India at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

India was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 270-member strong contingent comprising 183 sportspersons and 77 officials. 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was the flag bearer for India.

Samresh Jung was chosen as the winner of the inaugural David Dixon Award, which honours the outstanding athlete at each Commonwealth Games. Jung won seven medals at the 2006 Games, five gold, one silver and one bronze and set three new Games records along the way. As in the previous 2002 Commonwealth Games, India came fourth overall in the medals table, behind Australia, England and Canada.

Medals

Gold

Shooting:

Samaresh Jung and Jaspal Rana, Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol (Pairs)

• , Men's 10m Air Pistol (Pairs)
• Samaresh Jung and Ronak Pandit, Men's 25m Standard Pistol (Pairs)
• Tejaswini Sawant and Avneet Sidhu, Women's 10m Air Rifle (Pairs)
• Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, Men's 10m Air Rifle (Pairs)
• Saroja Jhuthu and Sushma Rana, Women's 25m Pistol (Pairs)
• Anuja Jung, Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
• Samresh Jung, Men's 10m Air Pistol
• Vijay Kumar, Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
• Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Men's Double Trap
• Gagan Narang, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions

Weightlifting:

• Yumnam Chanu, Women's 58 kg
• Kunjarani Devi, Women's 48 kg
• Geeta Rani, Women's +75 kg

Table Tennis:

• Sharath Kamal, Men's Singles
• Men's Team Event

Boxing:

• Akhil Kumar, Bantamweight 54 kg

Silver

Shooting:

• Avneet Kaur Sidhu, Women's 10m Air Rifle
• Samresh Jung and Vivek Singh, Men's 50m Pistol (Pairs)
• Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Vikram Bhatnagar, Men's Double Trap (Pairs)
• Anjali Bhagwat and Anuja Jung, Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Pairs)
• Pemba Tamang, Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
• Vivek Singh, Men's 10m Air Pistol
• Abhinav Bindra, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions

Weightlifting:

• Vicky Batta, Women's 56 kg
• Arun Murugesan, Men's 62 kg
• Laishram Monika Devi, Women's 69 kg
• Simple Kaur BHUMRAH, Women's +75 kg
• Mohammed Asdullah, Men's 77 kg

Athletics:

• Seema Antil, Women's Discus Throw
• Women's 4 × 400 m Relay

Boxing:

• Vijender Singh, Welterweight 69 kg
• Harpreet Singh, Heavyweight 91 kg

Hockey:

• India women's national field hockey team

Bronze

Badminton:

• Chetan Anand, Men's Singles
• Mixed Team Event

Table Tennis:

• Women's Team Event

Shooting:

• Abhinav Bindra, Men's 10m Air Rifle
• Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Men's Trap
• Samresh Jung, Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol
• Sanjeev Rajput, Men's 50m rifle prone

Weightlifting:

• Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga, Men's 69 kg

Athletics:

• Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan, Men's Seated Discus Throw EAD

Boxing:

• Jitender Kumar, Flyweight 51 kg
• Varghese Johnson, Super Heavyweight +91 kg

India's Teams at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Field Hockey

Men's team

• Gokhul shankar
• Deepak Thakur
• Kanwalpreet Singh
• Sandeep Singh
• Tejbir Singh
• Ignace Tirkey
• Prabodh Tirkey
• Didar Singh
• Baljit Singh
• Rajpal Singh
• Sardara Singh
• Viren Rasquinha
• Arjun Halappa
• William Xallxo
• Vikram Pillay
• Tushar Khandekar
• Balaji

Head coach: Rajinder Singh

Women's team

• Helen Mary
• Kanti Baa
• Nilima Kujur
• Rajwinder Kaur
• Sumrai Tete
• Masira Surin
• Subhadra Pradhan
• Asunta Lakra
• Jyoti Sunita Kullu
• Mamta Kharab
• Jasjeet Kaur Handa
• Surinder Kaur
• Saba Anjum Karim
• Sanggai Chanu
• Sarita Lakra
• Rajni Bala

Head coach: Maharaj Krishan Kaushik

References

External links

• Medal Winners for India, Official listing Melbourne Commonwealth Games website.