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IPL: Kohli praises bowlers for victory against KXIP
After registering their first victory at home in the 2018 Indian Premier League (IPL), an elated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Virat Kohli has credited the outcome to his bowlers, especially Umesh Yadav.
Neeraj wins javelin gold at CWG
India's Neeraj Chopra won the men's Javelin title at the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG) here on Saturday.
Neeraj claims historic javelin throw gold at CWG
Neeraj Chopra today became the first Indian javelin thrower to claim a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, pulling off a season's best effort of 86.47m in the final here. The 20-year-old former junior world champion had made the final after achieving the qualifying mark in his very first throw yesterday and today again, he was leaps ahead of the field with his very first throw. "It is a very important medal for me, I wanted to touch my personal best but I missed it by a centimetre. In my desperation for that, I tried so hard that I tumbled over in my last two attempts. But I am very happy and I have lot of competitions this year to achieve the personal best," Neeraj said after his triumph. Neeraj was the favourite for gold here after his 85.94m throw during the Federation Cup National Championships last month and he achieved India's first gold in athletics in this edition of the Games. The CWG field had been depleted after Olympics and world silver-medallist Julius Yego of Kenya .
CWG: Ashwini-Satwik lose semis; to play for mixed doubles bronze
India's Ashwini Ponnappa and Satwik Rankireddy will play for bronze after going down closely 22-20, 18-21, 16-21 to England's Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith in their badminton mixed doubles semi-final at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
CWG: Indian women lose hockey bronze to England
India suffered a 0-6 thrashing to England in the play-off for the bronze medal in the women's hockey competition at the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG) here on Staurday.
Pune-based swimmer double crosses Bangla Channel, sets world record
Pune-based 17-year-old swimmer Sampanna Ramesh Shelar has set a world record to double cross the Bangla Channel.Shelar, is the first person to swim to and fro from Saint Martin's Island Jetty to Teknaf in Bangladesh also known as the Bangla Channel on Friday. An ambitious Shelar has now planned to participate in the upcoming swimming competition.Shelar told ANI, "I now eye the upcoming competition to be held in Bhagirathi River for 81 km".He started swimming at about 5 a.m. on Friday and completed the journey of 32.2 kilometers in 9 hours and 10 minutes."It is my first international solo ocean event. I shall give the entire credit to my coach Jitendra Khasnin. Two main problems that I faced were the fishes and high tides. When I was close to ending my swim high tides started coming and they blocked my way for a long time", Shelar added.Shelar's Coach Jitendra Khasnin also expressed his happiness on the achievement of his student who he has been training since Shelar was 13-year-old."I
17-year-old Pune swimmer double crosses Bangla Channel, sets world record
Sampanna Ramesh Shelar started swimming at about 5 am on Friday and completed the journey of 32.2 kilometers in 9 hours and 10 minutes
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Saina, Sindhu set up all-Indian final, Srikanth too enters final at CWG
India's badminton queens PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal set up the much-anticipated women's singles summit clash at the Commonwealth Games after winning their respective semifinals in contrasting fashion, here today. The 22-year-old Olympic silver medallist, who had missed the mixed team competition due to an ankle sprain, knocked out defending champion Michelle Li 21-18 21-8 in just 26 minutes while former world no 1 Saina had to dig deep to struggle past 2014 silver medallist Kristy Gilmour 21-14 18-21 21-17 in 68 minutes With two star shuttlers reaching the final, India are assured of gold and silver in the women's singles. 2010 Delhi Games champion Saina and 2014 bronze medallist Sindhu had clashed at the Senior National championship finals last November with the former having the last laugh after a gruelling match. Newly-crowned world no 1 Kidambi Srikanth also progressed to the final of the men's singles after defeating 2010 Commonwealth Games silver medallist Rajiv Ouseph of ...
CWG: Dipika-Joshna storms into squash women's doubles final
Defending champions Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa outplayed England's Laura Massaro and Sarah-Jane Perry to storm into the final of women's doubles squash at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
CWG: Shuttler Srikanth in final; Prannoy to play for bronze
World No.1 Kidambi Srikanth set his date with World No.7 Lee Chong Wei in the summit clash of badminton men's singles competition at the 21st Commonwealth Games after registering comfortable wins in their respective semi-finals here on Saturday.
CWG '18 Boxing: Gaurav Solanki wins gold, Amit, Manish Kaushik take silver
Indian boxer Gaurav Solanki picked a gold while Amit Panghal and Manish Kaushik settled for a silver each in their respective boxing categories at the ongoing 21st edition of the Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.Solanki claimed a split 4-1 verdict on points over Northern Ireland's Brendan Irvine in the finals of men's flyweight (52-kilogram) category at Oxenford Studios.Solanki won the bout with decisions of 29-28, 30-25, 29-28, 28-29, 29-28 from the five judges to become the first Indian male boxer to bag the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.Amit and Manish, the other Indians in the fray, finished with the silver medal in the men's light flyweight (49-kilogram) category and men's 60kg category respectively.While Amit slumped to 1-3 defeat at the hands of England's Galai Yafai in the final, Manish narrowly missed out on gold after the judges award the match to Australia's Harry Garside 3-2.With these three medals, India now stand with a total of 47 medals, comprising of ...
Shooter Sanjeev wins CWG gold
India's Sanjeev Rajput clinched the gold medal in men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions at the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG) here on Saturday.
Neeraj Chopra wins gold in javelin throw at CWG
Neeraj Chopra today became the first Indian javelin thrower to claim a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, with a season's best effort of 86.47m in the final here. The 20-year-old junior world champion had made the final after achieving the qualifying mark in his very first throw yesterday. Neeraj was favourite for gold here after his 85.94m throw last month at Patiala during Federation Cup National Championships. The field had been depleted after Olympics and world silver medallist Julius Yego of Kenya failed to qualify for final round, while 2012 Olympic champion and Rio Games bronze winner Keshorn Walcott opted out of the CWG. This is the biggest moment of his nascent career since the junior world gold, for which he set a record.
Rajput lords over in 50m rifle 3 positions, claims maiden CWG gold
Shooter Sanjeev Rajput today claimed the 50m rifle 3 positions gold medal by creating a Commonwealth Games record in both qualification and final, ending the Indian shooters' impressive campaign at the mega event on a high. Rajput smashed the Games record to win the yellow metal at the Belmont Shooting Centre, shooting a total of 454.5. The 37-year-old qualified for the finals with a record-breaking effort, where he scored a total of 1180 (58x) while breaking Olympic medallist Gagan Narang's existing qualification record of 1166. Rajput did not have the best of start in the finals as he shot 150.5 during the Kneeling stage and Canada and Jersey were ahead of him. The Navy officer jumped to second place with a staggering 156.3 in prone. With 98.7 from two shots in the standing-elimination stage, he grabbed the lead and stayed in front till laying claim to his maiden CWG gold. Chain Singh, the other Indian shooter in the fray, finished fifth with 419.1. In the qualification, Rajput ...
CWG'18: Indian hockey eves lose 0-6 to England in bronze-medal match
The Indian women's hockey team's campaign at the ongoing 21st Commonwealth Games came to a disappointing end as they slumped to a shocking 0-6 defeat to England in the Bronze Medal match of the competition here at the Gold Coast Hockey Centre on Saturday.India had started the match well as they pressed England high up the pitch and won back possession quickly which led them to create a few opportunities in the first quarter.In the eighth minute, two consecutive Penalty Corners were saved by England as Gurjit Kaur's shots were saved by the English Goalkeeper Madeleine Hinch and then a rusher.England were also awarded a Penalty Corner in the 12th minute of the match but Laura Unsworth's shot was comfortably saved by Indian Goalkeeper Savita.Both the teams had their opportunities in the second quarter as India also played some fluent hockey, causing problems for the English defence.However, it was England who took the crucial lead in the match as they scored through a cleverly taken ...
CWG'18: Sanjeev Rajput shoots gold in 50 m rifle 3 positions
Indian shooters continued to bring laurels even on the 11th day of the ongoing 21st edition of the Commonwealth Games, with Sanjeev Rajput bagging a gold medal in the men's 50 m rifle 3 positions here on Saturday.The 37-year-old shot a new Commonwealth Games record of 454.5 in the finals to clinch India's 19th gold medal at the Belmont Shooting Centre in Gold Coast.While Grzegorz Sych of Canada settled for a silver medal after posting the best figures of 448.4, while the bronze went to England's Dean Bale with a score of 441.2.Earlier, Rajput shot 391 in kneeling, 399 in prone and 390 in standings to top the qualification stage with 1,180 pointsChain Singh, the other Indian shooter in the fray, finished at the fifth spot with a score of 419.1.With this, India's medal tally in the Games has now increased to 44 medals, including 19 gold, 11 silver and 14 bronze.
CWG: Saina sets date with Sindhu in women's singles final
World No.3 P.V Sindhu set up an all-Indian women's singles final with World No.12 Saina Nehwal in women's badminton competition at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
CWG: Srikanth enters badminton men's singles final
World No.1 Kidambi Srikanth registered a 21-10, 21-17 straight games victory over England's Rajiv Ouseph to storm into the final of badminton men's singles competition at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
Mary Kom, Gaurav Solanki claim gold on CWG debut
The legend of M C Mary Kom (48kg) grew larger as she became the first Indian woman boxer to claim a Commonwealth Games gold, joined by Gaurav Solanki (52kg) in the top-finishers' group after the first set of finals here today. Settling for silver medals were Amit Panghal (49kg) and Manish Kaushik (60kg) after losing closely-contested bouts here. The star of the day was without a shred of doubt Mary Kom -- a 35-year-old five-time world champion and Olympic bronze-medallist. She was competing in her debut Commonwealth Games, also perhaps her last, and made it a memorable one with yet another dominating performance to claim an unanimous verdict of 5-0 over Northern Ireland's Kristina O'Hara in the final. "I am so glad to have made history again, it is a special feeling to win something that is a milestone medal. I am just so glad," a beaming Mary Kom said after the victory. "This medal and each one of my medals is special to me because I have worked equally hard for them. And I will .
Mary Kom punches to gold on CWG debut
On her debut at the Commonwealth Games, world champion M.C. Mary Kom bagged India's 18th gold medal at the Gold Coast here on Saturday.The five-time world champion thrashed Northern Ireland's 21-year-old Kristina O'Hara in an unanimous points decision in the finals of the women's 48kg boxing category.With the latest medal, India stand at the third spot in medals tally with a haul of 18 Gold, 11 Silver and 14 Bronze.Elsewhere on the Day 10 of the Games, shooters Sanjiv Rajpur and Chain Singh reached the 50-metre Rifle 3 Positions Final. While doing so, Sanjeev Rajput posted a new Games record with a score of 1180, improving compatriot Gagan Narang's 1166 set in Delhi 2010.Meanwhile, India lost to England in the bronze medal play-off encounter in women's hockey semi-final. They were outplayed by the Olympic champions rivals by a 6-0 margin.On the other hand, the Indian men's hockey team will take on England this afternoon in the bronze medal fixture.Olympic medallists P V Sindhu and ...