At the end of Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, India's medal tally read 66, meaning they surpassed the medal count of previous edition of CWG in Glasgow, Scotland. On the last day, Saina Nehwal won a gold medal beating fellow countrywoman PV Sindhu in all-Indian women's singles final match to bag India's 26 gold medal, which is 11 more than Glasgow 2014's tally of 15 gold. In the Gold Coast Games, India scripted several historic wins and new records such as first gold medal in Table Tennis after paddler Manik Batra won her women's singles finals. Neeraj Chopra clinched first gold medal in javelin throw. With great show in sporting events such as shooting, wrestling and weightlifting, India ended their GC 2018 campaign on a positive note with 26 gold, 20 silver and 20 bronze medals. They finished with third position on CWG 2018 medal table and team standings behind Australia and England. Complete Commonwealth Games 2018 Medal Table: Countrywise Tally of GC 2018 Medal Winners.
India had fielded a total number of 227 participants hoping to better their record of in the previous outing Glasgow 2014 and they did it in style. India managed 15 gold, 30 silver and 19 bronze medals to take their medal tally to 64 medals. They had finished fifth behind table-toppers England, Australia, Canada and Scotland. Here’s a look at India’s current scenario at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast at how India fared better than their previous outing in CWG event.
India Medal Tally in Commonwealth Games 2018 So Far
Medal Standings | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
3 | 26 | 20 | 20 | 66 |
(CWG 2018 Medal Table was last updated at 12:46 pm IST on April 15, 2018)
Meet Indian Gold Medal Winners From CWG 2018
Complete Medal Winners' List from India in GC 2018
Sr. No. | Winner Names | Sport | Event | Medal |
1. | Neeraj Chopra | Athletics | Men's Javelin Throw | GOLD |
2. | Seema Punia | Athletics | Women's Discus Throw | SILVER |
3. | Navjeet Dhillon | Athletics | Women's Discus Throw | BRONZE |
4. | Saina Nehwal | Badminton | Women's Singles | GOLD |
5. | India | Badminton | Mixed Team Event | GOLD |
6. | Satwik Rankireddy & Chandrashekhar Chirag Shetty | Badminton | Men's Doubles | SILVER |
7. | Kidambi Srikanth | Badminton | Men's Singles | SILVER |
8. | PV Sindhu | Badminton | Women's Singles | SILVER |
9. | Ashwini Ponnappa & N Sikki Reddy | Badminton | Women's Doubles | BRONZE |
10. | MC Mary Kom | Boxing | Women's 45-48kg | GOLD |
11. | Gaurav Sonlanki | Boxing | Men's 52kg | GOLD |
12. | Vikas Krishan | Boxing | Men's 75kg | GOLD |
13. | Satish Kumar | Boxing | Men's +91kg | SILVER |
14. | Amit Panghal | Boxing | Men's 46-49kg | SILVER |
15. | Manish Kaushik | Boxing | Men's 60kg | SILVER |
16. | Hussamuddin Mohammed | Boxing | Men's 56kg | BRONZE |
17. | Manoj Kumar | Boxing | Men's 69kg | BRONZE |
18. | Naman Tanwar | Boxing | Men's 91kg | BRONZE |
19. | Sachin Chaudhary | Para Powerlifting | Men's Heavyweight | BRONZE |
20. | Jitu Rai | Shooting | Men's 10m Air Pistol | GOLD |
21. | Anish Bhanwala | Shooting | Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol | GOLD |
22. | Sanjeev Rajput | Shooting | Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions | GOLD |
23. | Manu Bhaker | Shooting | Women's 10m Air Pistol | GOLD |
24. | Heena Sidhu | Shooting | Women's 25m Pistol | GOLD |
25. | Shreyasi Singh | Shooting | Women's Double Trap | GOLD |
26. | Tejaswini Sawant | Shooting | Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions | GOLD |
27. | Heena Sidhu | Shooting | Women's 10m Air Pistol | SILVER |
28. | Mehuli Ghosh | Shooting | Women's 10m Air Rifle | SILVER |
29. | Anjum Moudgil | Shooting | Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions | SILVER |
30. | Tejaswini Sawant | Shooting | Women's 50m Rifle Prone | SILVER |
31. | Om Mitharval | Shooting | Men's 10m Air Pistol | BRONZE |
32. | Ravi Kumar | Shooting | Men's 10m Air Rifle | BRONZE |
33. | Ankur Mittal | Shooting | Men's Double Trap | BRONZE |
34. | Om Mitharval | Shooting | Men's 50m Pistol | BRONZE |
35. | Apurvi Chandela | Shooting | Women's 10m Air Rifle | BRONZE |
36. | Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa | Squash | Women's Doubles | SILVER |
37. | Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal | Squash | Mixed Doubles | SILVER |
38. | India | Table Tennis | Men’s Team | GOLD |
39. | India | Table Tennis | Women’s Team | GOLD |
40. | Manika Batra | Table Tennis | Women's Singles | GOLD |
41. | Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran | Table Tennis | Men's Doubles | SILVER |
42. | Manika Batra and Mouma Das | Table Tennis | Women's Doubles | SILVER |
43. | Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shankar Shetty | Table Tennis | Men's Doubles | BRONZE |
44. | Sharath Kamal | Table Tennis | Men's Singles | BRONZE |
45. | Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran | Table Tennis | Mixed Doubles | BRONZE |
46. | Sathish Sivalingam | Weightlifting | Men's 77kg | GOLD |
47. | Venkat Rahul Ragala | Weightlifting | Men’s 85kg | GOLD |
48. | Mirabai Chanu | Weightlifting | Women's 48kg | GOLD |
49. | Sanjita Chanu | Weightlifting | Women's 53kg | GOLD |
50. | Punam Yadav | Weightlifting | Women’s 69kg | GOLD |
51. | Pardeep Singh | Weightlifting | Men’s 105kg | SILVER |
52. | P Gururaja | Weightlifting | Men's 56kg | SILVER |
53. | Deepak Lather | Weightlifting | Men's 69kg | BRONZE |
54. | Vikas Thakur | Weightlifting | Men’s 94kg | BRONZE |
55. | Sumit Malik | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle 125 kg | GOLD |
56. | Rahul Aware | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle 57 kg | GOLD |
57. | Bajrang Punia | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle 65 kg | GOLD |
58. | Sushil Kumar | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle 74 kg | GOLD |
59. | Vinesh Phogat | Wrestling | Women's Freestyle 50 kg | GOLD |
60. | Mausam Khatri | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle 97 kg | SILVER |
61. | Babita Kumar | Wrestling | Women's Freestyle 53 kg | SILVER |
62. | Pooja Dhanda | Wrestling | Women's Freestyle 57 kg | SILVER |
63. | Somveer | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle 86 kg | BRONZE |
64. | Sakshi Malik | Wrestling | Women's Freestyle 62 kg | BRONZE |
65. | Divya Kakran | Wrestling | Women's Freestyle 68 kg | BRONZE |
66. | Kiran | Wrestling | Women's Freestyle 76 kg | BRONZE |
2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Gold Coast 2018 kicked off on April 4 with a grand opening ceremony. The sporting action began from April 5 and lasted until April 15. A total number of 71 Commonwealth Teams are participating with 275 medals in 19 sports up for grabs. This was the first time, an equal number of medal events are kept for both men’s and women’s discipline making GC 2018 the first multi-sport event to achieve parity.
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