Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 5 Results: India’s performance report on 2nd August

The Indian contingent brought home more medals on an action-packed Day five of the Commonwealth Games 2022. India’s women’s lawn bowls team created history on Tuesday as they won the coveted Gold medal in the event which was also India’s first-ever medal in the history of the sport. Shortly after, India got its hand on another Gold as the men’s table tennis team beat Singapore in the final of the event.

Vikas Thakur also brought glory to the nation as he secured a Silver Medal in weightlifting on a successful Day for India. There was disappointment in the store for the Indian women’s hockey team as they tasted defeat. Apart from this, the Indian athletes gave many more moments to rejoice for the nation. Murali Sreeshankar and Muhammad Anees Yahiya were impressive in the long jump event and made it to the finals.

Here are the complete results of the Indian athletes from Day five of the event:

Lawn Bowls

India 17-10 South Africa – WON GOLD MEDAL –  Women’s Fours Finals

New Zealand 18-9 India – Women’s Pairs Round 1

India 15–11 New Zealand – Women’s Triples Round 1

Mridul Borgohain 8–21 Shannon Mcilroy – Men’s Singles Round 1

India 14-11 Fiji – Men’s Fours Round 1

England 24-11 India – Women’s Triples Round 2

Weightlifting

Vikas Thakur – 346KG (155 S + 191 C&J) (WON SILVER MEDAL) –  Men’s 96KG Finals

Punam Yadav – DNF – Women’s 76KG Final

Usha Bannur Natesh Kumara – 205KG (95kg S + 110kg C&J) – Finished 6th – Women’s 87 KG Finals 6th

 Table Tennis

India 3-1 Singapore – (WON GOLD MEDAL) – Men’s Team Gold Medal Match

Swimming

Kushagra Rawat –  4th – 15:47.77s (Q) Men’s 1500m Freestyle Heat 2

Advait Page – 4th – 15:39.25s (Q) Men’s 1500m Freestyle Heat 1

Srihari Nataraj – 3rd – 2:00.84s (NR) Men’s 200m Backstroke Heat 2

Athletics

Murali Shreeshankar – 8.05m (Q) Men’s Long Jump Qualifying Round

Muhammed Anees Yahiya – 7.68m (Q) Men’s Long Jump Qualifying Round

Manpreet Kaur – 16.78m (Q),  Women’s Shot Put Qualifying Round

 Hockey

India 1–3 England – Women’s Pool A

Squash

Sunayna Kuruvilla 3-0 Faiza Zafar (Pakistan) – Women’s Plate Semi-Finals

Saurav Ghoshal 0-3 Paul Coll (New Zealand) – Men’s Singles Semi-Finals

 Boxing

Rohit Tokas 5-0 Alfred Kotey (Ghana) – Men’s 63.5–67KG Round of 16

Badminton

Malaysia 3-1 India – (WON SILVER MEDAL) – Mixed Team Finals

Athletics

Seema Punia, Navjeet Kaur Dhillon – Women’s Discuss Throw Final – 5th (55.92); 8th (53.51)