After a greater than an honest efficiency on Day 3 of the Commonwealth Games at Birmingham, India secured three medals on Day 4 rising the medal tally to 9 and standing sixth within the CWG 2022 rankings behind Australia, England, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.
While Judoka Shushila Devi Likabam bagged a silver, Weightlifter Harjinder Kaur and Judoka Vijay Yadav settled for bronze medals on the fourth day of the showpiece occasion. Judoka Shushila Devi did seize the eye by turning into the one Indian to win a number of medals in Judo in Commonwealth Games. While the late-night contests for lifter Harjinder and Judoka Vijay turned out to be affluent as they each bagged bronze.
Shushila Devi within the remaining bout of the 48 kg class has gone down preventing in opposition to South Africa’s Michaela Whitebooi. Meanwhile, within the ladies’s weightlifting 71 kg class, Harjinder Kaur received a bronze medal after lifting a complete of 212 kg (93 kg in snatch and 119 kg in clear & jerk). However, Harjinder missed the silver medal by a whisker as Canadian lifter Alexis Ashworth received silver after lifting a complete weight of 214kg.
After defeating Scotland’s Dylan Munro on Monday within the males’s 60kg repechage spherical, Indian Judoka Vijay Yadav was up in opposition to Cyprus’ Petros Christodoulides for a bronze medal match. He closed the match early and secured an ippon, which helped him safe a bronze medal within the males’s 60 kg class.
Other Eye-Catchy Performances
In different important shows, the Indian badminton within the blended group occasion defeated Singapore 3-0 and moved forward to a gold medal match in opposition to Malaysia. In the blended group semifinal, males’s doubles Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, ladies’s singles PV Sindhu and males’s singles Lakshya Sen sealed victories because the scoreline learn 3-0 which catapulted India in the direction of a golden dream.
On the flip aspect, Indian paddlers displayed their mettle by defeating Nigeria 3-0 to achieve the lads’s remaining occasion and must face Singapore within the gold medal match.
Meanwhile, Lawn Bowls ladies’s fours group clinched a historic win in opposition to New Zealand and warranted a silver medal for India. In different eye catchy performances, boxers Amit Panghal (flyweight) and Hussamuddin Mohammed (featherweight) entered quarterfinals.
