Commonwealth Games 2022: Sixth day was also brilliant, Indian athletes won five medals, India's total number of medals reached 18

'Commonwealth Games 2022: Sixth day was also brilliant, Indian athletes won five medals, India's total number of medals reached 18'

For India, the sixth day in the Commonwealth Games 2022 was also very good. Indian athletes won a total of five medals on the sixth day. While Tulika Mann won silver in Judo, Saurav Ghosal in Squash, Lovepreet and Gurdeep in Weightlifting and Tejaswin Shankar won Bronze in Track and Field. Indian women's cricket team also entered the semi-finals by defeating Barbados by 100 runs.



Weightlifters Lovepreet Singh and Gurdeep Singh won bronze medals



Weightlifter Lovepreet Singh won a bronze medal in men's 109kg weightlifting on Wednesday, Lovepreet lifted a total of 163kg in the snatch round of 109kg weightlifting, while in clean and jerk he took 192kg in both the rounds to aggregate a total. Lifted 355 kg.



At the same time, Gurdeep Singh won the bronze medal in the 109 kg weight category. He lifted a total weight of 390 kg (167 kg in snatch round and 223 kg in clean and jerk round).



Indian squash player Saurav Ghoshal won bronze medal



In men's singles squash, Saurav Ghosal defeated James Willstrop of England 3–0 to win India's first singles medal at the Commonwealth Games. Sourav beat Willstrup 11-6, 11-1,11-4



India's high jumper Tejaswin Shankar won bronze



Indian high jumper Tejaswin Shankar opened India's medal tally in the track and field event at the Commonwealth Games. Tejaswin won the bronze medal with a jump of 2.22m in the final of the men's high jump event. With this, he became the first athlete to win a medal for India in the high jump at the Commonwealth Games.



three medals in boxing



India had a great day in boxing as well, with boxers Nikhat Zareen (50kg), Neetu Gangus (Women's 48kg) and Hussam Uddin Mohammad (Men's 57kg) entering the semi-finals to confirm India's three more medals. However, Olympic medalist boxer Lovlina Borgohain lost in the light middle weight quarterfinals, while Ashish Kumar lost in the men's light heavyweight quarterfinals.



Indian women's cricket team reached the semi-finals



The Indian women's cricket team also performed well to enter the semi-finals of the Commonwealth Games. India beat Barbados by 100 runs in their third group match. This is India's second biggest win in women's T20 cricket. Earlier in 2018, he defeated Malaysia by 142 runs. After this victory, the Indian team moved to the second place in Group A. Australia occupies the first position. At the same time, the team of Barbados and Pakistan is out.



Joshna and Harinder Pal won in squash

Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu have defeated Sri Lanka's Kurup and Ravindu pair in Squash. With this, the Indian pair has made it to the pre-quarterfinals.



India's performance in hockey too



In hockey, the Indian women's team entered the semi-finals with a 3–2 win over Canada in their last Pool A match. At the same time, the men's team defeated Canada 8-0 to finish on top of Pool B.



Performed well in lawn bowls too



In Round 2 of Lawn Bowls, the Indian women's pair of Lovely Choubey and Nayanmoni Saikia won their match 23-6, while Mridul Borgohain registered a resounding 21-5 victory in their men's singles match.



Let us tell you that the Commonwealth Games 2022 is in the half stage and India has done really well so far. India has so far won a total of 18 medals including five gold.



medal winners of india



5 Gold: Mirabai Chanu, Jeremy Lalrinnunga, Anchita Sheuly, Women's Lawn Ball Team, Table Tennis Men's Team



6 Silver: Sanket Sargari, Bindiyarani Devi, Sushila Devi, Vikas Thakur, Indian badminton team, Tulika Mann



7 Bronze: Gururaja Pujari, Vijay Kumar Yadav, Harjinder Kaur, Lovepreet Singh, Gurdeep Singh, Saurabh Ghoshal, Tejaswin Shankar.