India @ Commonwealth Games Medals galore

Birmingham: India has won more than 500 medals in the 17 editions – it missed four (in 1930, 1950, 1962 and 1986) – of the Commonwealth Games, including 182 gold, with shooting alone garnering 63 gold.

Shooting made its Games debut in 1966 but India's first gold in that sport came only in 1990 at Auckland through Ashok Pandit in centre-fire pistol. Jaspal Rana has the distinction of winning the maximum medals (15) in shooting, including nine gold.

Shooting has been dropped from the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

India had its best medal tally (101 medals, including 38 gold), in 2010 when it hosted the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. It finished second in the medal table, its best-ever finish in the Games.

Here's a brief look at India's medal tally at the Commonwealth Games since 1934:

1934 London: 1 bronze (first medal, Rashid Anwar, wrestling, 74kg).

1938 Sydney: No medal.

1954 Vancouver: No medal.

1958 Cardiff: 3 medals – 2 gold, 1 silver. First gold in athletics: Milkha Singh (440 yards); first gold in wrestling: Lila Ram (100kg).

1966 Kingston: 10 medals – 3 gold (all from wrestling), 4 silver, 3 bronze.

1970 Edinburgh: 12 medals – 5 gold (all from wrestling), 3 silver, 4 bronze.

1974 Christchurch: 15 medals – 4 gold (all from wrestling), 8 silver, 3 bronze.

1978 Edmonton: 15 medals – 5 gold (three from wrestling), 4 silver, 6 bronze. First gold in badminton: Prakash Padukone in men's singles; first gold in weightlifting: Ekambaram Karunakaran (men's 52kg).

1982 Brisbane: 16 medals – 5 gold (four from wrestling), 8 silver, 3 bronze.

1990 Auckland: 32 medals – 13 gold (12 from weightlifting), 8 silver, 11 bronze. (Twelve gold in weightlifting but three medals were given in each weight category – snatch, clean & jerk and total then – and that made the number). First gold in shooting: Ashok Pandit (men's centre-fire pistol).

1994 Victoria: 24 medals – 6 gold (three in shooting), 11 silver, 7 bronze.

1998 Kuala Lumpur: 25 medals – 7 gold (four in shooting), 10 silver, 8 bronze.

2002 Manchester: 69 medals – 30 gold (14 in shooting), 22 silver, 17 bronze. First gold in boxing: Md Ali Qamar (below-48kg); first gold in hockey: India (women's team).

2006 Melbourne: 50 medals – 22 gold (16 from shooting), 17 silver, 11 bronze. First gold in table tennis: A. Sharath Kamal (men's singles) & men's team.

2010 New Delhi: 101 medals – 38 gold (14 from shooting), 27 silver, 36 bronze. First gold in archery: Rahul Banerjee (men's individual recurve bow), Deepika Kumari (women's individual recurve bow), India (recurve bow team). First gold in tennis: Somdev Devvarman (men's singles). Second in medal table – the best ever.

2014 Glasgow: 64 medals – 15 gold (5 in wrestling), 30 silver, 19 bronze. First gold in squash: Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinnappa (women's doubles).

2018 Gold Coast: 66 medals – 26 gold (7 in shooting and 5 each in wrestling and weightlifting), 20 silver, 20 bronze. Third in medal table.

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