India at CWG 2022: India participated for the primary time within the Commonwealth Games held in London within the yr 1934. It took 24 years for India to get its first medal in athletics. In the Commonwealth Games held in 1958, Milkha Singh gained gold for India within the four hundred and forty yards race. After this, until the yr 2002, this is, in a span of 44 years, India were given a couple of medals in athletics. From the Commonwealth Games 2002, Indian gamers began profitable medals in athletics steadily. Now when Indian gamers have gained 8 medals in athletics within the Commonwealth Games 2022 held in Birmingham, it is regarded as a large fulfillment. With this Commonwealth Games, Indian gamers have given new hope in athletics.
Before Birmingham, ie from 1934 to 2018, India had participated in 19 Commonwealth Games. In those 19 Commonwealth Games, India were given most effective 28 medals in athletics. Indian gamers gained 12 athletics medals within the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. This may be India’s absolute best efficiency thus far in athletics. However, the massive reason why at the back of this absolute best efficiency was once that many huge gamers from international locations like England, Australia and Canada didn’t take part on this Commonwealth Games. After this, within the Commonwealth Games of 2014 and 2018 India’s proportion was once most effective 3-3 athletics medals.
Indian gamers carried out brilliantly in athletics in Birmingham. Here India were given 8 athletics medals. Most of the medals got here whilst growing historical past. Tejaswin Shankar, Sreeshankar Murali, Aldos Paul, Abdullah Abubakar, Sandeep Kumar, Annu Rani, Priyanka Goswami and Avinash Mukand Sable proved to be heroes in athletics for India. These gamers gave India one gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals in athletics.
Tejaswin’s High Jump and Sreeshankar’s Long Jump
Tejaswin Shankar gave India the primary athletics medal in Birmingham. He gained the bronze within the prime leap with a leap of two.22 meters. This was once India’s first medal within the prime leap within the historical past of the Commonwealth. After this Murli Sreeshankar created historical past. He gained the silver medal within the males’s lengthy leap ultimate with a absolute best leap of 8.08 metres. With this medal, Sreeshankar additionally changed into the primary male athlete from India to win a silver medal for India within the lengthy leap tournament within the historical past of the Commonwealth Games.
Personal absolute best file of Priyanka and Avinash
On the ninth day of the Commonwealth Games, India were given two extra giant successes in athletics. In the boys’s 3000 steeplechase, India’s Avinash Mukund Sable clocked his private absolute best (8 mins 11.20 seconds) to win silver. At the similar time, Priyanka of India gained the silver medal within the girls’s 10,000 meter race stroll. He additionally gained the medal right here along with his private absolute best efficiency (43 mins 38.83 seconds).
Historic two medals in triple leap
Four medals rained in athletics at the tenth day of the Commonwealth Games. In the ladies’s javelin throw tournament, Annu Rani gained the bronze medal through throwing the javelin 60 meters away. On the opposite hand, within the males’s 10000 meters stroll, Sandeep gained the bronze medal through clocking 38:42.33 mins. On at the moment two primary achievements in athletics got here within the males’s triple leap tournament. Here two Indian athletes gained medals. India’s Abdullah Abubakar gained the silver medal with a leap of 17.02 meters and Aldos Paul gained the gold with a leap of 17.03 meters. India were given two medals for the primary time in any unmarried athletics tournament within the historical past of the Commonwealth.
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