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Day 4 report: From weightlifting to boxing to table tennis to hockey, women formed the core of India’s stupendous day four at the 21st Commonwealth Games where a 16-year-old Manu Bhaker delivered a record-shattering shooting gold medal and the table tennis team shocked fancied defending champions Singapore to clinch the top honours for the first time in the event. Another high point of the day was a 35-year-old MC Mary Kom advancing to the medal rounds in what is her first and probably last appearance at the Games. India held on to their fourth position in the medals tally, having claimed seven gold, two silver and three bronze medals so far. [caption id=“attachment_2827300” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File images of Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth. AFP[/caption] From the shooting ranges in Brisbane to the weightlifting arena here, it was all about women today. And starting it all was Manu Bhaker, the teen sensation from Haryana, who shot down the Games record and the gold medal in the 10m air pistol event. A distant silver-medallist in the event also happened to be a woman – Heena Sidhu. Shooting is an uncomplicated sport, take aim and shoot. That’s why it’s important not to think too much. If you think too much, then it becomes complex, explained Bhaker as she analysed her brilliant performance. In the weightlifting arena of the Carrara Sports and Leisure Center, Punam Yadav (69kg) pulled off a personal best of 222kg (110kg+122kg) to improve the bronze she had won in the 2014 edition to add another gold to India’s haul. The women’s hockey team showed tremendous grit to stun Olympic champions England in its third pool match in what can only be described as a morale-soaring 2-1 victory, which took them closer to a semifinal berth. And in the evening, the women’s table tennis team of Manika Batra, Madhurika Patkar and Mouma Das did what was not at all expected of them, beat defending champions Singapore 3-1 for a historic maiden gold. “It was my first time playing against Feng, the moment I knew I won against the world No.4, I felt on top of the world. Even in my wildest dream, I had not thought that I will beat an Olympic medallist and world number four,” Batra told PTI after her shock win over Feng Tianwei. “I knew that she was having problems with my pimpled rubber and I realise that but I did not use it as my strength all the time. I kept changing my game. I did not want to kept her settle so I changed my rubber after the second game,” she added. On the badminton court, Saina Nehwal remained in brutally good form and guided India to a 3-1 triumph over Singapore in the mixed team event. The top seeds will be up against Malaysia in the summit clash tomorrow. Adding a dash of bronze to the weightlifting collection was Thakur (94kg), who lifted a total of 351kg (159kg+192kg) on a day when Papua New Guinea’s Steven Kari broke the Commonwealth as well as the Games record in clean and jerk for a total lift of 370kg (154kg+216kg). Yadav and Thakur’s haul took India’s overall weightlifting medal tally to five gold, a silver and two bronze medals so far, a performance made special by the fact that most of them nursed varying niggles and did not have access to a full-time physio owing to an accreditation goof-up for which none has taken responsibility so far. In shooting, Ravi Kumar let slip a golden opportunity to settle for a bronze medal in the 10m air rifle event where Deepak Kumar finished sixth after breaking the Games record in qualification. In the boxing ring, Mary Kom made the semifinals with a sound thrashing of Scotland’s Megan Gordon her victory assuring the Indian boxing contingent of its first CWG medal at the ongoing edition. Among the men, world bronze-medallist Vikas Krishan (75kg) advanced to the quarterfinals. “This will be my first Commonwealth Games medal and I am happy to achieve that but gold is what I’m after,” Mary Kom declared after her win. The high-profile athletics competition also got underway at the Carrara sports complex and India had a fairly decent day with race walker Khushbir Kaur finishing fourth in the women’s 20km event. In track and field events, shot-putter Tejinder Singh made the finals, while Mohammed Anas Yahiya topped his 400m heat to book a slot in the semifinals. The men’s hockey team, meanwhile, continued to be slightly off and had to work hard for a 4-3 win over Wales in their second pool B match. They had yesterday settled for a disappointing 2-2 draw with a sloppy Pakistan, the equalising goal from the rivals coming in the final seven seconds of the match. With inputs from PTI
Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast highlights: India shine on Day 5 with golds in badminton, table tennis and shooting
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Another brilliant day of action comes to an end.
India ended its 12-year-drought in table tennis
India won its maiden team event gold
Jitu Rai produced an outstanding performance to bag gold
Teenager Mehuli Ghosh made an impressive mark by clinching silver
That’s it for today. Hope you enjoyed our live coverage of Day 5 at the Commonwealth Games. We will be back tomorrow. Take care!
Take a look at the medals tally as India jump one place higher to third place in the rankings.
Women’s 10,000 m
For a little over eight laps, India’s 27-year-old Loganathan Suriya led the pack in the women’s 10,000m. Even she would have known that it would be tough to sustain the front-running in a formidable field that included Kenyans and Ugandans.
Under the circumstances, Suriya, from Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, did really well to clock her personal best time of 32:23.56 in the 25-lapper, even if only by a whisker.
Her previous best was 32:23.96 came in the Federation Cup in Patiala on 7 March but she can draw satisfaction from the fact that she showed an improvement in a competition of this level.
She had finished fourth in the Asian Athletics Championships in a time of 33:04:10 and may have found redemption with this effort in Gold Coast.
Men’s Shot Put Final
Tejinderpal Singh Toor was unable to replicate, let alone improve his performance achieved at home in the Commonwealth Games and finished eighth in the shot put final with a best throw of 19.42m.
It was his only 19m-plus effort today, coming on his third visit to the throwing circle. It lifted him to the top eight and extended his stay in the finals with three more throws.
However, he unable to find the rhythm that could send the iron ball farther than he had managed. Even in qualifying, he found the power to log 19.10m with his final throw to get into the final.
Even he will be disappointed that on a day when high jumper Tejaswin Shankar qualified for the final, Muhammad Anas won his semi-finals heats with a quality time and 10,000m runner L Suriya clocked her personal best time, he was unable to find the power to take him close to the 20.24m that he achieved in the Federation Cup in Patiala last month.
Malaysia had beaten India in the final of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Times have changed!
Look at that!
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STAT ATTACK: take a look at the stats of the women’s singles match between Saina Nehwal and Soniia Cheah
The 2014 CWG men’s singles champion is elated after India’s historic win!
And finally GOLD 🥇🥇💪💪🇮🇳🇮🇳Congratulations guys . Credit to the entire coaching n support staff . #GopiAnna #tankimher and all the physios n trainers at the national camp @NSaina @Pvsindhu1 @srikidambi @P9Ashwini @PRANNOYHSPRI @pranaav6 @sikkireddy
— Kashyap Parupalli (@parupallik) April 9, 2018
India 3-1 Malaysia: Mixed team event
And Saina Nehwal steps up when it matters the most
She beats Soniia Cheah 21-15, 19-21, 21-9 to guide India to its first-ever gold medal at the mixed team event!
India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
FOUR quick points for Saina as she inches closer to victory in the women’s singles match. She leads 15-11!
The Indian is in complete control of the game!
India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
Saina takes full advantage of her opponents’ errors at the net to open up a two-point lead at the change of ends. She leads 11-9 and needs to extend it quickly!
India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
It’s a tight, tight match between Saina and Soniia as the scores are tied at 8-8! The Indian shuttler needs to close down the frontcourt area to win points.
It’s all happening in the women’s singles match!
7-5! Soniia takes four points on the trot
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The Malaysian shuttler is forcing Sania to play long rallies#GC2018
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India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
Soniia forces the match into the deciding game with a narrow 21-19 second-game victory. Alright then. One game apiece in the women’s singles match. Malaysia are still very much in the tie.
Decider coming your way…
India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
Well, it’s 19-19! Very difficult to decide who will take the second game.
Soniia looks like a completely different shuttler after the medical break.
India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
This time, it’s Saina with four consecutive points. The scores are level at 17-17
Will the Indian shuttler finish the match in straight games?
Soniia is pushing Saina towards the left tramline. Will this strategy work for the Malaysian?
Four points in a row for Soniia there
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She leads 15-13 in the second game #GC2018
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Gurdeep Singh finishes fourth, misses medal by a whisker. India end with nine medals in weightlifting
Gurdeep Singh’s earnest desire to win India its 10th medal at the Commonwealth Games 2018 weightlifting competition came unstuck by his inability to lift 218kg in clean and jerk and put his three biggest challengers under pressure and also their own ability to do better than him in this variant.
New Zealand’s David Liti lifted a mind-boggling 229kg in clean and jerk to total 403kg for a games record total and claim the gold medal ahead of Samoa’s Laultiti Liu (400kg) and Pakistan’s 20-year-old Muhammad Nooh Dastagir Butt (395kg, junior Commonwealth record). Needing two attempts at 207kg for a total of 382kg, the 22-year-old from Punjab sought to up the psychological ante by asking for 218kg on the barbell to try and improve his total to 393. In the event, that would not have sufficed for him to be in the medal bracket.
Three of India’s five gold came from women lifters, Mirabai Chanu (48kg class), Sanjita Chanu (51kg) and Punam Yadav (69kg). Sathish Kumar Sivalingam (77kg) and Ragala Venkat Rahul (85kg); were the other gold medallists while Gururaja Poojary (56kg) and Pardeep Singh (105kg) added the silver and Deepak Lather (69kg) and Vikas Thakur (94kg) picked up bronze medals.
India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
Medical timeout as Soniia seems to be in some pain. Saina leads 13-11 in the second game.
India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
11-10! And it’s Saina, who takes a slender lead over Sonia. The second game has produced more rallies, making the contest interesting.
India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
Soniia is closing the gap on Saina’s lead. She now trails by a single point 6-7 in the second game.
‘JEETEGA BHAI JEETEGA, INDIA JEETEGA’
Looking at Saina’s aggressive display, we all think India will bag their first-ever gold in team event!
4-3! That's a strong smash down the line by Saina
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She has been superb at the backcourt #GC2018
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India vs Malaysia: Saina Nehwal wins 1st game
And Saina has done it with excellent net play!
The 28-year-old did not lose a single point after the mid-game break where she was trailing at 9-11. What an incredible turnaround this is!
Muhammad Anas Yahiya qualifies for the men’s 400m final
India’s premier quarter-miler Muhammad Anas Yahiya stunned everyone with a fluent run to win his semi-finals heats and qualify for the 400m final.
He clocked a creditable time of 45.44 seconds, just a shade slower than the National Record of 45.32 seconds that he timed in the third leg of the Indian Grand Prix 2017 in New Delhi.
He had previously set the National record at 45.40 seconds in Poland in 2016. The 23-year-old Indian Navy man from Kerala will be pleased that only Botswana’s Isaac Makwala (45.00), Jamaica’s Javon Francis (45.38, his season’s best) and Grenada’s Bralon Taplin (45.44) were faster than him in their heats.
India 3-0 Nigeria – Men’s table tennis team event FINAL
The men’s team completes the GOLDEN DOUBLE for Indian table tennis contingent at the Commonwealth Games 2018.
On Sunday, the women’s team beat Singapore 3-1 in the finals to win their maiden gold at the event and today, the men’s team has contributed a gold to India’s best-ever result at the table tennis team events at CWG.
Sharath Kamal started off the final with a come-from-behind win to give India 1-0 lead. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran followed a similar chain of events as he won three straight games after losing the 1st game despite having four game points.
However, Sathiyan made no such faulty first step in his doubles clash alongside Harmeet Desai and ensured that the medal was won without wasting too much time to cap a memorable run for the Indian contingent at the Gold Coast event
A dominating run and a well-deserved medal!!!!
India vs Malaysia: Women’s doubles
EIGHT points in a row for Saina. She was trailing 9-11 at the mid-game break and she has turned things around in a jiffy!
India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
It might surprise a little but Malaysia’s Soniia has taken an 11-9 lead over Saina at the mid-game break. The Malaysian shuttler looks calm and composed.
India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
2-2, 4-4, 8-8!
A close game between Saina and Soniia as both the shuttlers have used their attacking strokes to win points.
Some good news coming your way…
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Runner Muhammed Anas Yahiya qualities for the men's 400m final with a time of 45.44! #GC2018Athletics
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India vs Malaysia: Women’s singles
India’s Saina Nehwal is in action against Soniia Cheah of Malaysia
This is the fourth match of the tie. India can bag their maiden gold in mixed team event if Saina manages to win this match.
India 3-0 Nigeria – men’s team event
What a champion performance by the Indian paddlers
Malaysia 1-2 India: Goh V Shem-Tan Wee Kiong win
That’s a well-deserved victory for Goh V Shem and Tan Wee Kiong. The Malaysian’s gave Satwiksairaj and Chirag a taste of their own medicine with ruthless attacking strokes to win 21-15, 22-20
India still lead 2-1 in this mixed team event
In the men’s table tennis team event, India’s Sathiyan Gunasekaran and Harmeet Desai take on the Nigerian pair of Olajide Omotayo and Bode Abiodun.
Sathiyan and Harmeet seem to be in a hurry to clinch the gold medal for India in this game itself.
The Indian duo have won the first two games 11-8, 11-5
Make that 18-18! It’s a close affair in the second game
17-17! The Malaysians have clawed back into the match
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Satwik and Chirag are under pressure
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India vs Malaysia: Men’s doubles
Satwik and Chirag have taken a 11-7 lead into the second game’s break. Can they force a decider with their attacking style of play?
Gurdeep Singh lifted 175kg in snatch variant in the +105kg class and conveyed a strong intent to help India close the weightlifting competition with its 10th medal from 16 events.
The 22-year-old was unfazed by the attempts of his competitors from Samoa Laultiti Lui and Pakistan’s Muhammad Nooh Dastagir Butt to stay ahead by asking for heavier weights to be loaded.
He lifted 175kg on second attempt at that weight. The Samoan cleared 175kg with his opening lift and failed twice at 179kg and Muhammad Nooh Dastagir Butt cleared 173kg failed twice at 177.
New Zealand’s David Liti took the third place with 174kg.
India vs Malaysia: Men’s doubles
Satwik has been really impressive defensively from the backcourt. Not only he is attacking, his returns have been accurate.
The Indians lead 7-3 in the second game
What a performance from Sathiyan Gunasekaran to give India a 2-0 lead! After losing 10-12 in the 1st game, he hardly put a foot wrong as he beat Nigeria’s Segun Toriola 10-12, 11-3, 11-3, 11-4
India now need just one more win to win the GOLD at the Commonwealth Games 2018
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