Commonwealth games 2018 medal tally

NEW DELHI: The Indian contingent recorded its third best ever medal haul at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. With 66 medals, India finished third behind leaders Australia and second-placed England, surpassing their own tally 64 medals at the Glasgow Games in 2014. Shooting was the event where India won their maximum number of medals – 16 in total and seven of them gold. Here's a look at all the Indian medal winners from the Name Medal Event Heena Sindhu Gold Women's 25m Pistol Manu Bhaker Gold Women's 10m Air Pistol Sanjeev Rajput Gold Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Jitu Rai Gold Men's 10m Air Pistol Anish Gold Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Shreyasi Singh Gold Women's Double Trap Tejaswini Sawant Gold Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Anjum Moudgil Silver Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Heena Sindhu Silver Women's 10m Air Pistol Mehuli Ghosh Silver Women's 10m Air Rifle Tejaswini Sawant Silver Women's 50m Rifle Prone Apurvi Chandela Bronze Women's 10m Air Rifle Om Mitharval Bronze Men's 10m Air Pistol Ravi Kumar Bronze Men's 10m Air Rifle Om Mitharval Bronze Men's 50m Pistol Ankur Mittal Bronze Men's Double Trap Name Medal Event Sushil Kumar Gold Men's Freestyle 74kg Vinesh Phogat Gold Women's Freestyle 50kg Rahul Aware Gold Men's Freestyle 57kg Bajrang Punia Gold Men's Freestyle 65kg Sumit Gold Men's Freestyle 125kg Pooja Dhanda Silver Women's Freestyle 57kg Mausam Khatri Silver Men's Freestyle 97kg Babita Kumari Silver Women's Freestyle 53kg Kiran Bronze Women's Fre...

Reading level: green Swimming ace Emma McKeon has become Australia’s most successful Commonwealth Games athlete of all time after winning the 11th gold medal of her career this morning. McKeon made history when she took out the women’s 50m freestyle. The victory put her ahead of Australian swimming greats Susie O’Neill, Ian Thorpe and Leisel Jones, who each have 10 Commonwealth Games golds. “I just get in there and do my best,” McKeon said after her history making race. “Take each race one at a time. When I get in I want to win obviously, like everyone else in the race. “I feel like I am a lot more relaxed this year than last year. I think the place that I am in mentally is showing in my performances.” media_camera Emma McKeon shows of her 11th Commonwealth Games gold medal after victory in the women’s 50m freestyle at Birmingham. Picture: Getty Images Australia is sitting at the top of the Commonwealth Games medal tally, with 22 golds among 52 medals won in the first three days of competition. Team Australia added three gold medals to its haul* on day three of the action, including McKeon’s 50m freestyle gold. Moments after her victory, the women’s 4 x 200m relay team powered home for gold and smashed the world record in the process. Madi Wilson, Kiah Melverton, Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus combined to win the gold in 7min39.29sec, hacking more than a second off the previous world record set by China at last year’s Tokyo Olympics. The final gold of day three went...

India has now won 36 medals in athletics at the Commonwealth Games including 6 gold, 14 silver and 16 bronze. In fact, the country stands in 15th position in the all-time athletics medal tally at the Commonwealth Games. Here is how India has performed in athletics at Commonwealth Games down the years. Racewalkers Priyanka Goswami and Sandeep Kumar clinched the silver and bronze medals respectively. The only gold medal was clinched by Eldhose Paul in the men's triple jump category while Abdulla Aboubacker Narangolintevid won the silver in the same event. Annu Rani won the bronze medal in the women's javelin throw and Avinash Sable clinched the silver in the 3000m steeplechase. It took India 24 years to win another medal in athletics. However, in 2002 history was created as Indian women clinched medals for the first time in athletics. Neelam Jaswant Singh won the bronze medal in discus throw and Anju Bobby George clinched the bronze medal in long jump. In fact this was the first time that India clinched multiple athletics medals in a single Commonwealth Games edition India won a total of 12 athletics medals including 2 golds, three silvers and seven bronze medals, thus finishing with their highest ever athletics tally at Commonwealth Games. In fact, it was the women athletes who won seven medals, including two gold. In fact, for the first and only time in history there was an all Indian podium at the Commonwealth Games, when India won three medals at the Commonwealth Games 2...

By India Today Web Desk: India finished third in the 2018 Commonwealth Games medals tally with 66 medals including 26 Gold, 20 Silver and 20 Bronze. RANK NATION GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL 1 AUSTRALIA 80 59 59 198 2 ENGLAND 45 45 46 136 3 INDIA 26 20 20 66 4 CANADA 15 40 27 82 5 NEW ZEALAND 15 16 15 46 6 SOUTH AFRICA 13 11 13 37 7 WALES 10 12 14 36 8 SCOTLAND 9 13 22 44 9 NIGERIA 9 9 6 24 India finished third in the 2018 Commonwealth Games medals tally with 66 medals including 26 Gold, 20 Silver and 20 Bronze. Table Tennis sensation Manika Batra was India's best player at the 2018 Commonwealth Games for winning 4 medals. Shooters won 16 medals while the wrestlers won 12. DISCIPLINE GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL Shooting 7 4 5 16 Wrestling 5 3 4 12 Weightlifting 5 2 2 9 Boxing 3 3 3 9 Table Tennis 3 2 3 8 Badminton 2 3 1 6 Athletics 1 1 1 3 Squash 0 2 0 2 Para Powerlifting 0 0 1 1 Total 26 20 20 66 Saina Nehwal defeat PV Sindhu in the blockbuster women's singles badminton final to win her second Gold in the Commonwealth Games. Kidambi Srikanth settled for a silver medal after losing in the men's singles final of badminton. Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also got Silver in men's doubles event. In squash, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa failed to defend their title and had to settle for Silver. Achanta Sharath Kamal won Bronze in men's singles table tennis. Earlier, Manika Batra and Sathiyan started Day 11 with a bang as the mixed doubles pair won bronze in the table tennis....