While You Were Asleep: Weightlifter Bindyarani wins silver, Vandana stars in India’s 3-1 win over Wales, Srihari finishes seventh in 100m backstroke

Weightlifter Bindyarani Devi clinched a silver within the girls’s 55kg and gained India’s fourth medal in weightlifting on Day 2 of the continuing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Bindyarani, who hails from Manipur had gained the Commonwealth Championships gold in 2019 earlier than getting a silver within the 2021 version.

The 23-year-old created a Games document by lifting 116kg within the clear and jerk after a private better of 86kg within the snatch part, totalling 202 kg. Nigeria’s Adijat Adenike Olarinoye additionally obliterated the Games document in snatch and whole effort with an mixture of 203kg (92kg+111kg) to win the gold medal. Local favorite England’s Fraer Morrow bagged the bronze with a 198kg effort (89kg+109kg).

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“It is my first CWG and I feel very happy about the silver and about the Games record as well,” Bindyarani stated.

“I was into taekwondo from 2008 to 2012 after that I shifted to weightlifting. I had a height problem so had to shift. Everyone told my height is ideal for weightlifting. So I changed,” she added.

Vandana scores twice in India’s 3-1 win over Wales

Sensational Vandana Katariya scored twice as India defeated Wales 3-1 to document second successive win in Pool A. India scored all their three targets from penalty corners with Vandana discovering the online twice, and Gurjit Kaur as soon as.

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India began aggressively, incomes themselves a penalty nook within the very first minute of the match. But they missed out on taking an early lead as a result of weak execution. India continued their attacking intuition and went on to ran riot into the Welsh circle with as many as eight penetrations, creating varied goalscoring alternatives. But, they couldn’t discover a option to get on board within the first quarter.

India remained affected person of their method and had been rewarded for his or her effort as skilled striker Vandana broke the impasse within the twenty sixth minute. Vandana efficiently deflected Gurjit’s try on the Penalty Corner. Gurjit went on to double India’s lead from Penalty Corner within the twenty eighth minute of the match.

Wales received their solely probability of the match within the type of a penalty nook 13 seconds from the third quarter and Hughes discovered the again of the Indian web after getting a deflection of Grace’s foot.

In the forty seventh minute, India secured their sixth penalty nook however Gurjit’s sweep shot was saved by Thomas.

Srihari finishes seventh

Chasing an elusive medal within the able-bodied Commonwealth Games swimming occasions, Indian swimmer Srihari Nataraj completed seventh within the males’s 100m backstroke.

The 21-year-old was fifth within the 50m break up however was pushed additional again within the robust first lane to complete with a timing of 54.31s. It was method beneath his private finest and nationwide document timing of 53.77 that he clocked to seal his Tokyo Olympics quota final 12 months. A repeat of the efficiency would have landed him a historic gold.

“I have a couple of more events and I’ll make sure this does not happen. I gave it everything, I had nothing left,” Nataraj stated, hoping for a greater end within the 50m backstroke.

Nataraj had certified for the ultimate with a time of 54.55 seconds which was seventh total