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| - Fact Check: No, Hima Das has not won Commonwealth Games gold yet, viral video is from 2018
Sprinter Hima Das is yet to feature in the 2022 Commonwealth Games. An old video clip was shared with the false claim.
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India Today Fact Check
The video is from July 2018 when Hima Das clinched her historic Gold at the under-20 World Athletics Championship in Tampere, Finland. Das will feature in CWG 2022 on August 6.
Weightlifter Sanket Mahadev Sargar opened India's medal tally in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games by winning a silver medal in the 55 KG category on Saturday.
Meanwhile, several users are busy congratulating sprinter Hima Das instead of Sargar, claiming that she has won the gold medal in the 400m race. The claim is made along with a video of Hima Das in action -- a contest in which she is seen outclassing her rivals.
Hima Das wins 400m Gold in CWG at Birmingham pic.twitter.com/ziTYoZy7K7 — Pegasus (@srao7711) July 30, 2022
This two-minute 20-second clip was shared on Facebook with a similar claim as well.
Archived versions of such claims can be seen here and here.
India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found these claims to be misleading as Hima Das is yet to feature in CWG 2022. The viral video is from the 2018 World Athletics Championship.
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At 1:30 timestamp, the commentator is heard saying, "...history made in Tampere." Around the two-minute mark, he goes, "...the Indian flag would fly proudly and historically here in Finland."
As the ongoing Commonwealth Games is happening in England's Birmingham, this was enough to question the authenticity of the claim.
We also noticed ''Tampere 2018'' was mentioned on the performance card that popped up on the screen after Das finished the race.
A keyword search led us to a The New Indian Express article published in July 2018. It stated that Assam's Hima Das became the first Indian ever to win a track event gold when she won the 400 metres at the Under-20 World Athletics Championship in Tampere, Finland.
Reports by The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, and The Indian Express further noted that Das achieved this feat while clocking 51.46 seconds to cover 400 meters. At the time of that event, Das was only 18 years old.
We also found the full-length video of Hima Das' race on the official YouTube channel of World Athletics. The title confirmed that the event took place in 2018.
When will we see Hima Das in action?
We checked for the schedule of Indian stars taking part in the Commonwealth Games 2022. The schedules confirmed that Hima Das is yet to feature in CWG 2022.
Her turn will come on August 6, when she will be taking part in the Women's 4x400m relay alongside Dutee Chand, Srabani Nanda and NS Simi.
Therefore, it is clear that a four-year-old clip of sprinter Hima Das is being falsely shared as that of her victory in the ongoing 2022 Commonwealth Games.
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