Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 8: India’s full schedule and more

Till now, Indian players have won 5 Gold, 7 Silver and 7 Bronze and are at 7th position in the medal tally. In Gold Coast in 2018, India won 12 medals in all categories including five gold.

On Day 7, 27-year-old Sudhir from India won the gold medal in the men’s heavyweight para powerlifting event. In June, he won a bronze medal in men’s 88kg with a best lift of 214kg at the World Para Powerlifting Asia-Oceania Open Championships in South Korea.

Whereas long jumper Sreeshankar Murali won the silver medal with a best effort of 8.08m, marking the first medal for India in the men’s long jump event in Commonwealth Games history.

In boxing, India took at least seven medals by performing exceptionally well to win their respective bouts on the seventh day. Also, the men’s hockey team reached the semi-finals.

Read also: Commonwealth Games 2022: India’s Lovepreet Singh wins bronze in weightlifting debut

In Badminton, PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth, Akarshi Kashyap and Lakshya Sen entered the next round by winning their respective games. Whereas in squash, Joshna Chinapa, Anahata Singh, Dipika Pallikkal, Saurav Ghoshal and Harinderpal Singh won their respective games.

Here is the full Indian schedule for Friday at the 2022 Commonwealth Games:

Timings: Athletes – Sports Category

01:00 PM: England vs India – Women’s Pair Quarter-Final (Lawn Bowles)

02:40 PM: Naseeru Sule (Nigeria) vs Raj Aravindan Alagar – Men’s Singles Category 3-5 Semi-Final (Para Table Tennis)

02:40 PM: Bhawna Hasmukhbhai Patel vs Sue Bailey (England) – Women’s Singles Category 3-5 Semi-Final (Para Table Tennis)

02:40 PM: Sonalben Manubhai Patel vs Kristiana Ikpoyi (Nigeria) – Women’s Singles Category 3-5 Semi-Final (Para Table Tennis)

02:56 PM: Jyothi Yaraji – Women’s 100m Hurdles Round 1 (Athletics)

After 03:00 PM: Mohit Grewal vs TBD – Men’s Freestyle 125kg (Wrestling)

After 03:00 PM: Bajrang Punia vs TBD – Men’s Freestyle 65kg (Wrestling)

After 03:00 PM: Deepak Punia vs TBD – Men’s Freestyle 86kg (Wrestling)

After 03:00 PM: Anshu Malik vs TBD – Women’s Freestyle 57kg (Wrestling)

After 03:00 PM: Sakshi Malik vs TBD – Women’s Freestyle 62kg (Wrestling)

After 03:00 PM: Divya Kakran vs TBD – Women’s Freestyle 68kg (Wrestling)

03:30 PM: Kidambi Srikanth vs TBD – Men’s Singles Round of 16 (Badminton)

03:30 PM: Pusarla Venkata Sindhu vs Husina Kobugabe (Uganda) – Women’s Singles Round of 16 (Badminton)

03:30 PM: Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty vs TBD – Men’s Doubles Round of 16 (Badminton)

03:30 PM: For Jolly Treesa / Gayatri Gopichand vs Leung Sang Jemimah / Mungra Ganesh (Mauritius) – Women’s Doubles Round of 16 (Badminton)

04:07 PM: Amoz Jacob, Noah Nirmal Tom, Arokia Rajeev, Mohammad Ajmal, Nagnathan Pandy, Rajesh Ramesh – Men’s 4x400m Relay Round 1 (Athletics)

04:10 pm: Ansie Sojen – Women’s Long Jump Qualifying Round (Athletics)

04:30 PM: Batra Manika / Chitale Diya Parag vs Chung Riyan / Spicer Catherine (Trinidad and Tobago) – Women’s Doubles Round of 32 (Table Tennis)

05:05 pm: Achanta Sharath Kamal vs Finn Luu (Australia) – Men’s Singles Round of 32 (Table Tennis)

05:15 PM: Velavan Senthilkumar/Abhay Singh v Kempsell Douglas/Alan Klein (Scotland) Round of 16 (Men’s Doubles Squash)

05:45 PM: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran vs Paul McCreery (Northern Ireland) – Men’s Singles Round of 32 (Table Tennis)

05:45 PM: Sanil Shetty vs Derek Agrefa (Ghana) – Men’s Singles Round of 32 (Table Tennis)

09:30 PM: Akula Sreeja / Tennyson Reith vs Elliot Lucy / Plasto Rebecca (Scotland) – Women’s Doubles Round of 32 (Table Tennis)

10:30 PM: Joshna Chinappa/Deepika Pallikal vs Maschan Yiwen/Ampandi Aina (Malaysia) Women’s Doubles Quarter-Final (Squash)

12:00 am: Dipika Pallikal/Sourav Ghoshal vs Grinham Rachel/Alexander Zack (Australia) Mixed Quarter-Final (Squash)

00:45 am (August 6): India vs Australia – Women’s Semi-Final (Hockey)

00:45 am (August 6): Hima Das – Women’s 200m Semi-Final (Athletics)

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