India’s Performance in the Birmingham CWG 2022 – A comparison to the 2018 season!
India’s Performance in the Birmingham CWG 2022, India’s outstanding performance at the 2022 Commonwealth Games came to an end on Monday (August 8). On the last day of the competition, the country won four gold medals. In badminton, PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, Satwik Rankireddy, and Chirag Shetty won the women’s singles, men’s singles, and men’s doubles titles respectively.
Sharath Kamal won the gold medal in the men’s singles table tennis competition, which was the cherry on top. With this win, he got his fourth medal in the competition and his 12th overall, putting him in second place among Indian athletes in terms of medals.
With a total of 61 medals, India was ranked fourth. Compared to how many medals they won in 2018, India dropped one spot and had five less. But when you look at the numbers more closely, you can see that India did better. India had won 66 medals in the previous version held at the Gold Coast in 2018. They won 26 gold medals, 20 silver medals, and 20 bronze medals.
The truth is that India’s most popular sport in CWG history, shooting, was not part of the 2022 games. In 2018, India won a total of 16 medals in sports, seven of which were gold. If the shooting event had been part of the Birmingham contest, it’s soothing to imagine how high India would have been on the medal list.
India’s Performance in the Birmingham CWG 2022 – A comparison to the 2018 season!
Wrestling
India got the same number of wrestling medals as they did in 2018: 12. This time, though, they had an extra gold medal. In 2022, six Indian wrestlers won gold medals at the CWG, up from five in 2018.
Weightlifting
In 2022, India won the most medals in weightlifting, followed by wrestling. India did better in 2022 than it did in 2018 when it won nine medals, three of which were gold. India won nine medals in weightlifting in 2018, and five of them were gold.
Table Tennis
In 2022, India did a great job at table tennis. They won seven medals. But this was one less than India’s total of eight medals from last year. India’s biggest disappointment came in the women’s team competition, where they were hoping to maintain their gold medal win like 2018.
Boxing
Boxing, like table tennis, was another sport in which India didn’t do well in 2018. India won nine medals in 2018, even though it only won seven medals, including three golds, in 2022. Both times, India came home with a total of three medals.
Badminton
India was able to match its total of six medals in the sport from 2018 in 2022. Even though the country lost the mixed team final, it was still able to win three more gold medals by coming in first, second, and third. India won two gold medals in badminton in 2018.
Athletics
Even with the big hole left by Neeraj Chopra, India easily beat their 2018 score in 2022. India won a total of eight medals at the athletics competition in Birmingham. This is a big jump from the three medals they won in 2018.
Lawn Bowls
Even though lawn bowling has been a part of the Olympics since the beginning, India had never won a medal in it until 2022. But after the country won two medals in 2022, including a historic gold in the women’s fours, the country’s future in the sport was changed.
Squash
India won two medals in squash in 2018 and did the same thing again in 2022. But there were two silver medals on the Gold Coast, while both Indian medals in Birmingham were bronze.
Judo
Even though judo wasn’t a sport at the 2018 CWG, India won three medals in it in Birmingham. Two of them were silver, and one was bronze.
Cricket
In 2022, women’s cricket was added to the Olympics for the first time in 24 years. The team led by Harmanpreet Kaur won a silver medal, which we see as a historic win!
Hockey
The Indian men’s and women’s teams didn’t win a medal in 2018, which surprised a lot of people, but they made up for it in 2022 by winning medals in both events. The men won a silver medal, and the women took home a bronze medal.
Para Powerlifting
India won one medal in powerlifting in both 2018 and 2020. But this time, there was gold to be happy about. On the Gold Coast, the country won one bronze medal.