Listed below are the highest moments from the seventh day of the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham. India gained a gold and a bronze and took its medal tally to twenty on Thursday.
Sreeshankar ushers in new daybreak for Indian athletics
M. Sreeshankar in motion throughout the Males’s Lengthy Leap Closing on Thursday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
M. Sreeshankar gained the silver within the Males’s Lengthy Leap with a better of 8.08m. He recorded a giant bounce on his fourth try however overstepped by 1 centimetre earlier than leaping to an enormous 8.08m to leapfrog to the second spot. Sreeshankar turned solely the second Indian male and the third Indian total to win a medal within the Excessive Leap on the Commonwealth Video games. READ MORE
Sudhir lifts India to 6 golds
Silver medallist Ikechukwu Christian Obichukwu of Nigeria (left), gold medallist Sudhir of India and bronze medallist Micky Yuletide of Scotland rejoice throughout the Males’s Para Powerlifting Heavyweight medal ceremony on Thursday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
Sudhir gained India’s sixth gold medal within the Males’s Heavyweight Para Powerlifting occasion. He scored 134.5 factors and led all through the competitors, setting a brand new Video games report within the course of. Sudhir lifted 208kg and 212kg efficiently in his first two makes an attempt earlier than failing to clear 217kg in his remaining try. READ MORE
Sunshine Women stun mighty Aussies
The Jamaican netball crew celebrates after beating Australia and ending high of Pool A on Thursday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
The Jamaican girls’s netball crew surprised top-ranked Australia 57-55 and and certified for the semifinal by topping its pool. The Sunshine Women got here again from six objectives down heading into the final quarter to script their first ever win over the Diamonds. Jhaniele Fowler led the best way for Jamaica with 47 objectives from 50 makes an attempt.
What a throw, for Goodness!
Goodness Chiemerie Nwachukwu of Nigeria competes throughout the girls’s F42-44/61-64 discus throw on Thursday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
Para athlete Goodness Chiemerie Nwachukwu of Nigeria set a brand new World Document with a throw of 36.56m within the Ladies’s Discus Throw F42-44/61-64 remaining. She broke the World Document in her very first try with 34.84m, adopted it up with a better of 36.56m and got here near eclipsing it with 36.31m and 36.38m in her third and fifth makes an attempt, respectively.
Double delight for Indian hockey
Indian gamers collect round Harmanpreet Singh after he scored his aspect’s third aim towards Wales on Thursday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
A day after the Indian girls’s hockey crew booked its semifinal berth, the boys adopted swimsuit with a medical 4-1 win towards Wales of their final group stage match to seal a last-four spot. Vice-captain Harmanpreet was the star once more with three objectives - two through penalty nook and one through penalty stroke - and took his aim tally for the event to 9. READ MORE
Hima tops her warmth
Hima Das reacts as she crosses the end line in her warmth within the Ladies’s 200m occasion on Thursday. | Picture Credit score: PTI
Ace sprinter Hima Das completed first in her warmth in 23.42s and certified for the Ladies’s 200m semifinals. Hima left Rhoda Njobvu (23.85s) and Jacent Nyamahunge (24.07s) in her wake and completed eighth total as Favour Ofili of Nigeria topped the standings with 22.71s. Elaine Thompson-Herah (22.80) and Gina Bass (22.87) completed second and third, respectively.
Indian boxers have a discipline day
Keddy Evans Agnes of Seychelles and Sagar in motion throughout the Males’s Tremendous Heavyweight quarterfinal on Thursday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
Sagar Ahlawat beat Keddy Evans Agnes in a 5-0 unanimous choice within the Males’s Tremendous Heavyweight quarterfinal. Sagar pushed his opponent on the backfoot with a collection of crosses, hooks and jabs. As many as 4 boxers - Amit Panghal, Jaismine Lamboria, Rohit Tokas and Sagar - assured India of a medal after advancing to the semifinals of their respective weight classes on Thursday. READ MORE
Balraj brazens it out
Christopher Griffiths England (left) and Balraj Panesar of Canada are concerned in an altercation throughout Males’s Hockey Pool B match on Thursday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
Hockey noticed a uncommon pink card being dished out when Balraj Panesar of Canada was punished for grabbing Christopher Griffiths by the throat. The incident occured within the second quarter when England was comfortably 4-1 forward. Whereas Griffiths was awarded a yelllow card, England went on to thrash Canada 11-2 by including seven objectives within the second half.
Sunny day, breezy wins
South Africa and Sri Lanka gamers shake fingers after their Ladies’s T20 cricket match on Thursday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
In a Twenty20 match that lasted lower than 24 overs, South Africa routed Sri Lanka by 10 wickets and 83 balls to spare. Put in to bat, Sri Lanka was bowled out for 46 in 17.1 overs earlier than openers Anneke Bosch and Tazmin Brits overhauled the goal in 6.1 overs. Later within the day, England chased down New Zealand’s 71 in 11.4 overs to cap off a brief day of cricket.
Golden hat-trick for Laugher
Jack Laugher of England competes throughout the males’s 1m springboard diving remaining on Thursday. | Picture Credit score: AFP
Jack Laugher of England gained his third consecutive gold medal on the Commonwealth Video games within the Males’s 1m Springboard occasion with a complete of 447.05 factors. The 27-year-old, who was England’s flag-bearer on the opening ceremony of the Video games, gained his first gold in Glasgow in 2014 earlier than including to it in 2018 in Gold Coast.
