Commonwealth Games

Romania's women's table tennis team qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on Friday, after defeating India, 3-2, in the decisive match of the 2020 ITTF World Team Qualification Tournament in Gondomar (Portugal). The victory point was brought by Daniela Monteiro Dodean, who defeated Manika Batra, the best Indian player, 3-1 (11-8, 11-4, 3-11, 11-2).

Anthony Ivanov ranks eighth in the 200m butterfly finals at the world swimming championship in a small swimming pool in Hangzhou, China. He finished with a time of 1: 52.40 minutes.

In the series, Ivanov achieved 1: 51.81 minutes, improving his own national record in the discipline.

Ivet Lalova won 200 meters of the Diamond Athletics League tournament in Stockholm (Sweden).
 
The Bulgarian finished in 22.63 seconds, improving with one hundredth of хер strongest result for the season.
 
The 34-year-old Bulgarian Sprinter had 22.64 seconds to the Diamond League in Rome, where she finished second.
 

Five more African athletes may have vanished from the Commonwealth Games, organizers said yesterday, after eight competitors from Cameroon were suspected of fleeing a day earlier.

The Commonwealth Games has become a multi-sports party that struggles to pull high-profile guests but enthusiastic host Australia has promised a beach-side bash on the Gold Coast to reaffirm the event's place in the global landscape.

TOKYO - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic and Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain have secured their spot in the doubles semifinals at the WTA tournament in Tokyo.

The Serbian-Spanish pair beat the Russian-Australian combination Alla Kudryavtseva/Anastasia Rodionova 2-6, 6-3, 10-6.

GRANADA - Serbia won bronze in the Women's 10m Air Rifle team event at the world shooting championship in Granada, Spain.

Team Serbia comprising Andrea Arsovic, Ivana Maksimovic and Katarina Bisercic won the bronze medal with a score of 1,244.3.

The gold medal went to Germany (1,253.6), and silver to the national team of China (1,250.5).

Australian Michael Shelley won gold in the men’s marathon at the Commonwealth Games on July 27 to better his silver-medal showing in Delhi four years ago.

Shelley clocked a personal best of 2:11.15 in Glasgow, his first marathon of the year.
Kenya’s Stephen Chemlany  claimed silver in 2:11.58.

Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the 20th Commonwealth Games at Celtic Park on Wednesday after a moving and colourful ceremony in front of a 40,000 capacity crowd.
     
The Games will feature 17 sports across 11 days of competition with more than 4,500 athletes from 71 nations competing, making the event the biggest Scotland has ever hosted.
      

MARIBOR - Serbia's Zorana Arunovic won the gold medal in the 10m Air Pistol Woman event at the 2014 ISSF World Cup in Rifle and Pistol in Maribor, Slovenia, on Thursday.

Russia's Ekaterina Korshunova and Bulgaria's Antoaneta Boneva finished second and third, respectively.

This is the second World Cup gold medal for Arunovic, who pocketed her first one in Munich two years ago.