2022, The Year In Sports: From India’s efficiency on the Commonwealth Games 2022 to Serena Williams saying she is “evolving away from tennis”, here’s a take a look at the highest sporting moments from August.
AUGUST 2022-
August 2: India wins Lawn Bowls CWG gold medal, creates historical past
India received its maiden Lawn Bowls Commonwealth Games gold medal when the ladies’s fours staff beat South Africa within the last on August 2. The Indian staff comprising skip Rupa Rani Tirkey, Lovely Choubey, Pinki and Nayanmoni Saikia beat the South Africans 17-10 after 15 Ends. Just a few days later, India received silver within the males’s fours class. REPORT
August 3: Tejaswin Shankar wins bronze in excessive soar at CWG
Tejaswin Shankar received bronze in males’s excessive soar occasion with a finest soar of two.22m on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Brandon Starc of Australia and Hamish Kerr of New Zealand received silver and gold respectively. REPORT
August 4: Murali Sreeshankar misses gold by whisker in lengthy soar at CWG
Murali Sreeshankar received a observe and discipline silver in males’s lengthy soar with a better of 8.08m on the Commonwealth Games. The solely different CWG males’s lengthy soar medallist from India is Suresh Babu (1978). REPORT
August 6: Priyanka wins silver in ladies’s 10,000m race stroll at CWG
Priyanka Goswami from Uttar Pradesh received a historic silver medal in Women’s 10,000m Race Walk Final. Goswami’s 43:38.83 is her private finest. Australia’s Jemima Montag received gold in 42:34. Kenya’s Emily Wamusyi Ngii took bronze in 43:50. REPORT
August 6:Avinash Sable breaks Kenyan CWG hegemony in 3000m SC
Making his Commonwealth Games debut, Avinash Sable received silver within the males’s 3000m steeplechase in Birmingham. He clocked 8:11.20 to return second and the ninth time Sable has re-written the nationwide report. This was the primary time after six Commonwealth Games {that a} non-Kenyan athlete has earned a podium end within the occasion. REPORT
August 7: Eldhose Paul wins gold, Abdulla Aboobacker baggage silver in males’s triple soar at CWG
India’s Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker received the gold and silver, respectively, within the males’s triple soar last on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. It was Indian males’s first ever 1-2 in CWG athletics. REPORT
Bronze Medallists Team India have fun through the Women’s Hockey Medal Ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
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August 7: India beats New Zealand 2-1 in shootout to win ladies’s hockey CWG bronze
India beat New Zealand 2-1 in an exhilarating penalty shootout within the ladies’s hockey bronze medal match on the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. REPORT
August 8: Australia beats India by 9 runs to win maiden cricket CWG gold
Australia ladies beat India by 9 runs to win their maiden Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham on August 8. New Zealand beat England by eight wickets to win the bronze medal. REPORT
August 8: India wins silver in males’s hockey, loses 0-7 to Australia in last
The Australia males’s hockey staff continued its dominant present within the Commonwealth Games to thump India 7-0 within the gold medal match on the University of Birmingham. REPORT
August 8: Sharath Kamal wins CWG desk tennis males’s singles gold after 16 years
A. Sharath Kamal, the veteran paddler, regained the desk tennis males’s singles gold on the Commonwealth Games after 16 lengthy years with a convincing win towards England’s Liam Pitchford within the last. Having bagged the lads’s staff gold and blended doubles gold, Sharath thus grew to become the primary Indian paddler to win three gold medals at a CWG version. REPORT
August 8: A wealthy haul for Indian shuttlers at CWG
Indian shuttlers completed their Commonwealth Games marketing campaign on an all-time excessive, successful three gold medals for the primary time within the historical past of the quadrennial occasion. P. V. Sindhu , ended her lengthy await an elusive CWG gold with a convincing win over Canadian Michelle Li. Lakshya Sen put up a surprising present in a nerve-wracking contest towards Malaysia’s Ng Tze Yong for his maiden CWG gold. Having misplaced the blended staff gold to Malaysia (the blended staff occasion was the primary within the badminton fixture), India’s males’s doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty proved some extent defeating England’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy within the last. The ladies’s doubles mixture of Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly, each 19, received bronze defeating Australians Wendy Chen and Gronya Somerville. READ
Serena says she is ‘evolving away’ from tennis. (File Photo)
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August 9: Serena says she is ‘evolving away’ from tennis
Serena Williams mentioned that she is “evolving away from tennis” as she hinted at retiring from the game she dominated for a lot of her profession with 23 singles Grand Slam titles. READ
August 19:Sumit Antil, Yogesh Kathuniya break world data
Sumit Antil and Yogesh Kathuniya broke world data on the fourth Indian Open National Para Athletics Championship 2022 in Bengaluru. READ
August 19:Antim, turns into India’s first feminine wrestler to win world U20 gold
Antim Panghal coasted to an 8-0 win over Kazakhstan’s Altyn Shagayeva on the ladies’s 53kg discipline, creating historical past as the primary Indian lady to win gold on the junior world championships at Sofia, Bulgaria. READ
August 26: FIFA lifts AIFF ban, U-17 Women’s World Cup to be held in India as deliberate
The Bureau of the FIFA Council introduced that the suspension imposed on the All India Football Federation to be lifted, thereby ending 12 days of exile for the Indian federation. READ
India’s Neeraj Chopra in motion on the Lausanne Diamond League.
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August 26: Neeraj Chopra wins Lausanne Diamond League Meeting title
Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra scripted one more historic feat as he grew to become the primary Indian to clinch a Diamond League Meet title by successful the Lausanne and sealing the finals berth. He additionally certified for the 2023 World Athletics Championships by breaching the 85.20m qualifying mark. READ
August 27:Satwik-Chirag win World Championship bronze, lose to Chia-Soh in three-game thriller
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty capped off a memorable marketing campaign with a historic bronze medal within the males’s doubles competitors of the World Championships after happening narrowly to Malaysia’s Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik within the semifinals. REPORT
