Archive for the 'India' Category

New Zealand win Gold in Men’s Trap

New Zealand Shooter Graeme Ede has won the Gold medal in the Men’s Trap. David John Beattie has won the Silver for Northern Ireland and Manavjit Singh Sandhu has won the bronze medal for India.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

India Win Gold, Silver in Women’s +75kg Weightlifting

Geeta Rani and Simple Kaur Bhumrah from India have won the Gold and Silver medals in the +75kg Weightlifting with New Zealand’s Keisha-Dean Soffe winning the bronze medal.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Wales win gold in Men’s 50m Rifle Prone

David Phelps from Wales has won the Gold Medal for Wales in the Men’s 50m Rifle Prone. Mike Babb from England has won the Silver Medal and Sanjeev Rajput from India has won the bronze medal.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Jamaica win Gold in Men’s Seated Discus Throw EAD

EAD athlete Tanto Campbell has won the Gold Medal for Jamaica in the Men’s Seated Discus. Jacques Martin from Canada won the Silver medal and Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan from India has won the bronze medal.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

South Africa win Gold in Women’s Discus

South Africa’s Elizna Naude has won the Gold Medal in the Women’s Discus. Seema Antil has won the Silver medal for India and 17 year old Dani Samuels has won the bronze medal for Australia.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

India win Gold, Bronze in Men’s 10m Air Rifle

India’s Gagan Narang has won the Gold medal with Abhinav Bindra winning the Bronze. Jin Zhang from Singapore has won the silver medal.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

India Win Gold in Men’s 50m Pistol

India’s Samaresh Jung has won the Gold medal in the Men’s 50m Pistol with Mick Gault from England winning the Silver medal and Roger Daniel from Trinidad and Tobago taking the bronze.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Malaysia win Badminton Mixed Team

CHIN Eei Hui, CHOONG Tan Fook, JULIA WONG Pei Xian, LEE Chong Wei, OOI Sock Ai, WONG Choong Hann, WONG Mew Choo, WONG Pei Tty, CHAN Chong Ming and KOO Kien Keat
representing Malaysia have won the Badminton Mixed Team event.
The Silver Medal went to ARCHER Simon David, BLAIR Robert James, CLARK Anthony Ian, […]

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

India wins Gold in the Men’s Team Table Tennis Event

India has won the Gold medal in the Men’s Team table tennis event with Singapore taking Silver and Nigeria taking the Bronze.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Ghana take gold in Men’s 77kg Weightlifting

Majeti Fetrie has won Ghana’s first Gold medal of the XVIII Commonwealth Games in the Men’s 77kg Weightlifting competition. Mohammed Zakir Asdullah has won the Silver for India while Muhammad Irfan Irfan has won the bronze for Pakistan.
Ghana’s Weightlifting coach has complained about the organisation of the competition due to Majeti Fetrie being denied […]

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

India win Gold in Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Pairs

Vijay Kumar and Pemba Tamang have won the Gold Medal for India in the Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Pairs. David Chapman and Bruce Flavell from Australia finished in second place with Metodi Igorov and Yuri Movshovich from Canada finishing in third place.

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

England Win Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Position Prone Pairs

Louise Minett and Becky Spicer have won the Gold medal for England in the Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Position Prone Pairs. Anjali Mandar Bhagwat and Anuja Jung from India have won the silver and Mohamed Nur Suryani Binti and Baharin Nurul Hudda Binti have won the Bronze for Malaysia.

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

India lift Gold in Women’s 58kg

Yumnam Chanu has won the Gold Medal for India in the Women’s 58kg Weightlifting competition. Emily Beth Quarton has won the silver medal for Canada while Natasha Jane Barker from Australia has picked up the Bronze

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

India take Gold in Men’s 10m Air Pistol Pairs

Samaresh Jung and Vivek Singh have won the Men’s 10m Air Pistol Pairs event with a new Games record of 1154. England’s Nick Baxter and Mick Gault finished second on 1152 with Australian’s David Moore and Daniel Repacholi in the bronze medal place.

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Another Shooting Gold for India

Tejasini Sawant and Anveet Kaur from India have pushed India’s Gold total to 4 after winning the Women’s 10m Air Rifle Pairs with 791 points. Canadian shooters Monica Fyfe and Cynthia Hamulas won the silver with 781 points while Yu Zhen Vanessa Yong and Jingna Zhang from Singapore finished third to win the Bronze […]

Friday, March 17th, 2006

India Win’s third Gold

Saroja Kumari Jhuthu and Sushma Rana have won the Gold medal in the Women’s 25m Pistol Pairs with 1140 points. The silver medal went to Pamela McKenzie and Lalita Yauhleuskaya from Australia on 1134 points and the Bronze went to Avianna Chao and Kim Eagles from Canada with 1130 points.

Friday, March 17th, 2006

India and Malaysia Hockey draw

India and Malaysia have ended their Men’s Hockey pool match with a 1-1 draw. Goals went to Sandeep Singh for India and Amin Rahim Muhamad for Malaysia.

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Australia wins Men’s 50m Pistol

David Moore and Daniel Repacholi have won the Men’s 50m Pistol Pairs event with a total of 1086 points. India shooters Samaresh Jung and Vivek Singh claimed the silver medal with 1082 points and Nick Baxter and Mick Gault from England won the bronze medal with 1078.

Friday, March 17th, 2006

India Pair win Men’s 10m Air Rifle

Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang have not only won the Gold medal in the Men’s 10m Air Rifle Pairs bit have set a new Games record of 1189.
Bangladesh finished with the silver medal on 1181 and Singapore in the Bronze medal placing on 1177.

Friday, March 17th, 2006

India win first Gold of Games

Indian weightlifter Nameijakpam Kunjarani Devi has claimed the first Gold medal of the Commonwealth Games lifting 94 kilograms and retaining her title in the 48-kilogram division.

Thursday, March 16th, 2006