Commonwealth Games 2014: Full list of Indian gold, silver and bronze medal winners
Here’s a low-down on India’s performance at Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 and the list of Gold, Silver and Bronze medalists:
Sport |
India’s medal count (Total 55 – 14 Gold, 25 Silver and 16 Bronze) |
Wrestling | 13 Medals (5 Gold, 6 Silver and 2 Bronze) |
Shooting | 17 Medals (4 Gold, 9 Silver and 4 Bronze) |
Weight-lifting | 13 Medals (3 Gold, 4 Silver and 6 Bronze) |
Athletics | 2 Medal (1 Gold and 1 Silver) |
Squash | 1 Medal (1 Gold) |
Table Tennis | 1 Medal (1 Silver) |
Boxing | 3 Medal (2 Silver and 1 Bronze) |
Gymnastics | 1 Medal (1 Bronze) |
Judo | 4 Medals (2 Silver and 2 Bronze) |
India are behind England (152 medals), Australia (128), Canada (78) and Scotland (52). Although Scotland have fewer total medals than India, they have 18 Gold medals as against India’s 14.
But India are ahead of New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Northern Ireland, Wales, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Jamaica among others.
The support for Indian athletes on Twitter for the Games was the third highest among the participating nations. There were as many as 4,531 tweets for “Go India” almost twice as much as tweets for England or Pakistan.
Deep dive into individual sporting event and India’s performance:
Majority of India’s win came in the wresting, weightlifting and shooting sports. Champions Sushil Kumar, Abhinav Bindra, Amit Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt, Gagan Narang and Babita Kumari, as usual, gave a stellar performance and grabbed a gold medal each in their respective sport categories.
Here is the full list of all Indian gold, silver and bronze medalists at Commonwealth 2014 held in Glasgow, UK between 23rd July and 3rd August:
Men’s Wrestling: |
Medal count |
Sushil Kumar | Gold for 74 kg |
Yogeshwar Dutt | Gold for 65 kg |
Amit Kumar | Gold for 57 kg |
Rajeev Tomar | Silver for 125 kg |
Satyavart Kadian | Silver for 97 kg |
Bajrang Kumar | Silver for 61 kg |
Pawan Kumar | Bronze for 86 kg |
Women’s Wrestling |
Medal count |
Babita Kumari | Gold for 55 kg |
Vinesh Phogat | Gold for 48 kg |
Geetika Jhakar | Silver for 63 kg |
Sakshi Malik | Silver for 58 kg |
Lalita | Silver for 53 kg |
Navjot Kaur | Bronze for 69 kg |
Men’s Shooting |
Medal count |
Abhinav Bindra | Gold for 10 metre air rifle |
Jitu Rai | Gold for 50 metre pistol |
Prakash Nanjappa | Silver for 10 metre air pistol |
Gurpal Singh | Silver for 50 metre air pistol |
Gagan Narang | Silver for 50 metre rifle prone |
Harpreet Singh | Silver for 25 metre rapid fire pistol |
Sanjeev Rajput | Silver for 50 metre rifle 3 positions |
Mohammed Asab | Bronze for double trap shooting |
Manavjit Singh Sandhu | Bronze for trap shooting |
Gagan Narang | Bronze for 50 metre rifle 3 positions |
Women’s Shooting |
Medal count |
Apurvi Chandela | Gold for 10 metre air rifle |
Rahi Sarnobat | Gold for 25 metre pistol |
Malaika Goel | Silver for 10 metre air pistol |
Ayonika Paul | Silver for 10 metre air rifle |
Anisa Sayeed | Silver for 25 metre pistol |
Shreyasi Singh | Silver for double trap shooting |
Lajja Goswami | Bronze for 50 metre rifle 3 positions |
Men’s Weightlifting |
Medal count |
Sukhen Dey | Gold for 56 kg |
Satish Sivalingam | Gold for 77 kg |
Katulu Ravi Kumar | Silver for 77 kg |
Vikas Thakur | Silver for 85 kg |
Chandrakant Mali | Bronze for 94 kg |
Ganesh Mali | Bronze for 56 kg |
Omkar Otari | Bronze for 69 kg |
Women’s Weightlifting |
Medal count |
Sanjita Khumukchan | Gold for 48 Kg |
Santoshi Matsa | Silver for 53 kg |
Mirabai Chanu Saikhom | Silver for 48 kg |
Punam Yadav | Bronze for 63 kg |
Swati Singh | Bronze for 53 kg |
Sakina Khatun | Bronze for Powerlifting (lightweight) |
Men’s Athletics |
Medal count |
Vikas Gowda | Gold for Discus Throw |
Women’s Athletics | Medal Count |
Seema Antil | Silver for Discus Throw |
Men’s Judo |
Medal Count |
Navjot Chana | Silver for 60 kg |
Women’s Judo |
Medal Count |
Sushila Likmabam | Silver for 48 kg |
Kalpana Thoudam | Bronze for 52 kg |
Rajwinder Kaur | Bronze for +78 kg |
Men’s Boxing |
Medal count |
Devendro Singh | Silver for Light Flywight |
Mandeep Jangra | Silver for 69 kg |
Women’s Boxing |
Medal count |
Laishram Sarita Devi | Silver for Lightweight |
Pinki Rana | Bronze for Flyweight |
Squash |
Medal count |
Dipika Pallikal and | Gold for |
Joshna Chinappa | Women’s Doubles |
Table Tennis |
Medal Count |
Achanta Sharath Kamal and | Silver for |
Amalraj Anthony Arputharaj | Men’s Doubles |
Women’s Gymnastics |
Medal count |
Dipa Karmakar | Bronze for Gymnastics (Vault) |
But India's most successful Commonwealth Games to date remains the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games where athletes won a grand total of 101 medals – 38 Gold, 27 Silver and 37 Bronze medals.
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