Gold Coast 2018 News

Manika was the star of India's successful Commonwealth Games campaign with four medals including double gold in team event and women's singles.

The 20-year-old from Haryana, who clinched the gold at 2016 World Junior Championships, produced a season best of 86.47 metres to claim the yellow metal at Gold Coast to became only the fourth Indian individual in the history of the Games to win a track and field gold. 

Besides PV Sindhu, who lost her final against Saina Nehwal, World No 1 Indian Kidambi Srikanth also took silver after losing the final 1-2 against Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei. 

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The Indian pair fought hard before losing to Australia's Donna Urquhart and Cameron Pilley 8-11, 10-11 in a gruelling gold medal match.

Settling for silver medals were Amit Panghal (49kg) and Manish Kaushik (60kg) after losing closely-contested bouts here. India will be going back with eight boxing medals from the current edition, one more than their previous best at the 2010 Delhi Games.

The Indian pair hardly lost a sweat in getting the better of the Sri Lankans in what turned out to be a one-sided affair, lasting 30 minutes.

Not only the poor conversion but defensive lapses too played a huge rule in India's defeat, which means the silver medallists from the last two editions will now fight in the bronze medal play-off. 

The gold rush began with a couple of gold early in the morning from the shooting ranges where Tejaswini Sawant grabbed the gold in the 50m rifle. Compatriot Anjum Moudgil took the silver in the same event. Later, India's Anish Bhanwala became the youngest shooter to win a gold in the 25m rapid fire pistol.

Both teams were already through to the semi-finals. But to say that it left nothing at stake would be like somebody caught napping at work.​

Desperate to neutralise Grace Stewart's strike in the third quarter, India's coach Harendra Singh recalled goalkeeper Savita Punia when only four minutes were left in the match but his players could not cash in on the chances that came their way.

In another wrestling final, the men's 57 kg category, India's Rahul Aware also claimed the yellow metal to ensure India won their 14th gold, beating Canada's Steven Takahashi in a domineering display of technique and strength. Aware collected 15 points and gave away just seven to pin his opponent down. 

Starting off against Pakistan should have been ideal to get the adrenaline going for the defending silver-medallists but the pool B opener was among the most insipid encounters between the arch-foes till the last seven seconds produced all the drama, ending in a 2-2 draw.

India's gold rush was started by shooter Jitu Rai who won the yellow metal in 10m air pistol event. In the same event, the bronze was captured by another India Om Prakash.

Though, there were tough moments in the fourth match including Saina Nehwal and Sonia Cheah, the Indian came back strongly and won the fourth match convincingly to help India bring home the laurels.

While Nigeria aren't much known in the world of table tennis, they certainly pulled their weight in the Commonwealth Games. They beat a strong England side to run into Games favourite India. 

This is the second CWG gold for Jitu Rai, the first one also a gold at the last CWG in 2014.

The women`s table tennis team clinched a maiden gold in CWG 2018 on Sunday.

Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak failed to qualify for the women's vault finals on Sunday.

India's disappointing campaign in the basketball event ended following the men's team's third successive loss in the preliminary round Pool B in the 21st Commonwealth Games on Sunday.