Events that gave 49 medals in 2010 not in 2022 Games
India's 61 medals at Birmingham might seem well short of the 101 won in the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010 and their 22 gold medals below the 26 won at Gold Coast four years ago, but account for disciplines that were missing here, and this is actually India's best CWG performance.
Here's how that works out. The 101 medals in Delhi, included 30 from shooting, eight from archery, seven from Greco-Roman wrestling and four from tennis. None of these disciplines were part of the 2022 Games. Subtract those from the Delhi total and what we're left with is 52 medals, including 17 gold.
For a fair comparison, also take away the lawn bowls gold and silver from Birmingham, the cricket silver and the judo medals because cricket and judo were not part of the 2010 CWG and lawn bowls in 2010 did not have men's and women's fours, the events in which India won medals here. That reduces the 2022 tally to 55 medals and 21 gold, better on both counts than 2010.
A similar, apples to apples comparison with 2018 would mean excluding the shooting medals, which brings the tally from four years ago to 50, including 19 gold, again short of the total achieved this time.
Relative to 2010, India has lost some ground (only in terms of medals) in athletics and gymnastics, but has more than offset that through gains in badminton, table tennis, squash and to some extent weightlifting and hockey.
If we compare with 2018, the big gain is in athletics (8 versus 3) and one extra medal in hockey and in weightlifting, enough to offset a slight dip in boxing and TT.
1/7:India wrap up 2022 Birmingham Games with 61 medals
<p>Shuttlers and paddlers had sensational outings on the final day of the Birmingham Games as India wrapped up the 2022 edition with a total of 61 medals, finishing fourth behind Australia, England and Canada.</p>
2/7:Phenomenal Sindhu lays hands on gold
<p>India kicked off Day 11 with sporting icon PV Sindhu adding a Commonwealth Singles gold to her wide array of medals with a convincing straight-game win over Canada's Michelle Li in the final, outplaying her 13th ranked opponent 21-15, 21-13. (Reuters photo)</p>
3/7:Sen strikes gold in maiden appearance
<p>World no.10 Lakshya Sen after that came from behind to end Ng Tze Yong's giant-killing run in the competition. The 20-year-old defeated the world number 42 from Malaysia 19-21, 21-9, 21-16 for gold in his maiden appearance at the Games. (AFP photo)</p>
4/7:Star doubles pair of Chirag and Satwik
<p>Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy won the country's third gold in badminton on the final day with a straight game victory over England's Ben Lane and Sean Mendy, winning the final 21-15, 21-13. India finished a fantastic badminton campaign with three gold, one silver and two bronze. (Getty Images)</p>
5/7:Sathiyan avenges doubles final loss
<p>In table tennis, G Sathiyan bagged his maiden Commonwealth Games singles medal as he won bronze, beating home-favourite Paul Drinkhall 4-3 in front of a packed crowd. Sathiyan avenged his men's doubles final loss against Drinkhall and triumphed 11-9, 11-3, 11-5, 8-11, 9-11, 10-12, 11-9. The bronze was Sathiyan's sixth overall medal at the Commonwealth Games. (AP photo)</p>
6/7:Age just a number for Sharath
<p>Sharath Kamal, 40, then capped his best ever performance at the Commonwealth Games by winning the men's singles gold. He defeated Liam Pitchford of England 11-13, 11-7, 11-2, 11-6, 11-8 in the final to increase his tally to a staggering 13 medals across five CWG appearances. (AP photo)</p>
