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India finished 4th at the Commonwealth Games 2022; its best performance still remains to be at Delhi 2010 edition where India finished 2nd with 101 medals.
India ended its Commonwealth Games 2022 campaign with four gold medals on the last day. India won a total of 61 medals and clinched the number four position in the medal tally. India’s medal tally consists of 22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze medals.
Gold Medal Winners for India (22)
It all started with weightlifter Mirabai Chanu’s gold but the Indian wrestlers lead the tally with 6 gold medals.
Wrestling
- Sakshi Malik – Women’s Freestyle 62kg
- Vinesh Phogat – Women’s Nordic 53kg
- Bajrang Punia – Men’s Freestyle 65kg
- Deepak Punia – Men’s Freestyle 86kg
- Ravi Kumar Dahiya – Men’s Freestyle 57kg
- Naveen – Men’s Freestyle 74kg
Weightlifting
- Mirabai Chanu – Women’s 49kg
- Jeremy Lalrinnunga – Men’s 67kg
- Achinta Sheuli – Men’s 73kg
Boxing
- Nikhat Zareen – Women’s Light Flyweight
- Nitu Ghanghas – Minimum Weight
- Amit Panghal – Flyweight
Badminton
- PV Sindhu – Women’s Singles
- Lakshya Sen – Men’s Singles
- Satwik Sairaj Rankireddi and Chirag Shetty – Men’s Doubles
Table Tennis
- Sharath Kamal – Men’s Singles
- Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula – Mixed Team
- Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty – Men’s Team
Para Sport
- Sudhir – Para Powerlifting Men’s Heavyweight
- Bhavina Patel – Table Tennis Women’s Singles Classes 3-5
Athletics
- Eldhose Paul- Men’s Triple Jump
Lawn Bowl
- Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayanmoni Saikia, Rupa Rani Tirkey – Women’s Fours
Silver Medal Winners for India (16)
Athletics
- Murali Sreeshankar – Men’s Long Jump
- Avinash Sable – Men’s 3000m Steeplechase
- Priyanka Goswami – Women’s 10km Race Walk
- Abdullah Aboobacker – Men’s Triple Jump
Weightlifting
- Vikas Thakur – Men’s 96kg
- Bindyarani Devi – Women’s 55kg
- Sanket Sargar – Men’s 55kg
Judo
- Shushila Devi Likmabam – Women’s 48kg
- Tulika Maan – Women’s +78kg
Wrestling
- Anshu Malik – Women’s Freestyle 57kg
Badminton
- Kidambi Srikanth, Satwik Sairaj, Sumeeth Reddy, Lakshya Sen, Chirag Shetty, Treesa Jolly, Aakarshi Kashyap, Ashwini Ponappa, Gayatri Gopichand, PV Sindhu – Mixed Team
Table Tennis
- Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan – Men’s Doubles
Boxing
- Sagar Ahlawat – Men’s Super Heavyweight
Lawn Bowl
- Dinesh Kumar, Chandan Kumar Singh, Sunil Bahadur, Navaneeth Singh – Men’s Fours
Cricket
- Indian Women’s T20
Hockey
- Indian Men
Bronze Medal Winners for India (23)
Wrestling
- Divya Kakran – Women’s Freestyle 68kg
- Pooja Gehlot – Nordic Women’s 57kg
- Pooja Sihag – Freestyle Women’s 76kg
- Mohit Grewal – Men’s Freestyle 125kg
- Deepak Nehra – Freestyle Men’s 97kg
Weightlifting
- Gururaja Poojary – Men’s 61kg
- Harjinder Kaur – Women’s 71kg
- Lovepreet Singh – Men’s 109kg
- Gurdeep Singh – Men’s 109kg+
Boxing
- Jaismine- Women’s Lightweight 60kg
- Hussamuddin – Boxing Featherweight
- Rohit Tokas – Men’s Welterweight 67kg
Athletics
- Tejaswin Shankar – Men’s High Jump
- Sandeep Kumar- 10,000m Race Walk
- Annu Rani – Women’s Javelin Throw
Badminton
- Kidambi Srikanth – Men’s Singles
- Gayathri Gopichand, Treesa Jolly – Women’s Doubles
Squash
- Saurav Ghosal – Men’s Singles
- Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Palikkal – Mixed Doubles
Table Tennis
- G. Sathiyan – Men’s Singles
Judo
- Vijay Kumar Yadav – Men’s 60kg
Para Sport
- Sonalben Patel – Table Tennis Women’s Singles Classes 3-5
Hockey
- Women’s Hockey
India is participating in the Commonwealth Games since 1954. Prior to that the Games were known as British Empire games. India had participated in those games under the British India flag. After independence, India had skipped the 1962 and 1986 games.
India’s performances over the years since 1954-
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Position |
| 1954 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1958 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8th |
| 1962 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 8th |
| 1970 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 6th |
| 1974 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 15 | 6th |
| 1978 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 6th |
| 1982 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 6th |
| 1990 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 32 | 5th |
| 1994 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 24 | 6th |
| 1998 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 25 | 7th |
| 2002 | 30 | 22 | 17 | 69 | 4th |
| 2006 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 50 | 4th |
| 2010 | 38 | 27 | 36 | 101 | 2nd |
| 2014 | 15 | 30 | 19 | 64 | 5th |
| 2018 | 26 | 20 | 20 | 66 | 3rd |
| 2022 | 22 | 16 | 23 | 61 | 4th |
| Total | 203 | 190 | 170 | 563 |
PoulomiKundu started her career in 2000 as a freelance journalist in Hindustan Times. Soon after she was selected an intern in Zee News, Kolkata.
After her post- graduation in English, Poulomi joined the leading television production house of eastern India, Rainbow Productions. She was a journalist in Khas Khobor, a Bengali news magazine programme in Doordarshan and also headed the post production department of another programme, Khas Kolkata.
In 2004, Poulomi moved to Delhi as a creative writer in an advertising agency, Brand Stewards Pvt. Ltd. In 2005, she again shifted her base for a better opportunity and that in Mumbai. There she got the job in Raa Media Pvt Ltd. as an associate director of two programmes for Doordarshan-Yuva and Paisa Vasool. In the meantime, she also wrote features in DNA as a freelancer.
Poulomi directs promotional videos, develops scripts for films for Corporate and NGOs. But an ardent sports lover, Poulomi always had an urge to contribute somewhere in the field of sports. Her love for sports started from an early age when she played gully cricket and football for local teams. Academics and professional hazards sometimes took her away from her passion, but it never died in her. She always nurtured the never-ending dream.
So she materialized her dream in the form of ‘SPORTSAVOUR’. It is an online sports portal that serves sports with the tagline ‘For the indigenous, unconventional, unknown’.
