CWG 2018: India finish on 66-medal high

CWG 2018: India finish on 66-medal high

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• The 2018 Commonwealth Games has become India’s third most successful CWG of all time
• India’s shooters were the most successful, with a combined 16 medals (seven gold, four silver and five bronze)
• The 2018 Commonwealth Games has become India’s third most successful CWG of all time, with a 200-plus contingent delivering 66 medals to outdo the 64 from Glasgow four years ago and finish behind the 101 from Delhi in 2010 and 69 from the 2002 Melbourne Games.

India finished third in the medals tally at the Commonwealth Games 2018 with 66 medals (26 Gold, 20 Silver and 20 Bronze). Only Australia with 198 medals and England with 136 were ahead.
India’s 26 Golds was also third, behind Australia (80) and England (45).
India’s combined 66 medals is its third best showing in the history of the Games. India’s best remains 101 in New Delhi (2010), followed by 69 in Manchester (2002).
India bettered its showing in Glasgow 2014, , where we finished fifth overall, by just two medals. In Glasgow, India claimed 15 Gold, 30 Silver and 19 Bronze. India’s best Gold tally of 38 came at home in 2010.
In table tennis, it was a memorable Games for Manika Batra as she picked up medals in all events she competed in — Singles Gold, Women’s Doubles Gold, Women’s Team Gold and rounding off the Games with Mixed Doubles Bronze. Batra made history by becoming the first Indian woman to win an individual table tennis Gold at the Games.
India’s maximum medals came from shooting (16), followed by wrestling (12) and weightlifting (9).
The 10-member Indian table tennis team secured 8 (3 Gold, 2 Silver and 3 Bronze) medals, which turned out to be their best-ever medal haul in the history of the Games.
In the women’s table tennis event, the Indian team won its first ever Commonwealth Gold.
Teenager Deepak Lather from Haryana became the youngest Indian weightlifter to claim a Commonwealth Games medal, clinching a Bronze in the men’s 69kg category.
Indian shooter Anish Bhanwala, aged 15, created history by becoming the country’s youngest ever Gold medal winner in the Commonwealth Games, in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol.
Neeraj Chopra from Haryana became the first Indian javelin thrower to claim a Gold medal at the Games. His medal is only the fifth track-and-field Gold for India at the Commonwealth Games — the other four being Milkha Singh (1958), discus thrower Krishna Poonia (2010), the women’s 4x400m relay quartet of Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, Ashwini Akkunji and Mandeep Kaur (2010) and shot-putter Vikas Gowda (2014).
The Gold medal won by India’s mixed badminton team is the country’s first in that category at the Games.
Saina Nehwal became the first Indian to win two singles Golds at the Games after defeating PV Sindhu. Saina had also won the title in 2010 in New Delhi.
The Indian badminton contingent’s total of seven medals (2 Gold, 3 Silver and 2 Bronze) turned out to be the best performance by any Indian badminton team at the Games.
Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who claimed India’s first Gold, in the Women’s 48 kg, broke three Games records in the ‘snatch’ section, the ‘clean and jerk’ and the overall Games record.
 
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India’s best outing came during the 2010 Delhi Games where they crossed the 100-medals mark, winning 101. India had grabbed 38 Gold, 27 Silver and 36 Bronze to finish second behind Australia, who won 177 medals.

In Gold Coast, India got off to a brilliant start on the first day of the games itself when they won Silver in weightlifting, courtesy Gururaja. Mirabai Chanu bagged India’s first Gold in 2018 Games.
India did not look back ever since with youngsters overcoming the nerves and experienced players living up to their star status.

HIGHLIGHTS OF INDIA’S IMPRESSIVE SHOW AT THE GOLD COAST
# Deepak Lather, 18, became the youngest Indian weightlifter to claim a Commonwealth Games medal when he won Bronze in the men’s 69kg category. Mirabai Chanu achieved her personal best and the Games record to registered India’s first Gold in Gold Coast.
# Sathish Kumar Sivalingam defended his title by winning Gold in the men’s 77kg weightlifting.
# 16-year-old Manu Bhaker, on April 8, became the youngest Indian athlete to win a gold medal at the Games as she registered a record-breaking 240.9 points in the women’s 10m Air Pistol event.
# Indian women’s paddlers pulled off a sensational win in the Women’s Team Table Tennis Gold medal match to become only the second nation to bag the yellow metal in the event after defeating the 5-time defending champions Singapore 3-1.
# Manika Batra has been one of the brightest spark of the Indian contingent. Manika, winning a total of four medals, stayed the most successful individual performer for India as she led Indian table tennis to glory in Australia. On the way to becoming the first-ever women’s singles gold medal winner at the Commonwealth Games, the world No.58 beat Tianwei Feng of Singapore, world No.4, twice in both individual singles and the Team event singles. Manika, at the age of 22, won two singles matches in the women’s Team event to guide India to a first-ever Gold. She also bagged India’s first women’s doubles Silver with Mouma Das and won a mixed doubles Bronze with Sathiyan Gnanasekaran.
# Heena Sidhu broke the Games record in the women’s 25m Pistol event to win Gold.
# Muhammed Anas Yahiya missed a Bronze at the Men’s 400m Final by a whisker but managed to break the national record by clocking 45.31.
# Two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar clinched Gold for India in men’s wrestling 74kg category. Sushil had won Gold in 2010 and 2014 Games as well.
# 15-year-old shooter Anish created history on Friday after clinching the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Gold. The teenage shooter became India’s youngest-ever medallist in CWG history.
# MC Mary Kom won the gold medal in her maiden Commonwealth Games appearance. Mary Kom defeated Northern Ireland’s Kristina O’Hara 5-0 in the women’s 45-48kg category to bring home the Gold.
# Sanjeev Rajput smashed the Commonwealth Games record to win the gold medal in Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions. Rajput shot a total of 454.5 to put up a record-breaking performance and win the yellow metal.
# Neeraj Chopra struck a gold medal for India with a season-best of 86.47m in Men’s Javelin Throw Final. Neeraj, who is the World Junior Record holder, threw 85.50m mark in his first attempt itself and stayed on top of the pack throughout the finals.
# Jinson Johnson was unable to clinch a medal in the Men’s 1500m Final but managed to set a new national record. Johnson finished fifth in the final behind Kenya, Scotland and England with a timing of 3:37.86 seconds to break the national record by a massive difference of over four seconds.
# Saina Nehwal won her second Commonwealth Games Gold as she beat compatriot PV Sindhu in the women’s singles gold medal match.
# Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lost their men’s doubles gold medal match but became the only men’s doubles pair to grab a medal in CWG.