Hello and welcome to our coverage of the much awaited Commonwealth Games which started yesterday with the opening ceremony. After the postponement of the Asian Games, CWG became much more important event for many athletes in an otherwise cramped schedule. India has send the allocated quota of 210 athletes at the game which includes 106…
Wrestling is the Sport which has given India third highest number of medals at Commonwealth Games with 102 medals including 43 Golds. Written by | Sanjay Kr Verma Only shooting and weightlifting have done better than wrestling. In fact, wrestling has given us the first medal in the history of the Games way back in…
Can Judo help India bridge the void created by no Shooting at the Games CWG2022 Judo is being contested for the 4th time in the Commonwealth Games and India overall have won 5 silver and 3 bronze medals with the 2014 edition being the best with 2 silver and 2 bronze. This year 6 Judokas…
Here you will find the latest updated schedule for Indian events at the #Birmingham2022 CWG22 games. The games will be broadcasted on SonyLiv. India has send more than 200 athletes to compete at the games. Day9 Schedule | IST Timings | 6 Aug TT | Reeth/Sreeja v Wales | Women Doubles | Rd16 | 2:00pm…
Weightlifting has been India’s strong event at CWG with 125 medals which includes 43 Golds. Weightlifting was introduced in the Commonwealth Games in 1950 and since then has been held in all the editions. But the women were allowed to contest only from the 2002 edition. Weightlifting has been one of India’s primary medal-winning…
Gujarat will host the National Game for first time from 27 September to 10 October. Initially planned in Goa, the national games has been postponed for last six years. The games were to be held in November 2016. After two delays in 2018 and 2019 due to the state’s inability to create adequate infrastructure,…
Tejaswin Shankar the High Jump NR holder who Qualified for the CWG was omitted from initial squad. A trial which took place for the World Championships Oregon Relay race replacement runner opened the door for Tejaswin. Arokia Rajiv who ran the 400m couple of days back to prove his fitness for boarding the plane…
With 7 Golds, 7 Silvers & 11 Bronze Medal. India stand third after England & Malaysia in Badminton History of CWG Here we look at how has been India’s performance across different editions. 1966 Jamaica CWG Games Badminton was first held at the CWG in 1966 and since then has been held in all the…
Here you can find the list of participants for the CWG 2022 from India. So far the teams for Athletics, Badminton, Boxing, Wrestling, Hockey, Swimming, TT, Triathlon, Weightlifting & Wrestling has been annonced. Here are the teams. Athletics Men: Avinash Sable (3000m steeplechase), Murali Sreeshankar, Muhammed Anees (long jump), Praveen Chitravel, Abdulla Aboobacker. Eldhose Paul (all…
Singapore has won the highest number of gold medals across all editions with 22 followed by England, India and Nigeria. Commonwealth Games are being held since 1930 but Table Tennis was first introduced in the year 2002. Since then it has been played regularly at all the games and is in its 6th edition…
Indian Mixed team is in Group A along with Australia, Sri Lanka & Australia CWG 2022 Star – studded Indian team will be up against a relatively easy competition in the mixed team event, as they are scheduled to play against low ranked teams like Pakistan, Sri lanka and Australia. None of these teams have…
Sajan Prakash, Srihari Nataraj to lead Indian swimming campaign at the Birmingham Games Swimming events will be held from 29th July to 3rd August. Apart from the star duo of Sajan Prakash and Srihari Nataraj, Kushagra Rawat and Advait Page will make their debuts at the quadrennial event. The Swimming Federation of India (SFI) had…
Asian Games postponement has triggered this move as now a full strength Hockey Squad Indian Team will be now taking part in the Birmingham CWG games. The men hockey team led by Manpreet Singh has all the big names like P R Sreejesh, Harmanpreet Singh, Lalit Upadhyay and Nilakanta Sharma Indian men returned medal-less at…
Athletics federation of India has announced the squad for the Commonwealth Games scheduled in Birmingham 2022. Aishwarya B who had a phenomenal run at the recent National Interstate will be participating in both Long Jump and Triple Jump. India is not fielding any team in 4×400 women relay but have listed athletes for 4×100 which…
Experienced Player Ayhika Mukherjee & Sutirtha Mukherjee miss out Amid of a lot of controversy around the squad selection for the CWG 2022 Table Tennis squad the selectors named a team which is on expected lines going by the recent performances. The women squad is subject to clearance from the Sports Authority of India…
Hosts Jain University maintained their position on top of the medals table while Lovely Professional University took huge strides at the end of Day 8 of the Khelo India University Games 2021 in Bengaluru on Saturday. Jain University with 27 medals – 16 gold, six silver and five bronze – are on top of the…
Day Two Update from KIUG 2022 Swimmers Siva Sridhar and Srihari Nataraj led the charge for host Jain University, clinching three gold medals in record times, in the Khelo India University Games. Volleyball SRM University men’s and women’s teams entered their respective summit clashes with contrasting wins. The men’s outfit fought hard to defeat MG…
The Day one update for KIUG 2022 [mailerlite_form form_id=1] Komal Kohar of Maharshi Dayanand University won the women’s 45kg weightlifting gold medal in the Khelo India University Games (KIUG) on Sunday. Komal set a new KIUG record with a combined lift of 160kg (snatch 70kg, clean and jerk 90kg). Source | Khel Now The results:…
BAI selected a 10-member team for the Birmingham Games through a gruelling Selection Trials. A Star studded team was selected for the CWG 2022 by the Badminton Association of India, the team includes big names like Srikanth Kidambi, Lakshya Sen, PV Sindhu & Lakshya-Chirag. At the games there will be Six medals up for…
Asian Games 2022 The Nineteenth edition of Asian Games will take place from September 10 to September 25, 2022, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. This will be the third time mainland China will be hosting the event with previous occasions being Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010. There will be five co-host cities. The multi-sporting event will…
