India shining: 11 golds so far; shooters, wrestlers come good on Day 3

Mangalore Today

New Delhi, Oct 6, 2010: India continued to dominate at the shooting range where they garnered three gold and as many silver medals on the third day of competitions at the Commonwealth Games today. Weightlifter Ravi Kumar gets 11th CWG gold for India.


Ravi Kumar Katulu, who only took up weightlifting three years ago, rewrote the record books on Wednesday when he cruised to victory in the 69kg class.

Kumar Katulu won with a record total of 321kg after having set new marks of 146kg in the snatch and 175kg in the clean and jerk.

Shooting gold medals were won by Gagan Narang, at the expense of Olympic champion and teammate Abhinav Bindra, and pistol shooters Omkar Singh and Anisa Sayyed, while two silver medals were brought home by Sarnobat Rahi, who finished second behind Anisa, and double trap duo of Ronjan Sondhi and Asher Noria.

 

 

 

 

There was a fourth gold for the host country earned through the effort of woman lifter Renu Bala Chanu in the 58 kg class. The fifth gold of Day 3 came from Rajender Kumar when he won the gold in the 55kg Greco-Roman style event.
Manoj Kumar and Sunil Kumar won silver and bronze medals for India in the 84kg and 66kg Greco-Roman wrestling category respectively.

India’s tally going into the evening session of competitions stood at 11 gold, 8 silver and 4 bronze.


CWG Day 4: 35 gold medals on stake; more glory for India?

 

New Delhi: With 35 gold medals at stake, Day 4 is also set to be an eventful day in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.The Indian interest once again comes from the sport of shooting where World Champions Tejaswini Sawant is expected to win the gold for the hosts in the Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions singles event. Lajakummari Gauswami will look to better her silver performance in the same event.

Omkar Singh who won gold in the 50 m pistol event will again be in action in the 10m Air Pistol Men. Another World Champion will also be in action as Ronjan Sodhi will look to excel in the Double Trap Men singles event. The ace shooter won a silver in the doubles event on Wednesday.

Boxers Akhil Kumar and Suronjoy will be in action in the pre-quarter finals and are expected to sail through to the next round. In the 400 meters women’s category, Mandeep Kaur and Manjeet Kaur will take part in the semi-finals, while the Indian women’s hockey team will try to lift themselves up against Trinidad and Tobago today.

In athletics Najeeb Qureshi who made it to the semi-finals of the 100 mts will be looking to make the finals.

In weightlifting, Sudhir Kumar will contest in 77 kg men’s final.

In archery too the Compound will look to emulate the good work of the recurve archers by qualifying for the finals of the event. (Read: Indian archers make it to the last four)

Golds at Stake: Aquatics (5), Archery (2), Athletics (7), Cycling (4), Gymnastics (5), Shooting (4), Synchronized swimming (2), Weightlifting (2) and Wrestling (4)

Following is the Thursday’s complete schedule of Indian participation in the Commonwealth Games:
    

Athletics:

High Jump Men: Nikhil Chittarasu, Hari Sankar Roy

1500m Women: Jhuma Khatun, Orchatteri Puthiyaveetil Jaisha, Sushma Devi

100m Women: Hiriyur Manjunath Jyothi, Satti Geetha

100m Men: G Nagaraj, Md Abdul Najeeb Qureshi, Krishnakumar Satish Rane

400m Women: Mandeep Kaur, Manjeet Kaur

400m Men: Vinay Chouldhry, Harpreet Singh

Swimming:

50m Breaststroke Men: Agnishwar Jayaprakash, Puneet Rana, Sandeep Sejwal

50m Backstroke Women: Fariha Zaman, Jyotsna Pansare

100m Butterfly Men: Virdhawal Khade, Arjun Muralidharan

100m Breaststroke Women: Poorva Kiran Shetye

50m Freestyle Women: Talasha Satish Prabhu, Sneha Thirugnanasambandam

100m Backstroke Men: Rohit Rajendra Havaldar, Balakrishnan Melkote Badrinath, Rehan Jahangir Poncha

400m Individual Medley Men: Merwyn Roark Chen, Rehan Jahangir Poncha

Boxing:

Light Fly Weight (46-49kg): Amandeep Singh

Bantam Weight (56kg): Akhil Kumar

Fly Weight (52kg): Suranjoy Mayengbam

Light Welter Weight(64kg): Manoj Kumar

Hockey:

Women Group A: Trinidad and Tobagao vs India

Shooting:

Singles 50m Rifle 3 Position Women: Lajjakumari Gauswami, Tejaswini Sawant

10m Air Pistol Men: Gurpreet Singh, Omkar Singh

25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Vijay Kumar, Gurpreet Singh

Singles Double Trap Men : Asher Noria, Ronjan Sodhi

Weightlifting :

77kg Men Finals: Sudhir Kumar

Gymnastics:

Rings Men: Ashish Kumar

Pommel Horse Men: Ashish Kumar

Vault Women: Dipa Karmakar

Netball:

India vs Trinidad and Tobago

Archery:

Compound Team Women Semifinals: Bheigyabati Chanu, Jhano Hansdah, Gagandeep Kaur

Compound Team Men Semifinals: Ritul Men Chatterjee Jignas Chittibomma, Chinna Raju Srither

Lawn Bowl:

Triples Women: India vs Northern Ireland, India vs Niue Island

Pairs Men: Malawi vs India

Pairs Women: India vs Namibia

Triples Men: India vs Brunei Darussalam, Niue Island vs India
 
Squash:

Women’s singles: Anaka Alankamony, Joshna Chinappa, Surbhi Misra, Dipika Pallikal, Anwesha Reddy

Men’s singles: Saurav Ghosal, Sandeep Jangra, Harinder Pal Sandhu, Siddharth Suchde