India secured fourth position with a total of 61 medals in the final medals table of the 22nd Commonwealth Games, which concluded in Birmingham, England today. The 61 medals featured 22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze.
Australia topped the medal tally with a total of 178 medals (67 gold, 57 silver, 54 bronze), followed by host England at the second position with a total of 176 medals (57 gold, 66 silver, 53 bronze).
With addition of the 61 medals in the 22nd edition, the total number of medals bagged by India in the Commonwealth Games since independence has reached 564, which features 203 gold, 190 silver and 171 bronze.
Before the 2022 edition, India had bagged an overall total of 503 medals (181 gold, 174 silver, 148 bronze) at the Commonwealth Games. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, India bagged a total of 66 medals (26 gold, 20 silver, 20 bronze).
The first medal for India in the 2022 Commonwealth Games was bagged by Sanket Mahadev Sargar with a silver in weightlifting. The first gold medal was claimed by Olympian Mirabai Chanu, also in weightlifting.
INDIAN MEDALLISTS AT 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES:
GOLD:
1. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, Weightlifting, Women 49kg, 30 July 2022.
2. Jeremy Lalrinnunga, Weightlifting, Men 67kg, 31 July 2022.
3. Achinta Sheuli, Weightlifting, Men 73kg, 31 July 2022.
4. Team India (Lovely Choubey, Rupa Rani Tirkey, Pinki, Nayanmoni Saikia), Lawn Bowls, Women Four, 2 August 2022.
5. Team India (Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Achanta Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran), Table Tennis, Men Team Event, 2 August 2022.
6. Sudhir, Para Powerlifting, Men Heavyweight, 4 August 2022.
7. Deepak Punia, Wrestling, Men Freestyle 86kg, 5 August 2022.
8. Sakshi Malik, Wrestling, Women Freestyle 62kg, 5 August 2022.
9. Bajrang Punia, Wrestling, Men Freestyle 65kg, 5 August 2022.
10. Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Wrestling, Men Freestyle 57kg, 6 August 2022.
11. Vinesh Phogat, Wrestling, Women Freestyle 53kg, 6 August 2022.
12. Naveen Malik, Wrestling, Men Freestyle 74kg, 6 August 2022.
13. Bhavina Patel, Para Table Tennis, Women Singles C3-5, 6 August 2022.
14. Nitu Ghanghas, Boxing, Women 48kg, 7 August 2022.
15. Amit Panghal, Boxing, Men 51kg, 7 August 2022.
16. Eldhose Paul, Athletics, Men Triple Jump, 7 August 2022.
17. Nikhat Zareen, Boxing, Women 50kg, 7 August 2022.
18. Àchanta Sarath Kamal, Sreeja Akula, Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles, 7 August 2022.
19. PV Sindhu, Badminton, Women Singles, 8 August 2022.
20. Lakshya Sen, Badminton, Men Singhes, 8 August 2022.
21. Chirag Shetty, Swastik Sairaj Rankireddy, Badmonton, Men Doubles, 8 August 2022.
22. Àchanta Sarath Kamal, Table Tennis, Men Singles, 8 August 2022.
SILVER:
1. Sanket Mahadev Sagar, Weightlifting, Men 55kg, 30 July 2022.
2. Sorokhaibam Bindyarani Devi, Weightlifting, Women 55kg, 30 July 2022.
3. Shushila Devi Likmabam, Judo, Women -48kg, 1 August 2022.
4. Vikas Thakur, Weightlifting, Men 96kg, 2 August 2022.
5. Team India (Kidambi Srikanth, Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy, B Sumeeth Reddy, Lakshya Sen, Chirag Shetty, Treesa Jolly, Aakarshi Kashyap, Machimanda Ponnappa, Pullela Gayatri Gopichand, PV Sindhu), Badminton, Mixed Team Event, 2 August 2022.
6. Tulika Maan, Judo, Women +78kg, 3 August 2022.
7. Murali Sreeshankar, Athletics, Mens Long Jump, 4 August 2022.
8. Anshu Malik, Wrestling, Women Freestyle 57kg, 5 August 2022.
9. Priyanka Goswami, Athletics, Women 10,000m race walk, 6 August 2022.
10. Avinash Sable, Athletics, Men 3000m Steeplechase, 6 August 2022.
11. India (Sunil Bahadur, Navneet Singh, Chandan Singh, Dinesh Kumar), Lawn Bowls, Men Four, 6 August 2022.
12. Abdulla Aboobacker, Athletics, Men Triple Jump, 7 August 2022.
13. Achanta Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Table Tennis, Men Doubles, 7 August 2022
14. Team India (Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Taniya Bhatia, Yastika Bhatia, Harleen Deol, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Sabbhineni Meghana, Sneh Rana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh, Pooja Vastrakar, Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav), Cricket, Women Team, 7 August 2022.
15. Sagar Ahlawat, Boxing, Men +92kg, 7 August 2022.
16. Team India (PR Sreejesh, Krishan Pathak, Varun Kumar, Surender Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Vivek Prasad, Shamsher Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Upadhyay, Abhishek), Hockey, Men Team, 8 August 2022.
16.
BRONZE:
1. Gururaja Poojary, Weightlifting, Men 61kg, 30 July 2022.
2. Harjinder Kaur, Weightlifting, Women 71kg, 1 August 2022.
3. Vijay Kumar Yadav, Judo, Men -60kg, 1 August 2022.
4. Tejaswini Shankar, Mens High Jump, 3 August 2022.
5. Saurav Ghosal, Squash, Men Singles, 3 August 2022.
6. Gurdeep Singh, Weightlifting, Men 109+kg, 3 August 2022.
7. Lovepreet Singh, Weightlifting, Men 109kg, 3 August 2022.
8. Divya Kakran, Wrestling, Women Freestyle 68kg, 5 August 2022.
9. Mohit Grewal, Wrestling, Men Freestyle 125kg, 5 August 2022.
10. Jaismine Lamboria, Boxing, Women Lightweight, 6 August 2022.
11. Pooja Gehlot, Wrestling, Women Freestyle 50kg, 6 August 2022.
12. Pooja Shihat, Wrestling, Women Freestyle 76kg, 6 August 2022.
13. Mohammad Hussamuddin, Boxing, Men Featherweight, 6 August 2022.
14. Deepak Nehra, Wrestling, Men Freestyle 97kg, 6 August 2022.
15. Sonalben Patel, Para Table Tennis, Women Singles C3-5, 6 August 2022.
16. Rohit Tokas, Boxing, Men Featherweight, 6 August 2022.
17. Team India (Savita Punia, Rajani Etimarpu, Deep Grace Ekka, Gurjit Kaur, Nikki Pradhan, Udita Duhan, Nisha Warsi, Sushila Chanu, Monika Malik, Neha Goyal, Jyoti, Navjot Kaur, Salima Tete, Vandana Katariya, Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Sharmila Devi, Sangita Kumari), Hockey, Women, 7 August 2022.
18. Sandeep Kumar, Athletics, 10,000m Walk, 7 August 2022.
19. Annu Rani, Athletics, Women Javelin Throw, 7 August 2022.
20. Saurav Ghosal, Dipika Pallikal, Squash, Mixed Doubles, 7 August 2022.
21. Srikanth Kidambi, Badminton, Men Singles, 7 August 2022.
22. Gayathri Gopichand, Treesa Jolly, Badminton, Women Doubles, 7 August 2022.
23. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Table Tennis, Men Singhes, 8 August 2022.
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PHOTO: Hockey team captain Manpreet Singh and badminton star PV Sindhu jointly lead the Indian contingent at the opening 22nd Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on 28 July 2022.