Following is the schedule of Commonwealth Games events Saturday. Thirty two gold medals, including two in para sports, will be decided Friday on the fifth day of the competition – Athletics (10), Archery (2), Swimming (9), Shooting (4), Tennis (2), Weightlifting (2), Wrestling (3). Archery: Yamuna Sports Complex Men: Compound Individual Bronze medal, Compound Individual Finals Women: Compound Individual [...]

There was high drama late Thursday as Australian Sally Pearson was disqualified for false start after being declared a winner in the women’s 100m run following protest by England at the Commonwealth Games here. The Australian team’s appeal against Sally’s disqualification has been rejected. Sally was disqualified on the ground that she was responsible for a false start of the run, [...]

Ashish Kumar created history by bagging the first-ever Commonwealth Games medal in gymnastics, a bronze, for India here on Thursday. The 19-year-old from Allahabad scored 14.475 in the floor exercise final. Australia’s Thomas Pichler won gold with a score of 14.675 while Englishman Reiss Beckford claimed silver notching up 14.625 at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex. “I was nervous performing [...]

Second seeds Leander Paes and Sania Mirza crashed out of the mixed doubles quarterfinals in the biggest upset of the Commonwealth Games tennis competition here on Thursday. However, it was a happy day for India in the singles with both Somdev Devvarman and Sania romping into the semifinals with straight set victories. Rushmi Chakravarthi, who had created a flutter a day before with a sensational win [...]

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Haryana’s Geeta won India’s first ever gold medal in women’s wrestling in the 55kg freestyle category at the Commonwealth Games here on Thursday. The hosts also got a silver in the 48 kg freestyle category in which Nirmala Devi lost her title round bout against Canadian opponent Carol Huynh. Suman Kundu got India its third medal from the competition winning her bronze medal play-off [...]

It was business as usual for Indian shooters in the 19th Commonwealth Games as they added two more gold medals and a silver to their kitty at the Dr Karni Singh Range here on Thursday. Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh opened the day’s account by bagging the yellow metal in men’s 25-metre rapid fire pistol pairs event, while Ronjan Sodhi ended it on high by winning a silver in men’s [...]

India pulled off a splendid 3-0 victory over England to set up a clash with top seed Malaysia in the final of the badminton mixed team event at the Commonwealth Games here on Thursday. Egged on by a packed stadium, India avenged the 2-3 loss to England at the same stage in the Melbourne Games four years ago. Malaysia, boasting of World No.1 Lee Chong Wei on their side, were given a tough fight by [...]

India continued to add to its gold tally on Thursday as the hosts won three more golds on the fourth day of the Commonwealth Games. However, there was disappointment for the men’s hockey team which went down 2-5 to Australia at the Dhyan Chand National stadium. The day kicked off with a bronze medal win in archery, which was soon followed by another shooting gold. Indian women won in the compound [...]

The Indian women’s table tennis team on Thursday reached their maiden final at the Commonwealth Games blanking fancied England in the semi-finals and the men’s team entered the last four beating South Africa in the quarter-finals. The women, bronze medallists at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, have assured themselves of a silver as they take on current World Champions Singapore [...]