Murali Sreeshankar won a silver medal in the men’s long jump at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games on Thursday as the 23-year-old jumped 8.08m in his fifth attempt to finish the seventh day.
Sreeshankar from Palakkad, Kerala, finished second behind Lakhan Nair of the Bahamas in the men’s long jump final. Nair also had a best jump of 8.08m, but his second best of 7.98m was better than Sreeshankar’s 7.84m.
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Harmanpreet Singh scored a hat-trick India They finished on top of Pool B after beating Wales 4–1 in their final group stage match. After going goalless in the first quarter, Harman steered India on two penalty corners in the second and then, in the third, converted a stroke to complete it. Hat-trick. Gurjant finished fourth in the final quarter when Gareth Furlong pulled one back for Wales via a clever penalty corner. India thus ended the pool engagement with three wins and one draw.
In the men’s 48kg-51kg (flyweight) category, Amit Panghal made India’s debut in boxing with a unanimous 5-0 decision over Scotsman Lennon Mulligan. Then in the women’s 57kg-60kg (lightweight) category, Jasmine also reached the semi-finals with a 4-1 result against New Zealand’s Troy Garten. Sagar beat Seychelles’ KD Evans Agnes 5-0 in the 92kg+ (super heavyweight) category to register India’s third win of the day to reach the semi-finals. Rohit Tokas progressed to the final four stage as he dominated Niue’s Javier Matafa-Ikinofo 5-0 and assured India a seventh medal from the ring.
In Badminton, PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen entered the pre-quarterfinals of their respective singles events. Sindhu defeated Fatimath Nabaha Abdul Razzaq of Maldives 21-4 21-11 in the first round of women’s singles, Srikanth defeated Daniel Vanaglia of Uganda 21-9, 21-9 in the men’s singles event. Sen and Akarshi Kashyap joined the senior pair in the Round of 16 after winning contrasting victories in their first men’s and women’s singles matches. World Sen, the championship bronze medalist, was up against an opponent more than twice his age – 45-year-old Vernon Smed of St Helena – and the Indian won 21-1, 21-6 in quick time. Kashyap, however, struggled hard in his opening round match against Mahur Shahzad and made it to the next round after the Pakistani shuttler retired after suffering an injury and trailing 1-8 in the second game.
However, in mixed doubles, Ashwini Ponnappa and B. Sumeeth Reddy lost to England’s Callum Hemming and Jessica Pugh 21-18, 21-16 in their round of 32 match.
India won the squash doubles matches with mixed luck as well as the women’s doubles through Sunayna Kuruvilla and Anahata Singh when they defeated Yeheni Kuruppu and Sinali Chanithama of Sri Lanka 11-9, 11-4 in the round of 32 , but lost to Australia’s Donna Lobban and Rachel Grinham 4-11, 4-11 in the next round, while Velavan Senthilkumar paired with Abhay Singh in the men’s doubles to beat Luca Reich and Joe Chapman of the British Virgin Islands 11- defeated. 3, 11-1 to go to the round of 16.
In mixed doubles, Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal beat Emily Whitlock and Peter Creed of Wales 11-8, 11-4 in their first game, while veterans Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu and Joshna Chinappa lost to Donna Lobban of Australia. Cameron Pillays in two straight games, 8-11 and 9-11.
In table tennis, Sreeja Akula, Manika Batra and Reeth Rishi entered the women’s singles prequarterfinals with opposite wins in table tennis. Sreeja beat Malaysia’s Karen Lin 12-10, 12-10, 4-11, 11-8, 11-8, Manika beat Canada’s Fu Ching Nam 3-0 and Reith defeated England’s Charlotte Bardsley 4-1. Round of 32. Manika performed clinical against Ching Nam with scores of 11-5, 11-2, 11-7. Her teammate Reith also defeated Charlotte 11-8 10-12 11-6 12-10 11-3 in the second round of the 32 contest.
Strong contenders for winning the mixed doubles, Satyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra registered a 11-1, 11-3, 11-1 win over the hapless Seychelles pair of Mick Kria and Laura Sinon. India’s second mixed doubles pair of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula beat Northern Ireland’s Owen Cathcart and Sophie Early 11-7, 11-8, 11-9.
Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran defeated Guyana’s Joel Allene and Jonathan van Lange 11-2, 11-5, and Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty defeated Cyprus’s Iosif Elia and Christos Sawa 11-6, 11-5, 11-1. defeated.
Sanil Shetty and Reeth Tennyson lost to Wong Ki Shen/Tae Shin of Malaysia in the round of 64 match. The Indians lost the first two games 6-11, 10-12 but then made a spectacular comeback to level by winning the third and fourth games 13-11, 11-8. The Malaysian pair, however, won the final game 11-8.
Hima Das qualified for the semi-finals with a timing of 23.42 seconds in the women’s 200m heat on the athletics track.
Mridul Borgohain was playing his Section D game in the Lawn Bowles Men’s Singles Sectional, losing 13-21 to Ross Davis after two fine wins yesterday.
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