Common Wealth Game -2022
Common Wealth Game is quadrennial multi-sport event (happens once every four year). And it is a multi-sports event among the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held on 1930.Athletes with a disability are included in Common wealth game in 2002. In 2018, the Games became the first global multi-sport event to feature an equal number of men’s and women’s medal events and four years later they are the first global multi-sport event to have more events for women than men.
Now this year Common Wealth Game -2022 which is 22nd game happened at Birmingham (England) from 28 July to 8 August 2022. India has participated in all Common Wealth Games starting at second game in 1934. In 2010 India hosted this game.
India got
4th position in 2002 (Manchester, England)
4th position in 2006 (Melbourn, Australia)
2nd position in 2010 (New Delhi, India)
5th position in 2014 (Glasgow, Scotland)
3rd position in 2018 (Gold Coast, Australia)
4th position in 2022 (Birmingham, England)
Overall Medal in INDIA 2022
Name of Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
Shooting | 63 | 44 | 28 | 135 |
Wrestling | 49 | 39 | 26 | 114 |
Weightlifting [n 1] | 46 | 51 | 36 | 133 |
Boxing | 11 | 13 | 20 | 44 |
Badminton | 10 | 8 | 13 | 31 |
Table tennis | 10 | 5 | 13 | 28 |
Athletics | 6 | 14 | 16 | 36 |
Archery | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
Hockey | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
Squash | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
Tennis | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Lawn bowls | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Powerlifting | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Judo | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
Gymnastics | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Cricket | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Swimming | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (17 name of sports) | 203 | 190 | 171 |
564 |
The next common wealth game is going to be held at across four cities in the Australian state of Victoria from 17 to 29 March 2026.