Commonwealth Games 2022 Medals Tally – CWG 2022 Latest Medals Tally: India’s Judoka Sushila Devi Likmabam won the silver medal in the Women’s 48 kg category on Monday. This is India’s first medal at CWG 2022 in a sport other than Weightlifting. Another Judoka Vijay Kumar Yadav followed it up by winning Bronze medal in Men’s 60 kg category. At the end of the day, Harjinder Kaur bagged Bronze in Women’s 71 kg Weightlifting. With these medals, India’s tally has risen to nine medals at the Commonwealth Games 2022. Follow Commonwealth Games LIVE updates & Check India CWG Medals Tally with InsideSport.IN
Mirabai Chanu won India’s first gold medal on Saturday. Also, weightlifter Sanket Sargar clinched India’s first medal by winning the silver in the men’s 55kg category. Gururaja Poojary then followed it up by winning the bronze medal in the 61kg category. In the Women’s 55 kg category Bindyarani Devi clinched the silver medal
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With the eight medals, India are now at the sixth spot on the medals table. Australia leads the table having won 71 medals in total, out of which 31 medals are gold.
CWG 2022 Latest Medals Tally
| Position | Countries | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 31 | 20 | 20 | 71 |
| 2 | England | 21 | 22 | 11 | 54 |
| 3 | New Zealand | 13 | 7 | 4 | 24 |
| 4 | Canada | 6 | 11 | 16 | 33 |
| 5 | South Africa | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 6 | India | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | Scotland | 2 | 8 | 13 | 23 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 9 | Nigeria | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | Wales | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 |
| 11 | Singapore | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Cyprus | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 13 | Trinidad & Tobago | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | Bermuda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Uganda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Northern Ireland | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 17 | Fiji | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 18 | Kenya | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | Mauritius | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 20 | Guernsey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Papua New Guinea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Samoa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Tanzania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | Malta | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 24 | Namibia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 24 | Sri Lanka | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
More than 5000 athletes from 72 nations are set to fight for medals in 20 different sports in the upcoming edition of the multinational event. 215 athletes will represent the country in this year’s edition and they all will be playing at Birmingham with the sole aim of bagging medals and making their country proud.
India at Commonwealth Games 2022
215 athletes from the nation will be participating in 15 different sports events like Athletics, Badminton, Cycling, Boxing, Hockey, Judo, Squash, Swimming, Table Tennis, Triathlon, Weightlifting and also Cricket which is making its debut at the Games. Cricket will be a women’s only event and will be in the T20 format. India will be facing a stiff challenge from countries like England, Australia and Canada across all sporting events.
Medal Contenders
Neeraj Chopra who was a favourite to win the medal unfortunately will be missing the games this year due to an injury. Long Jumper Murali Sreeshankar and Discuss Thrower Seema Punia are contenders for a medal in athletics.
The Badminton team has already won the Gold medal in the last edition of the mixed team event and they are once again expected to repeat the feat this year. Meanwhile, in the Singles PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and Kidambi Srikanth are the favourites for a medal. Sindhu and Srikanth won silver in the last edition and they will look to better their performance this time around.
In Boxing, India will have Tokyo Olympics Bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain and 2022 World Champion Nikhat Zareen who are the medal hopes. In the men’s section, Amit Panghal won the silver in 2018 and he is expected to clinch the yellow metal this year.
Likewise, India is also a powerhouse in Wrestling. The squad will have Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Ravi Dahiya apart from Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat.
Table Tennis to is a sport in which the nation has always performed well. The squad led by veteran Sharath Kamal which will also have the experienced Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra are expected to finish at the podium in both the team as well as individual events.
In Squash too, India has a named squad that will have veterans Dipika Pallikal, Joshna Chinnappa and Saurav Ghoshal who will be fighting it out for a spot on the podium.
Indian Women’s Cricket team too have been performing well and they are expected to bag a medal in the event. Medals are also expected from the Men and Women’s Hockey teams. The expectation has raised after their brilliant performance in the Olympics last year.
India’s performance in 2018 Commonwealth Games
In the 2018 edition of the Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast, India bagged 66 medals in total which included 26 Gold, 20 Silver and 20 Bronze. With this performance, India finished third on the Medal tally which was their second-best finish in the event after the 2010 Commonwealth Games at Delhi, where they finished second.
India’s best performance was in Shooting where the country bagged 16 medals including 7 Gold, 4 Silver and 5 Bronze. Unfortunately, Shooting will not be part of the Games this year. However, India is expected to continue their dominance in Wrestling, Weightlifting, Table Tennis and Badminton. In all these events, the nation finished in the top spot on the table.
| Rank | CGA | 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 |
| 10 | Cyprus | 8 | 1 | 5 | 14 |
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