Manu Bhaker and Heena Sidhu have claimed gold and silver medals respectively at the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG 2018) in Gold Coast in the Women’s 10m Air Pistol event on Sunday.
Both played spectacularly and Bhaker made a new record with total of 240.9 points in the final round. Heena managed 234 points. The third place was grabbed by Australia’s Elena Galiabovitch with 214.9 points, bringing some cheers to the host country.
Meanwhile, weightlifter Punam Yadav too added a gold medal to India’s total in the 69kg category. She managed bronze medal in the 2014 Glasgow edition of Commonwealth Games and a silver at 2017’s Commonwealth Championships.
The silver and bronze metalists in the category were England’s Sarah Davies and Fiji’s Apolinia Vaivai.
Shooter Ravi Kumar became second runner and won bronze medal in the men’s 10m air riffle event.
Hopes of more gold medals are coming from boxing icon MC Mary Kon, the badminton and table tennis team.
Medal Tally
So far India has won 6 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze, which is rounded to 11. Australia is leading the tally with total 67 medals (23G, 20S and 24B) followed by England and Canada with 40 and 26 medals respectively.
Schedule
April 8 (All timings IST)
2:30am
Athletics (men’s 20km race walk final)
Manish Singh, Irfan Kolothum Thodi
4:30am
Shooting (women’s 10m air pistol qualification)
Manu Bhaker, Heena Sidhu
Shooting (women’s skeet qualification)
Saniya Sheikh, Maheshwari Chauhan
Shooting (men’s skeet qualification)
Smit Singh, Sheeraj Sheikh
4:45am
Athletics (women’s 20km race walk final)
Khushbir Kaur, Soumya Baby
5:00am
Weightlifting (women’s 69kg final)
Punam Yadav
Hockey (women’s pool A)
India v England
Table Tennis (women’s team semifinal)
India v England
6:00am
Shooting (men’s 10m air rifle qualification)
Ravi Kumar, Deepak Kumar
6:31am
Badminton (mixed team event semifinal)
India v Singapore
7:08am
Swimming (men’s 100m butterfly heat 2)
Sajan Prakash
7:47am
Boxing (women’s 45-48kg quarterfinal)
MC Mary Kom v Megan Gordon
9:30am
Weightlifting (men’s 94kg final)
Vikas Thakur
9:32am
Boxing (men’s 75kg round of 16)
Vikas Krishan v Campbell Somerville
10:57am
Artistic Gymnastics (women’s vault final)
Pranati Nayak
11:38am
Athletics (men’s 400m round 1 – heat 4)
Muhammed Anas Yahiya
12:05pm
Athletics (men’s shot put qualifying round – group A)
Tejinder Singh
12:16pm
Artistic Gymnastics (men’s rings final)
Rakesh Patra
1:00pm
Basketball (women’s preliminary round pool B)
India v New Zealand
1:02pm
Cycling Track (women’s keirin first round)
Aleena Reji, Deborah
1:42pm
Cycling Track (men’s 40km points race qualifying round)
Manjeet Singh
2:00pm
Weightlifting (women’s 75kg final)
Seema
2:17pm
Cycling Track (men’s 1000m time trial final)
Sanuraj Sanandaraj, Sahil Kumar, Ranjit Singh
2:32pm
Boxing (women’s 69kg quarterfinal)
Lovlina Borgohain v Sandy Ryan
3:00pm
Hockey (men’s pool B)
India v Wales
3:54pm
Cycling Track (women’s 10km scratch race finals)
