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Sanjita follows up her 83 kgs 2nd attempt with a CWG record-breaking lift of 84 kgs successful. The Manipuri hardly broke a sweat in her attempts and is on course to winning India's second gold of the Games.

Sanjita Chanu takes the lead with a Commonwealth Games record snatch of 84 kgs, improving on compatriot Swati Singh’s 83 kgs lift in Glasgow. Canada’s Rachel Leblanc-Bazinet takes the second spot with 81 kgs ahead of Papua New Guinea’s Loa Dika Toua. It would appear that the Indian camp has been a bit careful with declaring weights for Sanjita. She had lifted 85kg in the Commonwealth Championships last year and fans would have expected her to raise the bar and seek a personal best on her third attempt.

Sanjita Chanu picks up her second Commonwealth Games gold medal, adding the 53kg class crown to the 48kg class gold she won in Glasgow in 2014. It is India’s second gold medal in Gold Coast after her Manipur teammate Mirabai Chanu’s success in the 48kg class yesterday. Sanjita Chanu had to beat back a challenge by Papua New Guinea’s Loa Dika Toua and lift a total of 192 kgs, including a Games Record of 84 kgs in snatch and 108 kgs in clean and jerk. Her performance here should be a catalyst in her securing the Arjuna Award this year without having to take legal recourse. Her coaches may have been conservative in deciding not to get her to attempt improving on her personal best of 85 kgs in snatch, perhaps being influenced by the fact that Papua New Guinean could turn the tables in clean and jerk. In the event, Loa Dika Toua finished a good 10 kgs behind the younger lifter from India.

19-year-old Naman Tanwar breezes into the quarter-finals of the 91kg boxing event with an easy win over Haruna Mhando with an unanimous decision. There was no doubt over the result.

Deepak bettered his personal best of 132 kgs + 155 kgs with a lift of 136 kgs and 159 kgs.

It was a nervy wait for Deepak Lather but with Samoan Vaipava Ioane missing his attempt at 175 kgs, the 18-year-old wins India's fourth medal and its first bronze!

Another day, another clean sweep for the Indian shuttlers. They beat Scotland in each of the five disciplines to lead their group. Saina Nehwal beats Julie Macpherson 21-14, 21-12

India 5-0 Scotland Chopra and Reddy register a straight-game win over Campbell-Macpherson to win the final match of the tie. The Indian duo outsmarted the Scottish pair with their defensive style of play.

Amit Panghal beats Ghana's Tetteh Panghal stood his ground and threw punches left, right and centre. Those jabs were accurate and the Indian's efforts paid dividends.

Joshna Chinappa beats Australia's Tamika Saxby 11-6, 11-8, 11-4 in 22 minutes to advance into the quarter-final.

While Dipika lost to England's Alison Waters 3-11, 6-11, 2-11, Vikram went down fighting 6-11, 11-8, 6-11, 6-11 against top-seeded Nick Matthew of England

Joshna is the only remaining Indian singles squash player in the fray as Vikram Malhotra and Dipika Pallikal lost their respective Round of 16 clashes.

India's Saraswati Rout is in action at this event and has declared a starting weight of 78 kg in her 1st Snatch attempt

The women's 58kg category weightlifting event is underway at the Commonwealth Games 2018.

Amit gets a few decent punches but Ghanaian is not holding back either.

​Amit Panghal enters the ring for his bout against Tetteh Sulemanu of Ghana in 46-49kg Round of 16.

Amit Panghal beats Ghana's Tetteh Panghal stood his ground and threw punches left, right and centre. Those jabs were accurate and the Indian's efforts paid dividends.

In the men's cycling event, Sahil Kumar, Ranjit Singh and Sanuraj Sanandraj fail to qualify directly in the heats. They will no go through the first-round repechage

Saraswati's failure to register a lift meant that she would not feature in the clean and jerk variant and India would have to be happy with a haul of two gold, one silver and a bronze medal from six events in the weightlifting competitions.

Having lifted 82kg in snatch when winning the bronze medal in the Commonwealth Championship last year, she was expected to start well with 78 kg but failed in three attempts. The 22-year-old from Khurda in Odisha dropped the loaded barbell behind her shoulder twice, sandwiching an attempt in which she was unable to raise the barbell during the squat.

India’s Saraswati Rout faced the weightlifter’s ultimate nightmare – of registering a no-lift even at the entry weight – in the women’s 58 kg class competition.

India's Kiran Tak finishes last in the women's 100m backstroke final with a time of 1.47.95

The hockey team returned to winning ways, with a stunning 4-1 win over Malaysia. Meanwhile in boxing, Amit Panghal defeated Ghana's Tetteh 5-0 in the men's 46-49 kg category. Lastly, Joshna Chinnappa got the better of local lass Tamika Saxby to enter the next round. Hope you enjoyed our live coverage of Day 2. We will be back tomorrow. Make sure to follow our blog and take care!

India registered yet another 5-0 win in the mixed team event, this time against Scotland. Kidambi Srikanth and Co looked in great touch as they never let the Scots have the upper hand in any of the matches.

Later in the day, Deepak Lather became India’s youngest weightlifter to bag a CWG medal following a total lift of 136kg in snatch and 159kg, a new personal best, in Clean and Jerk. This was Lather's maiden CWG appearance and what a way to make a debut in the men's 69kg category.

And that's a wrap! Not a bad day at all for the Indian contingent at Gold Coast as they increased its medal tally to four medals on Day 2 of the Commonwealth Games 2018 in Gold Coast. Sanjita Chanu claimed her second gold after clinching the top spot in the women’s 53kg final. She lifted a combined total of 192 kgs.

CWG Day 1 report: A record-smashing Mirabai Chanu and a perseverant P Gururaja claimed gold and silver respectively as weightlifters lived up to the pre-event hype by delivering opening-day medals for India while star badminton players added to the cheer by making a winning start in the 21st Commonwealth Games, in Gold Coast.

Chanu smashed the Games records in 48kg category snatch, clean and jerk and overall en route her gold-medal winning performance, which fetched her a thunderous applause from the Australian fans, who queued up to take her autograph after the medal ceremony. Chanu managed to lift 196kg (86kg+110kg) in a remarkable effort.

"I was not expecting to break records but I certainly wanted to break them when I came here. I can't put in words, how it feels right now," an exhausted but jubilant Chanu told PTI.

Earlier, Gururaja survived a few anxious moments after two failed attempts in clean and jerk to claim a silver medal.

The 25-year-old son of a truck driver equalled his personal best of 249kg (111kg+138kg) to finish second in the event and ensure that India woke up to the news of a medal on the very first day of competitions.

"After I failed the first two attempts, my coach reminded me how much my life depends on this. I remembered my family and my country," he said when asked what went through his mind in those nervy moments.

M Raja (62kg) was the third weightlifter in contention today but he lost out to much superior competition and finished sixth overall with a total effort of 266kg (116kg+150kg).

Weightlifting was not the only reason why India could boast of a good opening day. The much-hyped shuttlers also made a winning start to their campaign, defeating Sri Lanka and Pakistan 5-0 respectively in the mixed team event matches.

Saina Nehwal, who was making headlines for her ferocity in getting Games Village accreditation for her father, brought quite a lot of it on court as well and dispatched her rival Madushika Beruelage in a mere 22 minutes.

She was later in action against Pakistan as well and was her usual clinical self against Mahoor Shahzad, claiming a straight-game triumph in 26 minutes to ensure that India had a winning day to celebrate.

Veteran Manoj Kumar (69kg) was the lone boxer in action today and the 2010 CWG gold-medallist hammered Nigeria's Osita Umeh to move into the pre-quarterfinals. The former Asian medallist won on a unanimous decision.

On the squash court, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinnappa, who would be defending their women's doubles gold medal, made winning starts in their singles competitions.

While Pallikal got the better of Trinidad and Tobago's Charlotte Knaggs, Chinnappa sailed past Papua and New Guinea Lynette Vai.

But Saurav Ghosal's shock 2-3 defeat to Jamaica's Chris Binnie came as a massive shocker even though Harinder Pal Sandhu and Vikram Malhotra won their respective opening matches.

"It's hard because this is the biggest thing for us squash players and I planned a lot over the last year and put in a lot of hard work. Obviously it hasn't worked out and it's something I have to live with for the rest of my life," the dejected world No.13 Ghosal said after the loss.

"It wasn't the best match to play from the first point. It was not the way I was taught to play squash. I guess you have to find a way whatever circumstances you are in, but I couldn't find that way to win," he added.

The table tennis players got past their initial hurdles rather easily with the women's team defeating Sri Lanka 3-0. The men's team blanked Trinidad and Tobago 3-0 before beating Northern Ireland by a similar margin.

Apart from Ghosal, the other major disappointment was the women's hockey team's stunning 2-3 defeat against Wales in its lung-opener.

In the swimming pool, Virdhawal Khade qualified for the semifinals of the 50m men's butterfly event but could not make the final, finishing 15th overall. Sajan Prakash failed to even make the semifinals in the same event.

The Indians were not much of a force on the cycling track either, finishing sixth in the Women's Team Sprint, which ruled them out of medal contention. The men's team did even worse, finishing seventh in their competition.

Day 2 Schedule (6 April)

India vs Malaysia

Event: Women’s Hockey

Time: 10.02 am

Athlete: Deborah Herold

Event: Cycling (Women Sprint)

Time: 8.32 am (Qualification), 10.02 am (Repechage), 10.24 am (Quarter-finals), 2.52 pm (Semi-finals) 4.18 pm (Final)

Athlete: Aleena Reji

Event: Cycling (Women Sprint)

Time: 8.32 am (Qualification), 10.02 am (Repechage), 10.24 am (Quarter-finals), 2.52 pm (Semi-finals) 4.18 pm (Final)

Athlete: Sonali Chang

Event: Cycling (Women’s 3,000m Individual Pursuit)

Time: 8.56 am (Qualification), 3.00 pm (Final)

Athlete: Manorama Devi

Event: Cycling (Women’s 3,000m Individual Pursuit)

Time: 8.56 am (Qualification), 3.00 pm (Final)

Athlete: Manjeet Singh

Event: Cycling (Men’s 4,000m Individual Pursuit)

Time: 10.47 am (Qualification)

Athlete: Sahil Kumar

Event: Cycling (Keirin)

Time: 2.32 pm (Qualification), 3.15 pm (Repechage), 4.08 pm (Semi-final), 4.41 pm (Final)

Athlete: Sanuraj P

Event: Cycling (Keirin)

Time: 2.32 pm (Qualification), 3.15 pm (Repechage), 4.08 pm (Semi-final), 4.41 pm (Final)

Athlete: Ranjit Singh

Event: Cycling (Keirin)

Time: 2.32 pm (Qualification), 3.15 pm (Repechage), 4.08 pm (Semi-final), 4.41 pm (Final)

Athlete: Pranati Das

Event: Gymnastics (Women Individual All Around)

Time: 4.39 am (Qualification)

Athlete: Pranati Nayak

Event: Gymnastics (Women Individual All Around)

Time: 4.39 am (Qualification)

Athlete: Arun Reddy

Event: Gymnastics (Women Individual All Around)

Time: 4.39 am (Qualification)

Athlete: Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu

Event: Weightlifting (Women’s 53kg)

Time: 5.12 am

Athlete: Deepak Lather

Event: Weightlifting (Men’s 69kg)

Time: 9.42 am

Athlete: Saraswati Rout

Event: Weightlifting (Women’s 58kg)

Time: 2.12 pm

India vs Scotland

Event: Mixed Team Badminton

Time: 9.30 am-1.00 pm

Event: Boxing Men Preliminary rounds

Time: 7.30 am-11 am and 2 pm-5.30 pm

Event: Table Tennis (Team Group and Knockout Stage)

Time: 4.00 am-10 am and 11.30 am-4.30 pm

Event: Squash (Singles Preliminary)

Time: 8.00 am-12 pm and 1.30 pm-5 pm

Athlete: Kiran Tak

Event: Swimming (100m backstroke - Heat)

Time: 7.11 am

India vs Fiji

Event: (Lawn Bowls) Women's Singles Section D - Round 3

Time: 4:31 AM

India vs England

Event: (Lawn Bowls) Men's Triples Section A - Round 3

Time: 4:31 AM

Malaysia vs India

Event: (Lawn Bowls) Women's Singles Section D - Round 4

Time: 7:30 AM

England vs India

Event: (Lawn Bowls) Women's Fours Section B - Round 3

Time: 11:31 AM

Scotland vs India

Event: (Lawn Bowls) Men's Pairs Section D - Round 3

Time: 11:31 AM

India vs Samoa

Event: (Lawn Bowls) Men's Pairs Section D - Round 4

Time: 2:30 PM

With inputs from PTI