New Delhi, Delhi, India

2018 Commonwealth Games has come to a close and the Indian contingent met the expectations the countrymen had from them.

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India finished the Games with 66 medals, including 26 gold, 20 silver and 20 bronze at the 21st CWG.   

The nation bettered their tally of medals from 2014 Glasgow Games where they had won a total of 64 medals, including 15 Gold.

In Gold Coast, India got off to a brilliant start on the first day of the games itself when they won Silver in weightlifting, courtesy P. Gururaja. 

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Later, Mirabai Chanu bagged India's first Gold in 2018 Games.

India did not look back ever since with youngsters overcoming the nerves and experienced players living up to their star status.

Manika Batra clinching gold in the women’s singles table tennis final to become the first Indian woman to do so. Overall, Batra won four medals at the CWG.

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Saina Nehwal became the first female Indian shuttler to win two individual badminton gold medals, after defeating World No 3 PV Sindhu 21-18, 23-22 in a riveting women’s singles final.

Anish Bhanwala, the 15-year-old pistol sensation, became the youngest Indian gold medalist at the CWG with a Games record score of 30 in the men’s 25pm rapid fire pistol finals.

MC Mary Kom, five-time world champion and Olympic bronze medalist, won her first CWG medal by claiming gold in the women’s 45-48kg boxing event.

Manu Bhaker, teenage shooting prodigy, clinched gold in the women’s 10m air pistol event after she shot a qualifying CWG record score of 388/400 in her first appearance at the Games.

Neeraj Chopra marking his CWG debut with a season bestsellers throw of 86.47 to win a javelin gold.

Shooters Tejaswini Sawant and Heena Sidhu clinched two medals. Sawant won gold in the women’s 50m rifle 3 prone and silver in the 50m rifle prone, and Sidhu gold in the women’s 25m pistol (with a CWG record 38) and silver in the 10m air pistol.

Wrestler Bajrang Punia won gold in the men’s freestyle 64kg finals with a two-minute win over Kane Charig of Wales.