CWG2018: Manu Bhaker, Heena Sidhu Grabs Gold, Silver; Expectations High On Mary Kom

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)