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After a glittering opening ceremony at the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, it was time for all the contingents to taketheir positions at various stadiums scattered all over the city. The initial flurry of medals at offer were from Weightlifting, Swimming and Shooting. Meanwhile, the initial rounds of tennis, table tennis and badminton have started. In hockey Indian lasses are currently battling it out with Scotland as we interact.
India as hosts have taken a fairly decent start but disappointing from a standpoint of improvement. The medals came from weightlifting as Soniya Chanu won her silver medal in the 48kg category with a lift of 167kgs. She was followed by Sandhya Rani with her bronze courtsy a lift of 165kgs.Soniya Chanu was disappointed with her silver effort as she was confident of a gold. Meanwhile Nigeria lifter Augustina Nkem took away the gold. Click here for results.
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The most number of medals on offer today were from Swimming and as expected the Australians were on top. Palmer Kylie won the 200m freestyle event without much ado undoing the efforts of Jazmin Roxy Carlin of Wales who took away the silver medal. Click here for results.
In 400 Mens freestyle Australians were whipped as the Canadian Ryan Andrew edged his Australian competitor by 0.04 s. In 200m butterfly men’s category, Chad Guy Dertrand from Africa took away the gold as Canada and England added to their tallies.
Surprisingly, the Indian men’s relay swimming squad created history by reaching the finals for the first time. The team that had Virdhawal Khade, Anshul Kothari, Arjun Jayaprakash and Aaron D’Souza finished at sixth place in 4x100m freestyle relay.
See other swimming results here.
Meanwhile India’s Badminton team has made a headstart as India romped Kenya by 5-0. The team that won Bronze in Melbourne 2006 is seeded second in this competition. During the course of five games which had a mixed doubles game, singles and doubles, India displayed perfection under coach Pullela Gopichand.
Jwala Gutta and V.Diju won comfortably 21-8 and 21-5. Saina Nehwal stood upto all expectations by thrashing her opponent by 21-11, 21-4. Chetan Anand was also prolific as he settled the game in just 2 sets 21-13 and 21-7. The India contingent at the Commonwealth Games has huge expectations from the Badminton contingent.
In Tennis, Rohan Bopanna gave Indian contingent a good start but failed to take it further as inspite of winning his own singles game he failed to usher his female partner in the mixed doubles. Bopanna had a mixed day hence with a win and a loss. Not a great start for India here. In his singles match, he defeated Robert Buyinza of Uganda 6-1, 6-4. In the mixed doubles game, Bopanna and Nirupama Sanjeev lost out to Australia’s pair of Anastasia Rodionova and Paul Hanley by 6-3, 3-6 and 6-3 at the R.K. Khanna Tennis Stadium.
Indian paddlers have set the Table Tennis contingent off to a good start as they defeated Sri Lanka 3-0. The women’s team was Bronze medalist at Melborne four years ago.
The Commonwealth Games action has finally begun and all the negativity that surrounded the games seems to have fittered away. However, there was one embarassing moment as before the start of the 4*100m relay swimming men’s which was ultimately won by Australia moss was found in the pool. This had to be cleaned up before the event resumed. The commentators were disgusted, however this little glitch if it can be called that may be ignored in the background of the worst possible consequence that have been contemplated before.
Tomorrow, the action will be a lot more spread out as Delhi will see 18 gold medals being given away in comparison to today’s 8. The number of disciplines offering these medals will also rise upto six from three as other disciplines will continue to work through the initial stages.
Stick to Sportskeeda for the review of Day 2, till then keep playing!
| Country | Total | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | S | B | T | |||||||||||||
 AUS – Australia | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||||
 CAN – Canada | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||
 RSA – South Africa | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
 NGR – Nigeria | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
 ENG – England | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||
 IND – India | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
 WAL – Wales | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
*DAY 1 is still in progress.
