India at CWG 2022: India has been ranked at 4th place, in terms of medals in the Commonwealth Games 2022 which were held from July 28 to August 8, 2022.
Key Highlights:
- India bagged a total of 61 medals, comprising of 22 Gold, 16 Silver, and 23 Bronze.
- This was India’s 4th best performance at the CWG with respect to winning gold medals.
- India’s best-ever performance at the Commonwealth Games was in 2010, when it bagged 101 medals, including 38 Gold.
- This was India's 18th appearance at the Commonwealth Games.
- India has been placed behind Australia with 178 medals, England with 176 and Canada with 92 medals followed by New Zealand in the fifth position with 20 Gold.
- Saikhom Mirabai Chanu won the first gold medal for the country at the Commonwealth Games 2022.
- India won its first ever medal in Lawn Bowls after Women's Fours team won Gold Medal, and also Men's fours won Silver medal.
- Sharath Kamal won four (3 Gold and 1 Silver) medals in Table Tennis.
List of Indian Medal winners in Commonwealth Games:
Gold Medal:
- PV Sindhu - Badminton Women’s Singles
- Lakshya Sen - Badminton Men’s Singles
- Nikhat Zareen - Boxing Women’s Light Flyweight
- Vinesh Phogat - Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 53kg
- Ravi Kumar Dahiya - Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 57kg
- Naveen - Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 74kg
- Sharath Kamal - Table Tennis men’s singles
- Nitu Ghanghas - Boxing Minimumweight
- Amit Panghal - Boxing Flyweight
- Bajrang Punia - Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 65kg
- Sakshi Malik - Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 62kg
- Deepak Punia - Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 86kg
- Mirabai Chanu - Weightlifting Women’s 49kg
- Jeremy Lalrinnunga - Weightlifting Men’s 67kg
- Achinta Sheuli - Weightlifting Men’s 73kg
- Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayanmoni Saikia, Rupa Rani Tirkey - Lawn Bowls Women’s Fours
- Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty - Table Tennis Men’s Team
- Sudhir - Para Powerlifting Men’s Heavyweight
- Bhavina Patel - Women’s Singles Classes 3-5
- Eldhose Paul- Men’s Triple Jump
- Sharath Kamal, Sreeja Akula - Table Tennis Mixed Team
- Satwik Sairaj Rankireddi and Chirag Shetty - Badminton men’s doubles
Silver Medal:
- India Men’s Hockey Team
- India Women’s Cricket Team
- Anshu Malik - Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 57kg
- Murali Sreeshankar - Men’s Long Jump
- Kidambi Srikanth, Satwik Sairaj, Sumeeth Reddy, Lakshya Sen, Chirag Shetty, Treesa Jolly, Aakarshi Kashyap, Ashwini Ponappa, Gayatri Gopichand, PV Sindhu - Badminton Mixed Team
- Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan - Table Tennis Men’s Doubles
- Vikas Thakur - Weightlifting Men’s 96kg
- Shushila Devi Likmabam - Judo Women’s 48kg
- Bindyarani Devi - Weightlifting Women’s 55kg
- Tulika Maan - Judo Women’s +78kg
- Sanket Sargar - Weightlifting Men’s 55kg
- Avinash Sable - Men’s 3000m Steeplechase
- Priyanka Goswami - Women’s 10km Race Walk
- Dinesh Kumar, Chandan Kumar Singh, Sunil Bahadur, Navaneeth Singh - Lawn Bowls Men’s Fours
- Abdullah Aboobacker - Men’s Triple Jump
- Sagar Ahlawat - Boxing Men’s Super-Heavyweight
Bronze Medal:
- Gururaja Poojary - Weightlifting Men’s 61kg
- Vijay Kumar Yadav - Judo Men’s 60kg
- Harjinder Kaur - Weightlifting Women’s 71kg
- Lovepreet Singh - Weightlifting Men’s 109kg
- Saurav Ghosal - Squash Men’s Singles
- Gurdeep Singh - Weightlifting Men’s 109kg+
- Tejaswin Shankar - Men’s High Jump
- Divya Kakran - Wrestling Women’s 68kg
- Mohit Grewal - Wrestling Men’s 125kg
- Jaismine- Boxing Women’s Lightweight 60kg
- Pooja Gehlot - Wrestling Freestyle Women’s 57=0kg
- Pooja Sihag - Wrestling Freestyle Women’s 76kg
- Hussamuddin - Men’s Boxing Featherweight
- Deepak Nehra - Wrestling Freestyle Men’s 97kg
- Sonalben Patel - Para Table Tennis Singles Classes 3-5
- Rohit Tokas - Boxing Men’s Welterweight 67kg
- Indian Women’s Hockey Team
- Sandeep Kumar- Men’s 10,000m Race Walk
- Annu Rani - Women’s Javelin Throw
- Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Palikkal - Squash Mixed Doubles
- Kidambi Srikanth - Badminton Men’s Singles
- Gayatri Gopichand, Treesa Jolly - Badminton Women’s Doubles
- G. Sathiyan - Table Tennis Men’s Singles
About CWG 2022:
- Commonwealth Games 2022 started with the opening ceremony on July 28, 2022 and the closing ceremony of the event was held on August 8, 2022.
- The CWG 2022 was held in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
- The flag bearers for the opening ceremony for India Manpreet Singh and P. V. Sindhu.
- Flag bearers for closing ceremony were Nikhat Zareen and Sharath Achanta
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