CWG 2022: President Of India, Mary Kom Celebrate Historic Lawn Bowls Gold

India's Lawn Bowls Team win it's 1st CWG medal, the prestigious GOLD in Lawn Bowls by defeating South Africa, 17-10

The women's fours lawn bowls team from India created history on Tuesday by taking home the gold at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. 

The team, comprising Rupa Rani Tirkey, Lovely Choubey, Pinki, and Nayanmoni Saikia, earned the nation's first lawn bowls medal by beating 2018 silver medallists South Africa. They won the final 17-10.

Nobody will ever forget this moment in Indian sporting history because the nation has never before come this close to winning a medal in this sport.

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CWG 2022: Indian Women's Lawn Bowls Team Wins Historic Gold Medal

President of India - Droupadi Murmu congratulated the Commonwealth Games gold medallist Indian Women's Four - Lawn Bowls Team.

Congratulations to Lovely Choubey, Rupa Rani Tirkey, Pinki & Nayanmoni Saikia for doing the unprecedented by winning the gold medal in lawn bowls at #CommonwealthGames! Your resolve in the see-saw battle for victory in the finals made the country proud and inspired every Indian.

— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) August 2, 2022

Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur, as well as the sports fraternity was abuzz and started pouring their congratulatory tweets:

A Historic Gold for India in #CommonwealthGames Lawn Bowls!

Absolutely ecstatic that our Women's Fours Team - Lovely Choubey, Pinki , Nayanmoni Saikia & Rupa Rani Tirkey has fetched the nation its first ever #LawnBowls medal defeating South Africa 17-10 in the final ! pic.twitter.com/8Pbio6W0qB

— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) August 2, 2022

Hurray! Gold medal in Lawn Bowls & Para Lawn Bowls. Historic win for India Team beating South Africa. Congratulations Women's Lawn Bowl Team India and officials. #womenempowerment #CommonwealthGames22 pic.twitter.com/4cH9cevhxQ

— M C Mary Kom OLY (@MangteC) August 2, 2022

Heartiest congratulations to #TeamIndia for bagging the historic Gold 🏅 in Lawn Bowls at the Commonwealth games. Many more glorious moments to come for this team. pic.twitter.com/zAkDfmYP8Z

— Jay Shah (@JayShah) August 2, 2022

These Lawn Bowls ladies have bowled India over! Historic Gold 🏅🇮🇳 Congratulations and well done 👏🏽👏🏽 #LawnBowls #CWG2022 pic.twitter.com/99UPs6PbSv

— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) August 2, 2022

Incredible performance by our women team winning 1st ever Gold Medal in Lawn Bowls at the #CommonwealthGames !
India defeated South Africa by 15-10

Congratulations to our women's team for winning Gold medal for the country! #Cheer4India 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/f4k2JyeVfQ

— Kiren Rijiju (@KirenRijiju) August 2, 2022

My new favourite sport…at least for today. Lawn Bowls - Historic first ever GOLD medal for India #CWG2022. Congratulations Ladies. You have made the entire Nation proud. 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/y6Q521gnFr

— Viren Rasquinha (@virenrasquinha) August 2, 2022

India win their 1st ever CWG GOLD medal in Lawn Bowls.
Congratulations champ 🏆🏆
#Lovely, #Pinki, #Nayanmoni & #Rupa#CWG2022India #CWG2022 #CommonwealthGames pic.twitter.com/wPwKyZfkJh

— Karnam Malleswari, OLY (@kmmalleswari) August 2, 2022

GOLD! Now I’d better learn what this game is all about! 😊
Shabaash #TeamIndia #LawnBowls #CWG2022 https://t.co/2JxRH6I5y9

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) August 2, 2022