Birmingham : India bag only two medals on day 7 of Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. India remains on 7th position in the medal tally, with 6 golds, 7 silvers and 7 bronze with a total of 20 medals.
Day 7 is a historic day for the Indian athletes at the commonwealth games as Murali Sreeshankar bags first ever medal in long jump. The national record holder wins silver medal in Men’s Long Jump with the highest leap of 8.08m.
SREESHANKAR WINS SILVER 🔥
🇮🇳's National Record holder Sreeshankar Murali becomes the 1st ever Indian male to clinch a Silver medal in Long Jump at #CommonwealthGames
He clinches SILVER 🥈in Men's Long Jump event with the highest leap of 8.08m at @birminghamcg22#Cheer4India pic.twitter.com/9nHpvlSsqi
— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) August 4, 2022
While, good news is still yet to come and the later part of the day, Indian Para Powerlifter Sudhir thumps a Gold for his country. This is Sixth gold medal for Indian in ongoing commonwealth game at Birmingham. Asian Para Games bronze medalist wins country’s first ever gold in para powerlifting and make the whole country proud. While Indian Sagar Ahlawat, Amit Panghal, Rohit Tokas and Jasmine Lamboriya and assure medals for India.
HISTORIC GOLD FOR INDIA 🔥🔥🔥
Asian Para-Games Bronze medalist, #Sudhir wins 🇮🇳's 1st ever GOLD🥇 medal in Para-Powerlifting at #CommonwealthGames with a Games Record to his name 💪💪
Sudhir wins his maiden 🥇 in Men's Heavyweight with 134.5 points (GR) at CWG#Cheer4India
1/1 pic.twitter.com/cBasuHichz— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) August 4, 2022
Day 8 at the commonwealth will be very eventful for the Indian contingent. As Shuttlers, Athletes and Weightlifters will advance and may assure for India. While Indian Womens hockey team will face Australia in the Womens semifinal to assure in Birmingham.
