CWG 2022 Day 8 Highlights: Deepak Punia, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik bag gold; Anshu Malik wins silver

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By Zee Media Bureau | Last Updated: Friday, August 5, 2022 - 23:52
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After an action-packed seventh day of India’s Commonwealth Games 2022 campaign that saw Sudhir bagging a gold in men’s heavyweight para-powerlifting and Murali Sreeshankar won a silver in Men’s Long jump, all eyes on Day 8 will be on the Indian women’s hockey team who will battle against Australia in the semifinals. India’s wrestling contingent will also start their campaign from today, featuring stars like Bajrang Punia, Deepak Punia, Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat etc.

Sprint star Hima Das will feature in the Women’s 200m semifinal. Badminton stars Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu and Aakarshi Kashyap opened their solo Badminton campaign with a bang and entered round of 16.

Boxers Amit Panghal, Sagar Ahlawat, Rohit Tokas and Jaismine Lamboria confirmed medals for the country by punching their way into the semi finals. Squash stars Joshna Chinappa and Saurav Ghosal entered the quarterfinal of mixed doubles categories, they will be hoping to reach the semis.

Check all LIVE scores and updates from Day 8 of Commonwealth Games 2022 here.

5 August 2022, 23:49 PM

Divya Kakran wins bronze

Indian wrestler Divya Kakran bags bronze in women's freestyle 68kg category. She defeated Tiger Lily Cocker Lemalie of Tonga via Fall.

5 August 2022, 23:39 PM

More good news!

Second medal in Lawn Bowls confirmed! India Men's Four team is into the final. Silver secured!

5 August 2022, 23:34 PM

GOLD for Deepak!

Deepak Punia defeats Pakistan's Muhammad Inam to win the gold medal for India in the 86 kg category of Men's Wrestling.

5 August 2022, 23:28 PM

Deepak Punia vs Muhammad Inam

Punia took an early lead in the first round with 2 points lead. 

5 August 2022, 23:28 PM

Deepak Punia-Ind vs Muhammad Inam-Pak 

The arch-rivals are taking on each other

5 August 2022, 23:24 PM

Squash

Doubles pair Joshana Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal lose 2-0 to Malaysia's Yiwen Chan and Ainaa Ampandi in the quarterfinals.

5 August 2022, 22:59 PM

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5 August 2022, 22:57 PM

Wrestling Women's Freestyle 62 kg final

Sakshi Malik wins gold, beats Canda's Godinez Gonzalez in a thrilling final

5 August 2022, 22:39 PM

Sakshi Malik Final

Sakshi Malik on the backfoot in the first round as she trails by 0-4. 

5 August 2022, 22:22 PM

5 August 2022, 22:20 PM

Bajarang Punia bags gold

Bajarang Punia beats Canada's Lachlan McNeil in the 65 kg category Wrestling final. 

5 August 2022, 22:12 PM

Bajarang Punia takes early lead

Bajarang Punia takes 4-0 lead in the first round. Gold is on the way...

5 August 2022, 21:56 PM

Wrestling Men's Freestyle 65kg Final

Bajrang Punia in action!

5 August 2022, 21:23 PM

Wrestling Women's 57kg final

Silver for Anshu Malik as she faces defeat against Nigeria's Folasade Adekuoroye in 57kg final

 

5 August 2022, 21:21 PM

Table Tennis: Mixed Doubles pair

Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula storm into the semifinal with a 3-2 win over Liam Pitchford and Tin-Tin Ho of England. 

5 August 2022, 20:13 PM

Indian wrestlers in CWG 2022
 
(Bouts will start after 9.30 PM IST)

Anshu Malik vs Nigeria's Odunayo Adekuoroye in women's 57kg. (Gold)

Bajrang Punia vs Canada's Lachlan McNeil in men's 65kg. (Gold)

Sakshi Malik vs Canada's Ana Godinez Gonzalez in women's 62kg. (Gold)

Deepak Punia vs TBD in men's 86kg. (Gold)

Divya Kakran vs Tonga's Tiger Lily Cocker Lemalier in women's 68kg  (Bronze)

Mohit Grewal vs Aaron Johnson of Jamaica in men's 125kg. (Bronze)

5 August 2022, 19:47 PM

Wrestling 68kg category 

Divya Kakran beat Ngiri of Cameroon in repechage round, to play for bronze. 

5 August 2022, 19:45 PM

Bajrang Punia into final

Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia enters 65kg final with a 10-0 win over George Ramm of England.

5 August 2022, 19:43 PM

Wrestling's 62kg semifinal 

Sakshi Malik into final with 10-0 win over Etane Ngolle of Cameroon.

 

5 August 2022, 19:42 PM

Wrestling -freestyle 57kg semi-final 

Anshu Malik storms into the final with a 10-0 win over Nethmi Poruthotage of Sri Lanka.

 

5 August 2022, 19:21 PM

Lawn Bowls

India beat Canada 14-10 to enter quarterfinals of the Men's Fours category. Next match up is with England semifinal tonight at 9:30 PM (IST).

5 August 2022, 19:19 PM

Bad news

Divya Kakran is knocked out in the quarterfinal women's 68kg category as she loses to Blessing Oborududu of Nigeria.

5 August 2022, 19:10 PM

Wrestling

Deepak Punia enters semifinal in the 86kg category beating Sheku Kassegbama of Sierra Leone. India are looking very good at the moment in wrestling today.

5 August 2022, 19:09 PM

Badminton

PV Sindhu beats Husina Kobugabe from Uganda to enter the Women's singles quarterfinal. She has won the match 21-10, 21-9.

5 August 2022, 19:00 PM

Wrestling men's 65kg

Wrestler Bajrang Punia storms into the semifinal with a win over Jean Guyliane Joris Bandou of Mauritius.

 

5 August 2022, 18:51 PM

Wrestling men's 125kg 

Wrestler Mohit Grewal entered freestyle 125kg semifinal as he beats Alexios Kaouslidis of Cyprus.

5 August 2022, 18:50 PM

5 August 2022, 18:48 PM

Table Tennis Men's Singles - Round of 32

G Sathiyan beats Paul Mccreery 11-9, 11-9, 12-10, 13-11 advances to pre-quarters

 

5 August 2022, 18:47 PM

Wrestling women's freestyle 62kg

Sakshi Malik entered semifinal with a win over Kelsey Barnes of England

 

5 August 2022, 18:45 PM

Badminton Men's Singles - Round of 16

Kidambi Srikanth storms into quarters with 21-9, 21-12 win over Dumindu Abeywickrama. 

 

5 August 2022, 18:44 PM

Women's Singles Badminton - Round of 16

PV Sindhu vs Husina Kobugabe underway

 

5 August 2022, 18:42 PM

Wrestling 

Anshu Malik enters the semifinal of women's freestyle 57kg as she beat Irene Symeonidis of Australia 10-0. She defeated Symeonidis in under one minute. 

 

5 August 2022, 18:02 PM

5 August 2022, 17:48 PM

5 August 2022, 17:47 PM

Update on Wrestling!

The Wrestlers are warming up and the action will resume by 6:00 PM (IST), after the bouts were put on a hold for one hour.

5 August 2022, 17:16 PM

Table Tennis Men's Doubles R16

Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty are through to the quarterfinals beating Dillon Chambers and Xin Yan 11-3, 9-11, 11-9 and 11-7.

5 August 2022, 17:00 PM

5 August 2022, 17:00 PM

Table Tennis

Manika Batra and Diya Chitale beat Rheann Chung and Catherine Spicer, kicking off their doubles campaign with a straight forward winning start. 11-5, 11-7 and 11-2 for the win of India's Doubles Women's campaign.

5 August 2022, 16:31 PM

Indian men's 4x400m advance to final 

They finished 2nd in Heat 2 with the timing of 3:06.97

5 August 2022, 15:59 PM

5 August 2022, 15:36 PM

Table Tennis

Reeth Tennison on cusp of losing in the Round of 16 Women's singles by Singapore's Tianwei Feng as she down 3-1 at the moment. Manika Batra beats Australia's Minhyung JEE 4-0 in the round of 16 to enter the next round.

5 August 2022, 15:27 PM

Wrestling

Deepak Punia beats Matthew Oxenham by technical superiority, he's also in the quarterfinals now in the Freestyle 86kg category.

5 August 2022, 15:27 PM

Wrestling

Bajrang Punia enters quarterfinal after beating Lowe Bingham 4-0 under 2 minutes of time. He is looking in fine form and hungry for that gold medal in men's Freestyle 65kg category.

5 August 2022, 15:12 PM

5 August 2022, 14:50 PM

Para table tennis

Bhavina Patel enters the final of Para Table Tennis Women's single, beats Sue Bailey 3-0.

5 August 2022, 14:33 PM

Lawn Bowls: England extending their lead

England have opened up a big lead over Indian pair and lead 13-8 after 12 frames in the Lawn Bowls women's pair quarterfinals.