Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 5 Highlights: India Men's Table Tennis Team Win Gold. Lifter Vikas Bags Silver
With 9 medals in the first four days of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, India stands at sixth position in the CWG ranking
India is facing a tough competition in the Mixed team event of the Commonwealth Games. However they are facing a tough challenge from Malaysia. Sindhu won her Women’s Singles tie to level scores 1-1 after Men’s Doubles pair Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy suffered straight set defeat in the first game. In a big upset for India, Kidambi Srikant has lost his tie 2-1 against Malaysia in men's singles match.
India's Rohit Tokas defeats Ghana's Alfred Kotey to qualify for the quarter-final of the men's 67kg.
Lawn Bowls: India wins maiden gold in Women's Fours in Lawn Bowls
Table Tennis final: India men's team defeat Singapore 3-1
Weightlifting: Vikas Thakur wins silver
Indian weightlifter Vikas Thakur bags silver in Men's 96Kg after lifting a total of 346Kg
Harmanpreet Desai's dominating show helps India Men's Table Tennis Team beat Singapore 3-1 in the final to defend their CWG gold medal in Commonwealth Games 2022.
The Indian quartet of Lovely Choubey (Lead), Pinki (Second), Nayanmoni Saikia (Third), and Rupa Rani Tirkey (Skip) scripts history at CWG 2022. India beat South Africa To Win Historic First-Ever Gold Medal In Lawn Bowls at the Commonwealth Games.
Athletics: Dutee Chand Fails to qualify for 100m semis in the 44-woman qualifying field with a timing of 11.55s.
India is off to a good start in athletics at CWG. Manpreet Kaur qualifies for the women's shot put final.
India's Sreeshankar registers a jump of 8.05m to qualify for the long jump. Muhammed Anees Yahiya has also qualified for the men's long jump final with a best effort of 7.68m.
Weightlifting: Punam Yadav fails to lift 116kg in her all three 'Clean & Jerk' attempts and the India lifter is out of medal contention.
Men's Long Jump: Muhammed Anees hYahiya qualified for the men's long jump final with the best attempt of 7.68m.
Swimming Men's 200m backstroke: Srihari Nataraj clocks 2.00.84 in 200m backstroke Heats and he is a reserve for the Final.
Lawn Bowls Women's Pairs event: India lost their round 1 game of women's pairs lawn bowls to New Zealand with the final score reading 18-9 in favour of New Zealand.
Weightlifting Women's 76kg category: India's Punam Yadav placed second after two successful lifts in the Snatch round.
Men's Long Jump qualifying round: Long Jumper Murali Sreeshankar registers a 8.05m jump which leads the Kerala athlete to the final of Men's Long Jump.
Weightlifting Women's 76 kg category: India's Punam Yadav successfully lifts 95kg in her second 'snatch' attempt. Punam Yadav has clinched a gold in the same category in CWG 2018 in Gold Coast and earlier bagged a bronze in 2014 Glasgow.
Background
Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 5 Live: With 9 medals in the first four days of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, India stands at sixth position in the CWG ranking. Buoyed Indian contingent eyes more medals on Day 5 showdown in a total of eight sports on Tuesday, August 2.
India hopes for the best from Lawn Bowls women's team with Lawn Bowls Women Fours gold medal match against South Africa on the cards while the In-form Indian women's hockey team gears up for a litmus test against England.
On Monday when the Judokas won medals, they were the only athletes to secure top wins besides lifters, who won the remaining medals of the 9 medals -- 3 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze -- won so far in the quadrennial event. On Monday, it was judokas' show as Shushila Devi Likabam bagged a silver and Vijay Yadav settled for bronze in women's 48 kg category and men's 60kg category, respectively.
Sushila Devi became the first Judoka to bag multiple medals in CWG as she last won a silver medal in the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Indian athletics contingent will kick off their campaign on Tuesday and there is a lot to look forward to as Muhammed Anees and Murali Sreekumar will be seen in action. The long jumpers, who have good experience on the international circuit, will take part in the qualifying round.
In the men's 200m backstroke, Srihari Nataraj will look to continue the winning momentum as he on Monday created history by qualifying for the men's 50m backstroke final. What is to be noted is, that Srihari has produced the best ever finish for an Indian swimmer.
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