Commonwealth Games 2022, highlights and best moments from Day 4

Listed here are the highest moments from Day 4 of the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham on Monday. India added three medals to its tally and scripted historical past by reaching its first-ever Garden Bowls closing.

READ: Indians in motion on August 2, Day 5 of CWG 2022.

Bowling India to glory

The Indian Garden Bowls Girls’s Fours group at Commonwealth Video games 2022.
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The Indian Garden Bowls Girls’s Fours group created historical past by reaching the ultimate. The group, comprising Rupa Rani Tirkey, Pretty Choubey, Pinki and Nayanmoni Saikia, trumped New Zealand by 16-13, regardless of trailing 12-13 heading into the ultimate Finish, to arrange the summit conflict with South Africa and guarantee India of its first-ever medal within the sport. READ MORE

Judo involves the celebration

Silver medallist Shushila Likmabam (left) on the rostrum after her girls’s 48kg Judo closing.
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Shushila Devi misplaced to South Africa’s Michaela Whitebooi within the girls’s 48kg class to accept a silver medal. Shushila clinched India’s seventh medal. The 2 rivals couldn’t be differentiated within the stipulated three minutes. Within the golden level spherical, South Africa’s Whitebooi seized on a gap by the Indian and claimed the purpose. READ MORE

Vijay Kumar emerges victorious

Vijay Kumar Yadav in motion in opposition to Cyprus’ Petros Christodoulides throughout their bronze medal match on Monday.
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Vijay Kumar Yadav clinched a bronze medal within the males’s 60kg class minutes after Sushila’s silver so as to add an eighth medal to India’s tally. He beat Cyprus’ Petros Christodoulides by way of Ippon after qualifying for the bronze medal match by repechage. He had misplaced his quarterfinal to Joshua Katz of Australia earlier on Monday.

A troublesome draw to abdomen

Mandeep Singh and Harmanpreet Singh after India drew with England 4-4 in a Males’s Hockey Pool B match on Monday.
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India was cruising 3-0 on the midway stage. Nonetheless, England made full use of the man-advantage within the second half as Varun Kumar after which Gurjant acquired suspensions for indiscipline. From 4-1 up across the 47-minute mark, India conceded three targets very quickly to throw away its three-goal lead and grasp on to a draw that felt pretty much as good as a loss. READ MORE

A primary for Scottish gymnastics

Shannon Archer of Scotland competes within the Girls’s Vault finals on Monday.
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Nineteen-year-old Shannon Archer turned the primary lady from Scotland to win a medal in Creative Gymnastics on the Commonwealth Video games when she took the bronze within the Girls’s Vault with a complete of 13.083. Archer additionally competed within the Girls’s All-Spherical Closing, ending eighth with a complete of 49.3.

By no means again down

Lauren Smith of England competes through the Blended Group semifinal in opposition to Malaysia on Monday.
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Lauren Smith of England efficiently returned a sequence of smashes after slipping and falling through the Blended Group semifinal in opposition to Malaysia. She ultimately misplaced the purpose because the English pair of Smith and Marcus Ellis went all the way down to the Malaysian pair 21-12, 18-21, 13-21 within the Blended Doubles fixture. England misplaced the tie 3-0.

Glittering debut

New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews celebrates after profitable gold within the Girls’s Keirin Closing.
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Ellesse Andrews of New Zealand bagged her third gold medal in her first look on the Commonwealth Video games when she took the highest spot within the Girls’s Keirin Finals. Earlier she had received the gold within the Girls’s Dash and Girls’s Group Dash occasions and likewise clinched silver within the Girls’s 4000m Group Pursuit.

On cloud 9

Harjinder Kaur after profitable the bronze medal within the girls’s 71kg class weightlifting occasion on Monday.
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In a testomony to India’s would possibly in weightlifting, Harjinder Kaur received the bronze medal within the Girls’s 71kg occasion with a mixed weight of 212kg (93kg within the Snatch and 119kg within the Clear and Jerk). Her feat swelled India’s medal haul to 9 as Harjinder turned the seventh lifter from her nation to safe a podium on the Birmingham Video games. READ MORE

A primary in 28 years

Lucy Beere of Guernsey through the medal ceremony after profitable silver in Girls’s Singles Garden Bowls occasion on Monday.
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Lucy Beere ended Guernsey’s 28-year-long medal drought on the Commonwealth Video games with a silver within the Girls’s Singles Garden Bowls occasion. The 40-year-old misplaced to Ellen Ryan of Australia 17-21 after 24 Ends within the closing. Guernsey, an island with a inhabitants of simply over 60,000, had received its final Video games medal in 1994 in Victoria, Canada.

Royalty in the home

Gold medallist Australia’s Matthew Levy (left) on the rostrum with Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex through the medal ceremony of the Males’s 50m Freestyle S7 occasion.
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Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, offered medals after Males’s 50m Freestyle closing, which was received by Matthew Levy of Australia. In a becoming farewell to a scintillating profession, the three-time Paralympic champion clinched the gold in 28.95 seconds in what was his final race on the Commonwealth Video games.