Golden age of Indian sports has just begun: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hosted the Commonwealth Games 2022 Indian contingent at his residence and praised the contribution of the athletes in making the country proudIndia finished 4th in the medal tally winning a total of 61 medals at the CWG 2022 including 22 gold medals 16 Silver and 23 Bronze medalsI am happy that all of you have taken time out of your schedule to come to meet me at my residence as members of the family I just like all other Indians feel proud to be talking to you I welcome you all PM Modi saidThis is just the beginning for our Yuva Shaktithe Golden age of Indian sports has just begun In the past few weeks nation recorded two major achievements in field of sports Besides historic performance in CWG for the first time country hosted Chess Olympiad he addedThe country not only successfully hosted Chess Olympiad but continuing its rich tradition in Chess gave its best performance I also congratulate all players who participated and those who won medals at the Chess Olympiad PM saidAchieving 61 medals this time around holds a lot of significance since the shooting which is Indias most successful discipline historically with 135 medals was not included in the games this time The numbers could have been way higher had it been includedBefore commencement of CommonwealthGames I had told you amp promised you in a way that when you come back well celebrate Vijayotsav together I was confident that youll come back victorious I had also thought of meeting you even if I would be busy amp celebrate Vijayotsav said PM Modi during the interaction with the CWG 2022 Indian contingentThe Indian contingent also saw some firsttime medals like in lawn bowls and cricket Notably the womens cricket team was sent as a part of the contingent India lost to Australia by a narrow margin of nine runs in a thrilling finalAlso the Indian Lawn Bowls team consisting of Rupa Rani Tirkey Nayanmoni Saikia Lovely Choubey and Pinki Singh created history by winning its firstever medal in the sport capturing Gold by defeating South Africa by 1710 in the final of the womens fours event The mens fours team also clinched a silver laterAlso Read CSA T20 League Paarl Royals sign Buttler Miller McCoy and BoschCompared to last time this time we paved our way to victory in 4 new sports There was an unprecedented performancefrom Lawn Balls to Athletics With this the interest of youth in new sports will increase We have to further improve our performance in these new sports he saidIndia dominated contact and strengthbased sports of weightlifting wrestling and boxing The countrys contingent won 12 medals in wrestling its most successful sport in the 2022 edition of the multisport event India captured medals in every category in which its stars wrestled This includes six gold medals as well by Bajrang Punia Ravi Dahiya Deepak Punia Sakshi Malik Vinesh Phogat and NaveenIndia won 10 medals in weightlifting including three golds by Mirabai Chanu Achinta Sheuli and Jeremy LalrinnungaIndian boxers won a total of seven medals in boxing This includes gold by Amit Panghal Nitu Ghangas and Nikhat ZareenIn athletics the nations athletes won a total of eight medals It includes gold by Eldhose Paul in the mens triple jump Avinash Sable silver in mens 3000 m steeplechase Annu Rani bronze in womens javelin throw Murali Sreeshankar silver in mens long jump were some other prominent medal winnersIndia won quite a few medals in racquet sports as well Seven medals came in table tennis which includes four gold medals by Achanta Sharath Kamal in mens singles mens team para table tennis player Bhavina Patel and the mixed duo of Sharath Kamal and Sreeja AkulaBadminton stars of India clinched six medals in the sport PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen won gold in the mens and womens singles category while the mens doubles team of Chirag Shetty and Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy also won goldIndias hockey teams also returned home with medals The mens team won silver while the womens team is coming back home with a bronzeThe country also won three medals in judo with Shushila Devi and Tulika Mann capturing silver medals and Vijay Kumar Yadav winning a bronze medalThe Squash contingent also returned home with two bronze medals Saurav Ghosal won one in mens singles while the other in mixed doubles with Dipika PallikalAlso parapowerlifter Sudhir captured Indias first gold in parapowerliftingThe Commonwealth Games 2022 came to an end with a stunning closing ceremony at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham on MondayThe Commonwealth Games flag was presented to the Governor of Victoria The state of Victoria Australia will be the next host of the Commonwealth Games in 2026This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its 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