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Several promising players failed to match up to expectations but India finished with 101 medals in the 19th Commonwealth games, their best in CWG history. With 38 gold medals in its kitty, India surpassed its previous best performance at the Manchester Games and finished second in the medals tally.
The last day saw India falter in the hockey final as they were thrashed by Australia but Saina Nehwal’s singles gold in badminton capped a series of impressive performances.
While Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra managed only a silver, India’s other shooters including Gagan Narang and Vijay Kumar outperformed the competition and won 14 golds in different shooting events.
The Indian grapplers too proved their mettle and clinched 19 medals (10 golds, 5 silver and 4 bronze) in wrestling. Olympic bronze medalist Sushil Kumar (66kg freestyle) along with Ravinder Singh (60kg GR), Rajender Kumar (55kg GR), Sanjay (74kg GR), Anil Kumar (96kg GR), Yogeshwar Dutt (60kg FS), Narsingh Yadav (74kg FS), Geeta Kumari (55kg), Alka Tomar (59kg), Anita (67kg) bagged the top prize.
The host nation wrote history in athletics bagging the first gold in discus throw and 4X400 metres relay. Krishna Poonia along with Harwant Kaur and national record holder Seema Antil swept all the medals in the women’s discus throw event to register a magnificent victory. The Indian quartet of Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, Ashwini Akkunji and Mandeep Kaur finished first in the 4x400m relay, clocking 3:27.77s.
In boxing, Indian pugilists made their mark winning three golds in the event. There was disappointment in the Indian camp after the early exit of star players Akhil Kumar and Vijender Kumar. But other pugilists Paramjeet Samota (91+kg), Manoj Kumar (64 kg) and Suranjoy Singh (52 kg) made the nation proud bagging gold.
Youngster Somdev Dev Varman clinched India’s maiden gold in men’s singles tennis though tennis stars Sania Mirza and Leander Paes could not live up to the hype created in the run-up to the games. Somdev demolished Greg Jones in straight sets to send the home crowd into wild celebrations.
In hockey, Indian team stormed into the finals in style beating England in a thriller. But they lost badly to Australia in the finals and had to settle for a silver medal. The Australian thrashed India 8-0 in the finals to clinch gold.
India, however, could not have asked for a better finish at CWG 2010 with its shuttlers coming good at the Siri Fort Stadium. The pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa bagged gold in the women's doubles taking India’s gold tally to 37. And then Saina Nehwal created history by becoming the first Indian woman to win the singles gold at the CWG.
The final tally for India was 101 medals (38 golds, 27 silver and 36 bronze).
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