🌏 World Sports News 2022- Live Updates & General Discussion Thread

[Samuel]

WORLD U20 CHAMPION

Roisin Willis produces a huge kick to break the championship 800m record in 1:59.13 and strikes gold!

#WorldAthleticsU20

[Samuel]

WORLD U20 CHAMPION

Reynold Kipkorir Cheruiyot kicks to 3:35.83 and strikes 1500m gold!

Second gold medal for Kenya!

#WorldAthleticsU20

[Samuel]

Olympic champion Elaine Thompson Herah becomes the Commonwealth 100m champion

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[Animesh]

Nikhat Zareen Adds Third Boxing Gold After Nitu Ghanghas And Amit Panghal Triumph At CWG 2022

Boxers Nitu Ghanghas, Amit Panghal and Nikhat Zareen have given India three gold medals on Sunday, beating their respective opponents comprehensively in the finals.

[Jay]

Team India finish 4th at the Commonwealth Games 2022 with 61 medals - 22 Gold, 16 Silver and 23 Bronze Medals! One of the most successful & historic CWG campaigns.

Congratulations to all the athletes that competed at Birmingham 2022.

[Amod]

For the first time ever in CWG history, the para-sports medals section was also clubbed alongside the overall medal table for every nation.

[Sanjeev]

Full list of India’s medal winners at Commonwealth Games 2022

India won 22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze medals to record its fifth-best medal haul in CWG history. Here is a look at the full Indian medal winners list from Commonwealth Games 2022:

Gold medal winners for India in Commonwealth Games 2022

1. Gold - PV Sindhu - Badminton Women’s Singles
2. Gold - Lakshya Sen - Badminton Men’s Singles
3. Gold - Nikhat Zareen - Boxing Women’s Light Flyweight
4. Gold -Vinesh Phogat - Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 53kg
5. Gold - Ravi Kumar Dahiya - Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 57kg
6. Gold - Naveen - Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 74kg
7. Gold - Sharath Kamal - Table Tennis men’s singles
8. Gold - Nitu Ghanghas - Boxing Minimumweight
9. Gold - Amit Panghal - Boxing Flyweight
10. Gold - Bajrang Punia - Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 65kg
11. Gold - Sakshi Malik - Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 62kg
12. Gold - Deepak Punia - Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 86kg
13. Gold - Mirabai Chanu - Weightlifting Women’s 49kg
14. Gold - Jeremy Lalrinnunga - Weightlifting Men’s 67kg
15. Gold - Achinta Sheuli - Weightlifting Men’s 73kg
16. Gold - Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayanmoni Saikia, Rupa Rani Tirkey - Lawn Bowls Women’s Fours
17. Gold - Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty - Table Tennis Men’s Team
18. Gold - Sudhir - Para Powerlifting Men’s Heavyweight
19. Gold - Bhavina Patel - Table Tennis Women’s Singles Classes 3-5
20. Gold- Eldhose Paul- Men’s Triple Jump
21. Gold - Sharath Kamal, Sreeja Akula - Table Tennis Mixed Team
22. Gold - Satwik Sairaj Rankireddi and Chirag Shetty - Badminton men’s doubles

Silver medal winners for India in Commonwealth Games 2022

1. Silver - Indian Women’s Cricket Team
2. Silver - Anshu Malik - Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 57kg
3. Silver - Murali Sreeshankar - Men’s Long Jump
4. Silver - Kidambi Srikanth, Satwik Sairaj, Sumeeth Reddy, Lakshya Sen, Chirag Shetty, Treesa Jolly, Aakarshi Kashyap, Ashwini Ponappa, Gayatri Gopichand, PV Sindhu - Badminton Mixed Team
5. Silver - Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan - Table Tennis Men’s Doubles
6. Silver - Vikas Thakur - Weightlifting Men’s 96kg
7. Silver - Shushila Devi Likmabam - Judo Women’s 48kg
8. Silver - Bindyarani Devi - Weightlifting Women’s 55kg
9. Silver - Tulika Maan - Judo Women’s +78kg
10. Silver - Sanket Sargar - Weightlifting Men’s 55kg
11. Silver - Avinash Sable - Men’s 3000m Steeplechase
12. Silver - Priyanka Goswami - Women’s 10km Race Walk
13. Silver - Dinesh Kumar, Chandan Kumar Singh, Sunil Bahadur, Navaneeth Singh - Lawn Bowls Men’s Fours
14. Silver- Abdullah Aboobacker - Men’s Triple Jump
15. Silver - Sagar Ahlawat - Boxing Men’s Super Heavyweight
16. Silver - Indian men’s hockey team

Bronze medal winners for India in Commonwealth Games 2022

1. Bronze - Gururaja Poojary - Weightlifting Men’s 61kg’
2. Bronze - Vijay Kumar Yadav - Judo Men’s 60kg
3. Bronze - Harjinder Kaur - Weightlifting Women’s 71kg
4. Bronze - Lovepreet Singh - Weightlifting Men’s 109kg
5. Bronze - Saurav Ghosal - Squash Men’s Singles
6. Bronze - Gurdeep Singh - Weightlifting Men’s 109kg+
7. Bronze - Tejaswin Shankar - Men’s High Jump
8. Bronze - Divya Kakran - Wrestling Women’s 68kg
9. Bronze - Mohit Grewal - Wrestling Men’s 125kg
10. Bronze- Jaismine- Boxing Women’s Lightweight 60kg
11. Bronze - Pooja Gehlot - Wrestling Freestyle Women’s 57=0kg
12. Bronze - Pooja Sihag - Wrestling Freestyle Women’s 76kg
13. Bronze - Hussamuddin - Men’s Boxing Featherweight
14. Bronze - Deepak Nehra - Wrestling Freestyle Men’s 97kg
15. Bronze - Sonalben Patel - Para Table Tennis Women’s Singles Classes 3-5
16. Bronze - Rohit Tokas - Boxing Men’s Welterweight 67kg
17. Bronze - Indian Women’s Hockey Team
18. Bronze- Sandeep Kumar- Men’s 10,000m Race Walk
19. Bronze - Annu Rani - Women’s Javelin Throw
20. Bronze - Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Palikkal - Squash Mixed Doubles
21. Bronze - Kidambi Srikanth - Badminton Men’s Singles
22. Bronze - Gayathri Gopichand, Treesa Jolly - Badminton Women’s Doubles
23. Bronze - G. Sathiyan - Table Tennis Men’s Singles

[Samuel]

23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams’ tennis career will go down in history

She has announced her time in tennis is winding down, with a desire to focus on growing her family

[Samuel]

Oleksandr Usyk has beaten Anthony Joshua for a second time and retained his world heavyweight titles.

[Goodness]

Serena Williams was 17 when she won her first US Open in 1999

23 years later, she has won her opening match at this year’s tournament

Two decades of greatness.

[Samuel]

186 consecutive weeks at No. 1
4x Olympic gold medalist
23-time major champion
367 major match wins
6 US Open titles
73 career titles

Thank you, Serena

[Samuel]

Anthony Joshua has accepted Tyson Fury’s offer for a heavyweight world title fight, according to Eddie Hearn

[Jay]

Iga Swiatek soars past Ons Jabeur to win the US Open title!

World number one Polish Iga Swiatek swept to victory over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur 6-2 7-6(5) in the U.S. Open final on Saturday to clinch her maiden trophy at Flushing Meadows and third Grand Slam crown.

Top 2 at US Open 2022

[Jay]

Alcaraz wins US Open 2022, ascends to World No. 1

Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz beat Norway’s Casper Ruud 6-4 2-6 7-6(1) 6-3 in the U.S. Open final on Sunday to win his maiden Grand Slam title and rise to world number one for the first time.

Alcaraz is the youngest-ever world number one since ATP rankings began in 1973.

Top 2 at US Open 2022

[Hemant]

A new era

[Parthiv]

End of 2020: No. 141
After 2021 US Open: No. 38
End of 2021: No. 32
After 2022 US Open: No.1

Carlos Alcaraz’s meteoric rise to the top!

[Samuel]

Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson Fury is really happening

[Samuel]

Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic have won 62 of the last 75 Grand Slams.

The GOAT era of tennis

[Samuel]

All the emotions at Roger Federer’s final match of his remarkable career