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| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA Web Desk |Updated: Aug 02, 2022, 12:46 PM IST
It was another memorable day for India at the Commonwealth Games 2022 as Indian judoka Shushila Devi won the silver medal in the women -48kg category, her second in CWG history. On the fourth day of the multi-sports event, India clinched three medals one silver and two bronze medals.
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Besides Sushila, Vijay Kumar also won a bronze in the Men's 60kg division to give India a second medal in Judo on the day. These were India's first medals outside the six medals in Weightlifting that they have won so far at the Birmingham 2022 CWG, including three gold.
Harjinder Kaur fought back in the clean and jerk category to win the bronze medal in the women`s 71kg category in weightlifting.
Indian women's fours team comprising Lovely Choubey, Pinky, Nayanmoni Saikia and Rupa Rani Tirkey created history in lawn bowls as they assured themselves of a first-ever medal in the discipline at the Games, by storming through to the gold medal match against South Africa on Tuesday, beating New Zealand 16-13 in the semi-finals.
PV Sindhu looked in top form as the mixed team advanced to the final in badminton. The Indian badminton Mixed Team unit comprising the likes of PV Sindhu, Srikanth Kidambi, Lakshay Sen and Chirag Shetty and Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy also assured themselves of a medal after storming through to the finals with a 3-0 sweep of Singapore in the semi-finals. The doubles duo of Chirag and Satwik began the rout, with Sindhu making it 2-0 before Lakshay Sen swapped world champion, Loh Kean Yew, in straight games.
The Indian men`s table tennis team, defending champions, thrillingly defeated Nigeria in the semi-final to book their berth in the final. Indian boxer Amit Panghal won his beginning bout at Games 2022.
Srihari Nataraj finished fifth in the men's 50m backstrokes final in swimming. In the day`s other good news, the Indian Men`s Hockey team came away with a good 4-4 result against hosts England, thereby looking good to avoid title favorites Australia in the semi-finals.
In Squash, Saurav Ghosal made it through to the Men`s Singles semi-finals with a classy victory in four games over Scot Greg Lobban in the quarter-finals. Ghosal soldiered on with a favorable 11-5, 8-11, 11-7 and 11-3 result.
(With Inputs from ANI)
