CWG: Vikram-Ramit win in men’s doubles squash
Gold Coast (Australia), April 11 (IANS) India’s Vikram Malhotra and Ramit Tandon defeated Wales duo Peter Creed and Joel Makin 2-1 (11-7, 8-11, 11-10) in a Pool F men’s doubles squash match at the 21st…
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CWG: Suthirtha-Pooja advance in TT women’s doubles
Gold Coast (Australia), April 11 (IANS) India’s Sutirtha Mukherjee and Pooja Sahasrabudhe outclassed Mauritius pair of Ruqayyah Kinoo and Sanjana Alix Ramasawmy 3-0 to proceed to the TT women’s doubles round of 16 at the…
CWG: Om takes bronze in men’s 50m Pistol
Gold Coast (Australia), April 11 (IANS) Indian shooter Om Mitharwal took the bronze medal in the men’s 50 metre Pistol event at the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG) here on Wednesday. Om registered a score of…
CWG: Sharath-Sathiyan advance in men’s doubles TT
Gold Coast (Australia), April 11 (IANS) India’s Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran entered the round of 16 in men’s doubles table tennis competition of the 21st Commonwealth Games after thrashing Kiribati duo Tauramoa Miita…
CWG: Mary Kom enters women’s 48kg final
Gold Coast (Australia), April 11 (IANS) Veteran Indian star M.C. Mary Kom defeated Anusha Dilruksh of Sri Lanka to enter the final of the women’s 48 kilogram category at the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG) here…
CWG: Mixed day for Indian para paddlers
Gold Coast (Australia), April 11 (IANS) Indian para paddlers Maitreyee Sarkar and Vaishnavi Sutar had a mixed outing in their respective women’s TT6-10 singles group matches at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Wednesday. While…
CWG: Indians disappoint in lawn bowls events
Gold Coast (Australia), April 11 (IANS) India were off to a disappointing start in lawn bowls events of the 21st Commonwealth Games on Wednesday after both Krishna Xalxo and the women’s Pairs team losing their…
Golden shooter Heena, para-lifter Sachin delight India; 5 boxing medals assured
Gold Coast, April 10 (IANS) India’s Heena Sidhu won gold in the women’s 25 metre Pistol event, while para-lifter Sachin Chaudhary settled for a bronze while five boxers assured at least a medal each and…
Gold Coast CWG medal tally after Day 6 competitions
Gold Coast (Australia), April 10 (IANS) Top 10 positions in the medal tally after Day 6 of the 21st edition of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) here on Monday. The list is in the order of…
CWG: India taste success on Day 6
Gold Coast (Australia), April 10 (IANS) It was a satisfactory day for India at the squash events as all the three pairs came out victorious in their respective matches in the 21st Commonwealth Games here…
Heena strikes 25m pistol gold; Annu, Chain, Narang falter
Gold Coast, April 10 (IANS) Heena Sidhu won gold in the women’s 25 metre Pistol event, while Chain Singh and Gagan Narang failed to ensure any medals in the men’s 50m Rifle Prone event on…
Badminton and table tennis teams got the rare gold
By Veturi Srivatsa The excellent television coverage of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games has put even the highly popular Indian Premier League in shade. The Indian angle was so beautifully covered that most events were…
CWG: Indian teams qualify for semi-finals
Gold Coast, April 10 (IANS) It was a field day for Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams as they defeated Malaysia 2-1 and South Africa 1-0 respectively to enter the semi-finals at the 21st Commonwealth…
Anas misses out on 400m bronze by whisker
Gold Coast, April 10 (IANS) Indian quarter-miler Mohammad Anas registered a national record but that was not enough to give him a podium finish in the men’s 400 metres at the 21st Commonwealth Games here…
CWG: India reach Round 4 in lawn bowls men’s Fours
Gold Coast (Australia), April 10 (IANS) India defeated Botswana 16-9 to reach the fourth round of the lawn bowls men’s Fours Sectional event at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Tuesday. The Indian team comprising…
CWG: Indian women’s hockey team enters semis
Gold Coast, April 10 (IANS) The Indian women’s hockey team defeated South Africa 1-0 in its final Pool A game on Tuesday to enter the semi-finals of the event at the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG)…
CWG: Swimmer Sajan finishes seventh in 1500m freestyle final
Gold Coast, April 10 (IANS) Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash finished seventh in the men’s 1500 metre freestyle final at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Tuesday. Sajan clocked 15:52.84 to finish seventh in the eight-men…
CWG: India assured of 5 boxing medals
Gold Coast, April 10 (IANS) Boxers Amit Panghal, Naman Tanwar, Mohammed Hussamuddin, Manoj Kumar and Satish Kumar assured India at least a medal each as they reached the semi-finals of their respective weights categories on…
CWG: Boxers Hussamuddin, Manoj, Satish in semis
Gold Coast, April 10 (IANS) Indian boxers Mohammed Hussamuddin, Manoj Kumar and Satish Kumar entered the semi-finals in their respective weights categories at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Tuesday. In the quarter-finals bout of…
CWG: Para-lifter Sachin settles for bronze
Gold Coast, April 10 (IANS) India’s para-lifter Sachin Chaudhary settled for the bronze in men’s heavyweight category at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Tuesday. Sachin lifted the combined effort of 181 points. Nigeria’s Abdulazeez…