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Reports: Commonwealth Games champion Ele Opeloge overcomes typhoid in bid to …Washington PostWELLINGTON, New Zealand — Samoa media says Commonwealth Games women's weightlifting gold medalist Ele Opeloge faces a June 5 deadline to qualify for the London Olympics after overcoming typhoid. Opeloge, who won gold in the over 75-kilogram class at … more...
Striving hard for a podium finish in London: Krishna PooniaNDTVNew Delhi: India's Commonwealth Games gold medalist Krishna Poonia has set herself a target of 65 metres in the discus throw to make a podium finish at the 2012 London Olympics. For that she has to outdo her life's best (63.69 metre) to be in the [...] more...
Commonwealth Games gold medalist slams government bias in jobsTimes of IndiaKAITHAL: Manoj Kumar, the Commonwealth Games and Asian Championship gold medalist, has slammed the Haryana government for being biased while offering jobs in the sports quota. Manoj, who hails from a non-descript village of Jind, rejected the … more...
RediffSuranjoy, Sumit win Asian qualifying openersIBNLive.comAstana, Kazakhstan: Commonwealth Games gold medalist Suranjoy Singh (52 kg) and promising teenager Sumit Sangwan (81 kg) won their opening-round bouts in the Asian Olympic Qualifying boxing event on Thursday. Both the Indian boxers registered …Positive start for Indian pugilists at Asian Oly qualifiersTimes of IndiaSuranjoy, Sumit clear first hurdleMid-DayPosted [...] more...
New VisionKipsiro vows to redeem himself with Olympic medalNew Vision“My performance in Istanbul should not be a basis for judging me ahead of the London games,” said the 2010 double Commonwealth Games gold medalist. He attributed his poor show to lack of experience on the indoor track. “I was only making my second …and more » more...
Archer opens up quiver of sorrowsTimes of IndiaI need a permanent job and not just assurances and felicitations," stated ace archer Nisha Rani Dutta, who is a statemate of Commonwealth Games gold medalist Deepika Kumari and is fed up of lip service and assurance of help. more...
News24onlineCWG star duped of Rs 6 lakh by fraud firmIndia TodayDiscus thrower Krishna Poonia became a national celebrity when she won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) in New Delhi in 2010. But that didn't stop a Bhilwara based multi-level marketing company from duping her of Rs 6 lakh.Commonwealth games gold medalist Punia [...] more...
Zee NewsCheated Poonia files FIR against fraudulent firmTimes of IndiaJAIPUR: City-based discus thrower and Commonwealth Games gold medalist Krishna Poonia has fallen prey to the guiles of a Bhilwara-based multilevel-marketing company, Saajan Jewelers, which persuaded her to part with money, promising to make her their …CWG gold medalist duped of Rs 6LFinancial Expressall 10 news [...] more...
Commonwealth Games gold medalist athlete Krishna Poonia and her husband Virendra Poonia were allegedly duped of Rs 6.03 lakh by a Bhilwara-based multi-level marketing company. more...
Kansas City StarReigning champion Jones qualifies for 4th OlympicsKansas City StarBy JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer FILE – In this Oct. 8, 2010 file photo, Australia's gold medalist Leisel Jones poses with her medal following the 100-meter breaststroke final during the Commonwealth Games at the Dr. SP Mukherjee Aquatics Center in New …Australia's Leisel Jones [...] more...
Beijing Olympic Games gold-medalist Abhinav Bindra and Delhi Commonwealth Games show-stealer Gagan Narang are the star attractions in the seven-day 55th National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) in Small Bore Rifle and Pistol events commencing on Tuesday. more...
Suranjoy and Sandhyarani recommended for Arjuna AwardsKanglaOnlineNEW DELHI, July 22: Commonwealth Games gold medalist boxer Mayengbam Suranjoy and Asian Games silver medalist wushu player Sandhyarani from Manipur are among the few players who have been recommended for the coveted Arjuna Award for their outstanding …Suranjoy, Sandhyarani make the cut for ArjunaE-Pao.netall 3 news articles » more...
The Hindu After injury layoff, Poonia to make gingerly comebackIndian ExpressThe Commonwealth Games gold medalist will be returning to action after an injury lay off since the bronze-medal winning effort at the Guangzhou Asian Games in November. Poonia has been recuperating from a left-knee injury, which first occurred during …Poonia returns to action after long lay-offThe [...] more...
Olympian and former India coach Limba Ram refused to read much into the disappointing show of Commonwealth Games gold medalist archer Deepika Kumari in the ongoing National Games. more...
Jamshedpur, Feb 23 (PTI) Commonwealth Games gold medalist K Ravi Kumar of SSCB today set a new National Games record in Clean and Jerk in the men''s 69kg event at Tata Auditorium here.Ravi Kumar lifted a total of 286kg and topped the chart with a 120kg lift in the snatch. He broke the previous record of 165kg set by another SSCB lifter G Vadivelu at the 2002 National Games in Visakhapatnam. ... more...
Jamshedpur, Feb 23 (PTI) Prominent hosts archers, including Commonwealth Games gold medalist Deepika Kumari and team medalist Jayant Talukdar qualified for the next round of both recurve and compound event of the 34th National Games at JRD Tata Sports Complex here today.However, it was curtains for Commonwealth Games individual gold medalist Rahul Banerjee of West Bengal and team silver medalist CH Jignas (SSCB) as they crashed out of the elimination round. ... more...
Commonwealth Games gold medalist Renu Bala Chanu will be the star attraction in the 58th All-India Railway Weightlifting Championship to be held in Netaji Subhas Institute here from Wednesday. more...
Home after a gruelling 11 days at the 19th commonwealth games in Delhi, Arjan Bhullar came home with more than just great memories. He arrived in Vancouver to a […] more...
[caption id="attachment_12161" align="alignleft" width="185" caption="Ashwini Udupi"][/caption] Bangalore: Ashwini Akkunje who had bagged gold in the recent Commonwealth Games, CEO of Infosys Technologies S Gopalakrishnan, noted conservation zoologist and tiger […] more...
Commonwealth Games gold medalist Krishna Poonia`s proposal to have the USD 20,000 winner-takes-all discus throw duel with Dani Samuels after February next year has been accepted by the Australian world champion. more...
Commonwealth Games gold medalist Omkar Singh finished seventh after he aggregated 681.5 (581+100.5) in men`s 10-metre air pistol event at the ISSF World Cup final in Munich, Germany on Wednesday more...
At a time when he was set to scale new heights, archer-turned-coach Cherukuri Lenin met a fate similar to that of his younger sister, Volga. The 27-year-old died […] more...
Colombo, Oct 24 (DPA) Sri Lankan boxer Manju Wanniarachchi has failed a doping test at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi where he won a gold medal earlier this month, a sports ministry official said Sunday. more...
Commonwealth Games gold medalist Manju Wanniarachchi has withdrawn from next month’s Asian Games, citing injury to his right fist.After his gold medal triumph last week, the 31-year old […] more...
India's gold medalists Heena Singh and Annu Raj Singh pose at an award ceremony after winning the women's pairs 10m air pistol shooting event. (AP Photo) Saina […] more...
Coimbatore, Oct 21 (ANI): The Indian Navy on Thursday felicitated ace shooters Omkar Singh and Harpreet Singh, who won gold medals in the recently concluded XIXth Commonwealth Games, in a ceremony held at INS Agrani base station in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore city. more...
Poonia-Dani duel set for Jan 22The proposed USD 20,000 winner-takes-all discus throw duel between Commonwealth Games gold medalist Krishna Poonia and world champion Dani Samuels is moving ahead with the Australian proposing January 22 as the date. more...
The games ended today with Canada capturing 75 medals of which 26 were gold. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfktTjS5yLg&feature=related] In terms of our overall medal count our objectives have been more or less met,” […] more...
Chandigarh, Oct 16 (PTI) Thirty medalists of theCommonwealth Games (CWG) from Haryana and two others - SainaNehwal and Sushil Kumar - having connection with the statewould get Maruti cars. more...
Mumbai, Oct 16 (PTI) Kolhapur girl Rahi Sarnobat, whoalong with Anisa Sayyed, won the Commonwealth Games gold inthe pairs 25 m pistol event, today said she was so sure of herperformance at the event that she had told folks at home shewill return with gold. more...
New Delhi, Oct 15 (PTI) With a tally of 75 medals, Canadawere hoping for a top-three finish in the Commonwealth Gamesthe country's officials said all their calculations were wenthaywire due to India's unexpected effort of 101 medals. more...
Already assured of their maiden medal in the Commonwealth Games, a confident India will be hoping to ride on home support to seek a major upset against world […] more...
Owais Wani New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI) Ever since Krishna Poonia won agold medal in discuss throw at the Commonwealth Games here shehas been in centre of the media spotlight but the attentionseems to have given the champion more grief than happiness. more...
New Delhi, Oct 13 (ANI): Krishna Poonia, who scripted history to lift the women's discuss throw gold in athletics event since Milkha Singh won the 440 yards race in 1958, called on Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Dr. C.P. Joshi at Krishi Bhawan here today. more...
IN THE first case of doping at the Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi, Nigerian athlete Osayemi Oludamola, the 100 m gold medalist has reportedly tested positive for Methylhexaneamine, […] more...
IN THE first case of doping at the Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi, Nigerian athlete Osayemi Oludamola, the 100 m gold medalist has reportedly tested positive for Methylhexaneamine, […] more...
Jamshedpur, Oct 10 (PTI) Boosted by the performance ofits archers at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Delhi,the Jharkhand Archery Association (JAA) is now targeting anOlympics gold. more...
New Delhi, Oct. 6 (ANI): Commonwealth Games Federation President Michael Fennell said on Wednesday that the repair work of the athletics track has been completed and all systems are ready for the event at the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi. more...
Without doubt, Day 2 of the Commonwealth Games 2010 proved to be golden day for India, literally. On one hand India won not one, not two, but five gold medals in one single day. On the other hand, there was miracle of sorts for Team India in cricket as they defeated the mighty Aussies in [...] more...
Chandigarh, Oct 6 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has announced a reward of Rs 15 lakh to each of the three state wrestlers for winning the first three golds at the XIXth Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. more...
They played together on the second day of the Commonwealth Games and won a gold and created a new record. What will happen when both the champions face […] more...
OLYMPIC GOLD medalist Abhinav Bindra and world champion Gagan Narang did maximum amount of justice on the hopes which were put upon them. The ace shooters on Tuesday […] more...
Indian shooters Abhinav Bindra and Gangan Narang fired in unison and shot a Games record 1193 in men's 10m air rifle event to give the country its first gold medal in the 19th Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. more...
Flag snatching fiasco at the Commonwealth Games 2010The 2010 Commonwealth Games ceremony kicked off in New Delhi amid flag-bearing chaos as the Pakistan contingent was involved in a tussle. A near-capacity 60000 crowd saw the country's Chef-de-mission Mohammad Ali Shah, President of the Sindh Olympic Association and also the Sindh sports minister, carry the Pakistan flag instead of gold medalist weightlifter Shujauddin Malik. With Shah adamant on carrying the flag, Pakistan athletes and the official were involved in a tussle after which it was Shah, who bore Pakistan's flag during the opening ceremony. More here: tribune.com.pkFrom:etribuneViews:20253 6ratingsTime:03:53More inNews & Politics more...
New Delhi, Oct 4 (ANI): Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora and Minister for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma have separately announced cash rewards for Indian medal winners in the XIXth Commonwealth Games. more...
New Delhi, Oct.2 (ANI): The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, will read out the Queen's message and the President of India, Pratiba Devisingh Patil, will deliver an address to signal the commencement of the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 during the opening ceremony to be held here on Sunday. more...
New Delhi, oct.2 (ANI): On the eve of the Commonwealth Games praise for the security arrangments and sports facilties are coming from the most unexpected quarters. more...
New Delhi, Oct 1 (ANI): Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra will carry the Indian national flag during the opening ceremony of the XIXth Commonwealth Games on Sunday. more...
Athlete John Steffensen is the kamikaze pilot of Australian sport. The Perth-born 28 year old has pulled out of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. Steffensen says this is in reaction […] more...
Beijing Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra and bronze medallist Vijender are among 464 Indian athletes who have checked into the Commonwealth Games Village, chef-de-mission Bhubneshwar Kalita said here Thursday. more...
With a world champion team and with one of its leading rivals not allowed in the competition, Samoa is banking on the rugby sevens competition to provide its first Commonwealth Games gold medal. more...
With a world champion team and with one of its leading rivals not allowed in the competition, Samoa is banking on the rugby sevens competition to provide its first Commonwealth Games gold medal. more...
New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) The hockey event will provide the highest level of competition at the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games considering the quality of teams in the fray, says Vasudevan Baskaran, who led the Indian hockey team to a gold medal in the 1980 Olympics. more...
A lot of negative stuff has been written about the Delhi Commonwealth Games. But are the athletes themselves concerned and therefore going to India with a great deal of apprehension? more...
After a harrowing day, which involved waiting up to four hours to collect their accreditation cards at the Olympic Bhawan, the Indian boxers got down to business at the Talkatora Stadium, the home of boxing during these Commonwealth Games. more...
While everyone makes a last ditch scramble to save India's face and salvage the Games, things continue to fall apart. 1) Today, it was gold medalist boxer Akhil […] more...
Ottawa, Sep 17 (IANS) Canada's men's Rugby Sevens team is confident of posing a strong challenge to the world's top sides at the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. more...
Expressing confidence that the upcoming 2010 Commonwealth Games will be held successfully, Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr. M.S. Gill on Tuesday announced doubling of cash awards for the CWG and Asian Games. more...
Leading stars of Indian sports are ready to welcome the Queen’s Baton Relay of commonwealth games 2010 Delhi, which will reach Bangalore on 2 September.All England champion and gold medalist winner Prakash Padukone will take to participate in this relay, G.R. Vishwanath, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, and First Olympian of Karnatak’s Kenneth Powell, award winning [...] more...
Kochi, Aug 29 (PTI) The Queen's Baton Relay for the thisyear's Commonwealth Games was accorded a rousing receptionwhen it arrived at the Maharaja's College ground here today. more...
The boxing event in the Commonwealth Games has a lone spot up for grabs in each category and a hungry bench is ready to fight it out for that final place during the three-day long trials at NIS, Patiala. more...
Four time world champion and India’s number one chess player Vishwanathan Anand would be one of the luckiest player to hold the Queen’s baton in the relay for the XIX Commonwealth Games when it reaches to Chennai.The other participants of the relay are tennis legend Ramesh kishnan,former Asian Games 800 m gold medalist Shiny Wilson. [...] more...
Four time world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand will be among the few sportpersons who will welcome the Queen`s Baton Relay for the XIX Commonwealth Games when it reaches Chennai on Friday. more...
Four time world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand will be among the few sportpersons who will welcome the Queen's Baton Relay for the XIX Commonwealth Games when it reaches Chennai on Friday. Besides more...