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"The Glasgow Commonwealth Games moves onto it's third day today and the quest
for medals is getting heated up every hour. England topped the medal standings
on the opening day of the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with 17 medals in
total with six gold medals, seven silver medals and four bronze before the
evening sessions started at Glasgow yesterday. Australia with their success at
the pool, were behind them with five gold medals, three silver and seven bronze
medals. The hosts, Scotland were also following in closely with four gold, three
silver and three bronze medals Sri Lanka had mixed fortunes during the opening
day of the 20th Commonwealth Games which is moving onto its third day today. Sri
Lankan shuttlers will be in action at the indoor stadium courts, testing their
skills against much fancied Malaysia in the group play stage of mixed team
events. India launched their campaign in the Glasgow Games with dominant
performances which came in impressive fashion when weightlifter Sanjita
Kumkumakcham stole the limelight by winning the country its
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Authentic jersey first gold medal on Thursday. She lifted a total of
173 kilogrammes while her fellow teammate Chanu Saikhom lifted three kilos less
than Sanjita to win the silver. Twenty three-year old Sri Lankan Chamari
Warnakulasuriya, competing in the same category, was disqualified during her
group A event last night after failing to clear her opening weight of 62
kilograms in the snatch category and was disqualified from the event. In the
final weightlifting event of the day, both athletes representing Sri Lanka
failed to complete the event. Competing in the Men's
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Autentic jersey 56 Kg event, Thilanka Palangasinghe cleared 105
kilogrammes (snatch) but could not lift his choice of 135 kilograms at Clean and
Jerk. Sangeeth Sirisenage also failed to impress when he failed to put over the
two mandatory weights. Twenty five-year old Indian Sukhen Dey lifted 248
kilograms to seal India's dominance in weightlifting on Thurday night. Earlier
that evening, In the men's squash round of 64, three Sri Lankans were in action
and none of them progressed to the next round. Gihan Suwaris lost to Martin
Knight of New Zealand (3-0) while Dilshan Gunawardena was beaten by Alister
Walker (BOT) with 3-0 sets. Ravindu Laksiri also failed to impress and went down
fighting gave a good fight against Colin Ramasra of Trinidaed & Tobagoand
went down 3-2. Gihan Suwaris lost out New Zealand's Martin Knight 3-0 in a men's
first round squash game. Sri Lanka also competed in the men's and women's team
table tennis event with the Sri Lankan Ladies losing out to the Singapore ladies
3 matches to 0. However the Men managed to beat the Seychelles 3-0 and before
losing out to Singapore 3-0 in their next set of matches. Brothers Alistair and
Jonny Brownlee, competing in the Men's Individual Triathlon, shared the podium
with Olympic champion Alistair taking first place and Gold (1:48:50) and
Johnathan claiming Second and Silver (1:49:01). Richard Murray of South Africa
came in third to clinch the Bronze medal (1:50:21). In Judo Colin Oates won GOLD
in the Men's 66kg, the 25th gold medal England has won in Judo. He came up
against Andreas Krassas (CYP) in the 66kg final. Siyabulela Mabula (RSA) took
bronze, South Africa's first ever medal in judo. Following the lead of the
Brownlee brothers, the Renicks sisters of Scotland also won gold and silver
respectively. Kimberley Renicks had
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Likmabam in the 48kg final of the 48kg women's judo final while her sister
Louise beat England's Kelly Edwards in the 52kg final later in the day. Hannah
Miley broke the Women's 400m Individual Medley record with four minutes 31.76
seconds and set a new Commonwealth Games record. A stunning final 100m from
Miley left Aimee Willmott (ENG) with silver. Rowan Crothers broke his own World
Record in the Men's para-sport S9 100m Freeestyle and the first gold, Silver and
Bronze in a single competition at this year's Games for Australia. Crothers won
in 54.58, Matthew Cowdrey (AUS) took silver in 56.33 and Brenden Hall (AUS) the
bronze in 56.85. Team Scotland's Ross Murdoch and Michael Jamieson both claimed
gold and silver for Scotland respectively in the Men's 200m Breaststroke with
Murdoch swimming one of the fastest races this year to defy his compatriot with
a time of 2:07.30 which is a new Commonwealth Games record. - See more at:
http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=sports/glasgow-heats-hunt-medals#sthash.81I6pNAw.dpuf"
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