India start campaign with four medals on 1st Day of Commonwealth Women lifters Soniya Chanu and Sandhya Devi Rani opened the medal chest for India by grabbing the silver and bronze in the 48 kg class. Augustina Nwaokolo of Nigeria won the gold with a Games record adding to its lustre. Their men counterparts Sukhen Dey and V Srinivasa Rao followed suit later by clinching the silver and bronze in the 56 kg class behind winner Ibrahim Amirul Hamizan of Malaysia. Chanu, favourite for the 48 kg gold medal, could not justify her billing and settled for silver by clearing 167 kg which was eight kg below Nwaokolo’s total clearance. Sandya Rani took the bronze with a total clearance of 165 kg. Later in the day, Dey and Rao picked up the silver and bronze behind Hamizan with total lifts of 252 and 248 kgs. The Malaysian’s title-winning effort was 257 kg. The first day of competitions began with an epoch-making maiden entry into the final by India’s men’s freestyle swimming quartet of Virdhawal Khade, Anshul Kothari, Arjun Jayaprakash and Aaron D’Souza. The foursome finished sixth in the morning heats to make the evening final where they finished in the same position clocking 3 mins, 27.14 secs. It’s the first time that in swimming the country had been represented in the final in the Commonwelth Games. “This is really fantastic. We have made history by reaching the final for the first time in Commonwealth Games competition,” team coach Pradeep Kumar said. Two other Indian swimmers - Badrinath Melkote (men’s 50m backstroke) and Shubha Chittaranjan (women’s 50m butterfly) - qualified for the semi finals by ending up 14th and 16th in the heats. Both were, however, eliminated in the evening semi finals. But all other swimmers sunk without making a splash. Surbahi Tipre and Arti Ghorpade finished a disappointing 22nd and 24th in women’s 200m freestyle. In men’s 400m freestyle heats, Mandar Divase and Ullalmath Gangan finished distant 17th and 18th respectively. Other Indians to bow out on day one included Beijing Olympian Rehan Poncha and Tarun Tokas (men’s 200m butterfly); Priyanka Priyadarshini, Poorva Shetye and Mankiran Kaur (women’s 50m breaststroke) and Pooja Alva (women’s 200m IM). In tennis, India put up a dominant display as all three singles players recorded easy wins and star pair of Leander Paes and Sania Mirza entered the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles. Top seeds Leander and Sania rounded off the day for India in splendid fashion by crushing St Lucia’s duo Stacey Nykita Roheman and Alberton Richelieu in straight sets in just 39 minutes. Before that Rohan Bopanna, Rushmi Chakravarthi and Poojashree Venkatesh scored facile victories in the singles against weak opponents. The only blot on India’s otherwise perfect day was the three-set defeat of Bopanna and Nirupama Sanjeev against the top seeded Australian pair of Paul Hanley and Anastasia Rodionova in the mixed doubles first round. Indian shuttlers also kick-started their campaign with a 5-0 clean sweep over Kenya in the mixed team event. India, however, were stunned 3-2 by New Zealand in the women’s table tennis team competition after having blanked Sri Lanka in their Group D campaign opener. The country’s hopes in squash suffered a major blow when top woman player Dipika Pallikal pulled out following a bout of mild fever. Three other men players, Sourav Ghosal, Harinder Pal Sandhu and Siddharth Suchde, however progressed to the round of 32. Indian archers began their campaign in style, with the men’s and women’s recurve teams finishing on top ahead of tomorrow’s elimination round. Rahul Banerjee and Jayanta Talukdar topped the men’s section, while Deepika Kumari and Dola Banerjee dominated the women’s field. Former world champion Deepika scored 609 and that was enough to claim top position in women’s individual recurve section, with compatriot Dola Banerjee finishing second best. In hockey, Indian women were held 1-1 by Scotland in a pool match. source : Zee News
India won 2 Gold in Shooting and 3 Gold Medals in Wresling - Second Day India won 5 gold medals with 2 pairs of shooters hitting the bull's eye and wrestlers snatching all 3 titles at stake to climb to the 2nd Rank in the medals tally Just behind Australia at the end of the second day of competitions in the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi.
Commonwealthg Games 3rd Day - Best day of India at CWG 2010 Indian Shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang , wrestlers and Indian weightlifters kept India on 2nd Rank in the medal standings, picking up 6 more gold Medals to swell their tally to 11 Gold Medals at the CWG 2010. Wednesday, the 3rd day of the competitions. With 8 silver and 4 bronze also in the bag, India have Twenty Three medals as against Australia`s 41 at the top.
Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Day 4 India's Gold hunt continued in right earnest on the 4th Day in the CWG 2010 delhi which enabled the India to retain 2nd Rank in the medals Tally for the third day running. India grabbed 3 gold Medals and silver medals apiece, apart from 4 bronze Medals, to take their haul to 34 (14-11-9) but Australia continued to widen their overall lead over the rest and grabbed Thirty three gold Medals, Nineteen silver and Eighteen bronze Medals.
Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi Day Five Proud India on Fifth Day culled an impressive tally of fourteen medals, including 6 gold Medals and one rare womens athletics bronze in track events, to remain well on course in their aim to eventually finish 2nd at the CWG
CWG 2010 Delhi Day Six CWG 2010 Delhi is in full swing In the mean time, Gagan Narang has secured his 4th Gold in the event.Gagan has managed to win the Gold Medal in menz 50m rifle 3 position event at the CWG on Saturday. India have got Fifty-two medals altogether. Indian medal tally at the CWG is 24. Earlier, shooters Harpreet Singh and Vijay Kumar won gold in 25-metre centre fire pistol pairs event on Saturday. Harminder became the first Indian to win a medal in walk race
Commonwealth Games Delhi closing ceremony 15 October ,Thursday Evening marked the Grand finale of the Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 India, the biggest sporting event hosted by India which crowned itself with sporting glory by winning an unprecedented 38 gold medals, Total 101 medals. Skies over the national capital lit with multi-colour laser beams and fireworks as part of 160-minute closing ceremony at the Nehru stadium filled to capacity of 60,000 cheering sports lovers including Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi as well as other sundry VIPs. The ceremony though was not even close to the spectacle witnessed at the opening ceremony. [youtube]XN-9oxcf4vE[/youtube]
