Thursday, October 07, 2010

Commonwealth Games 2010
At XIX Commonwealth Games 2010, New Delhi

On 4th day we won 3 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze medals ... So now we managed to hold 2nd place on medals tally by thin margin, our tally in 14 Gold, 11 Silver and 9 Bronze medals.

Today in shooting we managed to win 2 Gold medals, which Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh won scoring game record in Pairs 25M Rapid Fire pistol, Gurpreet Singh won his second Gold medal with another game record with Omkar Singh in Pairs 10 m Air Pistol ... But Ronjan Sodhi disappointed winning only Silver though he had good final round after poor qualifying, where he qualify on 5th position with 139 hits ... Most disappointing performance in shooting came from Tejaswini Sawant in 50 m Rifle 3 Positions Women, who failed to qualify for the final ... Lajjakumari Gauswami qualified for the final but finished on 6th position.

In Women's Freestyle only Geeta won Gold medal, we had one Silver and Bronze.

In Archery compound team event our men won Silver as they lost against England in the final and women managed to win Bronze beating Malaysian team.

Ashish Kumar created history becoming first Indian to win any medal in big international event in Gymnastics ... He won Bronze medal in Gymnastics Artistic Floor Exercise event.

In Badminton India team reached in the final beating England 3-0 in the semis after beating Canada 3-0 in quarter-final ... In the final we r facing top-seed Malaysia.

In table-tennis our men and women teams r in the final ... In the women final we r facing top-seed Singapore.

In tennis Somdev and Sania r in singles semis with straight sets victory ... Both will face Aussie opponent in semis ... In mens doubles top-ssed Mahesh and Lee had tough 3 set match, where last 2 sets went to tie-breaks, to reach semis ... Somi and Rohan joined them with straight sets victory ... Rushmi lost in singles quarter-final but in doubles she is in semis with Sania, they will face top-seed Aussie pair ... Poojashree and Nirupama Sanjeev r also in semis, they upset 2nd seed British pair in straight sets, now they will face 3rd seed Aussie pair in the semis ... In mixed doubles we faced shocking defeat of Gold medal hopeful Lee and Sania against unseeded Scottish pair Colin Fleming and Jocelyn Rae in quarters.

Our boxers contined with their good run moving into next round comfortably in their respective categories.

In swimming our 7 swimmers r in the semis.

Our hockey team lost poorly against World champion Australia ... Our defence was struggling and Bharat Chetri also had a bad day in goal keeping.

Day 4
Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 55kg
Gold - Geeta (IND)
Silver - Emily Bensted (AUS)
Bronze - Lovina Odohi Edward (NGR)

Shooting - Pairs 10 m Air Pistol Men
Gold - India 1163 pts CGR
Omkar Singh (98 98 98 98 98 97) 587 pts
Gurpreet Singh (95 96 97 94 96 98) 576 pts

Silver - England 1143 pts
Nick Baxter (96 97 96 95 95 94) 573 pts
Michael Gault (94 93 94 96 98 95) 570 pts

Bronze - Singapore 1139 pts
Bin Gai (97 96 97 95 93 93) 571 pts
Swee Hon Lim (94 98 94 98 93 91) 568 pts

Shooting - Pairs 25 m Rapid Fire pistol
Gold - India 1162 pts CGR
Vijay Kumar (Stage 1 - 97 99 98 = 294, Stage 2 - 97 98 98 = 293) 587 pts
Gurpreet Singh (Stage 1 - 99 98 85 = 282, Stage 2 - 100 98 95 = 293) 575 pts

Silver - Malaysia 1144 pts
Hasli Izwan Amir Hasan (Stage 1 - 95 98 98 = 291, Stage 2 - 97 96 92 = 285) 576 pts
Hafiz Adzha (Stage 1 - 99 94 95 = 288, Stage 2 - 94 96 90 = 280) 568 pts

Bronze - Australia 1125 pts
Bruce Quick (Stage 1 - 98 96 84 = 278, Stage 2 - 99 97 89 = 285) 563 pts
David Chapman (Stage 1 - 95 96 87 = 278, 97 94 93 = 284) 562 pts

Shooting - Singles Double Trap Men
Gold - Stevan Walton (ENG)
Silver - Ronjan Sodhi (IND)
Bronze - Timothy James Kneale (IOM)

Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 48kg
Gold - Carol Huynh (CAN)
Silver - Nirmala Devi (IND)
Bronze - Odunayo Folashade Adekuroye (NGR)

Archery - Compound Team Men
Gold - England
Duncan Edward Craig Busby
Liam Michael Grimwood
Christopher White

Silver - India
Ritul Chatterjee
Jignas Chittibomma
Chinna Raju Srither

Bronze - South Africa
Nico Benade
Septimus Holtzhaus Cilliers
Jacobus Ignatius de Wet

Archery - Compound Team Women
Gold - England
Danielle Elizabeth Brown
Nicky Hunt
Nichola Simpson

Silver - Canada
Camille Bouffard-Demers
Doris Mary Jones
Ashley Wallace

Bronze - India
Bheigyabati Chanu
Jhano Hansdah
Gagandeep Kaur

Weightlifting - 77kg Men Finals
Gold - Yukio Peter (NRU) (148.0 + 185.0) 333.0 KG
Silver - Ben Turner (AUS) (133.0 + 175.0) 308.0 KG
Bronze - Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga Padma Raju (IND) (131.0 + 166.0) 297.0 KG

Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 63kg
Gold - Justine Bouchard (CAN)
Silver - Blessing Oborududu (NGR)
Bronze - Suman Kundu (IND)

Gymnastics Artistic - Floor Exercise Men
Gold - Thomas Pichler (AUS) (6.100 8.575) 14.675 pts
Silver - Reiss Beckford (ENG) (6.100 8.525) 14.625 pts
Bronze - Ashish Kumar (IND) (6.500 8.075 Penalty - 0.1) 14.475 pts

Hockey - Pool A

India l Australia 2-5

Goal Scored - Dharamvir Singh (IND) 12', Sandeep Singh (IND) PC 70+' and Desmond Abbott (AUS) 2', Trent Mitton (AUS) 6', Eddie Ockenden (AUS) 48', Liam de Young (AUS) 54', Glenn Turner (AUS) 58'

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