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Shooters continue golden touch as India keep second spot
New Delhi, Oct 6 (PTI) India continued to dominate at
the shooting range where they garnered three gold and two
silver medals on the third day of competitions at the
Commonwealth Games Wednesday.
Shooting gold medals were won by Gagan Narang, at the
expense of Olympic champion and teammate Abhinav Bindra, and
pistol shooters Omkar Singh and Anisa Sayyed, while two silver
medals were brought home by Sarnobat Rahi, who finished second
behind Anisa, and double trap duo of Ronjan Sondhi and Asher
Noria.
There was a fourth gold for the host country earned
through the effort of woman lifter Renu Bala Chanu in the 58
kg class as India's tally went up by six medals to help them
remain in second spot behind table-topper Australia.
India's tally going into the evening session of
competitions stood at 9 gold, 7 silver and 2 bronze and more
was expected from the wrestling mat and lifting arena before
the end of the day.
Narang set the tone by firing a perfect 600 to equal his
own world record on his way to upsetting Bindra to grab the
men's 10m individual air rifle singles title, his second gold
medal of these Games.
He had teamed up with Bindra to clinch the 10m air rifle
pairs gold - the first for the country in the Games Tuesday.
Narang took a big lead over Bindra in the qualification
round by scoring the perfect score while the Chandigarh
shooter replied with 595.
The Hyderabad marksman, who had done a similar feat in
the preliminaries in the Beijing World Cup two years ago,
performed better in the finals too by scoring 103.6 as
compared to Bindra's 103.0 to settle the fight for the gold
with an overall tally of 703.6, a new Games mark.
Incidentally Bindra had won the gold in the Beijing
Olympics in the same event. Englishman James Huckle settled
for the bronze.
There was a second 1-2 sweep by India in the women's 25m
pistol singles event with Anisa Sayyed (786.8) claiming the
gold and Sarnobat Rahi (781) winning the silver to add to the
title the duo won in pairs Tuesday. Ng Pei Chin of Malaysia
got the bronze (778.2).
Omkar Singh nailed the gold in men's 50m pistol singles
event with 653.6 points ahead of Singapore's Bin Gai (649.6)
and Lim Swee Hon (644.7). It was his second medal.
In double trap pairs for men, Sondhi and Noria finished
just a point behind gold winners Steven Wolton and Steven
Scott (189) while Malaysian duo Benjamin Chen Khor and Chye
Chen Khor picked up the bronze with 185.
Renu Bala Chanu cleared 197 kg to clinch the gold in the
58 kg weightlifting event for women, five kgs better than Lee
Seen of Australia. Zoe Smith of England won the bronze with
188 kg.
Indian boxers also continued their winning ways with
Asian silver medallist Jai Bhagwan (60kg) becoming the third
to enter the pre-quarterfinals with a comprehensive win over
Nauru's Colan Caleb in his opening bout.
Egged on by a capacity crowd at the Talkatora Stadium,
Jai dominated the proceedings to notch up an easy 11-1 triumph
after getting a bye in the first round.
The 25-year-old Indian, who won a gold medal at the
Commonwealth Championships in March this year, now meets
Tanzania's Nasser Mafuru, who defeated Papua New Guinea's
Andrew Opugu 6-1 in his preliminary bout.
Jai joins Amandeep Singh (49kg) and Manoj Kumar (64kg) in
the pre-quarterfinal stage of the competition
In tennis, Somdev Devvarman and Sania Mirza breezed into
quarter-finals with easy wins but Rohan Bopanna crashed out of
the men's singles event, losing to second seed and world
number 133 Australian Peter Luczak 2-6 6-7(5) in one hour and
37 minutes in the second round.
Men's top seed Somdev crushed Sri Lanka's Amresh
Jayawickreme 6-0 6-1 while Sania overpowered Cook Island's
Brittany Teei 6-0 6-2 in a women's singles second round match.
India's chances of progressing to the semifinals of the
women's hockey event Games received a setback after the home
team went down fighting 1-2 to defending champions Australia
in their second Pool A match.
Shelly Liddelow (11th minute) and Ashleigh Nelson (59th)
scored for Australia while promising Rani Rampal (69th) pulled
one back for India.
Last edition runners-up India had earlier drawn 1-1 with
lowly Scotland while Australia had thrashed Trinidad and
Tobago 11-0.
India will next face Trinidad and Tobago on Friday while
Australia will be up against South Africa.
In swimming, the Indian men's 4x200m relay quartet of
Rehan Poncha, Rohit Havaldar, Madar Divase and Aaron D'Souza
made it to the final clocking 7 minutes 49.20 seconds to
grab the eighth position in the preliminaries.
Virdhawal Khade of India qualified for the semifinals of
the men's 100m freestyle after finishing 13th, while Pooja
Alva also entered the semifinals of the women's 100m butterfly
by bagging the 15th spot, as the top 16 make it to the last
four stage.
A para-sport swimmer also brought some smiles as Sachin
Verma progressed to the final of the 50m S9 freestyle men
category by finishing eighth.
But the other Indians failed to advance. In women's 800m
freestyle, Richa Mishra missed the bus and also they could not
make a mark in either men's 200m backstroke or women's 200m
breaststroke.
Woman shuttler Aditi Mutatkar made a successful debut,
while Chetan Anand also shone as a dominant India sailed into
the quarterfinals of the mixed team event with a third clean
sweep over Wales.
World number 17 Chetan beat Lewis Martyn 21-12 21-16 in
21 minutes to set the ball rolling, Pune girl Aditi, who made
it to the squad at the eleventh hour, made it 2-0 by disposing
off Turner Carissa 21-13 21-8 in 18 minutes.
Top men's doubles pair of Sanave Thomas and Rupesh Kumar
then subdued a fighting Phillips James and Morgan Joe
Wales pair 21-17 21-14 to give the hosts a commanding 3-0
lead.
Ashwini Ponnappa and Aparna Balan then thrashed Turner
Carissa and Harvey Caroline 21-11 21-13 in the women's
doubles, while mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju
spanked Lewis Martyn and Thomas Sarah 21-8 21-5 to wrap up a
5-0 win.
Off the field, the empty seats for most disciplines over
the first two days grabbed attention with the Games Federation
chief Michael Fennell bluntly telling organising committee
chairman Suresh Kalmadi to solve the "serious issue".
"We have discussed the issue (of poor attendance) with
the OC, we have raised the question on how to get people
packed at the stadium. Only the OC and Mr Kalmadi can answer
all these questions ... we have put this on the agenda for
further discussion," Fennell told a press conference.
However, Kalmadi maintained that it was early days in
the Games and with India picking up medals in many disciplines
the interest of people will rise.
"We sold more than 50,000 tickets Tuesday. The boxing
and wrestling stadiums were packed Tuesday. Now public
interest is high with India picking five gold. There are
queues in the stadiums. It will improve everyday. That only I
can say," he said. PTI Team
PBL
the shooting range where they garnered three gold and two
silver medals on the third day of competitions at the
Commonwealth Games Wednesday.
Shooting gold medals were won by Gagan Narang, at the
expense of Olympic champion and teammate Abhinav Bindra, and
pistol shooters Omkar Singh and Anisa Sayyed, while two silver
medals were brought home by Sarnobat Rahi, who finished second
behind Anisa, and double trap duo of Ronjan Sondhi and Asher
Noria.
There was a fourth gold for the host country earned
through the effort of woman lifter Renu Bala Chanu in the 58
kg class as India's tally went up by six medals to help them
remain in second spot behind table-topper Australia.
India's tally going into the evening session of
competitions stood at 9 gold, 7 silver and 2 bronze and more
was expected from the wrestling mat and lifting arena before
the end of the day.
Narang set the tone by firing a perfect 600 to equal his
own world record on his way to upsetting Bindra to grab the
men's 10m individual air rifle singles title, his second gold
medal of these Games.
He had teamed up with Bindra to clinch the 10m air rifle
pairs gold - the first for the country in the Games Tuesday.
Narang took a big lead over Bindra in the qualification
round by scoring the perfect score while the Chandigarh
shooter replied with 595.
The Hyderabad marksman, who had done a similar feat in
the preliminaries in the Beijing World Cup two years ago,
performed better in the finals too by scoring 103.6 as
compared to Bindra's 103.0 to settle the fight for the gold
with an overall tally of 703.6, a new Games mark.
Incidentally Bindra had won the gold in the Beijing
Olympics in the same event. Englishman James Huckle settled
for the bronze.
There was a second 1-2 sweep by India in the women's 25m
pistol singles event with Anisa Sayyed (786.8) claiming the
gold and Sarnobat Rahi (781) winning the silver to add to the
title the duo won in pairs Tuesday. Ng Pei Chin of Malaysia
got the bronze (778.2).
Omkar Singh nailed the gold in men's 50m pistol singles
event with 653.6 points ahead of Singapore's Bin Gai (649.6)
and Lim Swee Hon (644.7). It was his second medal.
In double trap pairs for men, Sondhi and Noria finished
just a point behind gold winners Steven Wolton and Steven
Scott (189) while Malaysian duo Benjamin Chen Khor and Chye
Chen Khor picked up the bronze with 185.
Renu Bala Chanu cleared 197 kg to clinch the gold in the
58 kg weightlifting event for women, five kgs better than Lee
Seen of Australia. Zoe Smith of England won the bronze with
188 kg.
Indian boxers also continued their winning ways with
Asian silver medallist Jai Bhagwan (60kg) becoming the third
to enter the pre-quarterfinals with a comprehensive win over
Nauru's Colan Caleb in his opening bout.
Egged on by a capacity crowd at the Talkatora Stadium,
Jai dominated the proceedings to notch up an easy 11-1 triumph
after getting a bye in the first round.
The 25-year-old Indian, who won a gold medal at the
Commonwealth Championships in March this year, now meets
Tanzania's Nasser Mafuru, who defeated Papua New Guinea's
Andrew Opugu 6-1 in his preliminary bout.
Jai joins Amandeep Singh (49kg) and Manoj Kumar (64kg) in
the pre-quarterfinal stage of the competition
In tennis, Somdev Devvarman and Sania Mirza breezed into
quarter-finals with easy wins but Rohan Bopanna crashed out of
the men's singles event, losing to second seed and world
number 133 Australian Peter Luczak 2-6 6-7(5) in one hour and
37 minutes in the second round.
Men's top seed Somdev crushed Sri Lanka's Amresh
Jayawickreme 6-0 6-1 while Sania overpowered Cook Island's
Brittany Teei 6-0 6-2 in a women's singles second round match.
India's chances of progressing to the semifinals of the
women's hockey event Games received a setback after the home
team went down fighting 1-2 to defending champions Australia
in their second Pool A match.
Shelly Liddelow (11th minute) and Ashleigh Nelson (59th)
scored for Australia while promising Rani Rampal (69th) pulled
one back for India.
Last edition runners-up India had earlier drawn 1-1 with
lowly Scotland while Australia had thrashed Trinidad and
Tobago 11-0.
India will next face Trinidad and Tobago on Friday while
Australia will be up against South Africa.
In swimming, the Indian men's 4x200m relay quartet of
Rehan Poncha, Rohit Havaldar, Madar Divase and Aaron D'Souza
made it to the final clocking 7 minutes 49.20 seconds to
grab the eighth position in the preliminaries.
Virdhawal Khade of India qualified for the semifinals of
the men's 100m freestyle after finishing 13th, while Pooja
Alva also entered the semifinals of the women's 100m butterfly
by bagging the 15th spot, as the top 16 make it to the last
four stage.
A para-sport swimmer also brought some smiles as Sachin
Verma progressed to the final of the 50m S9 freestyle men
category by finishing eighth.
But the other Indians failed to advance. In women's 800m
freestyle, Richa Mishra missed the bus and also they could not
make a mark in either men's 200m backstroke or women's 200m
breaststroke.
Woman shuttler Aditi Mutatkar made a successful debut,
while Chetan Anand also shone as a dominant India sailed into
the quarterfinals of the mixed team event with a third clean
sweep over Wales.
World number 17 Chetan beat Lewis Martyn 21-12 21-16 in
21 minutes to set the ball rolling, Pune girl Aditi, who made
it to the squad at the eleventh hour, made it 2-0 by disposing
off Turner Carissa 21-13 21-8 in 18 minutes.
Top men's doubles pair of Sanave Thomas and Rupesh Kumar
then subdued a fighting Phillips James and Morgan Joe
Wales pair 21-17 21-14 to give the hosts a commanding 3-0
lead.
Ashwini Ponnappa and Aparna Balan then thrashed Turner
Carissa and Harvey Caroline 21-11 21-13 in the women's
doubles, while mixed doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and V Diju
spanked Lewis Martyn and Thomas Sarah 21-8 21-5 to wrap up a
5-0 win.
Off the field, the empty seats for most disciplines over
the first two days grabbed attention with the Games Federation
chief Michael Fennell bluntly telling organising committee
chairman Suresh Kalmadi to solve the "serious issue".
"We have discussed the issue (of poor attendance) with
the OC, we have raised the question on how to get people
packed at the stadium. Only the OC and Mr Kalmadi can answer
all these questions ... we have put this on the agenda for
further discussion," Fennell told a press conference.
However, Kalmadi maintained that it was early days in
the Games and with India picking up medals in many disciplines
the interest of people will rise.
"We sold more than 50,000 tickets Tuesday. The boxing
and wrestling stadiums were packed Tuesday. Now public
interest is high with India picking five gold. There are
queues in the stadiums. It will improve everyday. That only I
can say," he said. PTI Team
PBL
