Thursday, October 14, 2010

Commonwealth Games 2010
At XIX Commonwealth Games 2010, New Delhi

On last day India won 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze medals to finish their medal tally for CWG 2010 to 38 Gold, 27 Silver and 36 Bronze medals.

Due to 2 Gold medals India finished Second behind Australia in final standing, pushing England to thrid place ... This is India's best finish in Commonwealth Games and first time Indian contingent won total more than 100 medals in this event ... Well done guys.

In last event of the day Saina scored exciting comeback win over her 2nd seed Malaysian opponent to secure Gold medal ... After losing first game she was down 20-21 ... She saved that Gold medal point and then won next 3 points to make it 1 game all ... In decider she take control from the start to win Gold medal, 19-21 23-21 21-13 ... Saina's Gold medal secured our 2nd position in the final standing.

In women's doubles Jwala and Ashwini defeated their Singaporean opponents in straight games to won Gold medal ... From start they managed to keep pressure on their opponents to complete win 21-16 21-19.

Reaching final India already secured their first medal in hockey in CWG ... But today Australian gave very tough and hard lesson to our team ... They scored 4 goals each in both half to handed worst ever defeat to Indian team ... Feeling really sorry for our Indian team as in other matches they performed lot better.

In table tennis we won 2 Bronze medals ... Sharath Kamal Achanta won Bronze beating his teammate Soumyadeep Roy in straight sets, 11-8 11-5 12-1011-9 ... Earlier Mouma Das and Poulomi Ghatak won their Bronze medal match comfortably against Australian pair in 12 mins, 11-4 11-7 11-1.

Day 11
Badminton - Women's Singles
Gold - Saina Nehwal (IND)
Silver - Mew Choo Wong (MAS)
Bronze - Liz cann (ENG)

Badminton - Women's Doubles
Gold - Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)
Silver - Shinta Mulia Sari (SIN)/ Lei Yao (SIN)
Bronze - He Tian Tang (AUS)/ Kate Wilson-Smith (AUS)

Hockey - Men
Gold - Australia
Silver - India
Bronze - New Zealand

Table Tennis - Men's Singles
Gold - Zi Yang (SIN)
Silver - Ning Gao (SIN)
Bronze - Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND)

Table Tennis - Women's Doubles
Gold - Jiawei Li (SIN)/ Beibei Sun (SIN)
Silver - Tianwei Feng (SIN)/ Yuegu Wang (SIN)
Bronze - Mouma Das (IND)/ Poulomi Ghatak (IND)

Badminton - Men's Singles
Gold - Chong Wei Lee (MAS)
Silver - Rajiv Ouseph (ENG)
Bronze - Kashyap Parupalli (IND)

Final Medal Standing of 2010 Commonwealth Games
  1. Australia 74 55 48 = 177
  2. India 38 27 36 = 101
  3. England 37 59 46 = 142
  4. Canada 26 17 32 = 75
  5. South Africa 12 11 10 = 33
  6. Kenya 12 11 9 = 32
  7. Malaysia 12 10 13 = 35
  8. Singapore 11 11 9 = 31
  9. Nigeria 11 10 14 = 35
  10. Scotland 9 10 7 = 26

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