowls

The objective of the game is to roll your bowl closer to the jack (a smaller ball) than your opponent and you score a point. In singles, the winner is the first player to reach 21 points. In pairs, triples and fours, a set number of ends are played and the total score decides the winner.

Easy win for Scot’s men’s Triples team, who never looked like losing it; India never looked like winning it.

Scotland: 22 shots, 12 ends India: 6 shot, 4 ends

In the women’s triple competition, which took place earlier, Fiji beat India.

Fiji: 17 shots, 10 ends India: 8 shots, 4 ends

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Women’s Hockey: Australia 4-0 Malaysia

Australia’s women (ranked no.2 in the world) got off to a solid start with an easy victory over Malaysia (ranked world no.22).

Mo Farah pulls out

Olympic champion Mo Farah has withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games. The 31-year-old, who won 5,000m and 10,000m gold at London 2012, missed last week’s Diamond League meeting because of illness. He has decided to pull out of the Games, despite “making good progress in his recovery” according a report on BBC.

“The sickness I had two weeks ago was a big setback for me. Training is getting better but I need another few weeks to get back to the level I was at in 2012 and 2013,” said Mo in a statement.

“I really wanted to add the Commonwealth titles to my Olympic and World Championships but the event is coming a few weeks too soon for me as my body is telling me it’s not ready to race yet.”

Day 1

Twenty gold medals to be won on day 1. The first medals will come in the triathlon.

CWG Games in numbers: 11 days, 17 sports, 71 nations, 261 medal events, 4,500 athletes

Archery, tennis removed and that will hit India’s medal hopes

Archery and tennis from the 2010 games were replaced on the sports program with triathlon (for the first time since 2006) and judo (first time since 2002). Among other sport disciplines removed from 2010 are the walking events in athletics, synchronised swimming and Greco-Roman wrestling, while mountain biking will be contested for the first time since 2006. Also, shooting medal events also dropped from 44 in 2010 to 19 – that again is a big loss for India.

The first Commonwealth Games

The first Commonwealth Games took place in Hamilton, Canada in 1930. 400 athletes from 11 countries competed over 6 sports and 59 events.

Some more facts HERE

India’s medal tally in 2010 Delh CWG:

India had finished with 38 gold, 27 silver, 36 bronze medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. With 38 gold medals, they pipped England (37 gold) to take second place. Australia finished top of the table with 74 gold, 55 silver, 48 bronze.

Meanwhile, here’s a look at the opening ceremony courtesy Rupinder Singh Pal’s tweet:

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Here’s the entire schedule of the Indian athletes for day 1 - 24th July:

Badminton

Participants (men): P. Kashyap, K Srikanth, RMV Gurusaidutt, Akshay Dewalkar, Pranaav Jerry Chopra Participants (women): PV Sindhu, PC Thulasi, Jwala Gutta, Ashwini Ponnappa Mixed Teams Group Play from 13.30 onwards

Hockey

20.30: India vs Canada - women Judo 17.30: Men’s 60 kg - Round of 16 onwards - Navjot Chana in action 18.30: Men’s 66 kg - preliminary round of 32 onwards - Manjeet Nandal in action 22.30: Women’s 48 kg - quarterfinals onwards - Shushila Likmabam 22.45: Women’s 57 kg - preliminary round of 16 onwards - Shivani

Lawn bowls

Athletes (men): Sunil Bahadur, Dinesh Kumar, Samit Malhotra, Kamal Sharma, Chandan Singh Athletes (women): Lovely Chubey, Tania Choudhry, Pinki, Nayanmonia Sakia, Rupa Rani Tirkey 13.15 onwards: India in action

Squash

15.30 onwards: Men’s singles round of 128 followed by round of 64 and 32 (Saurav Ghosal, Mahesh Mangaonkar) 15.30 onwards: Women’s singles round of 62 followed by round of 64 (Dipika Pallikal, Joshana Chinappa, Anaka Alankamony)

Swimming

15.18 onwards: Men’s 400m freestyle heats - Sajan Prakash in action (finals are at 23.45) 17.07 onwards: Men’s 200m breaststroke - Sandeep Sejwal in action (finals are 01.31)

Weightlifting

20.00: Women’s 48 kg - Sanjita Chanu, S Mirabai Chanu Midnight: Men’s 56 kg Group A - Sukhen Dey, Ganesh Mali

11.23 AM: India look to open medal account with weightlifting

India’s first medal in the 20th Commonwealth Games is expected to come on Thursday from weightlifting when the competitions begin with the women’s 48kg and men’s 56kg weight categories, respectively.

In both weight categories, the Indians are expected to win medals and tomorrow’s performance may set the stage for their challenge at the Games, where they would look to do better than the 2010 Delhi edition.

Nigeria topped the weightlifting medal charts in 2010 edition with five gold, four silver and five bronze followed by Samoa (3, 0, 0) and India (2, 2, 4). This time also, India, with six lifters from 2010 Games, are likely to maintain that level of performance.

11.20 AM: India’s badminton stars look to better 2010 run

Despite star shuttler Saina Nehwal’s last-minute pull-out, India will look to maintain their impressive run when they begin their campaign with a clash against minnows Ghana in the mixed team event of the 20th Commonwealth Games here on Thursday.

India had won two gold, one silver and one bronze in 2010 and this time again they would look to repeat their performance even though they suffered a jolt with the late withdrawal of Saina due to injury.

P Kashyap and P V Sindhu are expected to be among medals in men’s and women’s singles repectively while the women’s doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa would be raring to go to defend the gold they won in 2010.

11. 16 AM: India’s judokas seek glory in Glasgow Commonwealth Games

With judo coming back into the Commonwealth Games fold after 12 years, Indian judokas looked a confident lot as they begin their campaign on Thursday, aiming to produce the best-ever performance by the country in the quadrennial event.

This is the third time that judo has been in Commonwealth Games after 1990 in Auckland and 2002 in Manchester and India had won two medals each in both the editions. The current India team, comprising seven men and seven women, expressed confidence of winning four to five medals this time.

Women’s coach Virender Singh said that the 14-member Indian team had a good preparation ahead of the Games with a training-cum-exposure tour to Tashkent and then Hungary for more than 20 days in May-June. He said India should win four to five medals.

Indian judokas begin their campaign with competition in five categories – 48kg, 52kg and 57kg in women’s section and 60kg and 66kg in the men’s section. The medal rounds of all the weight classes will also be held on Thursday. They will first fight in preliminary rounds before the semifinals and the medal rounds.

Two bronzes will be awarded and the two semifinal losers will have to go through a repechage round against the judokas who had lost in the quarterfinals.

11.10 AM: India’s medal-less squash players hope for glory in Glasgow

The six-member Indian squash team, led by Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Pallikal, begins its Commonwealth Games campaign with the singles competition on Thursday, well aware that it has a good chance of winning its first ever medal in the quadrennial event.

Though India’s best bet for a medal is in the doubles and mixed doubles, World No. 16 Ghosal and 10th-ranked Pallikal are capable of springing a surprise in the individual category. Ghosal, seeded fourth, takes on little-known Jules Snagg of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in his opener at the Scotstoun Sports Campus.

11.07 AM: Indian paddlers will find it tough to better Delhi medal haul

The Indian table tennis team at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games will find it tough to match the record medal tally of the Delhi edition.

India, who won five medals including a gold and silver in Delhi four years ago, begin their challenge with the team championships beginning on Thursday.

The Indian men’s team spearheaded by Sharath Kamal, a three-time gold winner at at the Games, has been seeded third in Pool C. It will play two matches on the opening day, against Vanuatu and Northern Ireland respectively.

The team comprising Sharath, Harmeet Desai and Soumyajit Ghoosh is aiming to do better than Delhi where it had to settle for a bronze against England and champions Singapore.

The team event format should make things interesting this time. The first two singles will be followed by a doubles rubber where either of the singles player teams up with the third one.