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[Maximus]

inko rendu golds please..

[mtkr]

 Hockey

 

Indian men's team secures semifinal berth with 5-2 victory over South Africa

 

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[venkat_ravinder]

thanks for the updates.. keep them coming

[mtkr]

thanks for the updates.. keep them coming

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[mtkr]

 Athletics -- Vikas Gowda wins gold medal in Men's Discus Throw Final

 

 

 

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[Maximus]

[mtkr]

inko rendu golds please..

ippude kati vachidii discus throw lo..
inkokati kaavalii...

[mtkr]

Vikas Shive Gowda throws 63.64m to win gold in men's Discus Throw.

 

This is India's 13th gold.

 

Apostolos Parellis of Cyprus wins silver and Jason Morgan of Jamaica gets bronze.

 

 

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[Maximus]

ippude kati vachidii discus throw lo..
inkokati kaavalii...

 

adey ala post vesa...kinda nee update chusa... we are going for the 4th place ...

 

devuda inka1G ..

[mtkr]

adey ala post vesa...kinda nee update chusa... we are going for the 4th place ...

 

devuda inka1G ..

 

 

 

vasthadi vasthadi.. daggarlone undhii....

 

[mtkr]

Badminton

 

Indian shuttler Srikanth Kidambi rallies to beat Sri Lankan Niluka Karunaratne 20-22, 21-16, 21-12 to enter quarters in men's singles event

 

 

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[mtkr]

Badminton

 

India's Jwala Gutta/Ashwini Ponnappa rally to beat Australia pair He Tian Tang/Renuga Veeran 20-22, 21-10, 21-6 to enter quarters in Women's Doubles event.

 

 

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[mtkr]

Indian Wrestlers Wrap Up With Two Golds, a Silver and a Bronze

 

 

Glasgow: Indian wrestlers put on an inspiring show winning two gold medals and a silver and bronze each on the last day of the wrestling competition in the 2014 Commonwealth Games at the SECC Hall here on Thursday.

Olympic medallist Yogeshwar Dutt and Babita Kumari clinched the gold medals while Geetika Jakhar and Pawan Kumar got the silver and the bronze medal respectively. Indian wrestlers finished with a total of 13 medals - five gold, six silver and two bronze.

The four medals, including two gold medals, on the last day made up for Wednesday's disappointment when India missed out on four gold medals.

The first gold medal of the day came from Babita, who beat Canada's Brittanee Laverdure in the final of the women's 55kg freestyle category. The 24-year-old Babita, who had bagged the silver in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, won 9-2 against the 32-year-old Brittanee, who ended up injuring her finger during the bout.

Babita dominated most of the proceedings and it was only in the last 15 seconds that Brittanne managed to open her scoring but by then it was all over.

Next up was Yogeshwar, who beat Jevon Balfour of Canada in the final of the men's freestyle 65kg category. Yogeshwar was declared the winner on grounds of technical superiority after he took a 10-0 lead within 1.53 minutes of the first period.

But there was disappointment in th the women's freestyle 63 kg final, where Geetika Jakhar proved no match for Canada's Danielle Lappage and settled for the silver medal. The 23-year-old Danielle controlled the proceedings and won the bout 7-0.

The final medal of the day came from Pawan Kumar, who pulled off a stunning come from behind win against Pakistan's Muhammad Inam to clinch the bronze medal in the men's freestlye 86kg category. The two wrestlers were tied at 6-6 but Pawan was adjudged the winner since he scored the last point.

It is the first time that Yogeshwar is participating in a major tournament ever since he made a move to the 65kg category after his pet 60kg was removed by world body FILA last year. Yogeshwar had won the bronze in the 2012 London Games in the 60kg.

Yogeshwar raced away with a 11-0 win over Scotsman Alex Gladkov in the Round of 16. The 31-year-old Indian again disappointed the Scottish fans beating Gareth Jones 10-0 in the quarterfinal and booked his place in the final with another facile 10-0 win over Sri Lankan Chamara Perera in the semi-final.

The 20-year-old Pawan was unlucky to lose his semi-final bout to Canada's Tamerlan Tagziev 0-4 and fought it out for the bronze with Pakistan's Inam.

Pawan started off well with a 10-0 win over New Zealand's Steve Hill in the Round of 16 where the Indian was declared winner due to technical superiority and then went on to beat Scotland's Luigi Bianco 5-0 in the quarterfinal.

 

 

 

India's Yogeshwar Dutt takes a victory lap after winning a gold in freestyle wrestling.

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Indian Men Beat South Africa 5-2, Reach Hockey Semis

 

Glasgow: The Indian men's hockey team won their fourth and final Pool A game 5-2 against South Africa Thursday to qualify for the Commonwealth Games semi-finals where they will take on New Zealand at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre here Saturday.

India needed to at least draw the contest to have any chance of qualifying for the last four and they did it in style by thrashing the Africans, for whom it was a must-win contest.

India finished second in Pool A with three wins out of four matches behind defending champions Australia, who won all four matches to top the group. In the other semi-final Saturday, World No.1 Australia will take on England.

India got into business right at the start to earn their first penalty corner in the third minute. Drag-flicker V.R. Raghunath made no mistake in converting the opportunity to open the account for the 2010 silver medallists.

India earned another penalty corner in the next minute but this time it was saved by agile South African goalkeeper Erasmus Pieterse.

World No.9 India kept the pressure on and in the ninth minute Rupinder Pal Singh was successful in converting another penalty corner to make it 2-0.

Ramandeep Singh then extended the lead to 3-0 in the 22nd minute by scoring a field goal. Four minutes later India scored another through forward S.V. to put India 4-0 in the lead.

South Africa came out in a different gear in the second half and finally in the 42nd minute registered their first goal which came from the stick of Taine Paton. They scored once again in the 47th minute through captain Austin Smith's penalty corner flick.

But India had the last laugh when in the 58th minute Manpreet Singh's diving goal helped India take the score to 5-2.

 

 

Rupinder Singh celebrates scoring against South Africa.

 

[mtkr]

Vikas Shive Gowda Wins India's First Athletics Gold

 

 

 

Glasgow: Discus thrower Vikas Shive Gowda won India's first gold medal from athletics in the 2014 Commonwealth Games at the Hampden Park Stadium here on Thursday.

The 31-year-old Gowda converted the silver he had won four years ago in New Delhi in to the yellow metal with a best throw of 63.64 metres.

Cypriot Apostolos Parellis took the silver with 63.32m and Jamaican Jason Morgan held on to the bronze with a best throw of 62.34m.