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India was represented at the
2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...
in Melbourne by a 270-member strong contingent comprising 183 sportspersons and 77 officials. 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was the flag bearer for India. Samresh Jung was chosen as the winner of the inaugural David Dixon Award, which honours the outstanding athlete at each Commonwealth Games. Jung won seven medals at the 2006 Games, five gold, one silver and one bronze and set three new Games records along the way. As in the previous
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, India came fourth overall in the medals table, behind
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Medals


Gold

Shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can ...
: Samaresh Jung and
Jaspal Rana Jaspal Rana (born 28 June 1976) is an Indian shooter. He contested mainly in the 25 m Centre Fire Pistol category. He was a gold medallist at the 1994 Asian Games, 1998 Commonwealth Games - Men's Center Fire Pistol, Men's Center Fire Pistol Pa ...
, Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol (Pairs) *, Men's 10m Air Pistol (Pairs) * Samaresh Jung and Ronak Pandit, Men's 25m Standard Pistol (Pairs) *
Tejaswini Sawant Tejaswini Sawant (born 12 September 1980) is an Indian shooter from the Maharashtrian city of Kolhapur. Her father Ravindra Sawant was an officer in the Indian Navy. Biography Tejaswini born to father Ravindra and mother Sunita in Kolhapur. S ...
and
Avneet Sidhu Avneet Kaur Sidhu (Bathinda, 30 October 1981) is an Indian sport shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) with Tejaswini Sawant at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She contested in the 10 m air rifle and 50 m rifle thr ...
, Women's 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) *
Abhinav Bindra Abhinav Apjit Bindra is an Indian Olympic gold medallist, retired sport shooter, and businessman.Gagan Narang, Men's 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) * Saroja Jhuthu and Sushma Rana, Women's 25m Pistol (Pairs) *
Anuja Jung Anuja Jung (born 6 August 1971) is an Indian sport shooter from New Delhi, India. Career She won the gold medal in the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions with 670.7 points and the silver medal in Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Pairs) with Anjali ...
, Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions * Samresh Jung, Men's 10m Air Pistol * Vijay Kumar, Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol * Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Men's Double Trap * Gagan Narang, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
Weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...
: * Yumnam Chanu, Women's 58 kg *
Kunjarani Devi Nameirakpam Kunjarani Devi (born 1 March 1966) is the most decorated Indian sportswoman in weightlifting. Background Devi was born on 1 March 1968 at Kairang Mayai Leikai in Imphal, to a Hindu Meitei family. She started taking interest in s ...
, Women's 48 kg * Geeta Rani, Women's +75 kg
Table Tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
: * Sharath Kamal, Men's Singles *Men's Team Event
Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...
: * Akhil Kumar, Bantamweight 54 kg


Silver

Shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can ...
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Avneet Kaur Sidhu Avneet Kaur Sidhu (Bathinda, 30 October 1981) is an Indian sport shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's 10m Air Rifle (Pairs) with Tejaswini Sawant at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She contested in the 10 m air rifle and 50 m rifle three ...
, Women's 10m Air Rifle * Samresh Jung and Vivek Singh, Men's 50m Pistol (Pairs) * Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Vikram Bhatnagar, Men's Double Trap (Pairs) *
Anjali Bhagwat Anjali Bhagwat (born 5 December 1969) is a professional Indian sport shooter. She became the World Number One in 10m Air Rifle in 2002. She also won her first World Cup Final in Milan, in 2003, with a score of 399/400. Anjali won the ISSF ...
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Anuja Jung Anuja Jung (born 6 August 1971) is an Indian sport shooter from New Delhi, India. Career She won the gold medal in the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions with 670.7 points and the silver medal in Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Pairs) with Anjali ...
, Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Pairs) *
Pemba Tamang Pemba Tamang (born 11 March 1980) is an Indian sport shooter. He won the gold medal in the Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol (Pairs) with Vijay Kumar and the silver medal in the Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. T ...
, Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol * Vivek Singh, Men's 10m Air Pistol *
Abhinav Bindra Abhinav Apjit Bindra is an Indian Olympic gold medallist, retired sport shooter, and businessman.Weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...
: * Vicky Batta, Women's 56 kg * Arun Murugesan, Men's 62 kg *
Laishram Monika Devi Laishram Monika Devi (born 1 March 1983) is an Indian weightlifter from Manipur who won the silver medal in the Women's 69 kg category at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Monika was originally part of the Indian squad for the 2008 Summer Olympic ...
, Women's 69 kg * Simple Kaur BHUMRAH, Women's +75 kg * ASDULLAH Mohammed Zakir, Men's 77 kg
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: * Seema Antil, Women's Discus Throw *Women's 4 × 400 m Relay
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Vijender Kumar Vijender Kumar (born 10June 1968) is a professor of Law and currently serving as the Vice-Chancellor of Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur, a National Law University in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. With his experience as a legal professio ...
, Welterweight 69 kg * Harpreet Singh, Heavyweight 91 kg Hockey: *India women's national field hockey team


Bronze

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: * Chetan Anand, Men's Singles *Mixed Team Event
Table Tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
: *Women's Team Event
Shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can ...
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Abhinav Bindra Abhinav Apjit Bindra is an Indian Olympic gold medallist, retired sport shooter, and businessman.Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Men's Trap * Samresh Jung, Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol * Sanjeev Rajput, Men's 50m rifle prone
Weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...
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Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga Sudhir Kumar Padma Raju (born 13 April 1979) is an Indian weightlifter. He won the bronze medal in the Men's 69 kg category at the 2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and common ...
, Men's 69 kg
Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...
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Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan is an Indian track and field athlete. He won the bronze medal in the Men's Seated Discus Throw EAD at the 2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly know ...
, Men's Seated Discus Throw EAD
Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...
: * Jitender Kumar, Flyweight 51 kg *
Varghese Johnson Varghese Johnson (born April 28, 1982) is an amateur boxer from India who repeatedly medaled in the Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg) division. Career In Melbourne at the Commonwealth Games 2006 he won Bronze, losing to David Price, who arose f ...
, Super Heavyweight +91 kg


India's Teams at the 2006 Commonwealth Games


Field Hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...


Men's team

* Gokhul shankar *
Deepak Thakur Deepak Thakur Sonkhla (popularly known as Deepak Thakur) is a hockey forward in Indian team. Family Thakur's father is an ex-serviceman and his mother a house-wife. His younger sister is a national badminton player. Career Junior level Thak ...
* Kanwalpreet Singh *
Sandeep Singh Sandeep Singh (born 27 February 1986) is an Indian professional field hockey player from Haryana and an ex-captain of the Indian national hockey team. He generally features as a full back and is a penalty corner specialist for the team. He ...
* Tejbir Singh *
Ignace Tirkey Ignacious "Ignace" Tirkey is an Indian field Hockey player. He plays as a Fullback and has captained the Indian team. He also serves the Madras Engineering Group (Madras Sappers corps of engineers) Indian army as a commissioned officer. He h ...
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Prabodh Tirkey Prabodh Tirkey (born 6 October 1984) is an Indian hockey midfielder. He is a former captain of the Indian hockey team. Personal life Prabodh is the younger brother of the Indian hockey player Ignace Tirkey, who also has captained the Indian S ...
* Didar Singh * Baljit Singh *
Rajpal Singh Rajpal Singh (born 8 August 1983) is a former captain of India national hockey team. He plays from the forward (front line) position. He is an Arjuna Award winner. He is a graduate from Chandigarh’s SGGS Khalsa College and a product of Shi ...
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Sardara Singh Sardara Singh (born 15 July 1986), sometimes referred as Sardar Singh, is an Indian former professional field hockey player and captain of the Indian national team. He usually plays the center half position. Sardara became the youngest player t ...
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Viren Rasquinha Viren Wilfred Rasquinha (born 13 September 1980) is an Indian former field hockey player and captain of the Indian national team. He was a member of the team that competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He quit international hockey in 2008 to ...
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Arjun Halappa Arjun Halappa (born 13 December 1980) is a professional Indian hockey player and former captain of Indian Hockey Team. Career Midfield maestro Arjun Halappa is the son of former East Bengal Hockey Club player B. K. Halappa, He hails from Kod ...
* William Xallxo *
Vikram Pillay Vikram Vishnu Pillay is a hockey midfielder from India. Career Early career He helped India winning gold in Hockey Junior World Cup in 2001. Senior career Vikram made his international debut for India in 2002 during a 4 nation tournament i ...
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Tushar Khandekar Tushar Khandker (born 5 April 1985) is an Indian professional field hockey player. He represented India in Men's Hockey during the 2012 London Olympics. Khandker comes from a family of hockey players as his father, uncle and elder brother play ...
* Balaji Head coach: Rajinder Singh


Women's team

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Helen Mary Helen Mary Innocent (born 14 March 1977 in Kerala) is a field hockey goalkeeper from India, who made her international debut for her native country in 1992 in the test series against Germany. In 2003, she saved two penalty strokes in final tie ...
* Kanti Baa * Nilima Kujur * Rajwinder Kaur * Sumrai Tete *
Masira Surin Masira Surin (born 18 November 1981) is a member of the India women's national field hockey team. She played with the team when it won the gold at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the ...
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Subhadra Pradhan Subhadra Pradhan (born 5 June 1986) is an Indian field hockey player. Early life Subhadra Pradhan was born on 5 June 1986 in Saunamara, a small town in Odisha to an Adivasi family. She did schooling in Birsa Munda school and pre-university edu ...
* Asunta Lakra *
Jyoti Sunita Kullu Jyoti Sunita Kullu (born 9 September 1978 in Sundargarh, Odisha) is a female field hockey player from India, who made her international debut for her native country in 1996 in Delhi at the Indira Gandhi Gold Cup. In 2002, she became the topsc ...
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Mamta Kharab Mamta Kharb (born 26 January 1982, Sonipat, Haryana) is the former captain of the Indian women's hockey team. During the 2002 Commonwealth Games, she scored the winning goal which gave India the GoldShe also served as the model f ...
* Jasjeet Kaur Handa * Surinder Kaur * Saba Anjum Karim *
Sanggai Chanu Sanggai Ibemhal Chanu Maimom (born 3 January 1981 in Bashikong, near Imphal, Manipur) is a female field hockey player from India, who made her international debut for her native country in April 1998 in a friendly against Germany (0–2). She ...
* Sarita Lakra * Rajni Bala Head coach: Maharaj Krishan Kaushik


References


External links


Medal Winners for India, Official listing
Melbourne Commonwealth Games website. {{DEFAULTSORT:India At The 2006 Commonwealth Games India at the Commonwealth Games Nations at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
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