India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
competed at the
2018 Commonwealth Games
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at
Gold Coast
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,
Australia
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from 4 to 15 April 2018. It was India's 17th appearance at the Commonwealth Games. With 26 Gold medals and a total of 66 medals, India finished 3rd for the tournament.
It was India's best position since the
2010 Commonwealth Games
The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ...
, which they hosted.
Competitors
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The following is a list of the number of competitors representing India that participated at the Games per India/discipline:
Medalists
India was the best nation in 5 disciplines,
weightlifting
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,
shooting
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,
wrestling
Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...
,
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...
and
table tennis
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, and the second best nation in
boxing
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.
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Athletics
;Men
;Track & road events
* Competed in heats only.
;Field events
;Women
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Combined Events –
Heptathlon
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Badminton
India was represented by 10 athletes, 5 men and 5 women.
;Singles
;Doubles
;Mixed team
;Summary
;Roster
*
Pranav Chopra
Pranaav Jerry Chopra (born 6 September 1992) is an Indian badminton player. He joined the India national badminton team in 2007. In the year 2018, at the Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Queensland, he won the gold medal in mixed team as ...
*
Srikanth Kidambi
Srikanth Kidambi (born 7 February 1993) is an Indian badminton player. A former world no. 1, Kidambi was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, in 2018. and the Arjuna award in 2015. In 2021, he became the first Indian t ...
*
Prannoy Kumar
Prannoy Haseena Sunil Kumar (born 17 July 1992), also known as H. S. Prannoy, is an Indian badminton player who currently trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. Prannoy originally hails from Thiruvananthapuram and has a ca ...
*
Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal (; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian professional badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 ...
*
Ashwini Ponnappa
Ashwini Ponnappa Machimanda (born 18 September 1989) is an Indian badminton player who represents the country at the international badminton circuit in both the women's and mixed doubles disciplines. She had a successful partnership with Jwal ...
*
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (born 13 August 2000) is an Indian badminton player. He and his partner, Chirag Shetty, are the first men's doubles pair from India to be ranked inside the top 10 of the BWF World Ranking, with a career-high ranking of 5 ...
*
N. Sikki Reddy
Nelakurihi Sikki Reddy (born 18 August 1993) is an Indian badminton player who plays doubles and mixed doubles. In 2016, she won the Brazil and Russia Open Grand Prix title in the mixed doubles event partnered with Pranaav Chopra. She and Cho ...
*
Chirag Shetty
Chirag Chandrashekhar Shetty (born 4 July 1997) is an Indian badminton player. He and his partner, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, are the first men's doubles pair from India to be ranked inside the top 10 of the BWF World Ranking, with a career-high ...
*
Gadde Ruthvika Shivani
Gadde Ruthvika Shivani ( te, గద్దె రుత్విక శివాని; born 26 March 1997) is an Indian badminton player who currently plays singles. She trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy.
Childhood and Early Training
G ...
*
P V Sindhu
;Pool A
;Quarterfinals
;Semifinals
;Final
Basketball
India has qualified a men's and women's basketball teams for a total of 24 athletes (12 men and 12 women). Both teams were invited by
FIBA
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and the
CGF.
;Summary
Men's tournament
;Roster
*
Ravi Bhardwaj
*
Arvind Arumugam
*
Satnam Bhamara
*
Arshpreet Bhullar
*
Akilan Pari
Akilan Pari (born 20 July 1989) is an Indian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Punjab Steelers of India's UBA Pro Basketball League.
He is a member of India's national basketball team since 2014. As of 2018, he serves ...
*
Justin Joseph
*
Jeevanantham Pandi
*
Yadwinder Singh
*
Joginder Singh
*
Amritpal Singh
*
Amjyot Gill
;Pool B
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Women's tournament
;Roster
;Pool B
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Boxing
India was represented by 12 athletes, 8 men and 4 women.
;Men
;Women
Cycling
India participated with 9 athletes (4 men and 5 women).
Track
;Sprint
;Keirin
;Time trial
;Pursuit
;Points race
;Scratch race
Gymnastics
India was represented by 7 athletes, 3 men and 4 women.
Artistic
;Men
;Team Final & Individual Qualification
;Individual Finals
;Women
;Team Final & Individual Qualification
;Individual events
Rhythmic
;Women
;Individual
Hockey
India has qualified a men's and a women's team for a total of 36 athletes (18 men and 18 women) based on the FIH World Rankings as of 31 October 2017.
;Summary
Men's tournament
;Team
Hockey India announced the team of 18 members which was led by Manpreet Singh.
Squad:
Goalkeepers:
Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran,
Suraj Karkera
Defenders:
Rupinder Pal Singh
Rupinder Pal Singh (born 11 November 1990) is a professional field hockey player, who represents India in the Indian Hockey Team. He plays as a fullback and is known for his abilities as one of the best drag flickers in the world. He represent ...
,
Harmanpreet Singh
Harmanpreet Singh is an Indian field hockey player who plays as a defender for the Indian national team and also captains the national team. He was part of the hockey team that won the bronze medal for India in Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games ...
,
Varun Kumar,
Kothajit Singh
Khadangbam Kothajit Singh (born 17 August 1992) is an India field hockey player who plays as a defender or midfielder for the Indian national team.
He represented India in Men's Hockey during the 2012 London Olympics. He is the third hockey ...
,
Gurinder Singh
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,
Amit Rohidas
Midfielders:
Manpreet Singh (C),
Chinglensana Singh Kangujam (VC),
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,
Vivek Sagar Prasad
Forwards:
Akashdeep Singh
Akashdeep Singh (born 2 December 1994) is an Indian field hockey player who plays as a forward for Uttar Pradesh Wizards in the Hockey India League and the India hockey team.
Career
Born in Verowal, Tarn Taran, Punjab, Singh started to play ...
,
S.V. Sunil,
Gurjant Singh,
Mandeep Singh
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,
Lalit Upadhyay
Lalit Kumar Upadhyay (born 1 December 1993) is an Indian 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 b ...
,
Dilpreet Singh
;Preliminary round
;Pool B
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;Semi-Finals
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;Bronze medal match
Women's tournament
Hockey India has announced the team which was led by Rani Rampal.
Squad:
Goalkeepers:
Savita (VC),
Rajani Etimarpu
Defenders:
Deepika,
Sunita Lakra
Sunita Lakra (born 11 June 1991) is an Indian field hockey player. Lakra has represented her country by being capped in the India women's national field hockey team. Lakra announced her retirement from hockey through Hockey India on 2 January 2 ...
,
Deep Grace Ekka
Deep Grace Ekka (born 3 June 1994) is an Indian female field hockey player. She plays for the Indian Women's Hockey Team. She has been selected for Arjun award in 2022.
Early life
Deep Grace Ekka was born on 3 June 1994 in a small village calle ...
,
Gurjit Kaur
Gurjit Kaur (born 25 October 1995) is an Indian female field hockey player. She plays the position of a defender and is also the team's designated drag flicker. She has represented India internationally, most recently at the Hockey World Cup 20 ...
,
Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam
Midfielders:
Monika,
Namita Toppo,
Nikki Pradhan
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,
Neha Goyal
Neha Goyal (born 15 November 1996) is an Indian field hockey player and is a member of the India women's national field hockey team, India national team. She hails from Haryana and plays as the midfielder.
Early life
Goyal was born in Sonipat ...
,
Lilima Minz
Forwards:
Rani
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(C),
Vandana Kataria
Vandana Katariya (born 15 April 1992) is an Indian field hockey player. She plays as a forward in the Indian national team. Vandana rose to prominence in 2013, being India's top goal-scorer in the 2013 Women's Hockey Junior World Cup, where ...
,
Lalremsiami,
Navjot Kaur,
Navneet Kaur,
Poonam Rani
Poonam Rani (born 8 February 1993) is an Indian field hockey player from Hisar, Haryana who was selected to represent India at the 2016 Olympics. She is said to have been inspired to play hockey after watching the India win the gold medal at t ...
;Preliminary round
;Pool A
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;Semi-Finals
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;Bronze medal match
Lawn bowls
India was represented by 10 athletes, 5 men and 5 women.
;Men
;Women
Powerlifting
India participated with 4 athletes (3 men and 1 woman).
Shooting
;Men
;Women
Squash
Team of 6 athletes represented India at the squash competition in the
2018 Commonwealth Games
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.
;Individual
;Doubles
Swimming
;Men
;Women
Table tennis
India was represented by 10 athletes, 5 men and 5 women.
Sharath Kamal
Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982) is an Indian professional table tennis player. He is the first Indian table tennis player ever to become ten times Senior National Champion hence breaking the record of eight-time National Champion Kam ...
,
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (born 8 January 1993) is an Indian table tennis player, who is the highest ranked Indian, currently ranked at 39 in the world as of November 2022.
He was a member of the Indian team that won back to back Gold medals in 201 ...
,
Sanil Shetty
Sanil Shankar Shetty is an Indian table-tennis player. In 2018 Commonwealth Games held at Gold Coast, Australia, He won gold in men's team event with Sharath Kamal, Anthony Amalraj, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran & Harmeet Desai
Harmeet Desai is ...
,
Harmeet Desai
Harmeet Desai is an Indian table tennis player. He is currently ranked 71 in the world as of August 2021. He is from Surat.
In 2018 Commonwealth Games held at Gold Coast, Australia, He won gold in men's team event with Sharath Kamal, Anthony A ...
and
Anthony Amalraj
Amalraj Anthony Arputharaj (born 24 January 1986) is a professional table tennis player from Tamil Nadu India. He won silver medal at 2014 Commonwealth Games in doubles with Sharath Kamal.
Amalraj won the National Table Tennis Championship in ...
made up the men's Table Tennis squad. The women's squad comprised
Manika Batra
Manika Batra (born 15 June 1995) is an Indian table tennis player. As of November 2020, she is the top-ranked female table tennis player in India and ranked 44th in the world as of November 22. She was awarded the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna i ...
,
Mouma Das
Mouma Das (born 24 February 1984) is an Indian table tennis player. Born and brought up in Kolkata, West Bengal, she has represented India in international events since the early 2000s. Das has won multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games inc ...
,
Sutirtha Mukherjee
Sutirtha Mukherjee (born 10 October 1995) is an Indian table tennis player from Naihati, West Bengal. She has won national table tennis championship and also was just a part of gold medal winning Indian women's team at 2018 Commonwealth Games. M ...
,
Madhurika Patkar
Madhurika Patkar is an Indian table-tennis player.
She beat serial winner Poulomi Ghatak in Manesar to win the 78th 11Even Sports Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship in 2016.
In February 2017 Patkar won the Indian nation ...
and
Pooja Sahasrabudhe
Pooja Sahasrabudhe is an Indian International Table tennis player from Thane, Maharashtra. She comes from a humble middle-class background, and was born and brought up in Thane, Maharashtra. She took to Table tennis at the age of 9 in the year ...
.
;Singles
;Doubles
;Team
;Para-sport
Weightlifting
;Men
;Women
Wrestling
India participated with 12 athletes (6 men and 6 women).
;Repechage Format
;Group Stage Format
;Nordic Format
References
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2018
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Commonwealth Games
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Nations at the 2018 Commonwealth Games