Commonwealth Games 2022, Highlights: India ranks fourth on medals table as final medals tally rises to 61

Commonwealth Games 2022, Highlights: India ranks fourth on medals table as final medals tally rises to 61

Closing Ceremony Details

• The closing ceremony is scheduled for 12:30 AM IST on 9th August.
• Nikhat Zareen and Sharath Kamal are named flag-bearers for India.

India is positioned at the 4th spot in the medals tally table which is topped by Australia

Medals Tally Table

India has won a total number of 61 medals in the 2022 edition of the multi-nation event

Following is the final medals tally of India:

• Gold Medals - 22
• Silver Medals - 16
• Bronze Medals - 23

Hockey

• India bag silver medal in men's hockey after losing to Australia by 7-0.

IND 0 - 7 AUS after the fourth quarter

IND 0 - 6 AUS after the third quarter

IND 0 - 5 AUS after the second quarter

IND 0 - 2 AUS after the first quarter

• Australia take lead as they net the first goal.
• Indian men's hockey team eyes gold as they take on Australia in final.

Table Tennis

• Sharath Kamal wins gold medal in Table Tennis men's singles.
• The 40-year-old thrashed England’s Liam Pitchford in the final match by (11-13, 11-7, 11-2, 11-6, 11-8).
• Sathiyan Gnanasekaran bags bronze medal.
• He defeated England's Paul Drinkhall  by 4-3.

India's medal tally rises to 57 

India's Medal Tally

Badminton

• Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty duo win gold.

• Lakshya Sen bags maiden gold medal at the CWG.

• He thrashed his Malaysian opponent Tze Yong NG by 19-21, 21-9, 21-16.

• PV Sindhu clinches maiden single's gold and takes India's medal tally to 56.

• The world number seven Sindhu outplayed her 13th ranked opponent Canada's Michelle Li by 21-15 , 21-13 

• Sindhu won bronze medal in the 2014 edition of CWG and won gold in the 2018 edition of the multi-nation event.

The last stride to carve new chapters in history

Good Morning and welcome to India TV's live blog of the 22nd Commonwealth Games. Today is the 11th and the final day of the multi-nation sporting event. In this particular edition, the members of the Indian contingency put up quite a spectacular show, especially in weightlifting, boxing, and wrestling. 

As of now India currently has 55 medals and they will look to go past the 60 medal mark. On the 10th day, India fared well in the track and field events. With Aldhose Paul clinching a historic medal in the men's triple jump, India will look to script many more pages in their sporting history as we head into the final day of the multi-nation event.