Commonwealth Games 2014, Day 8 Live: Vikas Gowda wins gold medal in Discus

Click HERE for India’s Commonwealth Games 2014 schedule and results India’s medal winners at the CWG so far Gold: Sanjita Khumukchan: women’s 48 kg weightlifting Sukhen Dey: men’s 56 kg weightlifting Abhinav Bindra: men’s 10 metre air rifle shooting Apurvi Chandela: women’s 10 metre air rifle shooting Rahi Sarnobat: women’s 25 metre pistol shooting Satish Sivalingam: men’s 77 kg weightlifting Jitu Rai: men’s 50 metre pistol shooting Amit Kumar: men’s freestyle 57 kg wrestling Vinesh Phogat: women’s freestyle 48 kg wrestling Sushil Kumar: men’s freestyle 74 kg wrestling Babita Kumari: women’s freestyle 55 kg wrestling Yogeshwar Dutt: men’s freestyle 65 kg wrestling Vikas Gowda: men’s discus throw Silver: Mirabai Chanu Saikhom: women’s 48 kg weightlifting Shushila Likmabam: women’s 48 kg judo Navjot Chana: men’s 60 kg judo Malaika Goel: women’s 10 metre air pistol shooting Prakash Nanjappa: men’s 10 metre air pistol shooting Ayonika Paul: women’s 10 metre air rifle shooting Anisa Sayyed: women’s 25 metre pistol shooting Shreyasi Singh: women’s double trap shooting Ravi Katulu: men’s 77 kg weightlifting Gurpal Singh: men’s 50 metre pistol shooting Gagan Narang: men’s 50 metre rifle prone shooting Vikas Thakur: men’s 85 kg weightlifting Harpreet Singh: men’s 25 metre rapid fire pistol shooting Sanjeev Rajput: men’s 50 metre rifle 3 positions shooting Rajeev Tomar: men’s freestyle 125 kg wrestling Lalita: women’s freestyle 53 kg wrestling Bajrang: men’s freestyle 61 kg wrestling Sakshi Malik: women’s freestyle 58 kg wrestling Satywart Kadian: men’s freestyle 97 kg wrestling Geetika Jakhar: women’s freestyle 63 kg wrestling Bronze: Ganesh Mali: men’s 56 kg weightlifting Kalpana Thoudam: women’s 52 kg judo Santoshi Matsa: women’s 53 kg weightlifting Rajwinder Kaur: women’s +78 kg judo Omkar Otari: men’s 69 kg weightlifting Mohammed Asab: men’s double trap shooting Punam Yadav: women’s 63 kg weightlifting Manavjit Sandhu: men’s trap shooting Gagan Narang: men’s 50 metre rifle 3 positions shooting Lajja Gauswami: women’s 50 metre rifle 3 positions shooting Chandrakant Mali: men’s 94 kg weightlifting Navjot Kaur: women’s freestyle 69 kg wrestling Dipa Karmakar: women’s vault gymnastics artistic Pawan Kumar: men’s freestyle 86 kg wrestling - IANS Athletics Men’s Discus final – Vikas Gowda brought in India’s first athletics medal from the 2014 Commonwealth Games when he won the discus throw gold. With the achievement, Gowda became India’s only second male athlete to win a gold at the Commonwealth Games after the legendary Milkha Singh won the 440 yard gold way back in 1958 at Cardiff. The 31-year-old Gowda converted the silver he had won four years ago in New Delhi in to the yellow metal with a best throw of 63.64 metres which he achieved on his third attempt out of six. Cypriot Apostolos Parellis took the silver with a best throw of 63.32m while Jamaican Jason Morgan held on to the bronze with 62.34m. Women’s Discus Qualification: India’s Seema Punia and Krishna Poonia have qualified for the final. Seema had the second best distance in qualifying with a throw of 58.44 while Krishna managed a distance of 51.36. Women’s 800m semis: India’s Tintu Luka finishes in seventh place with a time of 2.03.25. She doesn’t qualify for the final. Wrestling [caption id=“attachment_1643897” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Babita was too good. Reuters[/caption] Men’s 65kg FS Final: GOLD! Yogeshwar Dutt was phenomenal. Just too good for the Canada’s J Balfour. He won 10-0. The match was ended within 1.53 minutes of the first period because of the technical superiority. Wommen’s 55kg FS Final: GOLD! Babita Kumari have won the gold. A superb fight – she was in control at all times against Canada’s B Laverdure. She won 9-2. The first gold medal of the night in wrestling goes to India. Wommen’s 63kg FS Final: SILVER! Geetika Jakhar loses to Canada’s D Lappage. It was a points decision – she won 7-0. The Canadian, who is the World Junior Champion, was just too strong for Geetika. Men’s 86kg FS Bronze medal match: BRONZE! Pawan Kumar gets the win on the basis on scoring the last high-scoring move. Pawan drew level with just 8 seconds left in the match and that got him the win. Yes, it was that close. Squash India’s squash stars Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa reached the women’s doubles semi-finals with a comprehensive win at the Commonwealth Games here Thursday. The duo beat New Zealand’s Joelle King and Amanda Landers-Murphy 11-9, 11-5 in the quarterfinal at the Scotstoun Sports Campus. Meanwhile, Saurav Ghosal and Harinder Pal Sandhu brought up a tough but crucial win in men’s doubles to advance to the quarter-finals by overcoming local pair Stuart Crawford and Greg Lobban 5-11, 11-8, 9-11 in the Round of 16. Later, Ghosal and Dipika paired up to move past Welsh combine David Evans and Deon Saffery 11-8, 11-4, entering the mixed doubles quaters. Sandhu and Joshana then first beat Schubert Maketu and Eli Webb of Papua New Guinea 11-5, 11-4 in their last pool match to advance to the Round of 16 where they drubbed Malaysians Mohammed Adnan and Delia Arnold 118, 11-9 to make it to the last eight of mixed doubles. Lawn Bowls India went down to England 12-14 in the semi-finals of the men’s fours lawn bowls in the 2014 Commonwealth Games and will face Australia for the bronze medal on Friday. India had made it to the semi-finals beating Norfolk Islands in the quarterfinals at the Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls centre. India won 26-4 against Norfolk Islands. Hockey: Ind vs SA FT: Indian have beaten South Africa 5-2 to enter hockey semis. India will face NZ in the semis. HT: India leading 4-0 over SA at half-time. Gymnastics Dipa Karmakar wins the bronze medal in Gymnastics Artistic Women’s Vault Final. Her first vault score was 13.633 and the second vault was 15.100. To give her an average score of 14.366. Silver medal went to Canada’s E Black (avg 14.433) and gold went to Eng’s E Fragagpane (14.633). Badminton men’s singles second seed Parupalli Kashyap needed only 24 minutes to move past Australia’s Jeff Tho 21-7, 21-8 while fifth seed R.M.V. Gurusaidutt beat Andrew D’Souza 21-13, 21-9 in 27 minutes. However, fourth seeded Kidambi Srikanth had to struggle for 57 minutes before edging past Sri Lanka’s Niluka Karunaratne 20-22, 21-16, 21-12. Later, sixth seed P.C. Thulasi defeated Canadian Rachel Honderich 21-12, 21-7 in 31 minutes to move into the women’s singles last eight while women’s doubles defending champions Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa overcame Australian combine He Tang and Renuga Veeran 18-21, 21-10, 21-6. But it was the end of the road for Akshay Dewalkar and Pranaav Chopra in men’s doubles who lost to Malaysian duo Wee Kiong Tan and Wei Shem Goh 13-21, 14-21 in 28 minutes. (IANS) Wrestling semi-finals Men’s 65kg FS SF: WIN! India’s Yogeshwar Dutt beats Sri Lanka’s C Perera by fall to move into the final. Super stuff from the veteran. Wommen’s 55kg FS SF: WIN! Babita Kumari beat England’s L Porogovska by fall. Splendid show once again. Wommen’s 63kg FS SF: WIN! Geetika Jakhar in 63kg final after beating Welsh S Connolly 13-2. She is assured of at least a silver medal. Men’s 86kg FS SF: LOSS! Pawan Kumar lost to Canada’s T Tagziev. He was pinned to the mat by his Canadian opponent. Table-tennis results Women’s singles 3rd rnd: Batra bt CAN’s Luo. Patkar (3-4 v AUS JF Lay), Kumaresan (1-4 v SIN’s Yu) loses. India’s mixed doubles table tennis pair of Sharath Kamal and Shamini Kumaresan advanced to the quarter-finals. The Indian duo recorded a hard fought 11-6, 8-11, 4-11, 13-11, 11-7 win over Australian pair David Powell and Jian Fang Lay in the Round of 16. India’s Anthony Amalraj and Madhurika Patkar lost in the fourth round of the mixed doubles. The Indian pair lost 2-3 (11-7, 3-11, 10-12, 11-7, 4-11) to Singapore’s Ning Gao and Ye Lin in 32 minutes. Wrestlers into the semis Men’s 65kg FS QF: India’s Yogeshwar Dutt easily beat G Jones of Scotland 10-0. Technical superiority. He needed just 1 minute 40 seconds to move into the last 4. Wommen’s 55kg FS QF: Babita Kumari vs Scotland’s K Marsh by technical superiority to make it to the last four as well. Another win and she is assured of a medal. Wommen’s 63kg FS QF: Geetika Khakar beat Cameroon’s B Metala Epanga by fall. Just too strong, just too powerful. She makes it into the last four. Men’s 86kg FS QF: Victory by fall for Pawan Kumar, who pinned Scotland’s L Bianco. Wrestling results Men’s 65kg FS Round of 16: India’s Yogeshwar Dutt easily beat A Gladkov of Scotland 11-0. Technical superiority. He needed just 2 minutes 16 seconds to move into the last 8. Men’s 86kg FS Round of 16: Winning start to India’s day in the Wrestling competition. India’s Pawan Kumar beat New Zealand’s S Hill easily to advance to the quarters. He won when the score became 10-0 and the technical superiority rule came into play. Yesterday, India earned four silvers in Wrestling. Table Tennis S.K. Achanta and S. Kumarsen of India qualify for the Mixed Doubles Table Tennis quater-finals. Medals tally England are back at the top of the medals table with 37 gold, 34 silver and 30 bronze in the 20th Commonwealth Games. India are now sixth with a tally of 41 medals, including 10 gold, 19 silver and 12 bronze. Last night Olympic champion Kirani James lit up the Commonwealth Games with a devastating and graceful run to win gold in the men’s 400 metres on Wednesday. In a Games hampered by big-name withdrawals and weakened fields, the arrival of the powerful Grenadian was a welcome sight at a wet and windy Hampden Park. James took charge of the final from the start and looked in complete control as he finished in a Games record time of 44.24 seconds ahead of South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk and Trinidad and Tobago’s Lalonde Gordon. “I expected to have a great performance,” James told reporters. “I can’t predict the outcome of the event but all I an do is come out here and try my best. “Every championship, every accolade, is unique in its own way and these Games are no different. I think the crowd really makes it special; the stadium was full at 10am, that says something about Scotland and how much they appreciate track and field.” Reuters Bit shit or bit true? A row has broken out in Glasgow over comments a newspaper claimed were made by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt to describe the Commonwealth Games that are currently on here. The Times reporter, Katie Gibbons, claims Bolt told her that he thought “the Olympics were better”, that he was “not really” having fun in Glasgow and felt the Games were “a bit shit”, reports CMC. However the 27-year-old sprinter has dismissed reports of his comments as “nonsense”. “I’m waking up to this nonsense,” Bolt tweeted. “Journalist please don’t create lies to make headlines”. However, the Times’ Scottish editor, Angus Macleod, says he had full confidence in Gibbons. “We stand by this story 100 percent,” he said. “We have utter confidence in this story.” IANS Today’s schedule Athletics 18.00: Men’s discus throw final 19.45: Krishna Poonia and Seema Punia in women’s discus throw [caption id=“attachment_1643027” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Yogeshwar Dutt will have a good chance to get among the medals. AFP[/caption] Badminton 10.00 onwards: Doubles events start Diving 10.05: Ramananda Kongbrailatpam in 3m springboard Gymnastic (artistic) 15.00 onwards Gymnasts (men): Ashish Kumar, Rakesh Patra Gymnasts (women): Dipa Karmakar, Pranati Das, Pranati Nayak, Aruna Reddy, Rucha Divekar Hockey 20.30: India vs South Africa - men’s Lawn Bowls 08.45 onwards Athletes (men): Sunil Bahadur, Dinesh Kumar, Samit Malhotra, Kamal Sharma, Chandan Singh Athletes (women): Lovely Chubey, Tania Choudhry, Pinki, Nayanmonia Sakia, Rupa Rani Tirkey Squash 11.30 onwards Participants (men): Saurav Ghosal, Mahesh Mangaonkar Participants (women): Dipika Pallikal, Joshana Chinappa, Anaka Alankamony Table tennis 09.30 onwards - Gold and bronze medal matches in men’s team Participants (men):Sharath Kamal, Soumyajit Ghosh, Harmeet Desai, Amalraj Anthony, Sanil Shetty Participants (women): Manika Batra, Ankita Das, Poulomi Ghatak, Shamini Kumaresan, Madhurika Patkar Wrestling 10.00: Babita Kumari in 55kg 10.05: Geetika Jakhar in 63kg 11.00: Yogeshwar Dutt in 65kg 11.40: Pawan Kumar in 86kg