Low key affairs

India's long jump ace Anju Bobby George moved into the final with a leap of 6.41 m in the preliminaries.

India8217;s long jump ace Anju Bobby George moved into the final with a leap of 6.41 m in the preliminaries. Anju, who claimed a bronze in the last edition of the Games at Manchester, covered the distance on her third attempt that placed her second in her group and sixth overall. Since only three athletes were able to cross the benchmark of 6.50 m, The 12 best performers gained entry into the final slated for Friday.

In women8217;s 800m, Pinky Pramanick sneaked into the semi-final at 2:05.18. Pinky faces an uphill battle in the semi-final. Her heat timing was the worst among the runners who made it to the semi final. In heptathlon, though, Soma Biswas was eighth 5573 points, J J Shobha was ninth 5533 and Sushmita Singha Roy languished at the 11th and last spot 4320.

Setback for men

Indian men were unlucky to miss out on a semi-final hockey berth despite snatching a 2-0 win over South Africa. India tied with Malaysia on points tally seven each as well as the goal difference eight each. But Malaysia, despite losing their concluding league fixture to Pakistan 5-6 in a later match, pipped the Indians by virtue of scoring more number of goals. Malaysia netted 16, while the Indians managed only 14.

India play for the fifth and sixth places Friday.

1-2 finish in lifting

India8217;s Geeta Rani and Simple Kaur Bumrah reigned supreme with a series of record lifts to grab both the gold and the silver in an exciting 75 kg event.

Geeta established a new Games record with an overall lift of 241 kg, which included 104 kg in snatch and 137 kg in clean and jerk. Bumrah was just a kilo adrift of for silver, after hoisting 240 kg with a record lift of 105 kg in snatch and 135 kg in clean and jerk.

Day 7: How the Indians fared

ATHLETICS: Women: Anju qualifies for final in long jump; Pinky Pramanick enters 800m semi-finals, JJ Shobha 4050 points, Soma Biswas 4019 and Sushmita Singha Roy finish 9th, 10th and 12th, respectively, in heptathlon after five events

BOXING: Men QF: Jitender Kumar fly beat Luza Lechedzani 17-15, Akhil Kumar bantam beat Bongani Wonder Mahlargu 34-20, Diwakar Prasad retires in third round at 5-20 vs Stephen Francis Eng

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BADMINTON: Men singles: Chetan Anand beat Matthew John Wilkinson 21-7, 21-10, Anup Sridhar beat Jonathan Neil 21-11, 21-2 enter PQF

Mixed doubles: Jwala Gutta/V Diju lost to Susilo Ronaldo/Yanmei Jiang 14-21, 18-21.

BASKETBALL: Women lost to Mozambique 44-70 to finish sixth; Men lose to Barbados 55-96, now play for 7th place playoff vs South Africa

HOCKEY: Men: India beat SA 2-0 but misses a semis berth as Malaysia had more number of goals than India

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SHOOTING: Men: Samresh Jung GOLD in 10m Air pistol individual, Vivek Singh SILVER, Sanjeev Rajput BRONZE in 50m Rifle prone event, Manavjit Singh Sandhu BRONZE in trap

TABLE TENNIS: Men singles: Soumyadeep Roy beat William Nyrienda; Shubhajit Saha beat Gavin Hylton; Shibaji Datta lost to Andrew Rushtom. Women singles: K Chakraborty beat Chiu Wenmin; Shamini Kumaresan beat Aleena Edwards; Poulomi Ghatak beat Shireen Lyners; Mouma Das beat Amina Lukaaya; Nandita Saha beat Priscilla Tommy

WEIGHTLIFTING: Women 75 kg: Geeta Rani GOLD 241 137104, Simple Kaur Bumrah SILVER 240 105135 NGR

Indians at Melbourne on Thursday

Athletics: Vikas Gowda men8217;s discus throw final; Pinki Parmanik women8217;s 800m semifinal 2

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Badminton All round of 16: Men8217;s Doubles: Chetan Anand and Valiyaveetil Diju vs Hendri Kurniawan and Saputra Ronald Susilo; Women8217;s Doubles: Trupti Murgunde and Saina Nehwal vs Joanne Nicholas and Ella Kate Tripp; Jwala Gutta and Shruti Kurian vs Michelle Edwards and Kerry-Lee Harrington; Men8217;s Singles: A Sridhar vs G Bellingham; Women8217;s Singles: T Murgunde vs S Hughes; Saina Nehwal vs A Y Xing

BOXING all semi-finals: Jitender Kumar vs Gareth Boardhust Eng; Harpreet Singh vs Emmanuel Andersan Bar; Akhil Kumar vs Nestor Bolum Nigeria; Vijender vs Neil Perkins Eng; Varghese Johnson vs David Price Eng

HOCKEY: India vs New Zealand women8217;s semi-final

TABLE TENNIS: Men8217;s Singles: Shubhajit Saha vs Shane Laugsen NZL; Sharath Kamal vs Jason Sugrue NIR; Women8217;s Singles: Nandita Saha vs Zhang Mo Can; Mouma Das vs Yuen Sara Sin; Poulomi Ghatak vs Kelly Sibley Eng; K Chakrabortyvs Karen Jin Li NZL; Men8217;s Doubles: Sharath/ Soumyadeep vs Brown/ Lavalle Aus; Shibaji / Shubhajit vs Cook/ Drinkhall NZL; Women8217;s Doubles: Mouma/ Poulomi vs Daunton/ Owen; Shamimi/ Nandita vs Beh/ Ng Mas; Mixed Doubles: Nandita Saha/ Saha Sh vs Lavale/ Miao Aus; Sharath/ Poulomi vs Chan/ Ng Mas

Shooting Qualifications: Vijay Kumar and Pemba Tamang men8217;s 25m rapid fire pistol; Harveen Srao and Sonia Rana women8217;s 10m air pistol; Anuja Jung and Anjali Bhagwat women8217;s 50m rifle; Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Vikram Bhatnagar men8217;s double trap