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CWG 2022, Day 5: Badminton Team Lose Final, India Bag 4 Medals on Tuesday

Live updates from Day 5 of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

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2:54 AM , 03 Aug

Commonwealth Games Day 5 Live: Seema Punia Fifth

Indian discus throwers Seema Punia and Navjeet Kaur Dhillon finished fifth and eight in the final with below-par performances.

39-year-old Punia produced a best throw of 55.92m, in her second attempt, but that was not enough for a podium finish. She has a season's best of 57.09m and personal best of 64.84m which she had produced way back in 2004.

Dhillon, who has a season's best of 58.03m, could only come up with 53.51m in her sixth and final attempt to end her campaign on a disappointment. She had won a bronze in the last edition in Gold Coast in 2018.

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2:16 AM , 03 Aug

Commonwealth Games Day 5 Live: Badminton Mixed Team Win Silver

Only PV Sindhu won her match in the badminton mixed team final against Malaysia as India lost the fixture 3-1 and will now take home the silver medal.

The fixture started with the men's doubles event and Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty could not get the better of Olympic bronze medallists Teng Fong Aaron Chia and Wooi Yik Soh as Malaysia took a 1-0 lead with a 21-18, 21-15 win. Sindhu then won her match 22-20, 21-17 before Kidambi Srikanth was defeated 21-19, 6-21, 21-16 by the 42-ranked Tze Yong Ng.

The world number 11 duo of Thinaah Muralitharan and Koong Le Pearly Tan then closed the victory for Malaysia with a 21-18, 21-17 win over was lower-ranked Gayatri Gopichand and Treesa Jolly.

2:02 AM , 03 Aug

Commonwealth Games Day 5 Live: India Lose Badminton Final

It was a tall task to begin with but the youngest members of the Indian mixed team badminton event - Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand fought hard but could not fend off the challenge from Koong Le Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan as Malaysia won the women's doubles tie 21-18, 21-17 to win the gold medal match.

1:58 AM , 03 Aug

Commonwealth Games Day 5 Live: Seema Punia Fifth After 5 Throws

The women's discus throw finally is also underway right now and India has two throwers in competition. Seema Punia had briefly moved to the third position after her second throw where she pulled off 55.92m, however, she threw 52.30m in her third effort and has fouled the next two.

Currently she stands fifth, with one throw to go.

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Published: 02 Aug 2022, 12:28 PM IST
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