From fever to Glasgow gold
Jaismine Lamboria beat defending champion Michaela Walsh to win India’s women’s 57kg Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow — a month after saying she was hospitalised with high fever and had missed the Czech camp.
Jaismine Lamboria won the Commonwealth Games women’s 57kg gold in Glasgow after returning to training on July 1.
India’s Jaismine Lamboria won Commonwealth Games gold in the women’s 57kg, beating Northern Ireland’s defending champion Michaela Walsh in Glasgow on August 1. According to a syndicated PTI account, she did it after a rough run-up: a high fever during the Asian Championships in Mongolia where she still took silver to qualify, a later bout of illness back home, hospital admission, and a missed June exposure camp in the Czech Republic. She said she resumed training on July 1.
“I was running high fever after my very first bout,” Lamboria said of the Asian event, adding she “again fell sick” later, was on medication and “was even admitted to hospital.” She credited a team psychologist and coaches for keeping her confident through the layoff.
The detailed medical narrative rests on her own account in the PTI copy; neither the illness nor the hospital is identified, and the exact dates beyond her July 1 return-to-training claim are not independently published. What is on the record is the finish: a 2022 Birmingham bronze upgraded to Glasgow gold. The scoreboard is clearer than Delhi’s sport budget priorities, which somehow never fall sick.