Day eight saw India extend it’s tally to 14 gold medals, Gold Coast thus becoming India’s fifth most successful Games ever after New Delhi 2010 (38 golds), Manchester 2002 (30), Melbourne 2006 (22) and Glasgow 2014 (15).
Sushil Kumar and Rahul Aware got India off to a flying start in wrestling, both winning gold medals. This was Sushil’s third Gold in the Commonwealth Games after one each in the previous two editions. Babita Kumari and Kiran earned a silver and bronze respectively.
The Indian athletics contingent finally opened their account when Seema Punia and Navjeet Kaur Dhillon pulled a 2-3 in the Discus Throw event, winning a silver and a bronze respectively. With Glasgow bronze medallist Arpinder Singh and Rakesh Babu qualifying for the Triple Jump finals, it was a good day overall for Indian athletics.
Tejaswini Sawant won a silver medal in the 50 metres prone rifle event, while Neeraj Kumar and Anish Bhanwala stand first and third after the first qualification stage of the 25 metre Rapid Fire pistol.
India played Australia in the women’s hockey semi-finals and lost a close-run encounter 1-0. They will now play for the bronze. Elsewhere, Manika Batra stormed into the semi-finals in both the singles and the doubles competition, while all the shuttlers won their respective matches.
Athletics
| Event | Players | Time | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Triple Jump - men (Q) | Arpinder Singh Rakesh Babu | 6.00 am | Arpinder, Rakesh qualify for finals |
| Long Jump - women (Final) | Nayana James Neena Pinto | 3.25 pm | Nayana finished 12th, Neena finished 10th |
| Discus Throw - women (Final) | Seema Antil Navjeet Kaur Dhillon | 4.10 pm | Seema wins silver, Navjeet wins bronze |
| Heptathlon | Purnima Hembram | 100m hurdles - 5.35 am High Jump - 6.30 am Shot put- 2.50 pm 200m - 4.27 pm | Purnima currently stands sixth |
Seema Punia and Navjeet Kaur open India’s account.
Shooting
| Event | Players | Time | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25m Rapid Fire Pistol men's (Q) - Day one | Anish Bhanwal Neeraj Kumar | 4.30 am | At the end of qualification - stage I, Neeraj is first and Anish is third |
| 50m prone rifle - women's (FINAL) | Anjum Moudgil Tejaswini Sawant | 9.30 am | Sawant wins silver, Moudgil finishes 16th |
Tejaswini Sawant wins a silver medal.
Badminton
| Event | Players | Time (APPROXIMATE) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round of 16 - mixed doubles | Satwiksairaj / Ashwini Ponnappa vs Tsai Kristen / Yakura Nyl | 6.31 am | Satwik/Ponnappa win 2-0 |
| Round of 16 - mixed doubles | Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Sikki Reddy vs Chrisnanta Danny Bawa / Wong Jia Ying Crystal | 7.10 am | Chopra/Reddy win 2-0 |
| Round of 16 - Women's Singles | Ruthvika S Gadde vs Jia Min Yeo | 7.10 am | Ruthvika wins 2-1 |
| Round of 16 - Men's Singles | HS Prannoy vs Anthony Joe | 7.50 am | Prannoy wins 2-0 |
| Round of 16 - Men's Singles | K Srikanth vs Niluka Karunaratne | 8.30 am | Srikanth wins 2-0 |
| Round of 16 - Women's Singles | PV Sindhu vs Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen | 9.10 am | Sindhu wins 2-0 |
| Round of 16 - Women's Singles | Saina Nehwal vs Jessica Li | 2.20 pm | Saina wins after her opponent concedes |
| Round of 16 - Men's doubles | Satwiksairaj / Chirag Shetty vs CJ Paul / Lubah Aatish | 2.20 pm | Satwik/Chirag win 2-0 |
| Round of 16 - Women's doubles | Ashwini Ponnapp / Sikki Reddy vs Ren-ne / Jia Ying Crystal | 3.40 pm | Ashwini/Sikki win 2-0 |
Hockey
| Event | Teams | Time | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's semi-final | India v Australia | 4.45 pm | Australia win 1-0, India to play for bronze. |
India go down 0-1 to Australia in a tense semi-final.
Table Tennis
| Event | Players | Time | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's doubles - round of 16 | Pooja Sahasrabudhe/ Suthirtha Mukherjee vs Chloe Thomas/Charlotte Carey (Wal) | 5 am | Sahasrabudhe/Mukherjee win 3-1 |
| Women's doubles - round of 16 | Manika Batra/ Mouma Das vs Ishara Madurangi/Hansani Kapugeekiyana (Sri) | 5 am | Batra/Das win 3-0 |
| Women's TT6 singles - Group 1 | Maitreyee Sarkar vs Felicity Pickard | 6.10 am | Sarkar loses 0-3 |
| Women's TT6 singles - Group 2 | Vaishnavi Sutar vs Andrea McDonnell (Aus) | 6.10 am | Sutar loses 0-3 |
| Mixed doubles - round of 16 | Sharath Kamal/Mouma Das vs David McBeath/Kelly Sibley (Eng) | 6.45 am | Sharath/Das win 3-0 |
| Mixed doubles - round of 16 | G Sathiyan/Manika Batra vs Marco Medjugorac/Alicia Cote (Can) | 7.20 am | Sathiyan/Batra win 3-2 |
| Mixed doubles - round of 16 | Sanil Shetty/Madhurika Patkar vs Rhikesh Taucoory/Elodie Ho (Mri) | 7.20 am | Shetty/Patkar win 3-0 |
| Women's singles - round of 16 | Manika Batra vs Tracy Feng (Aus) | 7.55 am | Batra won 4-1 |
| Women's singles - round of 16 | Madhurika Patkar vs Kelly Sibley (Eng) | 7.55 am | Patkar loses 2-4 |
| Women's singles - round of 16 | Mouma Das vs Tin-Tin Ho (Eng) | 8.40 am | Das wins 4-3 |
| Men's singles - round of 16 | Sharath Kamal vs Heming Hu (Aus) | 9.25 am | Sharath wins 4-1 |
| Men's singles - round of 16 | Harmeet Desai vs Cheng Feng Leong (Mas) | 9.25 am | Desai wins 4-1 |
| Men's singles - round of 16 | Sathiyan G vs Segun Toriola (Nig) | 12.00 pm | Sathiyan wins after his opponent retires |
| Women's doubles - QF | Manika Batra/Mouma Das vs Tin-Tin Ho/Maria Tsaptsinos (Eng) | 12.45 pm | Batra/Das win 3-1 |
| Women's doubles - QF | Pooja Sahasrabudhe/ Suthirtha Mukherjee vs Mo Zhang/Alicia Kote (Can) | 12.45 pm | Sahasrabudhe/Mukherjee win 3-0 |
| Men's doubles - round of 16 | A Sharath Kamal/G Sathiyan vs Buwaneka Jayashingha/Imesha Ranasingha | 1.25 pm | Sharath/Sathiyan win 3-0 |
| Men's doubles - round of 16 | Harmeet Desai / Sanil Shetty vs Paul McCreery/Ashley Robinson (Nir) | 2.05 pm | Desai/Shetty win 3-0 |
| Women's singles -- QF | Manika Batra vs Yihan Zhou (Sgp) | 3.30 pm | Batra wins 4-1 |
| Women's singles -- QF | Mouma Das vs Mengyu Yu (Sgp) | 4.15 pm | Mouma lost 1-4 |
Manika Batra makes it to the semis.
Squash
| Event | Players | Time | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's doubles - Pool F | Vikram Malhotra/Ramit Tandon vs Ernest Jombla/Yusif Mansaray (Sle) | 7.20 am | Vikram/Ramit Tandon advance via w/o |
| Mixed doubles - Round of 16 | Dipika Pallikal/Saurav Ghosal vs Aifa Azman/Sanjay Singh Chal (Mas) | 8.00 am | Dipika/Ghosal win 2-1 |
| Mixed doubles - Round of 16 | Joshna Chinappa/Harinder Pal Sandhu vs Amanda Landers-Murphy/Rac Millar (Nzl) | 8.00 am | Joshna/Sandhu win 2-1 |
| Mixed doubles QF | Dipika Pallikal/Saurav Ghosal vs Tesni Evans/Peter Creed (Wal) | 1.30 pm | Pallikal/Ghosal win 2-0 |
| Mixed's doubles - QF | Joshna Chinappa/Harinder Pal Sandhu vs Joelle King/Paul Coll | 2.20 pm | Chinappa/Sandhu lose 0-2 |
| Men's doubles - Round of 16 | Vikram Malhotra/Ramit Tandon vs Chris Binnie/Lewis Walters (Jam) | Tandon/Malhotra win 2-0 |
Wrestling
| Category (all are medal events) | Players | Time | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's Freestyle - 57 kg | Rahul Aware | Around 6.30 am | Aware wins gold |
| Women's - 76 kg | Kiran | Around 6.45 am | Kiran wins bronze |
| Men's Freestyle - 74 kg | Sushil Kumar | Around 6.30 am | Sushil wins gold |
| Women's - 53 kg | Babita Kumari (multiple bouts during the day in group stage) | Around 6.15 am | Babita wins silver |
Two gold, a silver and bronze from day 1
Lawn Bowls
| Event | Players/Team | Time | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Pairs QF | India vs Malaysia | 4.31 am | India lose 11-17 |
| Men's Fours QF | India vs Wales | 8.00 am | India lose 15-17 |
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