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Day report: Indian shooters extended their purple patch as Shreyasi Singh won gold in the women’s Double Trap event, Ankur Mittal and Om Mitharwal bagged bronze in their respective men’s categories, while star boxer MC Mary Kom (48kg) stormed into the final and the men’s hockey team scored a thrilling win over England. The badminton, table tennis and squash teams had a satisfactory day at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Wednesday. Shreyasi edged out Emma Cox of Australia in a shoot-off to win the title after both shooters had finished the final round on 96 points each. [caption id=“attachment_4385555” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File image of the India women’s hockey team. Image credit: Facebook/Hockey India[/caption] Varsha Varman, the second Indian in the fray, missed out on the bronze by a narrow margin. She scored 86 to finish fourth, just a single point behind bronze medallist Linda Pearson of Scotland. Among the men, Mittal took bronze in men’s Double Trap and Om finished third in men’s 50m pistol. In boxing, India were assured of nine medals which is their best tally at the Commonwealth Games. Boxers Gaurav Solanki, Vikas Krishan Yadav and Manish Kaushik entered the semi-finals while MC Mary Kom stormed into the final, even as Sarita Devi and Pinki Rani crashed out. Gaurav defeated Charles Keama of Papua New Guinea in a unanimous 5:0 verdict in the quarter-finals of the men’s flyweight (52kg) category while Vikas coasted to an easy win over Benny Muziyo of Zambia in the 75kg category. Manish also advanced, defeating Calum French of England in 60kg. In the women’s category, five-time world champion and Olympic bronze medallist MC Mary Kom defeated Anusha Dilruksh of Sri Lanka. Gaurav came up with an impressive performance against three-time Oceania champion Charles Keama of Papua New Guinea to claim a well-deserved victory. Vikas also registered a comfortable 5:0 victory over Benny Muziyo of Zambia in the last eight stage. The duo thus confirmed another couple of medals to the Indian tally as every boxer in the last-four stage is assured of a spot on the podium. In badminton, India’s star singles shuttlers and the mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa advanced to the pre-quarterfinals. Rio Olympics silver medallist PV Sindhu thrashed Fiji’s Andra Whiteside 21-6, 21-3, while 2012 bronze medallist Saina Nehwal routed South African Elsie De Villiers 21-3, 21-1. Three-time World championship medallist Sindhu will meet Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu in the next round, while Saina’s challenger will be Jessica Li of the Isle of Man. In the men’s singles Round-of-32, HS Prannoy beat Mauritius’ Jean Paul Christopher 21-14, 21-6, while Kidambi Srikanth beat Mauritius’ Aatish Lubah 21-13, 21-10. On Thursday, Prannoy will battle it out with Anthony Joe, while Srikanth will face Niluka Karunaratne of Sri Lanka. The mixed doubles pair of Satwik and Ashwini beat England’s Ben Lane and Jessica Pugh 21-17, 21-16. The Indian pair will meet Canada’s Kristen Tsai and Nyl Yakura on Thursday for a place in the quarters. With inputs from IANS
Highlights, Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast, Day 8: Wrestlers Sushil Kumar, Rahul Aware win gold; India claim two medals in athletics
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That’s it from us. Before we end the blog, here’s a quick wrap:
Sushil Kumar exceeded expectations to win gold in the freestyle wrestling 74 kg category. Fellow wrestler Rahul Aware earlier won India’s first gold medal of the day in the men’s freestyle 57 kg category.
Other medals include Tejaswini Sawant’s silver medal in 50m Rifle Prone, while Babita Phogat also claimed silver in the women’s freestyle 53 kg Nordic wrestling category.
In discus throw finals, Seema Punia won a silver, while Navjeet Dhillon got the bronze.
Also, take a look at the medal tally: https://www.firstpost.com/commonwealth-games-2018/medal-tally/
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FT: India 0-1 Australia
It’s not all over; huge amount of positives. There is a massive difference in the team that went to Rio and what we have seen at the CWG. Harendra needs an attacking midfield that has the legs and the power to find the player up front. The middle half lacked for India. Yet they had the chances. Defended stoutly; great future. We now look forward to the bronze medal match.
GOAL! Australia 1-0 India
One mistake and India concede. High ball and Stewart connects and the ‘tennis volley’ goes in; lovely goal. But it could have been avoided. India making too many mistakes. Giving away the ball too easily. If India don’t get some control back, there could be trouble.
Women’s discus throw final:
Seema Punia and Navjeet Kaur Dhillon fetched India’s first medals from track and field sport with silver and bronze respectively in women’s discus throw. The 34-year-old Seema Punia’s first throw over 60.41m was good to get her the silver medal – her fourth medal in successive Commonwealth Games since 2006. The Haryana girl who is now based in Meerut after the marriage has three silver medals and a bronze from the Games. Her 23-year-old team-mate Navjeet Kaur Dhillon, a bronze medallist at the world u-20 championships in 2014, lifted herself from fourth place by uncorking a gallant effort on her final throw. It went over 57.43m and past New Zealand’s Sostina Hakeai’s 57.16m. Australia’s Dani Stevens retained her hold on gold medal won in Glasgow 2014 with a stunning series of throws, including a Games record of 68.26m to erase New Zealand’s Beatrice Raini Liua Faumuina’s mark of 65.92m in 1998.
Table tennis: Women’s singles
Mouma Das campaign comes to an end in the quarter-finals of the women’s singles event after suffering a 4-1 loss to Mengyu Yu, losing 13-15, 7-11, 5-11, 11-7, 5-11.
Women’s discuss shot put
Australia’s Dani Stevens recorded a 65.43, which is more than five metres longer than Seema Punia’s best effort so far. Looks like the Australian has won the gold here. Navjeet Dhillon is struggling at the moment.
Women’s Discuss throw final:
India’s Seema Punia throws an excellent 60.41 in her first attempt. She is second on the table behind the local thrower Dani Stevens. Great start!
Women’s Discus throw final:
India’s Seema Punia throws an excellent 60.41 in her first attempt. She is second on the table behind the local thrower Dani Stevens. Great start!
Table tennis: Women’s singles
India’s 22-year-old paddler Manika Batra advances to the last four of the competition with a 4-1 win over Singapore’s Zhou. Batra attacked from the beginning to put her opponent under pressure.
A brilliant win for the youngster!
Badminton: Women’s doubles
Ashwini Ponnappa – Sikki Reddy off to a good start in their women’s doubles match against Singaporean pair after clinching the first game 21-18.
Table tennis: Women’s singles
Manika Batra missed out on registering a clean-sweep win over Zhou after dropping the fourth game 6-11. That’s okay. She still leads 3-1 in this tie. One more game and she’ll enter the last four.
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Table tennis: Women’s singles
India’s Manika Batra is coasting against Singaporean paddler Yihan Zhou as she takes the first two games quite comfortably. She is so good with her forehand shots.
Women’s Heptathlon Shot Put
India’s Purnima Hembram’s first shot put attempt is 11.75. That’s the seventh best in the field.
So, after three heptathlon events, Purnima is placed seventh overall with 2,565 points.
Badminton: Men’s doubles
Men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advance to quarters of men’s doubles after beating Mauritian pair Lubah/Paul 21-8, 21-12
Badminton: Women’s singles
Saina Nehwal advances to the quarter-finals of women’s singles event, with her opponent Jessica Li retiring hurt in the 2nd game after surrendering the first 4-21
We have missed out on a lot of action thanks to wrestling!
In table tennis, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra defeated Canada’s Marko Medjugorac Marko and Alicia Cote 8-11, 13-11, 12-10, 8-11 and 4-11 in mixed doubles competition.
Sutritha Mukherjee – Pooja Sahasrabudhe defeated Canada’s Alicia Cote – Mo Zhang. On the other hand, Manika Batra – Mouma Das registered a 3-1 win over Ho Tin-Tin – Maria Tsaptsinos in women’s doubles last-16 event.
In men’s doubles, Harmeet Desai – Sanil Shetty eased past Paul McCreery – Ashley Robinson to enter the quarter-finals. Sharath Kamal – Sathiyan G too strolled past Sri Lankan duo.
Elsewhere in squash, Dipika Pallikar and Saurav Ghosal defeated Malaysia’s Sanjay Singh and Azman Aifa 7-11, 11-6, 11-8 to reach the next round.
Wrestling: Men’s freestyle 75kg
Well, that escalated quickly. Sushil Kumar beats Johannes Botha in the final of men’s freestyle 75kg. The defending champion didn’t let his opponent make a single attempt as Sushil wraps up the match in less than 80 seconds.
Wrestling: Men’s Freestyle 74 kg
Sushil Kumar is in action. Will he defend his title?
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