CWG 2022: Capsule of India’s gold medal winners Birmingham

With a wealthy haul of 61 medals (22 gold, 16 silver, and 23 bronze) at this version of the Commonwealth Games, 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

Achinta Sheuli with the gold medal after successful the boys’s 73kg weightlifting class match of the Commonwealth Games 2022 (CWG), in Birmingham, UK. (PTI Photo)

Sport – Weightlifting
Event – Men’s 73kg
The Bengal born weightlifter clinched his maiden CWG gold and went on to set a Games document 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

Jeremy Lalrinnunga throughout his gold medal weightlifting spherical at CWG 2022. (PTI)

Sport – Weightlifting
Event – Men’s 67kg
The Mizoram weightlifter received gold within the 2022 Commonwealth Games within the 67kg class, with a Games document raise 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

India’s Mirabai Chanu with the gold medal after successful ladies’s 49kg weightlifting class match of the Commonwealth Games 2022 (CWG), in Birmingham, UK. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra)

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 document within the course of.

Rupa Rani Tirkey, Lovely Choubey, Nayanmoni Saikia, Pinki Singh

Indian ladies’s fours garden bowls group (Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayamoni Saikia, Rupa Rani Tirkey) will probably be in motion in opposition to South Africa for the gold medal match. (SAI Media)

Sport – Lawn Bowls
Event – Women’s fours
The India garden bowls ladies’s 4 group of Rupa Rani Tirkey, Lovely Choubey, Nayanmoni Saikia, and Pink Singh bought 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 ultimate 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 medallist had received silver in his CWG debut in 2014 in Glasgow after which bettered the color of his medal in Gold Cost 4 years later by successful a gold.

Sakshi Malik

The standards for the awards take into accounts the athletes’ performances over a four-year interval. (Source: File)

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

India’s Deepak Punia and Pakistan’s Muhammad Inam react throughout the ultimate. (Reuters)

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 medallist Muhammad Inam of Pakistan 3-0 within the males’s 86kg ultimate.
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

India’s Ravi Kumar Dahiya with the gold medal after successful the Men’s Freestyle 57 kg. (Reuters)

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 ultimate occasion.
Dahiya can be a Tokyo Olympics silver medallist 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 successful the ladies’s 53kg freestyle wrestling ultimate 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

Naveen Kumar defeated Pakistan’s Tahir Muhammad Sharif by 9-0 in tjhe 74 keg ultimate. It is India’s first main title on this class since Sushil Kumar’s title triumph in 2018 Gold Coast Games. (PTI)

Sport – Wrestling
Event – Men freestyle’s 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 ultimate with rating 9-0.
Naveen made his worldwide debut on the U-23 World Championships final yr and clinched 74kg gold in his second competitors on the U-23 Asian Championships in June this yr.

Nikhat Zareen

Nikhat Zareen reacts throughout her spherical of 16 combat with Mozambique’s Helena Ismael Bagao (Reuters)

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 ultimate occasion. She can be a bronze medallist within the 2019 Asian Championships.

Amit Panghal

India’s Amit Panghal, left, and Scotland’s Lennon Mulligan within the Men’s Fly (48-51kg) quarterfinal throughout the Commonwealth Games at The NEC, Birmingham, England, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (Peter Byrne/PA by way of AP)

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

Gold medalist India’s Nitu Ghanghas poses for pictures throughout the presentation ceremony of the ladies’s over 45-48kg (Minimumweight) boxing occasion, on the Commonwealth Games 2022. (PTI)

Sport – Boxing
Event – Women’s 48kg
The 21-year-old Haryana woman received the primary medal for India in boxing at Birmingham when he bagged gold within the ladies’s 48kg ultimate.
She can be a two-time youth world champion, having received a back-to-back title in 2017 and 2018.

Sudhir

The 27-year-old Sudhir, who has an impairment because of the results of polio, thus opened India’s para sports activities medal account within the ongoing CWG. (AP/PTI)

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 assemble 134.5 factors and break the Games document.

PV Sindhu

PV Sindhu reacts after successful the Women’s Singles Final Badminton match in opposition to Canada’s Michelle Li on the Commonwealth Games 2022 (CWG), in Birmingham, UK, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. (PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra)

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 fashion 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

Lakshya Sen confirmed grit to come back from behind to beat the in kind Malaysian Tze Yong Ng in three units (19-21, 21-9, 21-16). (AP Photo)

Sport – Badminton
Event – Men’s Singles
Star shuttler Lakshya Sen made a memorable CWG debut along with his maiden gold in Birmingham.
Sen has been in wealthy vein of kind 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 successful the distinguished Thomas Cup.

Chirag Shetty/Satwirksairaj Rankireddy

India’s Chirag Chandrasekhar Shetty and Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy have fun victory in opposition to England’s Sean Vendy and Ben Lane within the Men’s Doubles Gold Medal Match at The NEC. (AP)

Sport – Badminton
Event – Men’s Doubles
The males’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bettered the color 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 group that received the historic Thomas Cup title earlier this yr.

Achanta Sharath Kamal

Sharath Kamal in motion throughout the ultimate. (PTI)

Sport – Table Tennis
Event – Men’s Singles
Veteran Sharath Kamal’s title will go down in historical past as he turned solely the second Indian paddler to win two gold on the Commonwealth Games, the primary being in Melbourne in 2006 and the most recent one arriving in Birmingham in fashion.
With his spectacular gold in Birmingham, Sharath’s total medal tally has gone as much as 13 on the showpiece occasion since his debut within the 2006 version.

Sharath Kamal/Sreeja Akula

Sreeja Akula and Sharath Kamal in motion at CWG 2022. (Photo: AP)

Sport – Table Tennis
Event – Mixed Doubles
Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula clinched the combined doubles gold in Birmingham by defeating Javen Choong and Karen Lyne of Malaysia 3-1 within the ultimate.
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

(L-R) Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, G Sathiyan and Sanil Shetty. (Screengrab)

Sport – Table Tennis
Event – Men’s Team
The Indian males’s desk tennis group retained its Commonwealth Games gold medal after an in depth combat in opposition to Singapore within the ultimate.
The likes of Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Sharath Kamal, and G Sathiyan gave India’s its seventh for the reason that sport’s introduction in Manchester 2002.

Bhavina Patel

Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel of India in motion in opposition to Ikpeoyi Ifechukwude Christiana of Nigeria throughout the ultimate of Para Table Tennis occasion at Commonwealth Games. (PTI)

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 medallist at Tokyo Paralympics, has received a slew of nationwide and worldwide competitions over time, 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

India’s Eldhose Paul celebrates after successful gold. (REUTERS/Phil Noble)

Sport – Athletics
Event – Triple Jump
Kerala lad Eldhose Paul clinched a uncommon gold in males’s triple soar 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 along with his compatriot Abdulla Aboobacker ending second with a finest soar of 17.02m.