XXI Commonwealth Games

At the XXI Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast 2018, Australia

Athletics - Men's Javelin Throw
Gold - Neeraj Chopra (IND) 86.47m (SB)
Silver - Hamish Peacock (AUS) 82.59m
Bronze - Anderson Peters (GRN) 82.20m

Boxing - Women's 45-48kg Final Bout
MC Mery Kom (IND) bt Kristina O'Hara (ENG) 5-0 (30-27, 30-27, 29-28, 30-27, 30-27

Boxing - Men's 52kg Final Bout
Gaurav Solanki (IND) bt Brendan Irvine (NIR) 4-1 (29-28, 30-25, 29-28, 28-29, 29-28)

Boxing - Men's 75kg Final Bout
Vikas Krishan (IND) bt Dieudonne Wilfried Seyi Ntsengue (CMR) 5-0 (30-27, 29-28, 29-28, 30-27, 29-28)

Boxing - Men's 46-49kg Final Bout
Amit Panghal (IND) l Galal Yafai (ENG) 1-3 (28-29, 27-30, 29-28, 28-28, 28-29)

Boxing - Men's 60kg Final Bout
Manish Kaushik (IND) l Harry Garside (AUS) 2-3 (29-28, 27-30, 27-30, 28-29, 29-28)

Boxing - Men's +91kg Final Bout
Satish Kumar (IND) l Frazer Clarke (ENG) 0-5 (27-30, 28-29, 28-29, 28-29, 28-29)

Shooting - Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
Gold - Sanjeev Rajput (IND) 454.5 pts(GR)
Silver - Grzegorz Sych (CAN) 448.4 pts
Bronze - Dean Bale (ENG) 441.2 pts

Table Tennis - Women's Singles
Gold - Manika Batra (IND)
Silver - Mengyu Yu (SGP)
Bronze - Tianwei Feng (SGP)

Table Tennis - Women's Singles Gold Medal Match
Manika Batra (IND) bt Mengyu Yu (SGP) 4-0 (11-7, 11-6, 11-2, 11-7)

Table Tennis - Men's Doubles
Gold - Paul Drinkhall (ENG)/ Liam Pitchford (ENG)
Silver - Achanta Sharath Kamal (IND)/ Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND)
Bronze - Harmeet Desai (IND)/ Sanil Shankar Shetty (IND)

Table Tennis - Men's Doubles Gold Medal Match
Achanta Sharath Kamal (IND)/ Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (IND) l Paul Drinkhall (ENG)/ Liam Pitchford (ENG) 2-3 (5-11, 12-10, 11-9, 6-11, 8-11)

Table Tennis - Men's Doubles Bronze Medal Match
Harmeet Desai (IND)/ Sanil Shankar Shetty (IND) bt Yew En Koen Pang (SGP)/ Shao Feng Ethan Poh (SGP) 3-0 (11-5, 11-6, 12-10)

Squash - Mixed Doubles
Gold - Donna Urquhart (AUS)/ Cameron Pilley (AUS)
Silver - Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND)/ Saurav Ghosal (IND)
Bronze - Joelle King (NZL)/ Paul Coll (NZL)

Squash - Mixed Doubles Gold Medal Match
Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND)/ Saurav Ghosal (IND) l Donna Urquhart (AUS)/ Cameron Pilley (AUS) 8-11 10-11

Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 50 kg Nordic
Gold - Vinesh Phogat (IND)
Silver - Jessica MacDonald (CAN)
Bronze - Miesinnei Genesis (NGR)

[M1] Vinesh Phogat (IND) bt Miesinnei Genesis (NGR) 6-5 (Victory by Points)
[M2] Vinesh Phogat (IND) bt Rupinder Kaur (AUS) 10-0 (Victory by Technical Superiority)
[M3] Vinesh Phogat (IND) bt Jessica MacDonald (CAN) 13-3 (Victory by Technical Superiority)

Wrestling - Men's Freestyle 125 kg Nordic
Gold - Sumit Malik (IND)
Silver - Korey Jarvis (CAN)
Bronze - Tayab Raza (PAK)

[M1] Sumit Malik (IND) bt Claude Kouamen Mbianga (CMR) (Victory by Injury)
[M2] Sumit Malik (IND) bt Korey Jarvis (CAN) 6-4 (Victory by Points)
[M3] Sumit Malik (IND) bt Tayab Raza (PAK) 10-4 (Victory by Points)
[M4] Sumit Malik (IND) bt Sinivie Boltic (NGR) w/o (Victory by Injury)

Wrestling - Men's Freestyle 86 kg
Gold - Muhammad Inam (PAK)
Silver - Melvin Bibo (NGR)
Bronze - Somveer Kadian (IND) and Syerus Eslami (ENG)

Men's Freestyle 86 kg Bronze
Somveer Kadian (IND) bt Alexander Moore (CAN) 7-3 (Victory by Points)

[R16] Somveer Kadian (IND) bt Taebontangaroa Kookoo (KIR) 4-0 (Victory by Fall)
[QF] Somveer Kadian (IND) l Muhammad Inam (PAK) 0-10 (Victory by Technical Superiority)
[Repechage R2] Somveer Kadian (IND) bt Jayden Lawrence (AUS) 7-0 (Victory by Fall)

Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 62 kg Nordic
Gold - Aminat Adeniyi (NGR)
Silver - Michelle Fazzari (CAN)
Bronze - Sakshi Malik (IND)

[M1] Sakshi Malik (IND) bt Berthe Emillene Etane Ngolle (CMR) 10-0 (Victory by Technical Superiority)
[M2] Sakshi Malik (IND) l Michelle Fazzari (CAN) 8-11 (Victory by Points)
[M3] Sakshi Malik (IND) l Aminat Adeniyi (NGR) 3-6 (Victory by Points)
[M4] Sakshi Malik (IND) bt Tayla Ford (NZL) 6-5 (Victory by Points)

Badminton - Women's Doubles Bronze Medal Match
Sikki N. Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Setyana Mapasa (AUS)/ Gronya Somerville (AUS) 21-19 21-19

Badminton - Men's Singles Bronze Medal Match
H. S. Prannoy (IND) l Rajiv Ouseph (ENG) 21-17 23-25 9-21

Badminton - Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal Match
Ashwini Ponnappa (IND)/ Satwik Rankireddy (IND) l Liu Ying Goh (MAS)/ Peng Soon Chan (MAS) 19-21 19-21

Hockey

Hockey - Men's Bronze Medal Match
India l England 1-2 (1-1
Goal Scored - Varun Kumar (IND) 22' PC and Sam Ward (ENG) 7' PC and 43' PC

Hockey - Women's Bronze Medal Match
India l England 0-6 (0-1)
Goal Scored - Hollie Pearne-Webb (ENG) 27' PC, Sophie Bary (ENG) 44', 49' and 56', Laura Unsworth (ENG) 55', Alexandra Danson (ENG) 57'

In Javelin Throw, Neeraj Chopra lifted Gold with season's best throw of 86.47m ... His all four legal throws were over 80 meters, showed his determination and consistency ... Vipin Kashana finished on the 5th position with 77.87m throw.

In Boxing, legendary Mary Kom lifted her first CWG Gold medal beating British boxer Kristina O'Hara comfortably ... Young Gaurav Solanki gave us a second Gold medal, he defeated Northern Ireland's Brendan Irvine in well fought bout in 52kg final ... Vikas Krishan won Gold beating Cameroon boxer in 75 kg ... Manish Kaushik was unlucky to lose close bout, 2-3, against local boxer Harry Garside in 60kg final ... Amit Panghal also lost close bout against British boxer Galal Yafai in 46-49kg final ... Satish Kumar gave decent fight to British boxer in his loss in +91 kg final.

In shooting, India won another Gold medal when Sanjeev Rajput won Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions final with new Game Record ... Chain Singh finished on the 5th position with 419.1 pts, he eliminated by 0.2 pts ... In the qualifying Sanjeev topped and scored qualifying Game Record of 1180 pts ... Chain Singh finished the 2nd with 1166 pts.

Young Manika Batra is THE FIND of this CWG ... 22 yrs old paddler won Women's Singles Gold medal beating higher ranked Singaporean girl, Mengyu Yu (who was former top 10 player) convincingly ... Before this in the semis, Manika again defeated WR #4 Tianwei Feng from 2-3 down ... Manika won closely fought last 2 games against Feng ... This is her 2nd Gold medal after the team Gold medal and she also won Silver in Women's doubles with Mouma Das ... She is in MXD Bronze medal match with Sathiyan and they r facing another Indian pair Sharath and Mouma Das ... In men's doubles, Kamal and Sathiyan lost in five games against British pair, so they won Silver ... After losing the first game Kamal-Sathiyan fought back after down in the second and the third games to win it ... But they failed to keep momentum in next game and tried fightback in the fifth after 3-8 down ... Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty won Bronze beating their Singaporean opponents in straight games ... Encouraging performance by our paddlers.

In Men's freestyle, Sumit Malik won Gold in Men's Freestyle 125 kg ... This played in Nordic format and Sumit's two African opponents got injured in their previous bouts, so gave walkover ... Before that, he defeated Pakistani and Canadian wrestlers on points ... In 86 kg category, Somveer Kadian won Bronze against young Canadian wrestler, Alexander Moore, he was behind after first period but recovered well to win the match ... Before that, he lost against Pakistani wrestler, Muhammad Inam, convincingly ... Then, he defeated Aussie wrestler to move in to Bronze medal match.

In Women's freestyle, Vinesh Phogat won Gold in Women's Freestyle 50 kg, beating a tough Canadian Jessica MacDonald convincingly in her final Nordic system match ... Disappointing results for Sakshi Malik as she won Bronze ... She lost her two bouts and scored a close win over Tayla Ford for Bronze medal.

In Mixed Doubles Squash, Dipika-Saurav lost in the final against Aussie pair in close two games.

In Badminton, Ashwini-Sikki lifted Bronze beating local pair in a close match in Women's doubles ... Bad scheduling by the organizers cost Ashwini her second medal as she played four matches in a day ... Her MXD bronze medal match was her 4th match of the day ... She was visibly tired and Satwik was also played three matches in a day ... Despite tiredness they tried their best against Malaysian pair but in end, lost their match ... Prannoy lost in bronze medal match against Rajiv Ouseph ... Prannoy won the first game and was in the control in the second ... But after losing the second game in extra points he failed to motivate himself in the final game.

In hockey, our poor performance completed as our both teams lost against British teams ... Our higher ranked men gave another pathetic performance to lose against British side ... British women team defeated our women convincingly in Bronze medal match ... In last period they scored 4 goals for this one-sided victory.

A terrific run by Jinson Johnson in men's 1500m, he broke 23 yrs old national record of Bahadur Prasad with a timing of 3:37.86s to finish on the 5th position ... In Men's Triple Jump, Arpinder Singh finished on the 4th position with 16.46m jump.

On the tenth day we won 8 golds and guaranteed our highest finish on the medal table of the Commonwealth games ... So we are having 25 golds, 16 silvers and 18 bronzes.