Listed below are the highest 10 moments from the tenth day of motion from the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham. India had one other profitable outing, with its observe and subject athletes and boxers making a mark and swelling India’s medal tally to 55.
Hop, skip, bounce - it’s gold and silver for India!
Males’s triple bounce gold medallist Eldhose Paul (centre) of India with silver medalist and compatriot Abdulla Aboobacker (left) and bronze medalist Jah-Nhai Perinchief (proper) of Bermuda on the rostrum after the lads’s triple bounce closing on Sunday. | Picture Credit score: AP
India got here near sweeping the triple bounce podium as Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker received the gold and silver, respectively, securing the nation’s first-ever 1-2 in males’s athletics on the Commonwealth Video games. Paul completed with a Private Better of 17.03m whereas Aboobacker jumped 17.02m for the silver. Praveen Chithravel got here shut to creating it an all-Indian podium with a better of 16.89m, simply 0.03m shy of bronze medallist Jah-Nhai Perinchief. READ MORE
A bronze value its weight in gold for Indian hockey
Indian gamers have a good time their win over New Zealand with coach Janneke Schopman after the ladies’s bronze medal hockey match on Sunday. | Picture Credit score: PTI
India beat New Zealand 2-1 in an exciting penalty shootout within the girls’s hockey bronze medal match and clinched its first Commonwealth Video games medal because the silver in 2006 and third general. The win sparked wild celebrations within the Indian camp because the gamers lifted head coach Janneke Schopman. What makes the win sweeter is that it comes shut on the heels of a controversial penalty-shootout defeat to Australia within the semifinal on Friday. READ MORE
Nikhat Zareen bosses the stage
Boxer Nikhat Zareen reacts after successful her bout towards Carly McNaul of Northern Eire within the closing of the ladies’s mild flyweight occasion on Sunday. | Picture Credit score: PTI
Nikhat Zareen beat Northern Eire’s Carly McNaul within the closing of the ladies’s mild flyweight class to win gold by a unanimous 5-0 verdict and safe her first Commonwealth Video games medal. The 2022 World Boxing Championships gold medallist maintained her dominant run within the even, registering a 3rd consecutive 5-0 win after successful her first bout by Referee Stops Contest (RSC). READ MORE
Sreeja’s youth and Sharath’s expertise strike gold
Sharath Kamal Achanta and Sreeja Akula have a good time their victory within the desk tennis combined doubles gold medal match on Sunday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula gave India its first-ever Commonwealth Video games combined doubles gold medal by overcoming the Malaysian pair of Javen Choong and Karen Lyne 11-4, September 11, 11-5, 11-6 within the best-of-five-games closing. A 40-year-old Sharath, having performed two matches earlier within the day, was blissful to let 24-year-old Sreeja take centre stage and chipped in constantly towards a comparatively inexperienced pairing. READ MORE
McGrath retains teammates at bay
Tahlia McGrath alerts to her teammates to keep up distance from her after she took a catch to dismiss Shafali Verma through the girls’s T20 cricket closing on Sunday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
In what was maybe the second of a pulsating closing, Tahlia McGrath, after taking Shafali Verma’s catch, requested her teammates, who had seemingly forgotten all about her COVID-19 analysis forward of the match, to steer clear of her and have a good time. The Australians ultimately sneaked residence by 9 runs and have been topped champions of the inaugural girls’s T20 cricket match on the Commonwealth Video games. READ MORE
Arshad soars over 90
Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan celebrates after successful the gold medal within the males’s javelin throw closing on Sunday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
Pakistani javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem turned the primary man from the subcontinent to interrupt the 90m-mark to win the gold with a Private Greatest and Video games File of 90.18m. Within the absence of Tokyo Olympics gold medallist, India did not medal on the occasion. D.P. Manu (82.28m) and Rohit Yadav (82.22m) completed fourth and fifth, respectively. Arshad’s gold was Pakistan’s first in athletics and second general within the ongoing Commonwealth Video games. HIGHLIGHTS
Kinyamal’s unprecedented title defence
Wyclife Kinyamal of Kenya reacts as he crosses the end line to win the gold medal within the males’s 800m closing on Sunday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
Wyclife Kinyamal of Kenya ran a sensational closing lap to clinch the 800m gold in 1:47.52 and have become the primary athlete to defend their title within the occasion on the Commonwealth Video games. Peter Bol of Australia was shut behind, ending in 1:47.66 to win the silver whereas Ben Pattison of England bagged the bronze in 1:48.25. Kinyamal had received the gold on the 2018 Video games in Gold Coast with a better of 1:45.11
England celebrates too quickly
England‘s Victoria Ohuruogu, Jodie Williams, Ama Pipi and Jesse Knight pose after successful the ladies’s 4x400m relay athletics occasion, however have been later disqualified on Sunday. | Picture Credit score: AFP
After a dramatic photo-finish that noticed England pip Canada by one thousandth of a second to clinch the gold within the girls’s 4x400m relay occasion, the host group was disqualified for lane infringement. Canada was elevated to the gold medal place, whereas Jamaica and Scotland took the silver and bronze, respectively.
Annu Rani blazes an arc
India’s Annu Rani in motion through the girls’s javelin throw closing on Sunday. | Picture Credit score: REUTERS
Annu Rani clinched a bronze within the girls’s javelin throw occasion with a better of 60.00m and have become the primary Indian girls to bag a medal within the occasion on the Commonwealth Video games. Annu’s compatriot Shilpa Rani completed seventh with 54.62m. Earlier than Annu, the one Indians to have received a medal in javelin at CWG have been Kashinath Naik (bronze, 2010) and Neera Chopra (gold 2018). HIGHLIGHTS
Silver medallist comforts gold medallist
Silver medallist Matthew Hudson-Smith of England comforts gold medalist Muzala Samukonga of Zambia through the medal ceremony for the lads’s 400m closing on Sunday. | Picture Credit score: GETTY IMAGES
Sportsman spirit was in full show through the medal ceremony of the lads’s 400m occasion when Matthew Hudson-Smith of England, who needed to accept silver, was seen comforting gold medallist Muzala Samukonga of Zambia. Nineteen-year-old Samukonga shocked the world by clinching the 400m gold with a Private Better of 44.66 seconds whereas Matthew completed shut on his heels in 44.81s. Nonetheless, the trouble took a toll on the younger Zambian as he needed to be escorted out on a wheelchair after the race.
