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Steeplechaser Avinash Sable, race walker Priyanka Goswami clinch silver medals in CWG

Commonwealth Games athletics competition here on Saturday. Goswami also scripted history as she became the first Indian woman to win a medal in race walk with a silver in 10,000m event. With the two silver, the Indian athletics team's medal count swelled to four and it has already gone past the number in 2018 Gold Coast where the country had won a gold, silver and bronze each in track and field. High jumper Tejswin Shankar and long jumper Murali Sreeshankar had won a bronze and silver respectively in Birmingham.

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Indian athlete Tejaswin Shankar wrote history on Wednesday by winning India's first ever medal in high jump event in the Commonwealth Games history. At the ongoing Games in Birmingham, the 23-year-old Shankar finished third on the podium by clearing a high jump of 2.22m in the final. Bahamas' Donald Thomas and Joel Clarke-Khan of England also cleared an equal height as of Shankar but they needed more than one attempt to do it while the Indian athlete was successful in his single try.

CWG 2022: Steeplechaser Sable, Race Walker Priyanka Clinch Silver Medals

Avinash Sable broke his own national record to win a silver in the men's 3000m steeplechase while Priyanka Goswami also clinched a medal of the same hue in the women's 10,000m race walk on a productive day for India in the Commonwealth Games athletics competition here on Saturday. Goswami also scripted history as she became the first Indian woman to win a medal in race walk with a silver in 10,000m event. With the two silver, the Indian athletics team's medal count swelled to four and it has already gone past the number in 2018 Gold Coast where the country had won a gold, silver and bronze each in track and field.

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Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 9 Live Updates: All Eyes On Vinesh Phogat, Boxers; TT Duos Enter QF

Commonwealth Games 2022, Day 9 Live Updates: After the wrestlers grabbed the limelight with three gold medals on Day 8, the Indian contingent cam expect more medals on Day 9. In boxing, Indians including Amit Panghal and Nikhat Zareen will feature in six semi-finals while in wrestling, Vinesh Phogat and Ravi Kumar will be in action. The Indian women's cricket team will also be in focus as it faces England in the semi-final Edgbaston, Birmingham. If the Harmanpreet Kaur-led wins the contest, at least a silver medal would be assured. The India men's hockey team will also square off against South Africa later in the day in the semi-finals. In lawn bowls men's fours gold medal match, India will take on Ireland.

From life-threatening appendicitis to CWG silver, the 'comeback journey has been really tough' for long-jumper Murali Sreeshankar

Commonwealth Games (CWG) medal in men's long jump. "All of us had been waiting for this medal for a very long time." When Sreeshankar mentioned "all", he specifically meant his father and coach, Murali Sivashankar, a former triple-jumper, and mother KS Bijimol, who is a former international 800m runner. "I was seventh at World Indoors, multiple times sixth in Asian Games and World Junior Championships. So this really means a lot to me," he said, talking to TimesofIndia.com over the phone from Birmingham. Had it not been for a controversial foul called on Sreeshankar's fourth-round jump, he would have been wearing gold instead of a silver. That jump looked close to the 8.20m mark, as Sreeshankar waited nervously to know if the attempt was legal. It was declared a foul, and the margin was ever so little, even looking legal in pictures that circulated on social media soon after.

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Steeplechaser Avinash Sable, race walker Priyanka Goswami clinch silver medals in CWG

"We Have Come A Long Way...": Neeraj Chopra Recalls His Time With Tejaswin Shankar After Athlete's Historic Bronze In High Jump

CWG 2022: Steeplechaser Sable, Race Walker Priyanka Clinch Silver Medals

Vijay Sharma: A Coach Who Cooks To Control Doping

Hollie Pearne-Webb eyeing ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ gold on home soil

Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's issued with petrol price warning

Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 9 Live Updates: All Eyes On Vinesh Phogat, Boxers; TT Duos Enter QF

From life-threatening appendicitis to CWG silver, the 'comeback journey has been really tough' for long-jumper Murali Sreeshankar