May 7, 2024
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Highlights: India at day 8 of Gold Coast CWG

Indian athletes at cwg 2018 day 9 live updates

After bagging 3 medals on the 7th day, Indian athletes will look to continue their gold rush as wrestlers led by Sushil Kumar will feature on the 8th day. Indian shuttlers alongside squash and table tennis players will look to seal a spot in the quarter finals. Shooting will again be India’s breakthrough event as Indian pistol and rifle shooters will feature on the day. Indian athletes at CWG 2018 Day 8 Live Updates

As it happened: Indian athletes at CWG 2018 Day 8(All times in IST)

18:10 pm: India women’s hockey team lose 1-0 against to Australia in the semifinal. They will be playing England in the bronze medal match.


Silver and bronze for India !

5:10 pm: India’s Seema Punia wins silver in women’s discuss throw final. Navjeet Dhillon wins a bronze courtesy of a 57.43m throw in her last attempt to overthrow Taryn Gollshewsky of Australia and Sositina Hakeai of New Zealand.


4:51 pm: Nellickal Neena and Nayana James finished 10th and 12th in the women’s long jump final.

Seema Punia wins silver medal in women’s discuss throw final.


4:30 pm Updates: Table Tennis: Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Ganasekaran reach the quarter final of men’s doubles.

Squash: Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Pal Sandhu looses in the quarter final of mixed doubles.

Squash: Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghoshal reach the semi final of mixed doubles.

Table Tennis: Table Tennis: Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty reach the quarter final of men’s doubles.

Badminton: Saina Nehwal reaches the quarter final of women’s singles.

Badminton: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty reach the quarter final of men’s doubles.

Squash: Vikram Malhotra and Ramit Tandon reach the quarter final of men’s doubles.

Table Tennis: Manika Batra reach the semi finals of women’s singles.

Badminton: Ashwini Ponappa and Sikki Reddy advances to the quarter final of women’s doubles.


Make it 3 out of 3 for the champ !

14:30 pm: India’s Sushil Kumar wins gold in men’s 74 kg freestyle wrestling by defeating Botha Johannes of South Africa. This is his third gold medal aat CWG.


13:45 pm: Kiran wins bronze for India in 76kg Freestyle. Beats Katouskia Pariadhaven of Mauritius 10-0


Gold for India !

13:20 pm: India’s Rahul Aware win’s gold in men’s 57 kg freestyle wrestling. He defeats Steven Takahashi of Canada 15-7 .


Silver to India!

12:45 pm: India’s Babita Kumari fails to defend her title and looses to Diana Weicker of Canada 2-5 in the women’s 53 kg final.


10:31 am: Tejaswini Sawant wins silver medal in women’s 50m Rifle Prone with scores of 102.1, 102.4, 103.3, 102.8, 103.7, 104.6 constituting to a total of 618.9.


10:30 am Updates: Vikram Malhotra and Ramit Tandon beat Ernest Jombla and Yusif Mansaray in men’s doubles pool F.

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra advances to the round of 8 in mixed doubles Table Tennis event.

Madhurika Patkar and Shanil Shetty are through to the round of 8 in mixed doubles table tennis event.

Ruthvika Shavani Gadde is through to the round of 8 in women’s singles round of 8.

Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Pal Sandhu are through to the round of 8 in mixed doubles round of 8 in squash.

Mouma Das is through to the round of 8 in women’s singles round of 8.

Harmeet Desai is through to the round of 8 in men’s singles round of 8.


10:00 am: Badminton: PV Sindhu beats Hsuan-Yu Chen of Australia 21-15, 21-9 to move into the women’s singles quarters.


9:42 am: Table Tennis: Manika Batra beats Tracy Feng of Australia 4-1 to move into the quarters.

Madhurika Patkar loses to Kelly Sibley of England 2-4 loss to crash out of women’s singles.


9:15 am: Badminton:HS Prannoy beats Anthony Joe 21-18, 21-11 to move into the quarter finals.


8:10 am: In badminton mixed doubles, Pranaav Chopra and N Sikki Reddy win 21-9, 21-13 against their Singaporean opponents to move into the quarter final.


8:05 am: Neeraj Kumar finishes at top spot in men’s 25m rapid fire pistol after stage 1. India’s Anish Bhanwala finishes at third spot.


7:50 am: Wrestling: Rahul Aware, Sushil Kumar and Babita Kumari are all in the gold medal match.


7:30 am: In Men’s Doubles squash, Ramit Tandon and Vikram Malhotra get a walkover, they are through to the quarter finals.


7:20 am: In mixed doubles table tennis, Mouma Das and Achanta Sharath Kamal beat David Mcbeath/Kelly Sibley of England 11-5, 11-9, 11-9 to enter the quarter finals.


7:10 am: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa are into the mixed doubles quarter-finals after a straight-game win over Canada’s Kristen Tsai and Nyl Yakura 21-10, 21-7.


6:45 am: In men’s triple jump Arpinder Singh and AV Rakesh Babu is through too the finals.


6:10 am: In Women’s Hepathlon 100m Hurdles, Purnima Hembram has finished second in her heat with a personal best time of 13.56.


5:30 am: Manika Batra and Mouma Das are through to the quarter-finals after defeating their opponents from Sri Lanka 11-4, 11-4, 11-1


11th April: 20:28 pm: India’s Anish Bhanwala and Neeraj Kumar will be the first Indians featuring on the day 8, as they look to secure a place in men’s 25m pistol final event. Action starts from 4.30 am. Stay with us for all the updates.

Athlete: Arpinder Singh
Event: Athletics (Triple Jump)
Time: 6 am

Athlete: Rakesh Babu A V
Event: Athletics (Triple Jump)
Time: 6 am

Athlete: Seema Antil
Event: Athletics (Women Discus throw)
Time: 4.10 pm

Athlete: Navjeet Kaur Dhillon
Event: Athletics (Women Discus throw)
Time: 4.10 pm

Athlete: Purnima Hembram
Event: Athletics (Heptathlon)
Time: 5.35 am (100m hurdles), 6.30 am (High Jump), 2.50 pm (Shot Put), 4.27 pm (200m)

Athlete: Anish Bhanwala
Event: Shooting (Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol)
Time: 4.31 am (Qualification)

Athlete: Neeraj Kumar
Event: Shooting (Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol)
Time: 4.31 am (Qualification)

Athlete: Anjum Moudgil
Event: Shooting (Women’s 50m Rifle Prone)
Time: 4.31 am (Qualification), 9.31 am (Final)

Athlete: Tejaswini Sawant
Event: Women’s 50m Rifle Prone
Time: 4.31 am (Qualification), 9.31 am (Final)

Athlete: Rahul Aware
Event: Wrestling (Men 57 Kg)
Time: From 6 am

Sushil Kumar will be India;s biggest medal hope on the day.

Athlete: Sushil Kumar
Event: Wrestling (Men 74 Kg)
Time: From 6 am

Athlete: Babita Kumari
Event: Wrestling (Women 53 Kg)
Time: From 6 am

Athlete: Kiran
Event: Wrestling (Women 76 Kg)
Time: From 6 am

Event: Badminton singles and doubles Preliminary

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Ashwini Ponappa(India) vs Kristen Tsai/Nyl Yakura(Canada)- Mixed doubles round of 16- 06:31 am

Pranaav Chopra/Sikki Reddy(India) vs Bawa Danny/Crystal Ying Jia(Singapore)- Mixed doubles round of 16- 07:10 am

Ruthvika Gadde(India) vs Jia Min(Singapore)- Women’s singles round of 16-

HS Prannoy(India) vs Anthony Joe(Australia)- Men’s singles round of 16-

Srikanth Kidambi(India) vs Niluka Karunaratne(Sri Lanka)- Men’s singles round of 16-

PV Sindhu(India) vs Hsuan-Yu Wendy(Australia)- Women’s singles round of 16- 09:10 am

Saina Nehwal(India) vs Jessica Li(Isle Of Man)- Women’s singles round of 16-

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty(India) vs Aatish Lubah/Jean Christopher Paul(Mauritius)- Men’s doubles round of 16-

Sikki Reddy/Ashwini Ponappa(India) vs Ne-Ren Ong/Crystal Ying Jia(Singapore)- Women’s doubles round of 16-


Event: Table Tennis Doubles

Sutirtha Mukherjee/Pooja Sahasrabudhe(India) vs Charlotte Carey/Chloe Thomas(Wales)- 05:00 am- Women’s doubles round of 16- 05:00 am

Manika Batra/Mouma Das(India) vs Ishara Madhrangi/Hansani(Sri Lanka)- Women’s doubles round of 16- 05:00 am

Achanta Sharath Kamal/Mouma Das(India) vs David McBeath/Kelly Sibley(England)- Mixed doubles round of 16- 07:10 am

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Manika Batra(India) vs Alicia Cote/Marko(Canada)- Mixed doubles round of 16- 07:20 am

Shanil Shetty/Madhurika Patkar(India) vs Rhikesh Toucoory/Elodie Kau- Mixed doubles round of 16- 07:20 am

Manika Batra(India) vs Tracy Feng(Australia)- Women’s singles round of 16- 07:55 am

Madhurika Patkar(India) vs Kelly Sibley(England)- Women’s singles round of 16- 07:55 am

Mouma Das(India) vs Tin-Tin Ho(England)- Women’s singles round of 16- 08:40 am

Sharath Kamal(India) vs Heming Hu(Australia)- Men’s singles round of 16- 09:25 am

Harmeet Desai(India) vs Leong Feng(Malaysia)- Men’s singles round of 16- 09:25 am

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran(India) vs Segun Toriola(Nigeria)- Men’s singles round of 16- 12:00 pm

Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran(India) vs Mudiyanselage Jayasingha/Imesh Ranasingha(Sri Lanka)- Men’s doubles round of 16- 13:25 am

Harmeet Desai/Shanil Shetty(India) vs Paul McCerry/Ashley Robinson(England)- Men’s doubles round of 16- 14:05 am


Event: Squash Doubles Preliminary

Ramit Tandon/Vikram Malhotra(India) vs Ernest Jombla/Yusif Mansaray(Sierra Leone)- Men’s doubles Pool F- 07:20 am

Dipika Pallikal/Saurav Ghoshal(India) vs Sanjay Singh/Aifa Azman(Malaysia)- Mixed doubles round of 16- 08:00 am

Joshna Chinappa/Harinder Pal Sandhu(India) vs Zac Millar/Amanda Murphy-Landers- Mixed doubles round of 16- 08:00 am.

Event: Women’s Hockey semi-finals

India vs Australia- 16:45 pm

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