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Commonwealth Games 2018 – Overview

The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Common-
wealth Games and commonly known as Gold Coast 2018, were an inter-
national multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth. Before we
go into other details, let us have a quiz glimpse at the history of common-
wealth games.
History
 The first Commonwealth Games were held in 1930 in Hamilton,
Canada, where 11 countries participated.
 Since then, the Games have been conducted every four years
(except for 1942 and 1946 due to World War II)
 Earlier it was called the British Empire Games
Commonwealth Games 2018
- Host Country – Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- Dates – April 4 to 15, 2018
- Number of Countries Participating – 71
- Motto – Share the Dream
- Edition – 21st
- Number of Athletes – 6600
- Number of Indian Athletes – 231
- Stadium – Carrara Stadium
- Number of Sports played – 19

The games were officially opened by Charles, Prince of Wales. It is the

fifth time Australia has hosted the Commonwealth Games.

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Motto
The official motto for the 2018 Commonwealth Games was "Share the
Dream". It was chosen to highlight the dreams and experience at the games
that were shared by participants of the games, ranging from athletes to
volunteers and the host country Australia to the world including the Com-
monwealth nations.

Emblem

The emblem of the 2018 Commonwealth Games was a silhouette of the

skyline and landscape of Gold Coast, the host city of the games.
Mascot:

Borobi was named as the mascot of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in

2016. Borobi is a blue koala, with indigenous markings on its body. The term
"borobi"

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means koala in the Yugambeh language, spoken by the indigenous Yugam-

beh people of the Gold Coast and surrounding areas.

Newly Added Sports in CWG 2018

 Beach Volleyball
 Para Trialathon
 Women Rugby
Future Editions of Commonwealth Games
 The 22nd edition of Commonwealth Games will be held in Brimingham,
England in 2022.
 It was supposed to be hosted by Durban, South Africa but was
replaced by England in December 2017.
 Motto of Brimingham games would be “Heart of the UK, Soul of the
Commonwealth”
India’s Success Stories in the past in Commonwealth Games
 India’s Performance at CWG 2018 is also its 3rd best in the
history of the Games.
 1st was India’s performance at CWG 2010, New Delhi with
101 medals (38 Gold).
 2nd best performance was at CWG 2002, Manchester with 69
medals.
India’s Performance in CWG 2018
 This year India has done very well with a medal tally of 66 which is
two more than Glasglow 2014.
 The Medal Tally is broken down as follows:

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- It is important to note that athletes from the state of Haryana have

emerged as the highest in the medal tally. And also have won the most gold
medals.
- Similarly, the most gold medals won by an Indian organisation is Railways
with a tally of 10/22.
Sport-wise medal tally for India in Commonwealth Games 2018:

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New Records created by Indian Athletes in CWG, 2018

Wrestling

- All the 12 wrestlers, who were part of the Indian contingent, won
medals. Five of them finished on the top step of the podium.
Weightlifting

- Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu,Won the First Gold Medal in Women’s 48 kg in

the CommonWealth Games and broke the records in the ‘Snatch’ section,the
‘Clean & Jerk’ and the overall games record.

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-Deepak Lather from Haryana became the youngest Weightlifter to claim a

commonwealth Games medal,clinching a Bronze in men’s 69kg Category.

- Venkat Rahul Ragala is the first Indian to win Gold medal in the 85kg
Category in the Common Wealth Games.
Shooting

- Anish Bhanwala won the gold medal in men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol and
became the Youngest Indian Gold Medalist.
Javelin

- Neeraj Chopra became the first ever Indian athlete to win a gold medal in
Javelin throw. And the second Javelin thrower to claim a medal in CWG/
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Table Tennis

- Manik Batra became the first ever Indian Woman to win a gold in TT singles
- Batra's four medals (Women's team gold, women's singles gold, women's
doubles silver, mixed doubles bronze) was the most by an Indian in Gold
Coast.
Track (400m)

- Anas Yahiya ran the race of his life in the men's 400m final, finishing fourth
with a new national record of 45.31 seconds.
- He is the only sprinter into the finals of the 400m event after legendary
sprinter Milkha Singh.

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Badminton

- Saina Nehwal became the first Indian to win two singles golds at the games
after defeating P.V.Sindhu.With this win Saina, ranked 12th in the world.

-Satwik Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa won Gold in Mixed Badminton Catgory
and this also the country’s first Medal in that Category at the Commonwealth
Games.

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