Monday, 4 August 2014

15 Indian Athletes Who Won Gold Medals at Glasgow Games 2014

The Delhi Games in 2010 was India's most successful Commonwealth Games to date with Indian athletes winning 38 gold, 27 silver and 36 bronze medals.
At the Glasgow this year, India won 15 gold, 30 silver and 19 bronze medals so far.
The following is the final list of Indian gold medals winner at Glasgow Games 2014,
  1. Yogeshwar Dutt: In the wrestling arena, Olympic bronze medalist Dutt beat Jevon Balfour of Canada in the men's freestyle 65 kg category final. The Indian was declared the winner on grounds of technical superiority after he took a 10-0 lead within 1.53 minutes of the first period.
  2. Babita Kumari: Babita Kumari won gold by putting a stunning show to prevail over Canada's Brittanee Laverdure in the women's 55 kg freestyle category summit clash at the SECC  Hall. Twenty four old Kumari, who had bagged the sliver in the 2010 Games, won 9-2 against 32 year old Laverdure, who ended up injuring her finger during the bout. 
  3. Sushil Kumar: Kumar just took 107 minutes to clinch the gold medal in the category by beating Pakistan's Qamar Abbas in a one-sided affair. It was his first major international medal after his pet 66 kg category was removed and he had to add nine kilograms to adjust in the new weight bracket.
  4. Vikas Gowda: Gowda won the country's first medal from track and field at Glasgow. He upgraded the silver he had won four years ago in New Delhi with a best throw of 63.64 meters. His best throw came during his third attempt, as he bettered his throw each time from 60.63 m to 62.09 to 63.64 m.
  5. Rahi Sarnobat: Rahi Sranobat won gold in the women's 25 meter pistol event at the Barry Buddon Center in Glasgow. The 23 year old Sarnobat had also topped in the semi-finals with 16 points.
  6. Abhinav Bindra: Shooting star Abhinav Bindra stole the limelight by clinching a gold medal on the second day of competitions in Glasgow. 31 year old Bindra kept his nerves to take the honor in his favorite 10 m air rifile event with a final games record score of a 205.3 to bring cheers for the Indian contingent. It was Bindra's first individual gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.
  7. Amit Kumar: Amit won the gold medal in the men's free style 57 kg category by beating Nigerian Ebikweminomo Welson. He won the bout 3-1 classified points. Amit won six points in the two periods while welson got two.
  8. Vinesh Phogat: Teenager Phogat from India registered a thrilling 11-8 win over England's Yana Rattigan to clinch the gold medal in the women's freestyle 48 kg wrestling competition. Phogat 19 is the cousin of Geeta Phogat who had won the first gold medal for India in women's wrestling in the 2010 Delhi Games.
  9. Jitu Rai: Jitu Rai kept his reputation intact by clinching the gold medal before Gagan Narang and Gurpal Singh claimed a silver each to continue the shooter's heroics at Glasgow. 26 year old Rai. world number 4 in the event, gave ample display of his class by taking the honor in the men's 50 m pistol event as the Indian shooters continued to dominate the ranges.
  10. Sathish Kumar Sivalingam: A dominant Sivalingam 22, rewrote the Games Snatch record en-route his gold medal winning performance at Glasgow.
  11. Apurvi Chandela: It was an interesting battle in the women's 10 m air rifile event as Apurvi beaat World No 8 Ayonika in an exciting battle to grab gold, her maiden international medal. World No 17 Chandela who topped the qualifications with 415.6 points, led in the finals right from the start and shot 206.7 points to give India another gold medal from shooting.
  12. Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa: Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa combined brilliantly to clinch gold in the women's double final and give India their first squash medal in Commonwealth Games after the pair outplayed Jenny Duncalf and Laura Massaro of England on Sunday.
  13. Purupalli Kashyap: The 27 year old came from behind in the decing game to beat Singapore's Dreek Wong 21-14, 11-21 & 21-19 and become the first Indian man to win badminton gold at the Games for 32 years.
  14. Sanjita Chanu: Sanjita Chanu with a total lift of 173 kg. Sangita's total of 173 kg missed the Games record, which is held by the 2010 CWG gold winner Augustina Nkem 175 kg, by two kilograms.
  15. Sukhen Dey: Hi stole the limelight by clinching a gold in weightlifting on the opening day of the competition at Glasgow. In the men's 56 kg contest, the 25 year old Dey lifted total 248 kg after trailing at the halfway snatch stage, but came back strongly in clean and jerk to win the gold and cap a remarkable day for the Indians at the Clyde Auditorium.

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