Common Wealth Games, India: A journey so far

India began its journey in the 1934 Common Wealth Games from a single bronze medal and climbed up its position in a sequence and claimed as many as 101 medals in the last Common Wealth Games. 101 turns to be the best claiming of medals as far as Common Wealth Games is concerned. This year the games are scheduled for Wednesday, the 23rd July and will conclude on August 3. The venue for the mentioned games is Glasgow.

Appended below is the previous performance of India at various occasions of CWG (it is worth making a note here that India didn’t participate in the CWG of 1930, 1950, 1962 and 1986):

• 2010 - 101 (38 Gold, 27 Silver, 36 Bronze)
• 2006 - 51 (22, 17, 12)
• 2002 - 69 (30, 22, 17)
• 1998 - 25 (7, 10, 8)
• 1994 - 24 (6, 11, 7)
• 1990 - 32 (13, 8, 11)
• 1982 - 16 (5, 8, 3)
• 1978 - 15 (5, 4, 6)
• 1974 - 15 (4, 8, 3)
• 1970 - 12 (5, 3, 4)
• 1966 - 10 (3, 4, 3)
• 1958 - 3 (2, 1, 0)
• 1934 - 1 (0, 0, 1)