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  • CWG 2022: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee broadcasts Rs 5 lakh money reward for weightlifter Achinta Sheuli

    Commonwealth Games 2022: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee introduced Rs 5 lakh money reward for Achinta Sheuli, days after the weightlifter from Howrah scripted historical past in Birmingham, successful a Gold within the males’s 73kg class.

    India’s Achinta Sheuli celebrates his medal in Commonwealth Games. (Courtesy: PTI)

    HIGHLIGHTS20-year-old Achinta received Gold in weightlifting at Commonwealth Games 2022Achinta requested the West Bengal authorities for monetary helpAchinta’s mom and brother helped the younger weightlifter battle towards poverty and discover success

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday, August 10 introduced money rewards for Commonwealth Games 2022 medalists from the state, Achinta Shueli and Saurav Ghosal.

    CM Mamata Banerjee introduced Rs 5 lakh for weightlifter Achinta Sheuli, who received a Gold medal in males’s 73kg weightlifting in his maiden look on the Commonwealth Games. On the opposite hand, the West Bengal authorities introduced Rs 2 lakh for veteran desk tennis playyer Saurav Ghosal, who received Bronze in males’s singles and blended doubles (together with Dipika Pallikal Karthik).

    Notably, Achinta Sheuli, in an interview to India Today, had sought monetary and infrastructural assist from the West Bengal authorities to assist him put together higher for the longer term tournaments on the highest degree. The 20-year-old was calm and composed as he completed on the highest step of the rostrum on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. In a current media interplay, Achinta additionally mentioned that the state’s sports activities minister Manoj Tiwary had assured him of help to additional his sporting profession.

    Achinta comes the village Deulpur of Howrah, West Bengal. His father, a each day wage labourer, handed away in 2013 following which his mom, Purnima, and brother Alok, labored onerous to make ends meet. In truth, Achinta’s brother had given up his desires of changing into an expert weightlifter to help their household and assist the youngest member of the household purse his desires.

    Mamata Banerjee additionally directed Sports Minister in-charge, Aroop Biswas , to disburse the awards and money prize as quickly as potential. She urged the Sports Minister to award the money prize on the day of Khel Diwas, which is widely known by the West Bengal authorities on August 16.

    Mamata Banerjee made the bulletins when she attended the inauguration ceremony of a newly constructed membership tent at Mohun Bagan soccer membership in Kolkata. She additionally introduced Rs 50 lakh reward to Mohun Bagan for soccer and membership improvement.

    — ENDS —

  • Shuttlers land three gold medals in remaining flourish, elevate India to fourth in CWG tally

    INDIA’S BIG-TICKET shuttlers, P V Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and the doubles group of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, wakened on Monday morning in bleak Birmingham, and settled some severe scores. The background rating of the OTT mobster sequence Peaky Blinders, which performs on loop in any respect venues, was apt for the event on condition that revenge was sought and brought, in opposition to opponents with whom the Indians had a good quantity of historical past.

    Alongwith the legendary paddler, Sharath Kamal, who was successful his singles title within the adjoining enviornment, the shuttlers helped India (22 gold) leapfrog over New Zealand (20 gold), and end fourth within the medals tally. But it was the closure to haunting defeats from the previous, which solely comes with scything wins, that basically signed off the Birmingham Commonwealth Games for India.

    “Lost gold,” Sindhu stated, with deep reduction, happy at having exorcised the ghost of Glasgow 2014. That 12 months, she had left the world in tears after shedding the semifinal to Canada’s Michelle Li and settling for bronze on a dreary night. On Monday, on the NEC, she beamed on the “beautiful” UK climate, her confidence and psychological energy blowing Li’s problem to smithereens with a 21-15, 21-13 win.

    Though it was the Canadian winner of 2014 who had prevailed in a monster 57-stroke rally, what summed up the ultimate was an change between the 2 at 11-6 within the second set. Sindhu despatched a motion-drop swirling right into a curve and the shuttle deceptively went cross-court, forcing Li right into a tangled twist attempting to succeed in it. “Lots has happened since 2014. I’ve had lots of surgeries and she’s had lots of gold medals,” Li stated. More pertinently, this time, Sindhu received Li to make numerous errors, which normally result in blistering defeats. And Sindhu had her lacking CWG gold.

    In the lads’s doubles, Ben Lane and Sean Vendy are a pair of cheeky Englishmen who had price Satwik-Chirag a match on the Denmark Challenge occasion in 2019. Their antics would preserve the Indians on their toes, even when their badminton was error-prone. “We had fallen into their trap in 2019,” Satwik recalled.

    P V Sindhu after securing the gold medal within the girls’s singles occasion. (PTI)

    “They’ll do irritating things — deliberately pull the shuttle from our side of the court, make faces, delay, screech,” Shetty defined. Here, they hadn’t anticipated their rivals to make the finals however have been nonetheless cautious of them, owing to the drama that accompanied the high-energy maverick pair.

    “Our coach Mathias Boe and Arun Vishnu knew about this history. They told us to focus on winning points, and not get involved in their craziness and fall in the trap again,” he stated. As scientific as Sindhu’s win, and with equivalent scores, Satwik-Chirag received 21-15, 21-13 to take India two gold away from the Kiwis.

    The duo, who had silver on the Gold Coast version in 2018, recalled that night 4 years in the past when, sitting alongside Kidambi Srikanth who had equally misplaced gold to Lee Chong Wei, the Indians had vowed to win gold subsequent time.

    “I still remember, we went on court right after Srikanth had lost and couldn’t win either. Sitting together, we had taken a pledge that next time it would be gold,” Shetty stated. The wall of noise at Birmingham’s intimate stadium setting — much like the Olympics and World Championships — was became an ambient buzz that propelled them previous the Englishmen, their focus firmly on gold. “They are taller than us, and were stronger today. We were not quite there,” Ben Lane stated.

    Kidambi Srikanth, in reality, received bronze after shedding to his Malaysian nemesis Ng Tze Yong for the second time in every week after the blended group occasion. The heartbreak stays an open wound which will or might not discover a salve in 15 day’s time on the World Championships in Tokyo. But Lakshya Sen was at hand, to precise revenge within the males’s singles remaining after his teammate went down within the Last Four.

    A defensive automaton, the younger Malaysian together with his typical skiddy velocity, was inflicting the Indians all types of bother, nicking the essential males’s singles rubber within the group occasion a number of days again. Srikanth misplaced to him in three video games within the particular person semis, after practically successful. In the lads’s singles remaining, Sen discovered himself a sport down, dealing with the same destiny.

    In 2014, India held the lads’s singles title via Parupalli Kashyap, however Chong Wei had turned up in 2018 to disclaim Srikanth. Now a youthful upstart was threatening to ship Sen packing after he erred from 18-all within the opener to go down 19-21. But Sen had had some conversations with Srikanth, and discovered a workable size in opposition to the Malaysian — placing him beneath stress on the deep backhand and much forehand, taking part in to the strains. The early stress cramped Sen’s free-flowing sport however he discovered his rhythm and shirked off the stress to win 19-21, 21-9, 21-16.

    Ng Tze tends to preserve power within the second, and comes bombarding within the third. Sen stayed alert only for that, fed off his typical defence to launch counters and dismantled the Malaysian to land his first massive Games medal, in a metropolis the place he had misplaced the All England remaining six months again.

    Sen additionally stubbed a brewing controversy that swirled across the group and threatened to spoil the cheer. There had been stinging criticism of Srikanth being performed within the group occasion, with many believing Sen may have crushed Ng Tze. The particular person win introduced the knives out once more. But Sen was forthright in Srikanth’s defence.

    “Look, I had won two important matches back to back in the quarters and semis, and a third straight match could have gotten tricky. Frankly, Srikanth’s match could have gone either way and he was close to winning because Ng was playing well. Even I might have lost. It was a very professional decision taken by coaches to play him, and I completely respect that. It made sense,” Sen burdened.

    Even as Sindhu spoke of the 2024 Paris gold being her final objective after ticking the lacking CWG field, and Satwik-Chirag lastly picked a gold at a Games after an unfortunate Olympics, Indian badminton’s two largest males’s singles gamers, arch rivals as soon as, have been carrying ahead the bonhomie from Thomas Cup into the Commonwealth Games.

    After the shuttlers had misplaced their group remaining earlier, TT star Kamal had dropped in courtside to place an arm round their shoulders, and urge them to battle on. Today, these racquet people, guided by Sindhu’s first gold, pushed India larger on the medals desk.

  • There is a factor referred to as power and I do not assume we had that: Indian hockey coach Graham Reid after CWG thrashing

    Indian hockey crew had been thrashed by Australia within the Gold medal match on the Commonwealth Games 2022. Indian coach Graham Reid ripped into the crew criticising their method.

    Indian crew concede a purpose towards Australia. (Courtesy: Reuters)

    HIGHLIGHTSIndian head coach Graham Reid fumed on the Indian crew for his or her powerAustralia dominated circles penetrations within the lastIndian captain Manpreet Singh obtained injured within the second quarter of the match

    Indian hockey males’s crew had been thrashed by Australia within the hockey gold medal match 7-0 on Monday, August 8. India weren’t capable of run the circulate of the sport even for a single quarter of the match, getting overrun by the talent and tempo of the Australian crew.

    Indian head coach Graham Reid was in no temper to mince phrases and referred to as out the power of the Indian crew.

    “There is a thing called energy and I don’t think we had that today,” Reid advised PTI after the match.

    “When you play Australia this can happen sometimes. But I’m disappointed we didn’t play well at all. We let ourselves down and all the things we talked about we didn’t do. It’s disappointing.”

    He identified the truth that India weren’t capable of put stress on the ball.

    “We could not get pressure out of the ball today, we needed to do that. We talk about getting in front of the day,” Reid stated.

    “Pressure will always be there at the big stage. It’s never away, who knows what history is in store, it’s hard to gauge. I told them that the most important thing was to play our best and the result will look after itself. As I said we have got a lot of work to do.”

    Reid, himself an Australian, is aware of what it takes to beat his house nation in an enormous match.

    “At the end, it boils down to winning one-on-one battle and we didn’t win that today. If you want to win a final, that’s what you have to do. You have to win every single battle.”

    — ENDS —

  • Recipe for Gold: Ice baths for Lakshya, brother’s rice & dal for Satwik, Lamb for Chirag, Nandos’ grilled rooster, and manic ab exercises + Italian for Sindhu

    Heath Matthews, the person who patches up Lakshya Sen’s physique, after one more of his bruising matches, ordered him to go sit in an icebath which is “10 degree flipping cold”, for a further half-hour, after his semifinal on the Commonwealth Games. “It really helps you revive,” Sen begins explaining diligently, earlier than wickedly including, “however icebaths are a killer. I hate them. So they revive you in the event you survive them.

    India’s Commonwealth Games badminton bunch didn’t run into chart-topping opponents this final dozen days. But taking part in each day – first the crew, then the person – for a complete of 6 medals, together with 3 gold, plus two bronze and the crew silver, left the whole thing of them extra knackered than ordinary, with coaches and physios working additional time to maintain these coiling-uncoiling our bodies in tiptop form to final the marketing campaign via the large R phrase – Recovery.

    “You could see his Malaysian opponent today feeling the cumulative weight of his earlier matches in the second and third games. That extra long ice bath was worth it, though I know no athlete enjoys it,” Matthews would clarify. Sen had frayed and rushed and performed a garbage opening set, not permitting his nerves to settle. But as he began his trademark comebacks that hinge on protection, the conditioning qualities of each gamers started to indicate.

    Contrast remedy calls for placing the sore physique – prepped to put on his opponents down – via alternate cold and hot water splashes. “You have to ensure you stay warm afterwards and don’t catch a cold,” Sen reminds. The backroom physio workman’s private tribute to English climate it might appear, nevertheless it’s tough on athletes. “The first 5-7 minutes are painful. Then it makes you better,” he says earnestly. “For someone so young, he’s very mature and professional about these things. He diligently follows everything,” Matthews mentioned concerning the newly topped CWG males’s singles champion.

    After PV Sindhu now Lakshya Sen beats Malaysian NG Tze Yong to win Men’s Singles gold medal.

    Golden Day For India Champion @lakshya_sen 🇮🇳#LakshyaSen #Badminton #CWG22india pic.twitter.com/LRWEYUzzcw

    — ɅMɅN DUВΞY (@imAmanDubey) August 8, 2022

    There are dynamic exercises, gentle tissue rehab, past the stretching. His shirt flung into the gang in celebration – the torso revealed some heavy-duty taping on his shoulder. Post the All England, Sen had hassle along with his shoulder, which although presently alright, wants preventive taping, a meticulous course of simply so he doesn’t break down from one in all his snap-action reflex defenses or a smash. “You can’t force an athlete to do this. He has to take responsibility on his own. Lakshya has done that,” Matthews stresses.

    The two days after the crew silver and particular person gold are eat-it-all days for shuttlers. “They are not robots. They need their downtime.” For Sen that has been grilled rooster and potatoes on the well-known chain Nando’s.

    Brother’s Broth for Satwik

    For Chirag Shetty, who felt the depth of the gang on the National Exhibition Centre, and the stadium as each encouraging and exhausting as a result of the lights and heaving crowd take quite a bit out of you, it’s been an Indian lamb preparation he’s caught to. “We were drained out by the quarterfinals, and then there was the gold to be won. It’s quite draining,” he says.

    #CommonwealthGames 🏟#Badminton 🏸#India 🇮🇳 Satwik Sairaj & Chirag Shetty win’s🥇GOLD Medal in Men’s Doubles as they defeated the English duo Lane & Vendy by 21-15 & 21-13 within the Final.

    third 🏸 #CWG2022 🥇GOLD MEDAL#WorkforceIndia 🇮🇳#CommonwealthGames2022 pic.twitter.com/yV4lLh7gSm

    — Prashant Ghosh (@ParshantGhosh) August 8, 2022

    Satwik, whose brother is accompanying him and cooks for him each day, says the CWG medals have at all times squeezed quite a bit out of him. “I always get injured after the CWG, after playing in two events. But this time I felt ok.” You suspect it’s the acquainted meals for the large Beast, whose moods can wax and wane relying on how he felt about his dinner. The brother’s broth certain saved the large glad and content material.

    Tough time for Sindhu

    Not one to ever be injured, PV Sindhu has an almighty scare after the quarters, the place her Achilles heel flared up. Her shadow apply was so lumbered, coach Park Tae Sang had one proper fright. “But we had to play the finals,” he recollects. The Korean, who reckons Sindhu will win if she defends effectively, was nervous that if Michelle Li’s gradual drops bought going, and Sindhu’s lunging leg got here underneath strain, CWG may flip right into a nightmare.

    Typically, stretching, rubbing, hydrotherapy – pool water strolling – do the trick for the naturally gifted and recovering athlete, however her physio Evangeline questioned if Sindhu would mentally and emotionally cope after the niggle within the ankle towards the tough Malaysian who stretched her to a few. Memories of the Olympics match vs He Bing Jiao the place soreness after her misplaced semifinal and the specified turnaround within the bronze playoff had given the crew an enormous scare returned. But Sindhu would plod via on each occasions,

    One of Sindhu’s most excellent traits is she’s by no means missed a single day of abs exercises – crunches, facet planks, V-ups. “I’ve never seen another woman athlete work so hard. She’s not missed abs even one day,” the physio says.

    Golden Girl 🏅!

    PV Sindhu beats Michelle Li of Canada in straight video games to win gold in badminton ladies’s singles in model!!🏆💛
    Literally hobbling on 1 leg. Congrats Champion. What a courageous efficiency. Just so proud🏸🇮🇳#CWG2022 #PVSindhu #CWG pic.twitter.com/2Tz2C9eM0Y

    — Nisha Dwivedi (@iamnishadwivedi) August 8, 2022

    Genetically robust she could also be, however the brand new CWG champ works laborious to maintain that benefit. She can polish off a complete biryani and work all of it off with added laborious work, or munch on a Samosa and hours later get onto the courtroom and nonetheless win. “Her basic funda is to eat whatever but work harder in court,” Evangeline says. Though she insists the athletes have super management over her cheat day parts.

    It’s been eggs and bread on the CWG, although she digs just a few favorite Italian haunts, she says, within the UK. “I’ll relax and eat good food. That’s my idea of chilling,” she says after the “superb gold. Once more.”

    Fast music has been buzzing in her ears all week, and an area radio station will dedicate a Vijay ditty to her on the morning present the day after (plus Arijit hits for Lakshya Sen), and some Perry bulls and garments are on the buying listing.

    “She’s dedicated as an athlete. But an even greater person. Like if she goes out for coffee, she’ll casually ask if her staff wants coffee, and actually get coffee for us. She’s a big star, she doesn’t need to do that,” says the physio from Sirbur Kagazhangar in Telangana.

    The medals have been received by the celebrities, however resonated via the real glee of the assist employees who work longer hours, and whose work oft-times begins after the glory-shots are clicked. India teenagers with shuttlers who’ve been patched again by Dr C Kiran, the travelling trainee. “I’d lost my father to Covid second wave, and then my mother was detected with cancer right before the Olympics,” Evangeline says, explaining how the bodily struggles even have emotional offshoots. “It was tough to travel then and leave my mum behind. But when the athlete wins a medal like today, it makes every sacrifice worth it,” she says. A 57 stroke rally performed by Sindhu-Michelle Li is testimony to Sindhu’s persevering with bodily conditioning. She misplaced the rally, however by no means fell quick on the forecourt lunge.

  • CWG 2022: Capsule of India’s gold medal winners Birmingham

    With a wealthy haul of 61 medals (22 gold, 16 silver, and 23 bronze) at this version of the Commonwealth Games, the Birmingham Games turned out to be one of the crucial memorable editions for the 210-strong Indian contingent. From athletics to racquet sports activities, cricket to hockey, boxing to wrestling, the Indian athletes completed with podium finishes in virtually each occasion they took half in.

    Achinta Sheuli

    Achinta Sheuli with the gold medal after successful the boys’s 73kg weightlifting class match of the Commonwealth Games 2022 (CWG), in Birmingham, UK. (PTI Photo)

    Sport – Weightlifting
    Event – Men’s 73kg
    The Bengal born weightlifter clinched his maiden CWG gold and went on to set a Games document 313kg. He lifted 143kg in snatch (Games Record and likewise equal to his earlier PB) and 170kg in clear and jerk. The 20-year-old received the silver medal on the 2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships and can be a two-time Commonwealth Championships gold medallist.

    Jeremy Lalrinnunga

    Jeremy Lalrinnunga throughout his gold medal weightlifting spherical at CWG 2022. (PTI)

    Sport – Weightlifting
    Event – Men’s 67kg
    The Mizoram weightlifter received gold within the 2022 Commonwealth Games within the 67kg class, with a Games document raise of 140kg in snatch and 160kg in clear and jerk.
    The 19-year-old represented India within the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires and received India’s maiden gold within the occasion in Boys’ 62kg class.

    Mirabai Chanu

    India’s Mirabai Chanu with the gold medal after successful ladies’s 49kg weightlifting class match of the Commonwealth Games 2022 (CWG), in Birmingham, UK. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra)

    Sport – Weightlifting
    Event – Women’s 49kg
    The celebrity Manipuri weightlifter efficiently defended her 49kg title and gave India the primary gold on the Birmingham Games.
    The Tokyo Olympic silver medallist aggregated a complete of 201kg (88kg + 113kg) to stamp her authority within the competitors and obtain a Commonwealth Games document within the course of.

    Rupa Rani Tirkey, Lovely Choubey, Nayanmoni Saikia, Pinki Singh

    Indian ladies’s fours garden bowls group (Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayamoni Saikia, Rupa Rani Tirkey) will probably be in motion in opposition to South Africa for the gold medal match. (SAI Media)

    Sport – Lawn Bowls
    Event – Women’s fours
    The India garden bowls ladies’s 4 group of Rupa Rani Tirkey, Lovely Choubey, Nayanmoni Saikia, and Pink Singh bought the nation hooked to a rarely-followed sporting occasion with their inspiring and sensational present after they bagged a historic gold in Birmingham.
    It was India’s maiden ultimate look within the ladies’s fours format of the competitors.

    Bajrang Punia

    Sport – Wrestling
    Event – Men’s freestyle 65 kg
    Bajrang Punia accomplished a hat-trick of Commonwealth Games medals when he clinched gold within the males’s 65kg free-style occasion.
    The Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist had received silver in his CWG debut in 2014 in Glasgow after which bettered the color of his medal in Gold Cost 4 years later by successful a gold.

    Sakshi Malik

    The standards for the awards take into accounts the athletes’ performances over a four-year interval. (Source: File)

    Sport – Wrestling
    Event – Women’s freestyle 62 kg
    Sakshi Malik received her third medal on the Commonwealth Games when she annexed gold after beating Canada’s Ana Godinez Gonzalez by fall.
    Sakshi had earlier received silver in 2014 (58kg) and bronze on the 2018 (62kg) Games. Sakshi can be the primary Indian feminine wrestler to win a medal on the Olympics, bagging bronze in 2016.

    Deepak Punia

    India’s Deepak Punia and Pakistan’s Muhammad Inam react throughout the ultimate. (Reuters)

    Sport – Wrestling
    Event – Men’s freestyle 86kg
    Star wrestler Deepak Punia received India’s ninth gold medal in Birmingham by defeating 2018 version’s gold medallist Muhammad Inam of Pakistan 3-0 within the males’s 86kg ultimate.
    A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) within the Indian Army, Deepak additionally received a silver medal on the 2019 World Wrestling Championships within the freestyle 86 kg class.

    Ravi Kumar Dahiya

    India’s Ravi Kumar Dahiya with the gold medal after successful the Men’s Freestyle 57 kg. (Reuters)

    Sport – Wrestling
    Event – Men’s freestyle 57kg
    The Sonepat born wrestler clinched gold in Birmingham by defeating Ebikewenimo Welson of Nigeria 10-0 within the Men’s freestyle 57kg ultimate occasion.
    Dahiya can be a Tokyo Olympics silver medallist from 2020, bronze medallist from World Wrestling Championships in 2019, and a three-time Asian champion.

    Vinesh Phogat

    Sport – Wrestling
    Event – Women’s freestyle 53kg
    Star wrestler Vinesh Phogat accomplished a golden hat-trick of Commonwealth Games gold medals by successful the ladies’s 53kg freestyle wrestling ultimate occasion.
    Vinesh had bagged gold within the earlier two editions at Gold Coast (in 2018) and in Glassgow (in 2014).
    She can be the primary Indian girl wrestler to win Gold at each Commonwealth and Asian Games (Jakarta 2018).

    Naveen Malik

    Naveen Kumar defeated Pakistan’s Tahir Muhammad Sharif by 9-0 in tjhe 74 keg ultimate. It is India’s first main title on this class since Sushil Kumar’s title triumph in 2018 Gold Coast Games. (PTI)

    Sport – Wrestling
    Event – Men freestyle’s 74kg
    Making his Commonwealth Games debut in Birmingham, the 19-year-old grappler clinched his maiden gold on the showpiece by defeating Muhammad Sharif Tahir of Pakistan within the ultimate with rating 9-0.
    Naveen made his worldwide debut on the U-23 World Championships final yr and clinched 74kg gold in his second competitors on the U-23 Asian Championships in June this yr.

    Nikhat Zareen

    Nikhat Zareen reacts throughout her spherical of 16 combat with Mozambique’s Helena Ismael Bagao (Reuters)

    Sport – Boxing
    Event – Women’s 50kg
    Reigning World Champion Nikhat Zareen blazed the stage in Birminham as she received her maiden gold medal within the ladies’s 50kg flyweight ultimate occasion. She can be a bronze medallist within the 2019 Asian Championships.

    Amit Panghal

    India’s Amit Panghal, left, and Scotland’s Lennon Mulligan within the Men’s Fly (48-51kg) quarterfinal throughout the Commonwealth Games at The NEC, Birmingham, England, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (Peter Byrne/PA by way of AP)

    Sport – Boxing
    Event – Men’s 51kg
    Amit Panghal received his maiden gold in Birmingham on the penultimate day of the showpiece occasion.
    The reigning Asian Games champion, he’s additionally the one Indian male boxer to win a world boxing championships silver medal and the present world No. 1 in International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) 52kg class.

    Nitu Ghanghas

    Gold medalist India’s Nitu Ghanghas poses for pictures throughout the presentation ceremony of the ladies’s over 45-48kg (Minimumweight) boxing occasion, on the Commonwealth Games 2022. (PTI)

    Sport – Boxing
    Event – Women’s 48kg
    The 21-year-old Haryana woman received the primary medal for India in boxing at Birmingham when he bagged gold within the ladies’s 48kg ultimate.
    She can be a two-time youth world champion, having received a back-to-back title in 2017 and 2018.

    Sudhir

    The 27-year-old Sudhir, who has an impairment because of the results of polio, thus opened India’s para sports activities medal account within the ongoing CWG. (AP/PTI)

    Sport – Para powerlifting
    Event – Men’s heavyweight
    A para athlete with a polio-induced impairment, claimed India’s gold within the males’s heavyweight para powerlifting occasion in Birmingham and opened India’s para sports activities medal account.
    Sudhir, who can be an Asian Para Games bronze medallist from the 2018 version, lifted 208kg in his first try earlier than rising it to 212kg in his second effort to assemble 134.5 factors and break the Games document.

    PV Sindhu

    PV Sindhu reacts after successful the Women’s Singles Final Badminton match in opposition to Canada’s Michelle Li on the Commonwealth Games 2022 (CWG), in Birmingham, UK, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra)

    Sport – Badminton
    Event – Women’s Singles
    Having received silver (2018 Gold Coast) and bronze (2014 Glasgow), an elusive gold was what lacking from PV Sindhu’s kitty and he or she did it in fashion in Birmingham.
    The two-time olympic medallist gave India its first badminton gold on the final day of this version of the Games.

    Lakshya Sen

    Lakshya Sen confirmed grit to come back from behind to beat the in kind Malaysian Tze Yong Ng in three units (19-21, 21-9, 21-16). (AP Photo)

    Sport – Badminton
    Event – Men’s Singles
    Star shuttler Lakshya Sen made a memorable CWG debut along with his maiden gold in Birmingham.
    Sen has been in wealthy vein of kind for a while now having received his first Super 500 title in January, ending runners-up on the All England Championships and German Open and likewise successful the distinguished Thomas Cup.

    Chirag Shetty/Satwirksairaj Rankireddy

    India’s Chirag Chandrasekhar Shetty and Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy have fun victory in opposition to England’s Sean Vendy and Ben Lane within the Men’s Doubles Gold Medal Match at The NEC. (AP)

    Sport – Badminton
    Event – Men’s Doubles
    The males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bettered the color of their medal (silver in Gold Coast 2018) and clinched gold in Birmingham after defeating England’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in straight video games.
    Rankireddy and Shetty have been additionally a part of the Indian group that received the historic Thomas Cup title earlier this yr.

    Achanta Sharath Kamal

    Sharath Kamal in motion throughout the ultimate. (PTI)

    Sport – Table Tennis
    Event – Men’s Singles
    Veteran Sharath Kamal’s title will go down in historical past as he turned solely the second Indian paddler to win two gold on the Commonwealth Games, the primary being in Melbourne in 2006 and the most recent one arriving in Birmingham in fashion.
    With his spectacular gold in Birmingham, Sharath’s total medal tally has gone as much as 13 on the showpiece occasion since his debut within the 2006 version.

    Sharath Kamal/Sreeja Akula

    Sreeja Akula and Sharath Kamal in motion at CWG 2022. (Photo: AP)

    Sport – Table Tennis
    Event – Mixed Doubles
    Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula clinched the combined doubles gold in Birmingham by defeating Javen Choong and Karen Lyne of Malaysia 3-1 within the ultimate.
    With Sharath Kamal cementing his CWG legacy with a slew of medals, the highest prize was a deserved reward for the little Sreeja, who missed out on a bronze within the singles occasion.

    Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan

    (L-R) Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, G Sathiyan and Sanil Shetty. (Screengrab)

    Sport – Table Tennis
    Event – Men’s Team
    The Indian males’s desk tennis group retained its Commonwealth Games gold medal after an in depth combat in opposition to Singapore within the ultimate.
    The likes of Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Sharath Kamal, and G Sathiyan gave India’s its seventh for the reason that sport’s introduction in Manchester 2002.

    Bhavina Patel

    Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel of India in motion in opposition to Ikpeoyi Ifechukwude Christiana of Nigeria throughout the ultimate of Para Table Tennis occasion at Commonwealth Games. (PTI)

    Sport – Table Tennis
    Event – Women’s singles C3-5
    Star para paddler Bhavina Patel received her maiden gold on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
    Bhavina, who can be a silver medallist at Tokyo Paralympics, has received a slew of nationwide and worldwide competitions over time, which features a silver medal within the ladies’s singles Class 4 on the Asian Para Table Tennis Championships in Beijing in 2013.

    Eldhose Paul

    India’s Eldhose Paul celebrates after successful gold. (REUTERS/Phil Noble)

    Sport – Athletics
    Event – Triple Jump
    Kerala lad Eldhose Paul clinched a uncommon gold in males’s triple soar and the 25-year-old additionally led a historic 1-2 end in Birmingham.
    The icing on the cake was that India additionally received silver in the identical occasion along with his compatriot Abdulla Aboobacker ending second with a finest soar of 17.02m.

  • My title and Table Tennis go hand in hand in CWG: Achanta Sharath Kamal talks about his legacy after Gold end

    India’s veteran athlete Achanta Sharath Kamal gained the Gold medal within the males’s singles occasion in Table Tennis on the Commonwealth Games 2022. This was Sharath Kamal’s third Gold medal within the competitors, having already gained the combined doubles occasion in addition to the workforce occasion.

    Speaking solely to India Today after his win, Sharath Kamal mentioned that CWG as a match was very particular to him.

    “I think that this (Commonwealth )Games is very very special to me. The performance that I displayed and the way I played, I could get my A-game out, I think that there is a lot of work that went into it in the last sixth months,” he mentioned solely to India Today.

    “I think not just me but the people who surrounded me are really proud of what I have done today. My family, my coaches and my support staff, especially the singles final you know, I had such a fantastic run, winning two Gold medals and a Silver and I had gone to the final match and if I lose, I would let down a lot of people. So, winning that Gold was very special and I am looking forward to celebrating that with my family,” he additional added.

    Asked about his legacy within the sport, the veteran athlete mentioned that the truth that he was synonymous with Indian Table Tennis was an enormous achievement for him.

    “Played my first CWG in 2006 and won two golds and I shot to fame. Now people know who Sharath Kamal is. Table Tennis and Sharath Kamal go hand in hand in CWG,” he mentioned.

    “There were lots of up and down but time and again I have stood up for the country,” he additional added.

    When requested about his future within the upcoming competitions, Sharath Kamal mentioned that he was trying ahead to the Paris Olympics.

    “Looking forward to the Paris Olympics game and I am hoping that team India can have a medal and that’s the best thing that any player can hope for,” he mentioned.

    “It is a great honour to be the flag bearer in the closing ceremony,” he completed his interview.

    — ENDS —

  • Sharath Kamal, Nikhat Zareen to be India’s flagbearers for CWG closing ceremony

    Star paddler Achanta Sharath Kamal and world champion boxer Nikhat Zareen have been named India’s flagbearers for the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games right here on Monday.

    The 40-year-old Sharath has a wealthy haul of 4 medals on this version of the Games, having gained the lads’s group and combined doubles gold and a silver within the males’s doubles occasion. He will even be taking part in within the males’s singles gold medal match later within the day.

    Zareen, alternatively, gained the gold medal within the gentle flyweight occasion (50kg) on Sunday.”It is with nice pleasure we announce Mr.Achanta Sharath Kamal and Ms.Nikhat Zareen as our flagbearers,” Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Acting President Anil Khanna mentioned in a press release.

    “Sharath has served table tennis brilliantly all these years and his medals, including a mixed doubles gold, at Birmingham 2022 speak of the class and quality he brings to the highest stage along with his longevity.”Ms Zareen, the reigning world champion and Team India’s gold medallist within the gentle flyweight boxing class at these Games is one in all our greatest skills who continues to go from energy to energy, inspiring many, together with younger ladies in India,” he added.

    The ultimate determination was made contemplating the truth that the wrestling and weightlifting groups have already left for India.

  • CWG 22: 20-year-old Lakshya Sen wins badminton Gold after gorgeous fightback in last vs Ng Tze Yong

    20-year-old Lakshya Sen scripted an unimaginable comeback in opposition to in-form Ng Tze Yong of Malaysia to win a Gold in males’s singles badminton in his maiden look on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

    Lakshya Sen misplaced the opening sport 19-21 after a hard-fought battle in opposition to lower-ranked Ng Tze Yong of Malaysia however he fought again to win a memorable Gold for India on the closing day of the Birmingham Games.

    Lakshya was trailing 8-9 within the second sport however stitched a run of 13 straight factors to drive a decider which he received as he rode on the momentum to script a shocking victory within the last that stretched to greater than an hour. The Indian shuttler received the fiercely-fought males’s singles last 19-21, 21-9, 21-16.

    CWG 2022: MEDAL TABLE

    Lakshya Sen, a world championships bronze medalist, joins his mentor Prakash Padukone (1978), Parupalli Kashyap (2014) and Syed Modi (1982) in an elite listing of Indian males to have received Gold in singles at Commonwealth Games.

    Lakshya Sen’s Gold medal got here an hour after PV Sindhu received her maiden singles Gold medal, finishing the total set of Commonwealth Games medal. The Indian had misplaced to Saina Nehwal within the last in Gold Coast however she was flawless regardless of enjoying a strapping on her left ankle.

    INCREDIBLE RISE FOR LAKSHYA

    With his maiden medal for India at a multi-sport occasion, Lakshya is definitely displaying indicators of what’s to return because the Almorah shuttler is considered one of many future stars of the game.

    Lakshya has been in phenomenal type, placing behind the heartbreak of not qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 as a result of Covid-19 pandemic. Lakshya was within the race to e-book a berth in his maiden Games look however the cancellation of tournaments on the tour as a result of pandemic in 2020 noticed him miss out on one.

    Ever since, Lakshya, who’s chiseled on the Prakash Padukone Academy, has been in high quality type on the tour. Lakshya received his maiden World Championships medal – a bronze in Huelva final 12 months whereas he completed runner-up on the prestigious All England Championships earlier this 12 months.

    Lakshya Sen had a comparatively simpler passage to the finals because the 20-year-old had defeated lower-ranked gamers, Georges Julien Paul of Mauritius, within the quarter-final earlier than keeping off a menace from Singapore Jia Heng Teh within the semi-final.

    The prime seed and World No. 10 was dominant en path to the ultimate as he didn’t let his lower-ranked opponents bother him in any respect, flaunting his unimaginable combination of attacking and defensive play.

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  • Commonwealth Games 2022: Canada win gold after England controversially disqualified from ladies’s 4x400m relay

    Canada, on Sunday, August 7, gained the gold medal within the ladies’s 4x400m relay on the Commonwealth Games 2022. The Canadian group, together with Natassha McDonald, Aiyanna Stiverne, Micha Powell and Kyra Constantine, completed on high after England had been disqualified from the race underneath controversial circumstances.

    With Jessie Knight as their anchor, the England group, additionally consisting of Ama Pipi, Jodie Williams and Victoria Ohuruogu, felt that they’d clinched victory by one thousandth of a second forward of Canada’s Constantine.

    Knight, Pipi, Williams and Victoria erupted in jubilation considering that they gained the gold medal, their eighth within the ongoing version of the CWG in Birmingham.

    However, to their dismay, the judges observed that Williams’ foot had strayed over the lane on the primary changeover with Ohuruogu. Hence, they took the choice to disqualify England.

    Canada completed on high with timings of three:25.84. Jamaica’s group, consisting of Shiann Salmon, Junelle Bromfield, Roneisha McGregor and Natoya Goule, gained the silver medal with timings of three:26.93.

    Scotland needed to keep content material with the bronze medal after they completed with timings of three:30.15. The Scottish group consisted of Zoey Clarke, Beth Dobbin, Jill Cherry and Nocole Yeargin.

    Apart from Canada, England, Jamaica and Scotland, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa additionally took half within the ladies’s 4x400m relay. England, within the meantime, have gained 166 medals (55 gold, 59 silver and 52 bronze within the present CWG.

    They are positioned second within the medals’ tally after Australia, who’ve gained 174 medals (66 gold, 55 silver and 53 bronze) within the championship.

    — ENDS —

  • India’s double dose in triple bounce: Eldhose, Abdulla bag gold, silver

    ELDHOSE PAUL began with a dawdling, please-turn-to-page 2 distance of 14.62 metres when competitors within the triple bounce ultimate began on the Commonwealth Games. He had made the finals of the World Championships a fortnight in the past however with no 17-m bounce to his identify ever, there was no halo.

    On Sunday, Paul’s sub-15m first bounce, and a career-best of 16.99m, put him within the flanks of the 2 fancied Indians — the rocker, white headband-wearing Praveen Chitravel and the compulsive 17m-plus hop, skip and jumper Abdulla Aboobacker Narangolintevida.

    Modestly constructed, and a gradual starter, Paul gave no indication {that a} monster 17.03m was within the offing, until he leapt and flew additional than anybody else in that morning medal session. It was a distance that may have seen him end sixth on the final Olympics in Tokyo. In Birmingham, that meant a uncommon 1-2 for India at a global observe and subject occasion, with Paul taking gold and Abdulla the silver whilst Chitravel missed the bronze.

    Poised to check BSc Chemistry at MA College in Kerala’s Kothamangalam, Paul, who had as soon as backed himself to bowl fast in cricket at college in Ernakulam, had endured two disappointing years at the beginning, when his triple bounce distance of 13.80m saved him out of his school staff. He ran cross-country on an uphill course, and even tried essentially the most troublesome of occasions, pole vault, to replenish the hollowness of not making any headway in a sport he liked. Jumps Dronacharya coach T P Ouseph then acquired all the way down to checking out his disjointed method.

    On Sunday, too, Paul, who was one of many shortest of all triple bounce entrants on the Alexander Stadium, misplaced steadiness and struck a jarring rhythm on his opening bounce, dropping his stride. The 17-m barrier wasn’t taking part in on his thoughts.

    But then, the 25-year-old is understood to be a quick-learner. In solely his second abroad meet, he had picked up the warm-up patterns of skilled jumpers from the World Championships at Eugene in Oregon, US. Domestic competitions not often have {qualifications} or the hour-long warm-up that worldwide meets afford. It additionally meant Paul needed to rapidly be taught to peak inside simply three jumps, one thing he’d discovered troublesome. Wisened and hopeful after the Worlds, the CWG beckoned, although most consideration was on his two “17m” team-mates. Into this combine went Bermuda’s energetic jumper Jah Pernchef, who set the early marker with a 16.92m in his opening bounce.

    The first Indian to actually threaten to take the lead was the junior-most Chitravel, the lanky, formidable jumper who reckons he’ll match Neeraj Chopra’s gold feat on the subsequent Olympics in Paris. He jogged as much as 16.89 in his third bounce, whilst Abdulla was increase momentum with every progressive bounce.

    Eldhose, although, adopted up his 14.62m with a quiet 16.30m, earlier than stomping forth for his private better of 17.03m, in flip breaching his private greatest.

    “My coach always says, focus only on personal best, not even medals. Today I did, and a medal came. But we were going for gold-silver-bronze as a pack. Knowing that gave us confidence,” Paul stated later of the just about “Amar-Akbar-Anthony” flip for India on the rostrum.

    Paul’s grandmother Mariamma, who raised him after his mom handed away, at all times informed him, “Be a good person.” He was taking part in the staff surge right here for India.

    Abdulla would carry on his 17.02m on his fifth try whilst Chitravel and the Bermudan light because the afternoon wore on, the latter settling for a bronze for his 16.92m opener.

    In the 1970 Commonwealth Games, Mohinder Singh Gill had received a triple bounce bronze and adopted it up with a silver in 1974. Suresh Babu, who picked a protracted bounce bronze in 1978, had been a triple jumper, too. Thereafter, the triple bounce was amongst a bunch of disciplines recognized to focus on in Indian athletics, together with strolling, 400m and javelin. The sprints, hammer throw, pole vault and excessive bounce had been thought of robust for medals on the highest ranges, however triple bounce acquired a bunch of overseas coaches, with native Kerala and Punjab coaches offering the uncooked materials with their technically environment friendly coaching.

    Arpinder Singh and Ranjith Maheswary later made headway within the occasion, nevertheless it was solely in the previous few seasons that the Indian triple-Sundae pack began pushing the bounds for 17m-plus jumps.

    The unique “Amar-Akbar-Anthony” troika that Abdulla remembers was him, Paul and Karthik Unnikrishnan, who graduated from school ranks to inter-Services. Abdulla joined the Air Force beneath famend coach Harikrishna, and Paul joined the Navy, and the 2018 inter-department introduced out the very best within the younger jumpers as they started pushing one another.

    “There is no rivalry between us. We are brothers. In triple jump, we only have to improve ourselves,” Paul stated. “We adapt to each other, and never disagree,” stated Abdulla, the mild leaping large who received silver. He’s a rooster biryani particular person, and Paul a beef-parotta lover. While Paul’s favorite Netflix choose over the previous few months has been the Birmingham-based “Peaky Blinders”, Abdulla digs Malayalam actor Vishnu Unnikrishnan’s films and his model of the comedy thriller “Amar Akbar Anthony”.

    Abdulla studied Economics on the identical school as Paul, and it was solely triple bounce that acquired their paths crossed. Both have benefitted from leaping coaches who stress on amicable friendship fairly than needling one another to carry out the sting. “Frankly, we don’t need all that drama of enmity. Coach always says ‘be friendly, don’t spoil your mood and take no stress’. It’s how we’ve gotten better,” Paul stated.

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    Both share movies of the legendary Jonathan Edwards, and commerce tips about find out how to get higher. On Sunday, Paul suggested Abdulla to go fiercer on the attacking section and draw out the 17.02m that introduced India silver.

    “It could have been gold-silver-bronze. But that’ll happen soon. We’ll all improve techniques and get better,” stated Paul, who is aware of a factor or two about ready patiently to blow up. He goes on so as to add that the Neeraj Chopra gold has had a rub-off impact on Indian observe and subject. Three medals from the final Commonwealth Games in Australia’s Gold Coast are actually eight — and Chopra isn’t even in Birmingham.