New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games 2022, which lasted for 11 days in Birmingham, concluded on Monday. Indian contingent finished fourth in the medal tally in the CWG 2022. India finished its CWG campaign in Birmingham with a total of 61 medals (22 Gold, 16 Silver, and 23 Bronze medals), their joint fourth-best performance in Games in terms of gold medals won. India has won the maximum medals in different categories of wrestling and weightlifting. India won 12 medals in wrestling and 10 in weightlifting. Formidable Australia topped the CWG 202 medal tally by winning 178 medals (67 Gold, 57 silver, and 57 Bronze medals), followed by England (176) and Canada (92).
India failed to break its record of Commonwealth Games 2018 in terms of medals. India won a total of 66 medals in the 2018 edition of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast and finished third in the medals tally. However, India managed to win its 200th gold in Commonwealth Games history in Birmingham. The 200th gold medal for India was won by star shuttler PV Sindhu in badminton women's singles event. India now has a total of 203 gold medals in the Commonwealth Games. Notably, if we look at India's performance in the last six Commonwealth Games (from 1998 to 2018), then the 2010 Commonwealth Games edition is India's best performance in the Games. The Indian contingent had won 101 medals in the Games in New Delhi.
India's performance on Day 11 of CWG 2022 in Birmingham
India won 6 medals on the last day of CWG 2022, which included 4 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze medal. Badminton players PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen won gold in singles, while the pair of Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won gold in doubles. Tennis players Achanta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gyanasekhar won gold and bronze medal, respectively in the men's singles event. The Indian men's hockey team settled for a silver after a drubbing from Australia.