Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Commonwealth Games 2010
At XIX Commonwealth Games 2010, New Delhi

On 3rd day we captured 6 Gold, 4 Silver and 3 Bronze medals ... So Indian medals tally after 3 days is 11 Gold, 8 Silver and 5 Bronze.

Ravi Kumar Katulu won Gold medal in 69kg Men weightlifting with new commonwealth games record lift of 321.0 kg.

Rajender Kumar comfortably won Gold medal in 55 kg greco-roman ... Manoj Kumar lost final against Nigerian wrestler in 84 kg greco-roman ... Sunil Kumar only managed to win Bronze in 66 kg greco-roman ... Dharmender Dalal also lost in semis against Australian wrestler in 120 kg greco-roman but comfortably win Bronze medal match against Cyprus wrestler.

Our three shooters won 3 Gold medals and 3 Silvers ... Gagan Narang continued with his good form scoring perfect 600 pts in qualifying to again equalled the World record and his 5 points lead over Abhinav was enough to won Gold ... Anisa Sayyed made comeback after falling behind in Precision to win Gold medal and then Rahi Sarnobat made comeback in final round to beat Malaysian shooter to win Silver ... Omkar Singh also scored comeback win in the final round after falling behind in preliminary round to win Gold ... Ranjan Sodhi was off target in second round and that cost us Gold medal in Pairs Double Trap, where we lost to England by shooting 1 less clay bird.

In 58KG weightlifting Renu Bala comfortably won Gold medal.

In swimming Prasanta Karmakar won bronze medal in para sport 50m freestyle ... Indian men's team finished 7th in final of the 4x200m freestyle relay with timing of 7:46.18s ... Virdhawal Khade finished on 7th position with 24.61s in 50m Butterfly Men Finals ... But Virdhawal failed to qualify for final in 100m freestyle when his timing was 10th best in semi-finals.

In Badminton our team reached in quarter-final in mix-event keeping clean slate.

In tennis Somi and Sania reached in quarter-final with comfortable win but Rohan lost against 2nd seed Aussie Peter Luczak 26 67(5) ... Rushmi Chakravarthi scored upset win over British 3rd seed Katie O'Brien, 16 76 75, in comeback win to moved into quarters ... Other hand Poojashree Venkatesh, lost against 5th seed Guernsey player Heather Watson 67(6) 36 ... In doubles Sania and Rushmi entered into semis with straight sets victory, 61 76 ... Somi and Rohan scored emphatic victory against doubles specialist Scottish pair Colin Fleming and Jamie Murray, 63 61.

In table tennis our women team upset higher ranked Australian 3-1 ... Australian team was last 2 times Silver medalist.

Our boxers continued with their winning form to moved into next round.

Our Archery teams r in semis in team event.

Our women hockey team lost against mighty Aussie team in close match, 1-2 ... Now we need to win remaining matches with hefty goal margin to rach in semis.

Day 3
Weightlifting - 69kg Men Finals
Gold - Ravi Kumar Katulu (IND) (146.0 + 175.0) 321.0 KG CGR
Silver - Chinthana Geetal Vidanage (SRI) (134.0 + 174.0) 308.0 KG
Bronze - Mohd Hafifi Mansor (MAS) (137.0 + 169.0) 306.0 KG

Wrestling - Greco-Roman 55 kg
Gold - Rajender Kumar (IND)
Silver - Azhar Hussain (PAK)
Bronze - Promise Mwenga (CAN)

Weightlifting - 58kg Women
Gold - Renu Bala Chanu Yumnam (IND) (90.0 + 107.0) 197.0 KG
Silver - Seen Lee (AUS) (86.0 + 106.0) 192.0 KG
Bronze - Zoe Smith (ENG) (85.0 + 103.0) 188.0 KG

Shooting - Singles 10 m Air Rifle Men
Gold - Gagan Narang (IND) (100 100 100 100 100 100 = 600+103.6) 703.5 pts CGR
Silver - Abhinav Bindra (IND) (99 98 100 98 100 100 = 595+103) 698 pts
Bronze - James Huckle (ENG) (99 100 97 99 97 99 = 591+102.5) 693.5 pts

Shooting - Singles 25 m Pistol Women
Gold - Anisa Sayyed (IND) (Precision - 97 96 98 = 291, Rapid 97 97 98 = 292, 203.8) 786.8 pts CGR
Silver - Rahi Sarnobat (IND) (Precision - 95 97 93 = 285, Rapid - 95 97 99 = 291, 205) 781 pts
Bronze - Pei Chin Bibiana Ng (MAS) Precision - 97 97 96 = 290, Rapid - 95 96 99 = 290, 198.2) 778.2 pts

Shooting - Singles 50 m Pistol Men
Gold - Omkar Singh (IND) (95 94 92 96 89 91 = 557+96.6) 653.6 pts
Silver - Bin Gai (SIN) (93 94 89 91 97 94 = 558+91.6) 649.6 pts
Bronze - Swee Hon Lee (SIN) (90 92 94 94 92 89 = 551+93.7) 644.7 pts

Shooting - Pairs Double Trap Men
Gold - England 189 CGR
Steven Scott (46 47)
Stevan Walton (49 47)

Silver - India 188
Ranjan Sodhi (50 45)
Asher Noria (46 47)

Bronze - Malaysia 185
Benjamin Cheng Jie Khor (46 47)
Seng Chye Khor (47 45)

Wrestling - Greco-Roman 84 kg Men
Gold - Efionayi Joe Agbonavbare (NGR)
Silver - Manoj Kumar (IND)
Bronze - ZYL Dean van (RSA)

Wrestling - Greco-Roman 66 kg
Gold - Myroslav Dykun (ENG)
Silver - Jack Bond (CAN)
Bronze - Sunil Kumar (IND)

Wrestling - Greco-Roman 120 kg Men
Gold - Ivan Popov (AUS)
Silver - Talaram Mamman (NGR)
Bronze - Dharmender Dalal (IND)

Swimming - Men 50m Freestyle S9 (Para Sport)
Gold - Matthew John Cowdrey (AUS) 25.33 WR
Silver - Simon Jay Miller (ENG) 26.70
Bronze - Prasanta Karmakar (IND) 27.48

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