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Commonwealth Games 2022 Sports

AFTER 44 YEARS, A
unknown sport of "lawn balls" for Indians, but they MEDAL IN LONG JUMP
also worked to increase Indians' curiosity and interest INDIA'S FIRST GOLD Murali Sreeshankar
in this sport. Lovely Choubey, Pinky, Roopa Rani, and MEDAL IN TRIPLE JUMP made history when he
Nayan Moni Saikia were members of the women's Aldos Paul of Kerala has won a medal in long
team, which won the gold medal, Prime Minister Modi become the first Indian jump after 44 years
wrote "Historic victory in Birmingham! The team has to win a gold medal in the with a jump of 8.08
shown incredible dexterity, and their success will Commonwealth Games metres. Suresh Babu
inspire many Indians to take up lawn bowls." The triple jump event. He is had previously won a
medals won by Navneet Singh, Chandan Kumar Singh, a member of the Navy. bronze medal at the
Sunil Bahadur, and Dinesh Kumar will raise awareness In the final, he set a Commonwealth Games
in 1978. Murli Shankar,
of this event. personal best distance of a TOPS Yojana core
FIRST MEDAL IN THE 10,000 METRE WALK 17.03 metres on his third group member, aspires
try. Abdullah Abubakar
Priyanka Goswami, a resident of UP, has registered won the silver medal with to win an Olympic
her name by winning a silver medal in the 10,000 a 17.02 metres jump. medal for his country.
meters walk. She has become the first Indian woman
to win a medal in walking. Priyanka's father, Madanpal FOR THE FIRST TIME, A MEDAL IN THE 3000
METER STEEPLECHASE
Goswami, was a conductor for UP Roadways. When Armyman Avinash Sable has ended Kenya's reign in
she was 14 years old, the financial condition of the the men's steeplechase. Avinash Sable of the Tops
family had deteriorated after her father suddenly lost core group set a national record and became the
his job. When she got a job in the railways through first Indian to win a silver medal in a Commonwealth
the sports quota in 2018, her enthusiasm grew and Games event, breaking dominance of Kenyan
she worked harder. She also represented India in the players who had won all three medals in the 3000m
Olympics but did not get a medal. steeplechase event since 1998.

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