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- The 21st edition of Commonwealth Games has recently held in Gold Coast, Australia.
- More than 4,500 athletes from 71 nations competed for 275 gold medals at the Commonwealth Games.
- This is the first major multi-sport event which has the same number of men’s and women’s medal events.
- India has sent a 227-member strong contingent for the Games.
- The badminton player PV Sindhu was the flag-bearer for India at the opening ceremony of this commonwealth.
- In this edition, India secured third place in the medal tally by winning 46 medals totally including 26 gold, 20 silvers and 20 bronzes.
- Australia secured the first place in the medal tally by winning 198 medals totally including 80 gold, 59 silver and 59 bronze.
- England secured second place in the medal tally by winning 136 medals totally including 45 gold, 45 silver and 46 bronzes.
Gold Winners & Events
- Saina Nehwal - women’s singles in badminton.
- Vikas Krishan - Boxing -75kg category.
- Manika - Table tennis women's singles-becoming the first Indian woman to do so.
- Vinesh Phogat - women’s wrestling freestyle 50 kg Nordic event.
- Neeraj Chopra - javelin throw - first Indian javelin thrower to claim a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games
- Gaurav Solanki -Boxing -52kg category
- Sumit Malik - wrestling -men’s freestyle 125 kg category.
- Sanjeev Rajput - shooting - 50m Rifle 3 Position shooting event.
- C. Mary Kom – boxing- 45-48 kg category event- claiming gold in her debut Commonwealth Games.
- Bajrang Punia - wrestling -freestyle 65kg category.
- Tejaswini Sawant - shooting - 50m rifle position event
- Anish Bhanwala - shooting - 25m rapid fire Pistol-Youngest Gold Medallist.
- Sushil Kumar - wrestling -men's freestyle 74 kg category -third straight commonwealth gold medal.
- Rahul Aware - wrestling - Men's Freestyle 57 kg- category.
- Shreyasi Singh - shooting - double trap women shooting.
- Heena Sidhu - shooting – 25 m pistol shooting event
- Jitu Rai - shooting -10 m men's air pistol event
- Manu Bhaker-Shooting-10m women's air pistol event
- Punam Yadav – Weightlifting - women's 69 kg category
- Venkat Rahul Ragala – Weightlifting- men's 85 kg category.
- Satish Kumar Sivalingam – Weightlifting- men’s 77 kg category
- Sanjita Chanu – Weightlifting- women’s 53 kg category
- Mirabai Chanu – Weightlifting- women's 48 kg category
- Indian men’s table tennis team – by beating Nigeria.
- In the women's table tennis event, the Indian team won its first ever Commonwealth gold medal.
- The Indian mixed team of pair of Satwik Ranki reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa in badminton claimed gold for the first time in the Games' history.
- V. Sindhu – badminton - women’s singles - against Saina Nehwal.
- Kidambi Srikanth – badminton- men’s singles.
- Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Joshna Chinappa -women’s doubles squash.
- Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal - mixed doubles squash
- Manish Kaushik – Boxing - Men's 60 kg category.
- Amit Panghal -Boxing -Men’s 46-49 kg category.
- Manika Batra and Mouma Das –Table tennis- women’s doubles, a first ever silver for India in Table Tennis in the Commonwealth Games.
- Anjum Moudgil –Shooting- women’s 50 m rifle 3 positions event.
- Pooja Dhanda –Wrestling-women’s 57 kg category.
- Mausam Khatri- Wrestling- men’s freestyle 97 kg category.
- Seema Punia - women's discus throws.
- Mehuli Ghosh - shooting - 10m women's air rifle event.
- Heena Sidhu- shooting -10m women's air pistol
- Gururaja - Weightlifting- men’s 56kg category.
- Tejaswini Sawant – shooting- 50m Air pistol shooting.
- Babita Kumari - Wrestling - 53kg category.
- Manika Batra and G. Sathiyan - mixed doubles in table tennis.
- Sharath Kamal - table tennis Men's Singles.
- Harmeet Desai and Sunil Shankar Shetty - men’s doubles Table Tennis.
- Ashwini Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy - women's doubles badminton.
- Somveer –Wrestling- Men's Freestyle 86 kg.
- Sakshi Malik – wrestling- Women's Freestyle 62 kg Category.
- Naman Tanwar - boxing -Men's 91 kg Category.
- Manoj Kumar - boxing -Men's 69 kg Category.
- Hussamuddin Mohammed - boxing -Men's 56 kg Category.
- Divya Kakran –Wrestling- women’s freestyle 68 kg Category.
- Navjeet Dhillon - women's discus throw.
- Kiran - wrestling- women's freestyle 76 kg Category.
- Ankur Mittal – shooting-men's double trap shooting event.
- Om Mitharval – shooting- 50 m men's pistol, 10 m men's air pistol event.
- Apurvi Chandela - Shooting- 10 m women's air rifle event.
- Vikas Thakur – weightlifting- men’s 94 kg category.
- Sachin Chaudhary - men’s heavy weight category in para powerlifting.
- Ravi Kumar - Shooting - men’s 10 m air rifle event.
- Deepak Lather - men’s 69 kg category-youngest Indian weightlifter to claim a Commonwealth Games medal
- Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport events where athletes from 53-member countries of Commonwealth nations make participation.
- The games were first held in 1930.
- Commonwealth Games are conducted once in every 4 years.
- Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) is nodal agency to oversee the games.
- India had hosted 19th edition of Commonwealth Games in New Delhi from 3 to 14 October, 2010.
- The South African city of Durban is selected to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games at the Federation’s general assembly in Auckland, New Zealand.
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