CWG: India wins maiden Lawn Bowls medal
Vikas Thakur completes hat-trick of CWG medal
India have won 12 medals at onset of 5th day, with 4 Golds in kitty
Birmingham: India’s women lawn bowls team on Tuesday scripted history after winning the gold medal in Women Fours event after defeating South Africa in the final.
The team comprise of Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayanmoni Saikia and Rupa Tirkey registered a convincing 17-10 win over last editions silver medallist South Africa in the final at the Victoria Park in Royal Leamington Spa to clinched its first medal in the discipline.
South Africa won their second straight silver medal in the women’s fours at the CWG.
The in-form Indians had a fine start and surged ahead to an 8-2 lead by the seventh end. Then, South Africa bounced back by levelling the scores 8-8 after the 10th end as India could not score a single point over the next four ends. On the 11th end, South Africans held 10-8 lead before India drew level 10-10 in the 12th end.
In the next end, India took a 12-10 lead. With the jack rolling shorter than normal, the bowlers had to measure their rolls accordingly and a South African bowl hit the jack, taking it closer to two Indian bowls.
The 14th end saw India open up a 15-10 lead as South Africa tried, and failed, to get closer to the jack or push any Indian bowls away.
The distance between South Africa’s closest bowl and India’s farthest was barely a few centimetres but the Indian bowl was adjudged to be nearer to the jack, giving them three crucial points.
The 15th and final end saw India’s bowl getting closer to the jack and when South Africa’s final bowl missed the jack, that gave India two more points and confirmed a historic gold medal.
Indian weightlifter Vikas Thakur on Tuesday completed the hat-trick of CWG medals after clinching the silver medal in the men’s 96kg event with a lift of 346 kg.
Thakur’s best lift 155kg in Snatch and 191kg in Clean and Jerk helped him to win his second silver at the CWG.
He has won the silver in 2014 Glasgow and bagged the bronze in Gold Coast in 2018 edition.
Samoa’s Don Opeloge won the gold medal with a Games record total of 381kg (171kg+210kg). Taniela Tuisuva Rainibogi took the bronze with 343kg (115+188kg).
The 28-year-old Indian started successfully registered 149kg in the opening lift in the snatch round followed by 153 kg and 155kg.
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