India at the Commonwealth Games - Day 1

somnath

· Kunjarani Devi wins first gold medal of the Games in weightlifting
· Vicky Batta wins silver medal in men's 56 kg weightlifting
· Edwin Raju finishes fourth in men's 56 kg weightlifting
· Men's table tennis wins both opening matches
· Women's table tennis team starts with a win
· Winning start in team badminton
· Women's hockey team loses opening match
· Swimmers eliminated in heats

WEIGHTLIFTING

Women - 48kg:
1. Kunjarani Devi (India) [snatch - 72 kg, clean & jerk - 94 kg; Total: 166 kg]
2.Marilou Dozois Provost (Canada) [73 kg, 92 kg; 165 kg]
3.Erika Yamaski (Australia) [69 kg, 84 kg; 153 kg]
Men - 56 kg
1. Faizal Mohd (Malaysia) [115 kg, 140 kg; 255 kg]
2. Vicky Batta (India) [114 kg, 131kg; 245 kg]
3. Guntali Bin Matin (Malaysia) [107 kg, 131 kg; 238 kg]
4. Edwin Raju (India) [105 kg, 130 kg; 235 kg].
- Commonwealth Games coverage

BADMINTON

India beat Trinidad and Tobago 5-0
Aparna Popat (Women's singles) beat Nekeisha Blake 21-7, 21-3
Chetan Anand (Men's singles) beat Darron Charles 21-8, 21-4
Shruti Kurian/ Trupti Murgunde (Women's doubles) beat Kerian Quan Chee/ N Blake 21-7, 21-2
Rupesh Kumar/ Sanave Thomas (Men's doubles) beat Justin Siu/ Darron Charles 21-7, 21-8
Jwala Gutta/ Diju Valiyaveeti MXD) beat K Quan Chee/ Anil Seepaul 21-12, 21-1
Badminton is mixed event, with one each of men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles matches. The matches are played over best-of-three games with 21 points in each game.

HOCKEY – WOMEN

Defending champions India lost to Australia 2-4 (half time: 2-2)
The team's next match is against South Africa, on March 18

SWIMMING

Heats: Indians failed to qualify for final
Rehan Poncha (200m butterfly) 2:08.72 (4th in his heat)
Arjun Muralidharan (200m butterfly) 2:06.58 (5th in his heat)

TABLE TENNIS

Men's Team event
The Indian team won both pool matches in Pool 4 and are in joint lead at the top of the table with hosts Australia , who also won two matches.
Other teams in the pool are: Australia 2 wins and no losses); Northern Ireland (one win and no loss); St Vincent and Grenada (two losses); Kiribati (2 losses) and Ghana (one loss)
India beat Kiribati 3-0
Soumyadeep Roy beat Ioatene Tokannata 11-2, 11-6, 11-3
Sharath Achanta Kamal beat Allie Johnnie 11-2, 11-6, 11-1
Shubhajit Saha beat Toaaki Taorabo 11-3, 11-2, 11-6
India beat St Vincent and Grenada 3-0
Sharath Achanta Kamal beat Joseph Carrington 11-2, 11-4, 11-4
Shubhajit Saha beat Sean Stanley 11-2, 11-2, 11-2
Soumyadeep Roy beat Khalique Bailey 11-2, 11-3, 11-4
Women's team event
The Indian team won the first match they played in women's Pool 3 and are lying second to Malaysia, who have two wins.
Other teams in the pool are Malaysia (2 wins); Fiji (2 losses), Mauritius (one win); Wales (one win)
India beat Fiji 3-0
Mouma Das beat Shriti Jeet 11-1, 11-3, 11-3
Poulomi Ghatak beat Kok Venetia 11-2, 11-4, 11-3
Nandita Saha beat Qu Rujuan 11-8, 11-4, 11-6

BASKETBALL - WOMEN

Australia beat India 146-46

GYMNASTICS – MEN

Indian men finished seventh in team qualifying stage

http://in.rediff.com/sports/2006/mar/16cwgi-india.htm

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iwanttogoback

just watching the news and india are running second on the tally board, just behind australia.
i believe that the 2010 commonwealth games will be held in delhi - now there's food for thought...

somnath

Medal Tally

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
Australia 28 22 21 71
England 13 13 11 37
India 8 6 1 15


India gold-silver in women's 10m rifle
Tejaswini Sawant and Avneet Kaur Sidhu scored 500.6 points and 500.2 respectively to equal the Commonwealth Games' record.

Bindra-Narang strike gold
Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang added to India's gold haul at the shooting range, winning the men's 50 metre rifle three-position pairs event at the 18th Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in Monday.

India at the Games - Day 4
Indian shooters were again in the spotlight, picking medals in three of the four events on Sunday, Day 4.

Indian men paddlers in final
India pulled off a huge upset, beating Nigeria 3-2 in the semi-finals at the Commonwealth Games.

Lifter Asdullah claims silver
India's Mohammed Zakir Asdullah won the silver in the men's 77 kg weightlifting event

Tamang-Kumar add to shooting gold haul
Anjali Bhagwat and Anuja Jung lost the gold in the 50m rifle three position pairs by just a point.

Ramadhani, McCann win marathon golds
The Tanzanian held off a challenge from Kenyan Fred Mogaka before kicking clear to win the Commonwealth Games men's marathon, his first major title.

India shuttlers enter semis
India upset Singapore to storm into mixed team badminton semi-finals

England stun Australia in swim relay
England captured two more swimming gold medals, the second coming with a stunning men's relay upset of Australia.

India at the Games - Day 3
Shooter Samresh Jung and weightlifter Renubala Yumnam Chanu swelled India's gold tally at the Games.

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- Somnath

iwanttogoback

those bloody poms, eh somnath, now they've pinched your second spot
i like big sporting events like these, i usually have the tv on in the background while i'm studying and it's far less distracting than a regular tv show.
although if i stood up every time i heard the australian anthem...

somnath

Yeah, they did it. Lets see if Indian competitors can make it once again. These big events are really very attractive. And iwanttogoback, Australian anthem is very frequent in this event . It is good for you, your daily exercise and study running parallel . Ha ha ha……
Here is the day – 5:


Highlights
· Shooters strike it rich, claiming three gold and one silver
· Samaresh Jung-Jaspal Rana win 25m centre-fire pistol
· Samaresh Jung's tally is now three gold, one silver
· Abhinav Bindra-Gagan Narang win second gold
· Jejaswini and Nvneet one-two in 10m air pistol
· Men's table tennis team wins gold
· Women's table tennis team wins bronze
· Silver medal for women lifter Laishram Devi
· Badminton team wins bronze
· Manjit Kaur enters women's 400m final
· Big wins for men and women's hockey teams
· Three more boxers enter quarter-finals
· India's tally at the Games: 12 gold, 8 silver, 3 bronze
Indian shooters continued to excel at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, though on Monday they had to share the spotlight with the men's table tennis team that played an outstanding final to beat fancied Singapore team for the team gold.
Samaresh Jung won his third gold medal of the Games, as he partnered Jaspal Rana to win the men's 25m Centre-Fire Pistol Pairs on Monday morning. Jung shot 577 and that along with Rana's 573 took India's total to 1150 points, 12 more than second-placed England.
Earlier in the day, the 50m Rifle 3-position combination of Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang won their second gold medal.
The women were not far behind, with Tejaswini Sawant and Avneet Kaur Sidhu, whon won the Pairs gold in the 10m Air Rifle finished one-two in the individual event.
The three gold and one silver took India's shooting tally to nine gold and four silver.
Bindra and Narang, who took to 50m Rifle 3-position barely a year ago, shot a total of 2287, a huge 18 points more than the silver medallists.
http://in.rediff.com/sports/2006/mar/20cwgi-day5.htm

cyberhippie

And Scotland with their most succesful games ever is breathing down India's neck!!

somnath

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
Australia 47 41 34 122
England 18 23 15 56
India 14 8 4 26
Scotland 8 5 7 20

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cyberhippie

Just as soon as tossing the caber, throwing the hammer and catching the haggis are introduced to the games we'll have ye!!

mount cleverest

India's obviously playing to the strengths..reaping it rich in shooting..sadly they changed the weightlifting rules hence the number of medals available in the sport have reduced.

Since shooting events are coming to an end..the next hope would be boxing where number of Indians have made it to the semis..lets hope we getsome golds there.

Else, I expect india to end up fourth..Canada will catch up..

iwanttogoback

where did you guys learn to swim? very impressive.

torryquine

Well we have that much rain.......

shere

Wow some people take the commonwealth games seriously. Some athletes from the UK dodged the games to take part in the world indoors (thats how highly they rate the commonwealth games).

They are rather poor games packed with below average athletes who are not capable of doing much on the world stage with very few exceptions like a few of the Kenyan runners (then again they have not won much at any of the majors over the last few years) and Asafa Powell.

Looking at the Indian team, besides a few of the Indian shooters I doubt they would stand much of a chance of winning a medal at the worlds or olympics.

cyberhippie

Erm shere have you had a bad day

The commonwealth games may not be the world or olympic games but to say this is a second rate games is a bit unfair

Paula Radcliffe
Ian Thorpe
Kelly Holmes
are just some of the not so old athlets who have graced the commonwealth games

Just today in the 400 meters a British girl won beating both the world and olympic championship!

Jamaican world-record holder Asafa Powell is there in the 100 meters

People like Steve Cram and Daley Thompson won gold and went on to greater things as did Steve Ovett and Jonathan Edwards.

Alan wells took the gold fro scotland in the coomonwealth games and went on to take on the world, Lindford Christie did likewise

There are olympic and world champions taking part in the cycling and shooting................


Sorry for the British take on things I'm sure there are many many other commonwealth games winners who stormed the world!!

shere

No not having a bad day.

I honestly think the Commonwealth games are mostly for second rate athletes who do not stand a real chance of doing anything at the worlds or Olympics. I said said in my original post there are a few exceptions and named the likes of Asafa Powell (then again he has not really performed in major championships). By and large the majority of the competitors are sub standard when it comes to world level. The vast majority of those competing would struggle at European level let alone world level, they would struggle to get the qualifying standards the British athletes have to reach to get a team place.

Alan Wells went on to take the world ? He won the 100m race at the 1980 Olympics because of the US boycott. Look at those who made the final Silvio Leonard, Marian Woronin , Aleksandr Aksinin etc etc. Not exactly a world class field.

To prove my point lets see what these Commonwealth champions do at the World Championships in Osaka next year. Lets see how many medals the British team walk away with.

Lets look at the last Commonwealth games (Manchester)

Gold, Silver, Bronze, Total medals
1. Australia 82 62 62 206
2. England 54 51 60 165
3. Canada 31 41 42 114
4. India 30 22 17 69
5. New Zealand 11 13 21 45

2004 Olympics
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Total medals
1 United States 35 39 29 103
2 China 32 17 14 63
3 Russia 27 27 38 92
4 Australia 17 16 16 49
5 Japan 16 9 12 37

2005 World athletic championships
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Total medals
1 UNITED STATES 14 8 3 25
2 RUSSIA 7 8 5 20
3 ETHIOPIA 3 4 2 9
4 CUBA 2 4 0 6

The likes of GB, Canada, India and NZ do not even get close to getting into the top 5.

cyberhippie

Still lot's of world and olympic champion athletes do take part in the games and for the second raters it's perhaps their only chance to compete on this kind of stage.

I notice in one of your lists that Australia actually made number 5 on the medals table.

As for Alan Wells I see what you mean though you can only beat whats on the track with you!!

I never liked him much any way after he criticised our snooker at the miners club, funnily enough I was playing Steven Hendry at the time so he got that wrong!!!