Today's day is India's day............. India Won Again 5 gold today.....
Total Gold is 11..
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Wrestler Sanjay wins 4th gold for India
New Delhi, Oct 5: The second day of Commonwealth Games 2010 seemed to come up with a bucket of gold medals. Started with shooting, now its wrestling, which bagged the second gold.
Sanjay defeated South Africa's Richard Brian Addinall in the 74 kg Greco-Roman event.
This is the fourth gold medal for India. Another wrestler, Ravinder Kumar won gold medal in 60 kg Greco-Roman event on the same day.
Other gold medals were won by shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, and women's pair of Tejaswini Sawant and Lajjakumari on Oct 5.
This is the fourth gold medal for India. Another wrestler, Ravinder Kumar won gold medal in 60 kg Greco-Roman event on the same day.
Other gold medals were won by shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, and women's pair of Tejaswini Sawant and Lajjakumari on Oct 5.
Indian wrestler Ravinder bags gold in CWG 2010
New Delhi, Oct 5: After shooting, now its wrestling that brought the third gold medal to India on the very second day of Commonwealth Games on Tuesday, Oct 5.
Ravinder defeated Terence Christopher Bosson of England by 2-0, 5-0.
This is the third gold for India on the second day of the Commonwealth Games, as other two gold medals were won by shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, and women's pair of Tejaswini Sawant and Lajjakumari.
India wrestler, Ravinder Kumar grabbed a gold medal in the Greco-Roman 60kg event.
Ravinder defeated Terence Christopher Bosson of England by 2-0, 5-0.
This is the third gold for India on the second day of the Commonwealth Games, as other two gold medals were won by shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, and women's pair of Tejaswini Sawant and Lajjakumari.
CWG: Shooters Tejaswini, Lajjakumari grab silver
New Delhi, Oct 5: Shooters continue to make India proud on the Day 2 of the Delhi Commonwealth Games as Tejaswini Sawant and Lajjakumari Gauswami grabbed the silver medal in the 50m rifle event.The duo's victory in the women'd 50m air rifle 3 position has added to trove of medals India won on Tuesday, Oct 5 in the shooting arena.
The host country's gold account began when Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang pocketed gold in 10m air rifle pair shooting, besides setting a new Commonwealth Games record by scoring 1193 points.
India gets first gold; Bindra, Gagan win in air rifle event
India have opened their gold account on the second day of the Commonwealth games today. Shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang have won in the 10m air rifle event in New Delhi. World champion Tejeswani Sawant had won two gold medals in air rifle in the previous edition in Melbourne, and Lajja Goswami will take a shot at glory in the 50m 3 position event later in the day.
In between, Deepak Sharma and Omkar Singh will try their luck in 50m free pistol event, while Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed will compete in 25m pitol for women.Narang is a world record holder - he scored 600 out of 600 during his unparalleled record-winning feat - in air rifle event.
Indian shooting has been on the ascendancy ever since the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002, where the team won 24 medals, before bettering the mark four years later in Melbourne, winning a record 27 medals.
The bunch, that overflows with talent, is raring to do one better this time around, but, according to Thomas, it takes years and years of hard work to improve.
"We know that India's best chance of winning maximum number of medals is shooting but the rising expectations are bound to put a lot of pressure on our shooters.
"We won 24 medals in Manchester but it took us four years to make it 27 and it will take a Herculean effort to make it 28 this time," Thomas, who has been at the helm of Indian shooting for the past 17 years, said.
Thomas might be a bit skeptical going into the competition, but he certainly is not low on confidence.
With the likes of Bindra, world champions Sawant and Manavjit Singh, world record holder in double-trap Ronjan Sodhi and the man who has won the maximum number of World Cup medals for the country, Narang, in the line-up, Thomas has, at his disposal, a top-fligt team.
"From five medals - three gold and two silver - in 1994 to 24 in Manchester and then 27 in Melbourne, it's a huge achievement. It's difficult when you look at those numbers but it should not be a big problem, winning more medals than the previous two editions. I'm confident that our shooters will rise to the occasion in front of home crowd," the shooting coach said.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Commonwealth Games: India wins silver, bronze in weightlifting
Women lifters Soniya Chanu and Sandhya Rani Devi provided the Commonwealth Games hosts their first two medals on the first day of competitions on Monday while their men’s freestyle quartet made history by reaching the final in swimming.
Chanu, favourite for the 48 kg gold medal, settled for silver by clearing 167 kg which was eight kg below what surprise winner Augustina Nwaokolo of Nigeria lifted to win the contest with a new Games record to boot.
Chanu and Nwaokolo were tied with the same clearance of 94 kg in the snatch competition but the latter, who weighed marginally less than the Indian woman, settled the issue in the clean and jerk category.
Sandhya Rani took the bronze with a total clearance of 165 kg.
In the pool, the men’s 4x400m freestyle relay quartet of Virdhawal Khade, Anshul Kothari, Arjun Jayaprakash and Aaron D’Souza finished sixth in the morning heats to make the evening final where they finished in the same position clocking 3 mins, 27.14 secs.
It’s the first time that in swimming the country had been represented in the final in the Commonwealth Games.
“This is really fantastic. We have made history by reaching the final for the first time in Commonwealth Games competition,” team coach Pradeep Kumar said.
Two other Indian swimmers — Badrinath Melkote (men’s 50m backstroke) and Shubha Chittaranjan (women’s 50m butterfly) — qualified for the semi finals by ending up 14th and 16th in the heats. Both were, however, eliminated in the evening semi finals.
But all other swimmers sunk without making a splash.
Surbahi Tipre and Arti Ghorpade finished a disappointing 22nd and 24th in women’s 200m freestyle.
In men’s 400m freestyle heats, Mandar Divase and Ullalmath Gangan finished distant 17th and 18th respectively.
Other Indians to bow out on day one included Beijing Olympian Rehan Poncha and Tarun Tokas (men’s 200m butterfly); Priyanka Priyadarshini, Poorva Shetye and Mankiran Kaur (women’s 50m breaststroke) and Pooja Alva (women’s 200m IM).
India also made a winning start in tennis and table tennis but suffered a major blow in another racquet sport, squash, when their no. one woman player Dipika Pallikal pulled out following a bout of mild fever.
Three other men players — Sourav Ghosal, Harinder Pal Sandhu and Siddharth Suchde progressed to the round of 32.
Indian women, seeded second in the table tennis team event, started their campaign on a resounding note by blanking Sri Lanka 3-0 in Group D at the Yamuna Sports complex.
Mouma Das, Shamini Kumareshan and reigning national champion Poulomi Ghatak won their matches without dropping a game. The Indian eves have to play against New Zealand and Ghana in the group.
In tennis, Rohan Bopanna outclassed Uganda’s Robert Buyanza in straight sets.
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