India at Commonwealth Games Day 8 Highlights: Lovepreet wins silver, Seema wins bronze

Once again, we close a day at these Games with a late medal. Seema Kaliramna came in there with specs, the love of her 3-year-old boy and a possible PhD in her future. She leaves with a Commonwealth Games bronze. Before that Lovepreet missed out on a gold in a truly thrilling final set of lifts between him and New Zealand's David Liti. Before all that, we got a little glimpse of just how difficult it is going to be for Neeraj to win gold tomorrow, in a javelin field stacked with some of the best in the world. Do join us for that tomorrow, thanks for being with us today. Toodles.

Parul finishes with a time of 15:08.56s and that puts her 13th in the end. Far ahead of her, Australians Rosie Davies and Jessica Hull gave a picture for their country's front pages with a thrilling race for the top two after they overtook Scotland's Megan Keith. Davies won it with a time of 14:44.53.

This is the event that Chaudhary had won gold in at the 2022 Asian Games. However, this is a different ball-game altogether. Parul's personal best is 15:04.26s - there are as many as 12 athletes today who have PBs in the 14-minute area.

Seema Kaliramna has a season's best throw of 59.73m while Nidhi has an SB of 58.82m. These are also their personal bests and they will have to throw more than 60m to get to medal reckoning here it seems - Jamaica's Samantha Hall is a clear favourite for the gold with a season best throw of 66.39m and there are four others with 60+ throws behind them.

Oh David Liti has lifted a Games Record 223kg! He had 207kg for his first attempt, a whopping 16kg jump and Liti does it anyway! Wow what a shootout that was for the gold. That was only Liti's second lift, he has a third if he wants but he vetoes it, quite understandably. How about it.

Lovepreet with the silver, India's eight weightlifting medal of these Games.

Oh that was quite something! Lovepreet has 212kg listed as his second lift. He is good with clean and then seems to hesitate and veto the jerk. Lovepreet stays with it though and then completes the jerk with aplomb. Still in line for gold, Liti... HAS NOW BUMPED UP HIS SECOND LIFT TO 223KG. A gamble for gold if there ever was one.

Tajinderpal Singh Toor's best throw remains that third try of 20.27m and Gill ended up with foul throws for his fourth fifth and sixth attempts. He thus finishes with a best throw of 20.03m. Toor and Gill have finished fifth and seventh respectively.

Toor is up to fifth with his third throw, which his best thus far -- 20.27m. Samardeep, meanwhile, is seventh after three throws, with the third one also being the best for him -- 20.03m.

New Zealand's Tom Walks is top of the pile at the moment with a best throw of 21.03m, which he had managed with his first attempt. England's Scott Lincoln threw 20.99m in his second attempt and he is in silver medal position. Chukwuebuka Enekwechi of Nigeria is in bronze medal position with a best throw of 20.82m.

Well it just looks strange to see someone lifting these kinds of weights with this kind of ease. Lovepreet first lifts 168kg cleanly and then its the same for his next lift of 173kg. He has listed 176kg as his third lift and he will have to wait for Sanele Mao to be done with his first lift of 175kg for that.

There are quite a few. First of all, in about half an hour, Lovepreet Singh is in action in the men's 110+kg weightlifting final. At 11.30pm the men's shot put final begins in which India will be represented by Tajinderpal Singh Toor, the two-time Asian Games gold medallist, and Samardeep Singh Gill.

Then comes a break in medal events but that doesn't mean there is nothing by any stretch of imagination. Animesh Kujur is in the men's 200m semifinal at 11.37pm whike Tajswin Shankar's high jump event in men's decathlon starts at 11.38pm.

Around1.10am, Seema Kaliramna and Nidhi Rani will turn up for India in women's discus throw final. Tejaswin then returns for the 400m event in men's decathlon at 1.30am. At around 1.50am, Parul Chaudhary will be on the track for the women's 5000m final.

She drops it at the jerk, once again, couldn't get it high enough. The strategy of going for personal bests all the way can really be brought into question now. As the co-commentator says on air, she may have lost it with her first two failed snatch attempts, which surely took a lot out of her.

No problems this time. She needed three tries in snatch to get her first lift, this time, she nails it with her first lift, and she doesn't make it look like this is the most she has lifted in her life in clean and jerk. Into the bronze medal position now. "She has two more lifts left with four other lifters also in contention for the medals," says Nitin Sharma,

India's Navneet Singh and Dinesh Kumar are up against Kaizer Geche and Charles Diteko. Navneet on lead and Dinesh is the skip, for Botswana, Geche is lead and Diteko is skip.

Well this is not looking good for Martina and India. 103kg is 2kg more than her personal best. She couldn't do it the first time and then fails the second time as well. And guess what, it looks like they have listed 105kg for her third attempt. As far as strategies go, this one is quite difficult to understand.

The two Indians have finished within the top three of Group A. Jordan Scott of Jamaica is top with 16.56m, Chitravel managed 16.41m and Prabu jumped 16.26m. Both are well below the marks that they are capable of but then well, save the best for the last, eh?