CWG 2022 Day 6 Highlights: Tejaswin, Ghosal shine with inspirational medals

Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 Highlights: It was a day of firsts once again as Tejaswin Shankar became the first High Jump medalist from India at CWG with his bronze. Ghosal won bronze in Squash

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 LIVE: That’s how the sixth day ended for India

 

It was a day of firsts once again as Tejaswin Shankar became the first High Jump medalist from India in Commonwealth Games history with his bronze medal-winning performance. Shankar, who had to fight a court battle to get to Birmingham jumped 2.22 Metres to get the bronze medal. Saurav Ghosal came up with yet another inspiring performance as the 35-year-old became the first Indian to win an individual medal in Squash. He won bronze after beating home favourite Englishman James Willstrop. 

 

Apart from these two bronze medals, India won three more medals, two of them silver. While Tulika Maan lost the Judo +78 kg final by Ippon to her Scottish opponent after leading the four-minute match for the first three minutes, Lovepreet Singh and Gurdeep SIngh won bronze medals in 109 kg and 109+ kg category of Men's Weightlifting. 

 

Both the Indian men's and women's hockey teams registered victories against Canada, but in a contrasting fashion. While the women were at one stage tied 2-2, before eventually winning the game 3-2 in the last quarter, the men thrashed the minnows 8-0. Both the teams have now booked their place in the semi-final

 

Talking about booking a place in the semi-final, the Indian Women's cricket team also booked its place in the last four by beating Barbados with a huge margin of 100 runs. India finished the group stage with two wins and a narrow loss against Australia. 

 

The Indian boxing contingent had a mixed day. It won its first three bouts and secured three medals through Nitu Ganghas (Women's 48 kg), Nikhat Zareen (Women's 50 kg) and Muhammad Hussamuddin (Men's 54-57 kg), but lost the last two bouts of the Olympic bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain and Olympian Ashish Kumar (men's 80 kg) on a split decision, which were not really taken well by the losing boxers because they thought they deserved the vioctory. 

 

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 LIVE: Ashish Kumar loses on spilt decsion in one of the best bouts of the games

 

What a fight this has been. It is one of the most lively Boxing bouts that the NEC 4 Hall has seen so far as Ashish Kumar of India and Aaron Bowen of England went as hard as possible in all three rounds and especially in the third round. 

 

However, with a split decision, it was the Englishman Bowen who was adjudged the winner with the split decision. This was the second match of the day that didn’t go in India’s favour on a split decision. Earlier Lovlina Borgohain was also defied by a Wales boxer on a split decision in the quarterfinal. 

 

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 LIVE: Ashish Kumar leads in the first round of quarterfinal bout

 

India’s Ashish Kumar was given the verdict three to two in the first round of the three-round Boxing bout against England in the quarterfinal of the Men’s 80 kg event. Two rounds more to come 

 

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 LIVE: India’s Manpreet Kaur finishes last in Women’s Shot Put Final

Manpreet Kaur of India finishes last in Women's Shot Put Final at CWG 2022. Photo: (Screengrab/CWG Website)

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 LIVE: India beat Barbados by 100 runs, qualify for semi-finals

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 LIVE: Tejaswin Shankar secures first medal in track and field for India

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 LIVE: Tejaswin Shankar wins High Jump bronze medal

Tejaswin Shankar, the high jumper who had to fight a court battle to get to the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, England, proved all his critics wrong by fetching the bronze medal in a tightly contested High Jump event. This is also India’s first-ever medal in the track and field events at this games

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 LIVE: Shocking defeat for Lovlina Borgohain in Women’s Boxing

 

It was a shocking defeat for India’s Olympic bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain as she was defeated by Wales’ Rosie Eccles on the basis of a split decision. While Lovlina scored equal to Eccles on the scorecard of three judges, two judges from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Canada ruled in favour of the Wales boxer and thus the Indian lost 2:3. 

 

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 LIVE: India’s Gurdeep Singh wins bronze in Weightlifting

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 6 LIVE: Tejaswin Shankar on joint top position in Men’s High Jump

 

India’s Tejaswin Shankar has jumped 2.22 Meters without any false jump to his name so far and is currently in the joint first position along with New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr in the Men’s High Jump Final at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, England. 

 

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