India at Commonwealth 2014: It’s time to celebrate
With 65 medals- 15 gold, 30 silver and 19 bronze, India finished at the fifth position in the games. Even though the numbers will pale in comparison to the 101 medals that the country won in 2010, the 2014 tally is still encouraging because it was notched up even though some disciplines like archery and Greco-Roman wrestling — India won 10 medals in these two disciplines last time — were dropped this time. India had finished second as organisers of the previous edition of the Games in Delhi.
In Glasgow, the grapplers put up a brilliant performance; so have the shooters and boxers. Then there was the sterling performance of Dipa Karmakar, who became the first Indian woman to win a medal in artistic gymnastics, and Arpinder Singh, who won a bronze in triple jump. On the last day, P Kashyap got the country’s first badminton gold in 32 years.
In artistic gymnastics, Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian woman and the second person from the country to clinch a Commonwealth Games medal when she won the women’s vault bronze at the SSE Hydro.Agartala-born Dipa got the bronze with an average score of 14.366.
The utmost surprise has been given by discus thrower Vikas Gowda who broke a 56-year jinx, to toast with gold alongside wrestlers Yogeshwar Dutt and Babita Kumari as India snaked up to the fifth spot in the medal race at the Commonwealth Games.
In the wrestling arena, Olympic bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt beat Jevon Balfour of Canada in the men’s freestyle 65kg category final. The Indian was declared the winner on grounds of technical superiority after he took a 10-0 lead within 1.53 minutes of the first period.
Babita Kumari began the country’s gold conquest on the mat by putting on a stunning show to prevail over Canada’s Brittanee Laverdure in the women’s 55kg freestyle category summit clash at the SECC Hall.
Parupalli Kashyap also broke a 32-year jinx to claim the men’s singles badminton gold, while the women’s doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa as also the men’s hockey team clinched silvers to cap an creditable Indian showing at the 20th Commonwealth Games
Earlier ace shooter Abhinav Bindra fired to glory to sign off from his final Commonwealth Games with a gold while teenager Malaika Goel shot a silver and lifter Santoshi Matsa snatched a bronze.
India’s grappler Geetika Jakhar had to settle for the silver medal after she lost the women’s freestyle 63 kg final to Canada’s Danielle Lappage.The 28-year-old Geetika proved no match for the 23-year-old Danielle, who won 7-0.
Wrestler Pawan Kumar earlier came from behind to 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.
With 65 medals- 15 gold, 30 silver and 19 bronze, India finished at the fifth position in the games. Even though the numbers will pale in comparison to the 101 medals that the country won in 2010, the 2014 tally is still encouraging because it was notched up even though some disciplines like...
With 65 medals- 15 gold, 30 silver and 19 bronze, India finished at the fifth position in the games. Even though the numbers will pale in comparison to the 101 medals that the country won in 2010, the 2014 tally is still encouraging because it was notched up even though some disciplines like archery and Greco-Roman wrestling — India won 10 medals in these two disciplines last time — were dropped this time. India had finished second as organisers of the previous edition of the Games in Delhi.
In Glasgow, the grapplers put up a brilliant performance; so have the shooters and boxers. Then there was the sterling performance of Dipa Karmakar, who became the first Indian woman to win a medal in artistic gymnastics, and Arpinder Singh, who won a bronze in triple jump. On the last day, P Kashyap got the country’s first badminton gold in 32 years.
In artistic gymnastics, Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian woman and the second person from the country to clinch a Commonwealth Games medal when she won the women’s vault bronze at the SSE Hydro.Agartala-born Dipa got the bronze with an average score of 14.366.
The utmost surprise has been given by discus thrower Vikas Gowda who broke a 56-year jinx, to toast with gold alongside wrestlers Yogeshwar Dutt and Babita Kumari as India snaked up to the fifth spot in the medal race at the Commonwealth Games.
In the wrestling arena, Olympic bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt beat Jevon Balfour of Canada in the men’s freestyle 65kg category final. The Indian was declared the winner on grounds of technical superiority after he took a 10-0 lead within 1.53 minutes of the first period.
Babita Kumari began the country’s gold conquest on the mat by putting on a stunning show to prevail over Canada’s Brittanee Laverdure in the women’s 55kg freestyle category summit clash at the SECC Hall.
Parupalli Kashyap also broke a 32-year jinx to claim the men’s singles badminton gold, while the women’s doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa as also the men’s hockey team clinched silvers to cap an creditable Indian showing at the 20th Commonwealth Games
Earlier ace shooter Abhinav Bindra fired to glory to sign off from his final Commonwealth Games with a gold while teenager Malaika Goel shot a silver and lifter Santoshi Matsa snatched a bronze.
India’s grappler Geetika Jakhar had to settle for the silver medal after she lost the women’s freestyle 63 kg final to Canada’s Danielle Lappage.The 28-year-old Geetika proved no match for the 23-year-old Danielle, who won 7-0.
Wrestler Pawan Kumar earlier came from behind to 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.
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