CWG: 35 gold medals at stake, all eyes upon Indian shooters
By ANIThursday, October 7, 2010
NEW DELHI - The action will hot up on seventh day of the XIXth Commonwealth Games as a total of 35 gold medals will be up for grabs in various disciplines.
Hopes will be high when Olympic bronze winning wrestler Sushil Kumar gets on the floor on Sunday to compete in the Men’s freestyle 66 kg category.
Ace shooters Vijay Kumar and Harpreet Singh will participate in the Men’s Singles 25 m Centrefire Pistol Final.
Mansher Singh, Manavjit Singh Sandhu, who won Silver in Pairs Trap event on Friday, will take part in the Men’s Singles Trap Stage 2 final.
Weightlifter Geeta Rani will be leading India’s campaign in 75kg category and will hope to make a podium finish.
The gold medals at stake today include: Swimming (3), Archery (4), Athletics (8), Cycling (2), Lawn Bowls (4), Shooting (6), Tennis (2), Weightlifting (2) Wrestling (4)
Following is Sunday’s schedule of Indian participation:
Wrestling: Men’s Freestyle 66 kg: Sushil Kumar
Athletics: Women’s 100m Hurdles: Anuradha Biswal, M M Anchu, ayathry Govindaraj
Women’s High Jump Final: Kavya Chottekalapanda, S Sahana
Women’s Long Jump Final: Prajusha Maliakkal, Resmi Bose, Mayookha ohny Mathalikunnel
Women’s 800m: Tintu Lukka, Sinimole Paulose
Women’s Discus: Krishna Poonia, Harwant Kaur, Seema Antil
Women’s 200m Final: Geetha Satti
Men’s Discus Final: Vikas Shive Gowda
Cycling: Women’s 112 km Road Race: India
Men’s 168 km Road Race: India
Diving: Men’s 1M Springboard: Rabikumar Singh Senjam, Hari Prasad himmarayappa
Hockey: Men’s Group A: India vs Pakistan
Lawn Bowls: Women’s Singles Group A: Farzana Khan
Men’s Singles Group A: Mohammad Raja
Netball: Women’s India vs Jamaica
Shooting: Women’s Singles 10 m Air Rifle Qualification: Suma S hirur, Kavitha Yadav
Men’s Singles 25 m Centrefire Pistol Final: Vijay Kumar, Harpreet ingh
Men’s Singles Trap Stage 2: Mansher Singh, Manavjit Singh Sandhuquash: Men’s Doubles: India vs Malaysia
Women’s Doubles: India vs Kenya
Table Tennis: Women’s Singles: Poulomi Ghatak, Shamini Kumaresan, rabhu Mamta
Tennis: Men’s Singles Final: Somdev Devvarman
Weightlifting: Women’s 75+ kg: Geeta Rani
Archery: Women’s Recurve Individual Quarters: Deepika Kumari, ola Banerjee
Men’s Recurve Individual Quarters: Rahul Banerjee, Jayanta Talukdar. (ANI)
