Sixty-one medals, across 12 different disciplines, 22 of them gold. A fourth-place finish on the medal table. Say it softly, but say it nonetheless. India’s august Commonwealth Games 2022 is a changing of the guard. A blueprint for better times ahead.
That’s despite it not even being as successful as the Games prior — when our athletes romped home with 66 medals and finished third at the table. The difference is the diversity. At the Gold Coast, India’s medals came from eight different sports, four fewer than this time. What’s more, shooting, India’s traditional medal filler, wasn’t part of Birmingham at all.