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Watch: Lakshya Sen's Wild Celebration After Winning Commonwealth Games Gold

Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen made the entire nation proud with his heroics in the final match of the men's singles badminton event of the Commonwealth Games 2022. The 20-year-old clinched the gold medal after defeating Malaysia's NG Tze Yong 19-21, 21-19 and 21-16, on Monday. Lakshya, who had earlier helped India in winning the historical Thomas Cup in May, added a new feather on his cap. After registering the thumping win in the summit clash on Monday, the shuttler could not hide his emotions and went wild in his celebration.

CWG 2022: PV Sindhu brushes aside Li challenge, Lakshya Sen downs Yong to win gold medals

PV Sindhu finally added that one medal that was missing from an otherwise glittering collection, when she clinched the CWG women's singles gold, downing Canada's Michelle Li in straight games in a 48-minute affair.

Musical evening with Bhangra and power-packed performance from ‘Apache Indian' marked the closing ceremony of Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games. More than 4,500 athletes competed from 72 countries over the past 11 days. India finished with 61 medals, five less than their tally four years ago at Gold Coast. As per the tradition, the flag of the Commonwealth Games Federation, was lowered to officially mark the end of the Birmingham Games and handed over to the state of Victoria, Australia, the host of the next edition of the Commonwealth Games in 2026. Prince Edward "proclaimed Birmingham 2022 closed" and made a formal invitation to the Australian state of Victoria for the 2026 Commonwealth Games.

Commonwealth Games 2022: India's best ever performance

Events that gave 49 medals in 2010 not in 2022 GamesIndia'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.

Canadian athletes won 92 medals at the Commonwealth Games — here's what's next

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CWG 2022: Shuttlers, paddlers dazzle on last day; hockey team fizzles out; India finish 4th with 22 gold medals

It was expected that Sindhu, Lakshya Sen and the formidable pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy would end up on top of the podium but what provided the icing on the cake was the 40-year-old Sharath Kamal's gold medal-winning show against an equally good opponent in Liam Pitchford.

Hollie Naughton named Canada's flag-bearer for Commonwealth Games closing ceremony

Days after making history at the Commonwealth Games, squash player Hollie Naughton was chosen to carry Canada's flag into the closing ceremony.

Singapore’s Feng Tianwei and Zeng Jian win table tennis doubles gold at Commonwealth Games

SINGAPORE: Feng Tianwei and Zeng Jian won Singapore’s third table tennis gold medal of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Monday (Aug 8) with victory in the women’s doubles final.

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Watch: Lakshya Sen's Wild Celebration After Winning Commonwealth Games Gold

CWG 2022: PV Sindhu brushes aside Li challenge, Lakshya Sen downs Yong to win gold medals

Musical evening with Bhangra and power-packed performance from ‘Apache Indian' marked the closing ceremony of Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games 2022: India's best ever performance

Canadian athletes won 92 medals at the Commonwealth Games — here's what's next

CWG 2022: Shuttlers, paddlers dazzle on last day; hockey team fizzles out; India finish 4th with 22 gold medals

Hollie Naughton named Canada's flag-bearer for Commonwealth Games closing ceremony

Singapore’s Feng Tianwei and Zeng Jian win table tennis doubles gold at Commonwealth Games