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India At The 2014 Commonwealth Games
India participated in the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom held from 23 July to 3 August 2014. *India fielded a strong 215 member contingent, which is third largest. *The sports ministry cleared the 215 athletes from 14 sporting disciplines, including seven para-athletes, at government cost, along with a contingent of 90 officials, coaches and support staff. *The Glasgow Games had 17 sports and 261 medal events. India did not field athletes only in three disciplines—Netball, Rugby sevens and Triathlon. * Vikas Gowda won a gold in the Men's Discus throw event, thus winning the first gold medal for India in men's athletics in 56 years. *Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal scripted history by winning the first gold for India in Squash at Commonwealth Games. *Kashyap Parupalli won a gold in Badminton Men's Singles, becoming the first Indian male shuttler in 32 years to win a gold medal in the singles event at the Commonwealth Games. *Dipa Karmakar won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Olympic Association
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) or Indian Olympic Committee (IOC) is the body responsible for selecting athletes to represent India at the Olympic Games, Asian Games and other international athletic meets and for managing the Indian teams at these events. It plays with the name of Team India. It also acts as the Indian Commonwealth Games Association, responsible for selecting athletes to represent India at the Commonwealth Games. Early history Background and early years: The background behind the creation of the Indian Olympic Association was related to India's participation in the 1920 and 1924 Olympics. After the 1920 Games, the committee sending the team to these games met, and, on the advice of Sir Dorab Tata, invited Dr. Noehren (Physical Education Director of YMCA India) to be secretary, along with AS Bhagwat, of the provisional Indian Olympic Committee; Dorab Tata would serve as its president. Subsequently, in 1923–24, a provisional All India Olympic Committe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's Vault
The women's individual vault competition of the 2014 Commonwealth Games took place on July 31 at the SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast .... Dipa Karmakar became the first female Indian gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games. Results Qualification Qualification took place on July 28 as part of the team and individual qualification event. Final References External linksOfficial results {{DEFAULTSORT:Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - Women's vault Gymnastics at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 2014 in women's gymnastics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sathish Sivalingam
Sathish Sivalingam (born 23 June 1992) is an Indian weightlifter who won gold medals in the men's 77 kg weight class at both the 2014 and the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He is supported by the GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid athlete mentorship programme. Early life Sathish was born in Sathuvachari, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India to Sivalingam and Deivanai. His father Sivalingam an ex-serviceman who won gold medals at national level and now works as a security guard at VIT University, Vellore. Sathish did his schooling in Government Higher Secondary School, Sathuvachari. He works as a clerk in Southern Railways Chennai. Career At the 2018 Commonwealth Games he won gold medal in 77 kg category. He lifted 144 kg in snatch games record and 173 kg in clean and jerk. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Sivalingam won the gold medal in the men's 77 kg, with 149 kg snatch, and 179 kg clean and jerk lifts, totalling 328 kg. His lift of 149 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's 25 Metre Pistol
The Women's 25 metre air pistol took place on 26 July 2014 at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre Barry Buddon Training Area is a Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Ministry of Defence-owned rifle range and training area in Barry, Angus, Scotland, which runs adjacent to Carnoustie Golf Links and the Dundee–Aberdeen line, Dundee - Aberd .... There was a qualification in which the top 8 athletes qualified for the finals. Results Qualification Semi-finals Finals References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Shooting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - Women's 25 metre pistol Shooting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahi Sarnobat
Rahi Jeevan Sarnobat (Marathi: राही सरनोबत) is a female athlete from India who competes in the 25 metre pistol shooting event. She won her first gold medal at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India. She is the first woman to win a gold medal in shooting at the Asian Games for India – she won the gold at the 2018 Jakarta Palembang Asian Games in the women's 25 metre pistol event. She won two gold medals in 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, the first of the two golds in coming in the 25 metre pistol pair event with Anisa Sayyed. She had previously won gold in the 25 metre pistol event at the 2008 Youth Commonwealth Games, which were held in India. Personal life and background Sarnobat hails from Kolhapur in Maharashtra. During her school days, she was introduced to firearms as part of NCC training. She demonstrated natural skills in using firearms from an early age. In her early days of the sport, Sarnobat had to navigate inadequate infr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's 10 Metre Air Rifle
Results Qualification Finals References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Shooting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - Men's 10 metre air pistol Shooting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apurvi Chandela
Apurvi Singh Chandela (born 4 January 1993) is an Indian Shooting player who competes in the 10 metre air rifle event. She won the gold medal in the 2019 ISSF World Cup in New Delhi. She is a recipient of Arjuna award. Early life and background Chandela was born on 4 January 1993 in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Her father, Kuldeep Singh Chandela, is a hotelier and a sports enthusiast and mother, Bindu Rathore, is a businesswoman, who was a basketball player. She did her schooling from Mayo College Girls School Ajmer & Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls' School, Jaipur. She studied Sociology honours from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. In her early years, Chandela wanted to become a sports journalist, but she was inspired to take up shooting as a sport by Abhinav Bindra's performance at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he won a gold medal in shooting. Initially, she had to travel for 45 minutes to reach a shooting range in Jaipur. Later on, her parents set up a shooting range for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's 10 Metre Air Rifle
The Men's 10 metre air rifle event took place on 25 July 2014 at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre Barry Buddon Training Area is a Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Ministry of Defence-owned rifle range and training area in Barry, Angus, Scotland, which runs adjacent to Carnoustie Golf Links and the Dundee–Aberdeen line, Dundee - Aberd .... There was a qualification to determine the participants in the finals. Results Qualification Finals References External linksSchedule of events at 2014 Commonwealth games-Glasgow {{DEFAULTSORT:Shooting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - Men's 10 metre air pistol Shooting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2014 Commonwealth Games
Shooting competitions at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland were held from 25 to 29 July at the Barry Buddon Shooting Centre. Medal table Medalists Men's events Women's events Queen's Prize (open to men & women) Participating nations References External linksOfficial results book – Shooting {{DEFAULTSORT:Shooting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 2014 Commonwealth Games events 2014 Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the ex ... Shooting competitions in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhinav Bindra
Abhinav Apjit Bindra is an Indian Olympic gold medallist, retired sport shooter, and businessman.Athlete Biography: Abhinav Bindra The official website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. He is the first and one of only 2 Indians to win an Individual Olympic Gold Medal. He is the first Indian to have held concurrently the world and Olympic titles for the men's 10-meter air rifle event, having earned those honors at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships. Bindra has also won seven medals at the |
Weightlifting At The 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's 56 Kg
The Men's 56 kg weightlifting event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, took place at Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre The SEC Centre (originally known as the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre until 2017) is Scotland's largest exhibition centre, locate ... on 24 July. The weightlifter from India won the gold, with a combined lift of 248 kg. Result References {{DEFAULTSORT:Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - Men's 56 kg Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sukhen Dey (weightlifter)
Sukhen Dey (born 28 March 1989) is an Indian Weightlifter from Howrah, West Bengal. He won Gold medal in the men's 56 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland and previously won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games at Delhi. Dey left behind Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...'s Mohd Pisol Zulheimi with the Silver medal and Ganesh Mali with Bronze medal. ReferencesK Sanjita Chanu wins India's first gold in 20th Commonwealth Games 2014 Living people Weightlifters from West Bengal Indian male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2010 Asian Games 1989 births Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for India Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games Commonwealth Games silver me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
