Young Dipa Karmarkar on Thursday scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games after she bagged a bronze in the vault event.
The 20-year-old from Tripura collected 14.366 points to finish third in the women’s vault final. The gold went to England’s Claudia Fragapane who got 14.633 points while Elsabeth Black was second with 14.433 points.
It was a disappointing day for Ashish Kumar. The artistic gymnast finished sixth in the men’s floor final with 13.8 points.
Table tennis
Indian paddlers Achanta Sharath Kamal and Anthony Amalraj marched into the men’s doubles semifinals.
Sharath and Amalraj posted a convincing win over England’s Danny Reed and Sam Walker 12-10, 11-6, 7-11, 11-8 in the quarterfinals.
However, Kamal and Shamini Kumaresan lost to Reed and Kelly Sibley in the mixed doubles quarterfinals 7-11, 9-11, 11-5, 14-12, 4-11.
Soumyajit Ghosh and Harmeet Desai lost 12-10, 11-9, 11-8, 11-8 against the mighty Singapore pairing of Gao Ning and Li Hu in another quarterfinal.
Earlier on Thursday, rising Indian table tennis player Manika Batra fought her way into the women’s singles quarterfinals.
Manika, the 19-year-old from Delhi, recovered from a two game deficit to beat Canadian teenager Anqi Luo 11-13, 11-7 8-11 11-2 11-7 11-9.
The 159th-ranked Indian meets World No 41 Ye Lin of Singapore in the quarterfinals.
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