CWG 2022 Opening Ceremony Updates: Commonwealth Games – Highlights from Birmingham 2022, England
CWG 2022 Opening Ceremony: Commonwealth Games CWG 2022 Opening Ceremony started in England with a bang..!!
Birmingham: The ongoing Commonwealth Games in England got off to a flying start with some excellent performances. The Commonwealth Games, the 3rd largest sports festival in the world, starts in Birmingham on August 8. Athletes from different countries carry national flags in the opening ceremony parade.
Badminton player PV Sindhu and hockey team captain Manpreet Singh led the parade carrying the national flag on behalf of India. More than 30,000 spectators attended the opening ceremony of the tournament held at the Alexander Stadium.
Badminton player PV Sindhu and hockey team captain Manpreet Singh led the parade carrying the national flag on behalf of India
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The event also featured eye-catching fireworks. In particular, the 10-meter tall giant bull figure was dragged by the women on a chain, which enthralled the audience. More than 5 thousand people from 72 countries participated.
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215 players from India have participated. At this point Prince Charles opened the competition. Women’s twenty-over cricket is newly added to the series.
Commonwealth Games – Today’s matches are as follows:
India women’s team will face Australia cricket team in the women’s T20 cricket match at 8 pm.
Saurav Ghoshal, Ramit Tandon and Abhay Singh will compete in the squash match at 2.30 pm IST.
Joshna Chinnappa, Sunaina Kuruvilla, Anahat Singh are playing today in the women’s squash tournament.
India-Pakistan will clash in the Badminton mixed team match at 11 pm.
The lawn bowl match will be held at 5.30 pm.
Today’s contestants are Sunil Bahadur, Mridul Borkohain, Dinesh Kumar Navneet Singh, Chandan Singh, Roopa Dirki, Tania Chaudhary, Lovely Chaubey and Pinky.
In Table Tennis Harmeet Desai Sanil Shetty, Sharad Achantha, Satyan Gnanasekaran,
In the women’s category, Diya Chitale, Manika Patra, Reeth Denison, Sri Akula.
The women’s hockey match between India and Ghana will take place at 6.30 pm.
Kushagra Rawat will compete in the 400m freestyle event at 7.30pm.
Srihari Nataraj in 100m backstroke and Ashish Kumar in 100m backstroke S9.
Sajan Prakash is set to compete in the 50m butterfly event.
Adarsh MS and Vishwanath Yadav in the men’s category and Sanjana Joshi and Prajna Mohan in the women’s category will participate in the triathlon at 6 pm.
4 Indian players will participate in the boxing match which will be held at 4.30 pm.
Shiba Thapa in the 63 kg weight category,
Rohit Tokas also plays in the 67 kg category.
Sumit Kundu is competing in the 75 kg category and Ashish Kumar in the 80 kg category.
The opening ceremony ends at 10.30 pm (local time). The first match kicks off at 11am (local time) on Friday, with a sizeable crowd expected at Edgbaston.
Neeraj Chopra Missed Out
Olympic javelin champion Neeraj Chopra is India’s best bet for a gold medal. But after winning the silver medal at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon earlier this month, the star athlete was forced to miss out due to a groin injury.
Commonwealth Games: Complete list of Indian sportspersons
Complete list of Indian athletes who have qualified for Birmingham. Here is the complete list of the Indian team that has qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham:
Athletic – mens
Avinash Sable (3000m Steeplechase, 5000m)
Nitender Rawat (Marathon)
M Sreesankar (Long Jump)
Muhammad Anees Yahia (Long Jump)
Abdullah Abu Bakr (triple jump)
Praveen Chitravel (Triple Jump)
Eldo’s Ball (Triple Jump)
Tejaswin Shankar (High Jump)
Rajesh Ramesh (4×400m relay)
DP Manu (Javelin)
Rohit Yadav (javelin)
Sandeep Kumar (Race Walking)
Amit Khadri (Race Walking)
Amoj Jacob, Noah Nirmal Tom, R Ramesh, Mohammed Ajmal, Naganathan Pandy (4x400m Relay)
Athletic women
Jyothi Yarraji (100m Hurdles)
Bhavana Jat (Race Walking)
Ansi Chojan (Long Jump)
Manpreet Kaur (Shot Putt)
Navjeet Kaur Dhillon (Discus Throw)
Seema Antil Punia (Discus Throwing)
Annu Rani (Javelin)
Shilpa Rani (Javelin)
Manju Bala Singh (hammer throw)
Sarita Romit Singh (hammer throw)
Srabani Nanda, NS Simi, Duti Chand (4x100m Relay)
Hima Das (200m, 4×100m relay)
Badminton Men
Kidambi Srikanth
Lakshya Sen
Satviksairaj Rangareddy
Chirag Shetty
P Sumeeth Reddy
Badminton girls
PV Sindhu
Agarshi Kashyap
Teresa Jolly
Gayatri Gopichand
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Squash men
Sourav Ghoshal
Ramit Tandon
Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu
Abhay Singh
Velavan Senthilkumar
Squash girls
Joshna Chinnappa
Deepika Pallikal Karthik
Sunaina Sara Guruvilla
Anahat Singh
Boxing men
Amit Pangal (51 kg)
Mohammad Hussamuddin (57 kg)
Shiv Thapa (63.5 kg)
Rohit Dogas (67kg)
Sumith Kundu (75 kg)
Ashish Kumar (80 kg)
Sanjeet Kumar (92 kg)
Sagar (+92 kg)
Boxing women
Nitu Gangas (48 kg)
Nikat Zareen (50 kg)
Jasmine Lamboria (60 kg)
Lovlina Bourgogne (70 kg)
Hockey men
PR Sreejesh (c)
Krishan Bahadur Pathak
Harmanpreet Singh
Amit Rohitas
Surender Kumar
Varun Kumar
Jarmanpreet Singh
Manpreet Singh
Nilakanda Sharma
Hardik Singh
Shamsher Singh
Vivek Sagar Prasad
Ukraj Singh
Gurjant Singh
Mandeep Singh
Lalit Kumar Upadhyay
Akashdeep Singh
Abhishek
Hockey girls
Savita Punia (C)
Rajini Ethimarbu
Deep Grace Eka
Gurjit Kaur
Nikki Pradhan
Udita
Nisha
Susheela Sanu Pukhrambham
Monica
Neha
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Navjot Kaur
Salima dead
Vandana Kataria
Lalremsiami
Navneet Kaur
Sharmila Devi
Sangeeta Kumari
Table Tennis – Men
Sarath Kamal
Sathyan Gnanasekaran
Sanil Shetty
Harmeet Desai
Table Tennis – Women
Manika Patra
Diya Sidhale
Sreeja Akula
Reeth Rishya
Weightlifting – Men
Sanket Mahadev (55 kg)
Jeremy Lalrinnunga (67kg)
Achinda Shuli (73 kg)
Ajay Singh (81 kg)
Vikas Thakur (96 kg)
Gururaja (61 kg)
Lovepreet Singh (109 kg)
Gurdeep Singh (+109 kg)
Weightlifting – Women
Meerabai Sanu (49 kg)
Bindyarani Devi (55 kg)
Papi Hazarika (59 kg)
Usha Kumara (87 kg)
Poornima Pandey (+87 kg)
Harjinder Kaur (71 kg)
Punam Yadav (76 kg)
Wrestling – Men
Ravi Kumar Dahiya (57 kg)
Bajrang Punia (65 kg)
Naveen (74 kg)
Deepak Punia (86 kg)
Deepak (97 kg)
Mohit Grewal (125 kg)
Wrestling – Women
Pooja Gelat (50 kg)
Vinesh Phogat (53 kg)
Anshu Malik (57 kg)
Sakshi Malik (62 kg)
Divya Kakran (68 kg)
Pooja Chihaq (76 kg)
Cricket
Harmanpreet Kaur (C)
S Meghana
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Yastika Bhatia
Deepti Sharma
Rajeshwari Kayakwad
Pooja Vastragar
Meghna Singh
Renuka Thakur
Jemima Rodriguez
Radha Yadav
Harlene Theol
Cine Rana
Para-Powerlifting – Men
Paramjeet Kumar (Lightweight)
Sudhir (Heavyweight)
Para-Powerlifting – Women
Sakina Khatun (Lightweight)
Manpreet Kaur (Lightweight)
Swimming
Sajan Prakash (50m Butterfly, 100m Butterfly, 200m Butterfly)
Srihari Nataraj (50m Backstroke, 100m Backstroke, 200m Backstroke)
Kushagra Rawat (200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle, 1500m Freestyle)
Advait Page (1500m Freestyle)
Para-swimming
Mukundhan Niranjan (S7)
Suyash Narayan Jadhav (S7)
Para-Athletics – Men
Devendra Kumar (Discus F42-44/F61-64)
Devendra Kahlot (Discus F42-44/F61-64)
Para-Athletics – Women
Poonam Sharma (Shotput F55-57)
Sharmila (Shotput F55-57)
Santosh (Shotput F55-57)
Para-Table Tennis – Men’s
Alaghar Raj Aurobindo
Para-Table Tennis – Women
Sonalben Manubai Patel
Bhavinaben Hasmukbai Patel
Child Sahana Ravi
Cycling men
Y Rojit Singh
El Ronaldo Singh
E David Pechagam
Eso Alben
Vishwajeet Singh
Naman Kapil
Venkappa Shivappa Kengalukutty
Dinesh Kumar
Ananda Narayanan
Cycling women
Driyasha Pal
Meenakshi
Sushikala Akashe
Mayuri Dhanraj Veena
Gymnastics – Men
Satyajit Mondal
Yogeshwar Singh
Saif Tamboli
Gymnastics – Women
Pranathi Naik
Prothishtha Samantha
Pauline Kaur (Rhythm)
Ruduja Nataraj
Judo men
Vijay Kumar Yadav (60 kg)
Jasleen Singh Saini (66 kg)
Deepak Deshwarl (100 kg)
Judo women
Sushila Devi Likmapam (48 kg)
Susika Dharial (57 kg)
Dulika deer (+78 kg)
Triathlon Men
Adarsh Muralitharan
Vishwanath Yadav
Triathlon Men
Prajna Mohan
Sanjana Sunil Joshi
Lawn Bowls – Men’s
Dinesh Kumar
Chandan Kumar Singh
Navneet Singh
Sunil Bahadur
Crispy Porcohaine
Meadow Bowls – Women
Pinky
Beautiful Chaubey
Thania Chaudhary
Nayanmoni Saikia
Rupa Rani Dirki
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