COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2006

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

15/03/2006 - 26/03/2006


India: Ranked 4

49 Medals - Gold: 22, Silver: 17, Bronze: 10

Name Medal Sports Discipline
Akhil Kumar gold Boxing Men's 54 KG
Samaresh Jung gold Shooting Men's 10M Air Pistol
Samaresh Jung Vivek Singh gold Shooting Men's 10M Air Pistol (Pair)
Gagan Narang gold Shooting Men's 10M Air Rifle
Tejaswini Sawant gold Shooting Women's 10M Air Rifle
Abhinav Bindra Gagan Narang gold Shooting Men's 10M Air Rifle (Pair)
Avneet Kaur Sidhu Tejaswini Sawant gold Shooting Women's 10M Air Rifle (Pair)
Pemba Tamang Vijay Kumar gold Shooting Men's 25M Rapid Fire Pistol (Pair)
Saroja Kumari Jhuthu Sushma Rana gold Shooting Women's 25M Sport Pistol (Pair)
Ronak Pandit Samaresh Jung gold Shooting Men's 25M Standard Pistol (Pair)
Samaresh Jung gold Shooting Men's 50M Free Pistol
Gagan Narang gold Shooting Men's 50M Rifle 3 Position
Anuja Jung gold Shooting Women's 50M Rifle 3 Position
Abhinav Bindra Gagan Narang gold Shooting Men's 50M Rifle 3 Position (Pair)
Jaspal Rana Samaresh Jung gold Shooting Men's Centre Fire Pistol (Pair)
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore gold Shooting Men's Double Trap
Vijay Kumar gold Shooting Men's Rapid Fire Pistol
Sharath Achanta gold Table Tennis Men's Singles
Sharath Achanta Shibaji Datta Soumyadeep Roy Subhajit Saha gold Table Tennis Men's Team
Geeta Rani gold Weightlifting Women's 75 KG Combined
Kunjarani Devi Nameirakpam gold Weightlifting Women's 48 KG Combined
Yumnam Chanu gold Weightlifting Women's 58 KG Combined
Chitra Soman Manjit Kaur Pinki Parmanik Rajwinder Kaur silver Athletics Women's 4 x 400m Relay
Seema Antil silver Athletics Women's Discus Throw
Vijender Vijender silver Boxing Men's 69 KG
Harpreet Singh silver Boxing Men's 91 KG
Indian Women's Team silver Hockey Women's Team
Vivek Singh silver Shooting Men's 10M Air Pistol
Avneet Kaur Sidhu silver Shooting Women's 10M Air Rifle
Samaresh Jung Vivek Singh silver Shooting Men's 50M Free Pistol (Pair)
Abhinav Bindra silver Shooting Men's 50M Rifle 3 Position
Anjali Mandar Bhagwat Anuja Jung silver Shooting Women's 50M Rifle 3 Position (Pair)
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Vikram Bhatnagar silver Shooting Men's Double Trap (Pair)
Pemba Tamang silver Shooting Men's Rapid Fire Pistol
Simple Kaur Bhumrah silver Weightlifting Women's +75 KG Combined
Vickey Batta silver Weightlifting Men's 56 KG Combined
Arun Murugesan silver Weightlifting Men's 62 KG Combined
Laishram Monika Devi silver Weightlifting Women's 69 KG Combined
Mohammed Zakir Asdullah silver Weightlifting Men's 77 KG Combined
Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan bronze Athletics Men's Discus Throw Para Sport
Chetan Anand bronze Badminton Men's Singles
Anup Sridhar Aparna Lalji Popat Chetan Anand Jwala Gutta Rupesh Kumar Saina Nehwal Sanave Thomas Shruti Kurian Trupti Murgunde Valiyaveetil Diju bronze Badminton Mixed Team
Jitender Kumar bronze Boxing Men's 51 KG
Varghese Johnson bronze Boxing Men's over 91 KG
Abhinav Bindra bronze Shooting Men's 10M Air Rifle
Samaresh Jung bronze Shooting Men's Centre Fire Pistol
Manavjit Singh Sandhu bronze Shooting Men's Clay Pigeon Trap
Kasturi Chakraborty Mouma Das Nandita Saha Poulomi Ghatak Shamini Kumaresan bronze Table Tennis Women's Team
Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga bronze Weightlifting Men's 69 KG Combined

India’s 14th appearance at the Commonwealth Games was with a 270 member strong contingent. Samresh Jung was awarded with the inaugural David Dixon Award, honoring the outstanding athlete at each Commonwealth Games. Jung won seven medals at the 2006 Games, five gold, a Silver and a Bronze each setting three new Games Records along the way. Team India ranked fourth overall in the medals table, behind Australia, England and Canada having bagged a total of 50 medals.

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