With a wealthy haul of 61 medals (22 gold, 16 silver, and 23 bronze) at this version of the Commonwealth Games right here, the Birmingham Games turned out to be one of the crucial memorable editions for the 210-strong Indian contingent. From athletics to racquet sports activities, cricket to hockey, boxing to wrestling, the Indian athletes completed with podium finishes in virtually each occasion they took half in.
Achinta Sheuli
Sport – Weightlifting
Event – ​​Men’s 73kg
The Bengal born weightlifter clinched his maiden CWG gold and went on to set a Games file 313kg. He lifted 143kg in snatch (Games Record and likewise equal to his earlier PB) and 170kg in clear and jerk. The 20-year-old received the silver medal on the 2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships and can be a two-time Commonwealth Championships gold medallist.
Jeremy Lalrinnunga
Sport – Weightlifting
Event – ​​Men’s 67kg
The Mizoram weightlifter received gold within the 2022 Commonwealth Games within the 67kg class, with a Games file elevate of 140kg in snatch and 160kg in clear and jerk.
The 19-year-old represented India within the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires and received India’s maiden gold within the occasion in Boys’ 62kg class.
Mirabai Chanu
Sport – Weightlifting
Event – ​​Women’s 49kg
The celebrity Manipuri weightlifter efficiently defended her 49kg title and gave India the primary gold on the Birmingham Games.
The Tokyo Olympic silver medallist aggregated a complete of 201kg (88kg + 113kg) to stamp her authority within the competitors and obtain a Commonwealth Games file within the course of.
Rupa Rani Tirkey, Lovely Choubey, Nayanmoni Saikia, Pinki Singh
Sport – Lawn Bowls
Event – ​​Women’s fours
The India garden bowls ladies’s 4 staff of Rupa Rani Tirkey, Lovely Choubey, Nayanmoni Saikia, and Pink Singh received the nation hooked to a rarely-followed sporting occasion with their inspiring and sensational present after they bagged a historic gold in Birmingham.
It was India’s maiden last look within the ladies’s fours format of the competitors.
Bajrang Punia
Sport – Wrestling
Event – ​​Men’s freestyle 65 kg
Bajrang Punia accomplished a hat-trick of Commonwealth Games medals when he clinched gold within the males’s 65kg free-style occasion.
The Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist had received silver in his CWG debut in 2014 in Glasgow after which improved the colour of his medal in Gold Cost 4 years later by profitable a gold.
Sakshi Malik
Sport – Wrestling
Event – ​​Women’s freestyle 62 kg
Sakshi Malik received her third medal on the Commonwealth Games when she annexed gold after beating Canada’s Ana Godinez Gonzalez by fall.
Sakshi had earlier received silver in 2014 (58kg) and bronze on the 2018 (62kg) Games. Sakshi can be the primary Indian feminine wrestler to win a medal on the Olympics, bagging bronze in 2016.
Deepak Punia
Sport – Wrestling
Event – ​​Men’s freestyle 86kg
Star wrestler Deepak Punia received India’s ninth gold medal in Birmingham by defeating 2018 version’s gold medalist Muhammad Inam of Pakistan 3-0 within the males’s 86kg last.
A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) within the Indian Army, Deepak additionally received a silver medal on the 2019 World Wrestling Championships within the freestyle 86 kg class.
Ravi Kumar Dahiya
Sport – Wrestling
Event – ​​Men’s freestyle 57kg
The Sonepat born wrestler clinched gold in Birmingham by defeating Ebikewenimo Welson of Nigeria 10-0 within the Men’s freestyle 57kg last occasion.
Dahiya can be a Tokyo Olympics silver medalist from 2020, bronze medallist from World Wrestling Championships in 2019, and a three-time Asian champion.
Vinesh Phogat
Sport – Wrestling
Event – ​​Women’s freestyle 53kg
Star wrestler Vinesh Phogat accomplished a golden hat-trick of Commonwealth Games gold medals by profitable the ladies’s 53kg freestyle wrestling last occasion.
Vinesh had bagged gold within the earlier two editions at Gold Coast (in 2018) and in Glassgow (in 2014).
She can be the primary Indian girl wrestler to win Gold at each Commonwealth and Asian Games (Jakarta 2018).
Naveen Malik
Sport – Wrestling
Event – ​​Men’s freestyle 74kg
Making his Commonwealth Games debut in Birmingham, the 19-year-old grappler clinched his maiden gold on the showpiece by defeating Muhammad Sharif Tahir of Pakistan within the last with rating 9-0.
Naveen made his worldwide debut on the U-23 World Championships final 12 months and clinched 74kg gold in his second competitors on the U-23 Asian Championships in June this 12 months.
Nikhat Zareen
Sport – Boxing
Event – ​​Women’s 50kg
Reigning World Champion Nikhat Zareen blazed the stage in Birminham as she received her maiden gold medal within the ladies’s 50kg flyweight last occasion. She can be a bronze medalist within the 2019 Asian Championships.
Amit Panghal
Sport – Boxing
Event – ​​Men’s 51kg
Amit Panghal received his maiden gold in Birmingham on the penultimate day of the showpiece occasion.
The reigning Asian Games champion, he’s additionally the one Indian male boxer to win a world boxing championships silver medal and the present world No. 1 in International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) 52kg class.
Nitu Ghanghas
Sport – Boxing
Event – ​​Women’s 48kg
The 21-year-old Haryana lady received the primary medal for India in boxing at Birmingham when she bagged gold within the ladies’s 48kg last.
She can be a two-time youth world champion, having received a back-to-back title in 2017 and 2018.
Sudhir
Sport – Para powerlifting
Event – ​​Men’s heavyweight
A para athlete with a polio-induced impairment, claimed India’s gold within the males’s heavyweight para powerlifting occasion in Birmingham and opened India’s para sports activities medal account.
Sudhir, who can be an Asian Para Games bronze medallist from the 2018 version, lifted 208kg in his first try earlier than rising it to 212kg in his second effort to collect 134.5 factors and break the Games file.
PV Sindhu
Sport – Badminton
Event – ​​Women’s Singles
Having received silver (2018 Gold Coast) and bronze (2014 Glasgow), an elusive gold was what lacking from PV Sindhu’s kitty and he or she did it in type in Birmingham.
The two-time Olympic medallist gave India its first badminton gold on the final day of this version of the Games.
Lakshya Sen
Sport – Badminton
Event – ​​Men’s Singles
Star shuttler Lakshya Sen made a memorable CWG debut together with his maiden gold in Birmingham.
Sen has been in wealthy vein of type for a while now having received his first Super 500 title in January, ending runners-up on the All England Championships and German Open and likewise profitable the celebrated Thomas Cup.
Chirag Shetty/Satwirksairaj Rankireddy
Sport – Badminton
Event – ​​Men’s Doubles
The males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bettered the colour of their medal (silver in Gold Coast 2018) and clinched gold in Birmingham after defeating England’s Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in straight video games.
Rankireddy and Shetty have been additionally a part of the Indian staff that received the historic Thomas Cup title earlier this 12 months.
Achanta Sharath Kamal
Sport – Table Tennis
Event – ​​Men’s Singles
Veteran Sharath Kamal’s title will go down in historical past as he grew to become solely the second Indian paddler to win two gold on the Commonwealth Games, the primary being in Melbourne in 2006 and the newest one arriving in Birmingham in type.
With his spectacular gold in Birmingham, Sharath’s general medal tally has gone as much as 13 on the showpiece occasion since his debut within the 2006 version.
Sharath Kamal/Sreeja Akula
Sport – Table Tennis
Event – ​​Mixed Doubles
Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula clinched the blended doubles gold in Birmingham by defeating Javen Choong and Karen Lyne of Malaysia 3-1 within the last.
With Sharath Kamal cementing his CWG legacy with a slew of medals, the highest prize was a deserved reward for the little Sreeja, who missed out on a bronze within the singles occasion.
Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan
Sport – Table Tennis
Event – ​​Men’s Team
The Indian males’s desk tennis staff retained its Commonwealth Games gold medal after a detailed battle towards Singapore within the last.
The likes of Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Sharath Kamal, and G Sathiyan gave India’s seventh because the sport’s introduction in Manchester 2002.
Bhavina Patel
Sport – Table Tennis
Event – ​​Women’s singles C3-5
Star para paddler Bhavina Patel received her maiden gold on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Bhavina, who can be a silver medalist at Tokyo Paralympics, has received a slew of nationwide and worldwide competitions through the years, which features a silver medal within the ladies’s singles Class 4 on the Asian Para Table Tennis Championships in Beijing in 2013.
Eldhose Paul
Sport – Athletics
Event – ​​Triple Jump
Kerala lad Eldhose Paul clinched a uncommon gold in males’s triple leap and the 25-year-old additionally led a historic 1-2 end in Birmingham.
The icing on the cake was that India additionally received silver in the identical occasion together with his compatriot Abdullah Aboobacker ending second with a greatest leap of 17.02m.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS