101 medals, 2nd on medals tally: Remembering 2010 Commonwealth Games - India's best performance ever

Commonwealth Games held in New Delhi. India finished second on the medal tally behind Australia - their best showing at the Games till date - by winning 101 medals which included 38 gold, 27 silver and 36 bronze medals. For the first time in the history of the Games, India won over 100 medals in total. For the first time ever India won a medal in gymnastics, with Ashish Kumar winning a silver and a bronze. And it was after a gap of 52 years that India had won a gold in a track and field event - after legendary sprinter Milkha Singh's gold medal at the 1958 Cardiff Games - when Krishna Poonia won the yellow metal in the women’s discus throw event. Geeta Phogat scripted history as she became the first Indian woman wrestler to win a gold - in the women’s 55kg category - at the Commonwealth Games. Here TimesofIndia.com takes you down memory lane to relive some of the big highlights of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which will never be forgotten: Medal Rush for IndiaThe shooting contingent spearheaded the Indian medal rush at the CWG 2010, with 2008 Beijing Olympics gold-medallist Abhinav Bindra leading the way. Indian shooters clinched 30 medals in total out of India’s 101 medals, including 14 gold out of the 38 top podium finishes. Wrestlers ruled the mat too as 19 of the 21 wrestlers secured podium finishes, which included 10 gold medals. Overall Indian men won 64 medals while the women claimed 36. The only mixed team medal came in badminton, a silver.

(TOI photo)Krishna Poonia ended India's long wait in Track & FieldAce discus thrower Krishna Poonia finally ended India's long wait for an athletics gold at the Commonwealth Games. Fifty two years after the great Milkha Singh gave the country its first gold medal triumph in