Commonwealth Games 2022 Updates

Commonwealth Games 2022 updates: India’s medal tally rises to six with three gold

Indian athletes are doing well in the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham. Riding off a successful outing on 30 July, India managed to add more medals to the tally on Sunday (July 31). Achinta Sheuli and Jeremy Lalrinnunga won gold in weightlifting and wrote their name in history by making a CWG record in snatch and in total kgs lifted.

World champion boxer Nikhat Zareen, the Indian women’s cricket team, and the Indian men’s hockey team all won their respective matches. The Indian team is now ranked sixth, just behind Canada, which has won more silver medals than India but has the same number of gold medals.

Here’s a full list of Indian medal winners from CWG 2022 so far: –

Sanket Mahadev Sargar – SILVER (Weightlifting, Men’s 55kg class)
Gururaja Poojary – BRONZE (Weightlifting, Men’s 61kg class)
Bidyarani Devi – SILVER (Weightlifting, Women’s 55kg class)

Day 1 highlights

Srihari Natraj reaches semi-finals in 100m backstroke
Women’s Table Tennis (Team) – India 3-0 South Africa
Women’s Table Tennis (Team) – India 3-0 Fiji
Boxing – Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) through to Round of 16. Shiva Thapa (Boxer) started his campaign with a commanding win
Men’s Table Tennis (Team) – India 3-0 Barbados
The women’s cricket team loses to Australia by three wickets
India defeats Pakistan 5-0 in a Badminton Mixed Team group match

Day 2 highlights

Aquatics

Men’s 100m Backstroke-Final: Srihari Nataraj (India) finished 7^th
Men’s 200m Freestyle: Kushagra Rawat finishes eighth in Heat 3 with a time of 1:54.56

Artistic Gymnastics

India finish 5^th as a team with a combined score of 102.650. Pranati Nayak and Ruthuja Nataraj finished the 4 apparatus. Just the vault for Protistha Samanta where she gets a total of 11.950

Athletics

Men’s Marathon: Nitendra Singh Rawat posts 2:19.22 to finish 12th

Badminton

Mixed Team event: India beat Sri Lanka 5-0
Mixed Team event: India takes on Australia

Boxing

Men’s Over 54-57kg: Hussam Mohammed beats Amzolele Dyeyi 5-0 on points
Men’s 86kg-92kg (Heavyweight) – Round of 16- Sanjeet lost to Ato Leau Plodzicki-Faoagali 3-2
Lovlina Borgohain beat New Zealand’s Ariane Nicholson 5-0

Lawn Bowls

Women’s Fours – Section D – Round 3- India beat Canada 17-7
Women’s Singles: Section B Round 3: Tania Choudhury goes down 10-21 to Laura Daniels
Men’s Triples: Section A Round 3: India and Malta play out a 16-16 tie
Men’s Pairs: Section C Round 3: India beat Cook Islands 13-10

Squash

Men’s Singles: Abhay Singh retires in the second game against Alan Clyn
Women’s Singles: India’s Anahat Singh lost to Emily Whitlock of Wales, 11-7, 11-7, 4-11, 11-6
Men’s Singles: Ramit Tandon gives Christopher Binnie a walkover
Women’s Singles: Sunayna Kuruvilla goes down 7-11, 7-11, 7-11 to Aifa Azman of Malaysia
Men’s Singles: Saurav Ghosal beats Shamil Wakeel of Sri Lanka 11-4, 11-4, 11-6

Table Tennis

Women’s Team: Group 2 match: India beat Guyana 3-0 for their third straight victory. India qualify for the quarter-finals
Women’s Team: Quarter-finals: India went down 2-3 to Malaysia

Day 3 highlights

Weightlifting

Popy Hazarika finishes in seventh place.
Achinta Sheuli wins gold in men’s 73kg final
Jeremy Lalrinnunga wins gold in men’s 67kg final

Badminton

India beat South Africa 3-0 in mixed team quarter-final

Cricket

India women beat Pakistan by three wickets in Group A contest

Boxing

Nikhat Zareen beats Helena Ismael Bagao in the women’s light flyweight round of 16
Shiva Thapa loses to Reese Lynch 1-4 in the men’s light welterweight round of 16
Sumit loses to Callum Peters in the men’s middleweight round of the 16
Sagar defeats Maxime Yegnong in the Super heavyweight round of 16

Aquatics

Sajan Prakash finishes fourth in men’s 200m butterfly Heat 3
Srihari Nataraj qualifies for 50m backstroke final

Hockey

India beat Ghana 11-0 in the men’s Pool B contest

CWG 2022 MEDAL STANDINGS
Rank	Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	22	13	17	52
2	England	11	16	7	34
3	New Zealand	10	5	4	19
4	South Africa	4	1	1	6
5	Canada	3	6	9	18
6	India	3	2	1	6
7	Scotland	2	7	8	17
8	Malaysia	2	1	1	4
9	Nigeria	2	0	1	3
10	Wales	1	2	6	9
11	Trinidad and Tobago	1	1	0	2
12	Bermuda	1	0	0	1
12	Uganda	1	0	0	1
14	Fiji	0	2	0	2
15	Kenya	0	1	1	2
15	Northern Ireland	0	1	1	2
17	Mauritius	0	1	0	1
17	Papua New Guinea	0	1	0	1
17	Samoa	0	1	0	1
17	Singapore	0	1	0	1
17	United Republic of Tanzania	0	1	0	1
22	Cyprus	0	0	2	2
23	Namibia	0	0	1	1
23	Sri Lanka	0	0	1	1
Total		63	63	61	187

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