India at Commonwealth Games Day 6 Highlights: Gulveer Singh, Harjinder Kaur bag silver; boxers assured of medals

On the boxing front, Kapil Pokhariya also endured a difficult outing, getting eliminated from the CWG after losing to Robert McNulty in Men's 90kg quarterfinal

And it's done and dusted for Pooja Singh in this high jump as she fails to clear 1.82m in her third attempt. She's eliminated from the CWG

Bizarre scenes in the men’s 10000m race final, where a runner has lost his shoe running in rainy conditions at the track. Gulveer Singh is competing in the event.

Nitin Sharma

Harjinder Kaur confirms herself the silver medal with the best clean and jerk lift of 126kg to have a total of 227kg in the women’s 69kg final. Canadian Charlotte Simoneau is assured for the gold with her second lift of 132kgn clean and jerk and total lift of 240kg at present.

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Harjinder will attempt a 126 kg lift for a CWG C&J record. AAAND SHE HAS LIFTED IT!!! SHE HAS THE LEAD!! She is assured of a medal. The colour set to be decided.

Harjinder will now look to lift 120 kg and SHE HAS DONE IT!!!! Three Green Dots and she has shot into the lead with that huge lift!!

Jadumoni in action now as he looks for a semifinal spot and assure himself a boxing medal and he has taken the opening round 4-1. The second round went to the Indian as well as he is almost assured of a medal.

Pooja finally clears 1.77m in her second go. She'll be happy with that as she finally gets on the board. Chances still alive for India.

Harjinder Kaur is placed at the second spot with a lift of 101 kg in snatch in women’s 69kg weightlifting event. Canadian Charlotte Simoneau leads the chart with a lift of 108kg in snatch. With New Zealand’s Olivia Shalom not having a successful lift in snatch, Kaur seems on her way to win the silver medal and an upgrade form the bronze medal in the 71kg from the 2022 Birmingham CWG.

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Pooja is in high jump for India next and she does not have a good start, failing to cross 1.77m. Can she come back from this setback? We'll find out soon.

Harjinder now attempts a 101 kg lift and she lifts it effortlessly and another Games record is shattered!! She is in the hunt for the medal. And Canda's Charlotte wipes out that record with a 104 kg lift in her first attempt!!

Meanwhile, it's heartbreak for Parveen in boxing as she loses to Hickey by a 3-2 split decision. That's the end of the road for her in this edition of the CWG.

Meanwhile, no medals for India in the Men's 50m Freestyle S13 with Budigina and Ali Imam finishing 6th and 8th respectively.

Harjinder going for 96 kg in her first attempt. And she easily lifts it. 3 kgs over her personal best. Great lift for the 2022 CWG bronze medallist.

India who had taken a good 0-5 lead in Lawn Bowls are being pegged back by Cook Islands who registered a 3-0 win at end three with the score currently at 5-3 in the second set.

Priya tries to maintain the momentum from the second round as fists are flying everywhere with the two women getting tangled with each other more often than not. Looks like it's advantage Priya who has landed some good punches. And with a split decision, Priya has won it!!! Another medal assured for india as Priya goes into the semis.

Priya's 60 kg quarterfinal bout is about to begin vs Niamh Mitchell. The Indian is in red and her opponent is in blue. Mitchell keeping her distance in the opening round with great footwork while landing some precise shots. It's a 4-1 split in favour of Mitchell.

Boxing: Priya Ghanghas vs Niamh Mitchell (Scotland) in Women’s 60kg quarterfinal (11 PM)

Weightlifting: Harjinder Kaur in Women’s 69kg Final (11 PM) (Medal Event)

Heading into the third round, Preeti has a huge advantage with a massive lead in the judges' sheet. Clyde gets another standing count. That's her third with all three in each round respectively. Another one, and the contest is done. And it's over, Preeti advances to the semifinals. Unanimous 5-0 decision. She is assured of a medal. What colour remains to be seen.

Preeti Pawar vs Northern Ireland's Nicole Clyde underway in Women’s 54kg quarterfinal. Preeti doing superbly in the opening round, giving Clyde no room to operate, landing a flurry of punches. And the Indian has taken the first round.

India haven't had the best of lucks in Lawn Bowls with Putul Sonowal all but out while the India's women's pairs team of Pinki Singh and Rupa Rani Tirkey have already been eliminated.

When high jumper Sarvesh Kushare cleared 2.25 metres after two failed attempts to confirm a silver medal in the men’s high jump, emotions were high at different locations around the world.

Thousands of kilometres away in Devargaon, Nashik, the Kushare family felt a sense of relief, while in Spala, Poland, his coach Jithin Thomas, who couldn’t travel to Glasgow, was overjoyed.

Sarvesh shed a few tears of joy. (READ MORE)

Sixteen years back, Valluri Srinivasa Rao had bagged a men’s 56kg bronze medal at the Delhi Commonwealth Games (CWG). By striking silver in Glasgow, Rao’s son Ajaya Babu has again put Vizianagaram district’s Kondavelagada village on the weightlifting map.

Ajaya lifted a total of 330kg (149kg snatch + 181kg clean and jerk) in the 79kg category, falling one kilogram short of Malaysia’s Erry Hidayat Muhammad. Rao was happy with his son’s feat but Ajaya, while sharing his father’s enthusiasm, kept repeating in his conversation with The Indian Express, “If I did not make a few mistakes, I could have won gold.” (READ MORE)

It’s a disappointing campaign for Nirupama Devi Seram as she ends with no medals in final standings in the women’s 63kg. The Indian failed in all three attempts of lifting 123kg in clean and jerk after she was placed fifth in snatch with a lift of 93kg. Canadian Maude Charron won the gold with a total lift of 232kg (102kg in snatch and 130kg in clean and jerk). Last edition’s bronze medallist Harjinder Kaur will now be action later in the night in the women's 69kg.

Sharmila Dhankar still remembers the day in 2012 when her then husband, a drug addict, stripped her naked and threw her, and her two young daughters, out of their home in Gurkawas village, Rewari. Neighbours wrapped her in a quilt. Her parents, Jai Lal and Santosh, took her back to their village, Chithhrauli, in Mahendragarh. That was the last of it.

On Monday night in Glasgow, the 40-year-old won India’s first-ever Commonwealth Games gold medal in para athletics, a season-best throw of 9.81m in the women’s shot put F57 final, ending a 20-year wait for the country in the discipline. She called her mother, her daughters, and her husband Ajit Singh to celebrate. (READ MORE)