US top women’s FIFA rankings, Germany up to second
The latest FIFA women’s ranking has been released with the US Women’s National Team still leading ahead of several of Europe’s powers.
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CWG 2022: Para-powerlifter Sudhir and long-jumper Murali Sreeshankar's historic feats add to India's medals tally on Day 7
Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022 on Thursday, this time headlined by para-powerlifter Sudhir's gold medal and long-jumper Murali Sreeshankar's silver. So far, India has won 20 medals-- six gold, seven silver and seven bronze -- and was at the seventh position on the medals tally at the end of Day 7 of the competition here. Sreeshankar clinched the silver medal in the men's long jump final with a mark of 8.08m, becoming the first Indian male athlete to win a Commonwealth Games medal in long jump. The other Indian finalist in the event, Muhammed Aneesh Yahiya, finished fifth with a best jump of 7.97m.
Commonwealth Games 2022: Updated Medals Tally; With 20 Medals, India At 7th
Day 7 of the ongoing Commonwealth Games saw India add two medals -- a gold and silver -- to their kitty. With six gold, seven silver and seven bronze medals, India are currently seventh in medals tally, having won a total of 20 medals. India's Sudhir bagged a gold in the men's heavyweight final of para powerlifting to end Day 7 on a positive note. Murali Sreeshankar had also clinched a historic silver for India with a best jump of 8.08m in the men's long jump.
Commonwealth Games 2022: India's schedule on August 5
Here's India's complete schedule of Day 8 at the CWG 2022:Lawn Bowls1 PM: India vs England in Women's Pairs - Quarterfinal Table Tennis2 PM: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Manika Batra vs Olajide Omotayo/Ajoke Ojomu (Nigeria) in Mixed Doubles Round of 16 Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sreeja Akula vs Chee Feng Leong/Ying Ho (Malaysia) in Mixed Doubles - Round of 16 Para Table Tennis2:40 PM: Sonalben Patel vs Ifechukwude Christiana Ikpeoyi (Nigeria) in Women's Singles Classes 3-5 - Semikinal 2 Bhavina Patel vs Sue Bailey (England) in Women's Singles Classes 3-5 - Semifinal 1 Raj Aravindan Alagar vs Nasiru Sule (Nigeria) in Men's Singles Classes 3-5 - Semifinal 1 Wrestling3 PM: Men's Freestyle 125kg (Mohit Grewal) Men's Freestyle 65kg (Bajrang Punia) Men's Freestyle 86kg (Deepak Punia) Women's Freestyle 57kg (Anshu Malik) Women's Freestyle 68kg (Divya Kakran) Women's Freestyle 62kg (Sakshi Malik) Athletics3:06 PM: Women's 100m Hurdles - Round 1 - Heat 2 (Jyothi Yarraji) Table Tennis3:15 PM: Manika Batra vs Minhyung Jee (Australia) in Women's Singles - Round of 16 Reeth Tennison vs Tianwei Feng (Singapore) in Women's Singles - Round of 16 Sreeja Akula vs Charlotte Carey (Wales) in Women's Singles - Round of 16 Table Tennis3:55 PM: Achanta Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran vs Ramhimlian Bawm/Mohutasin Ahmed Ridoy (Bangladesh) in Men's Doubles - Round of 16 Harmeet Desai/Sanil Shetty vs Dillon Chambers/Xin Yan (Australia) in Men's Doubles - Round of 16 Badminton4:10 PM: Jolly Treesa/Gayatri Gopichand vs Jemimah Leung For Sang/Mungrah (Mauritius) in Women's Doubles - Round of 16 Athletics4:10 PM: Women's Long Jump - Qualifying Round Group A (Ancy Sojan Edappilly) Athletics4:19 PM: Men's 4x400m Relay - Round 1 Heat 2 (Amoj Jacob, Naganathan
CWG 2022: Sagar, Tokas join Amit Panghal, Jasmine in boxing semi-finals to ensure seven medals
Commonwealth Games. Later in the day, Rohit Tokas, who turned 29 on August 1, notched up a dominating 5-0 win over Xavier Mata'afa-Ikinofo of Niue to also progress to the last four stage and assure of the seventh medal for India from the ring.
Forest deals not done after 12 signings, says Cooper
Nottingham Forest will arrive at Newcastle United on Saturday with a new-look team after bringing in 12 players but manager Steve Cooper said the club have not yet completed their transfer business ahead of their first Premier League game in 23 years.