With the Commonwealth Video games and Asian Video games being limited-field occasions in some respects –because of historical past and geography respectively – there are sports activities through which medals are harder to earn at one level than the opposite. Some sports activities characteristic international champions on the CWG, whilst some others have Asian powerhouses. As such, the Indian medal hauls in the similar game on the two occasions can range significantly. A have a look at what the Indian contingent can be expecting to stumble upon in quite a lot of sports activities on the two Video games:
Athletics: Champs in Asia, strugglers at CWG
Neeraj Chopra gained a silver on the Global Athletics Championship 2022. (Neeraj Chopra/Instagram)
At the Asian circuit, Indians have finished smartly with China and Japan being the one different main medal contenders. Indians have accrued 254 medals thus far on the Asian Video games with 38 % of individuals completing at the podium within the ultimate version – the 2018 Jakarta Video games.
However it’s a unique ball sport altogether on the Commonwealth Video games with best contenders like Australia, Canada and England, simply to call a couple of, coming into the image. India has simply 28 medals at CWG. For Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, the CWG is nearly a replay of the Global Championships with any other face-off with Grenada’s Anderson Peters looking forward to him in Birmingham.
Boxing: Moderate at each occasions
Amit Panghal
India’s place within the all-time medal tally in boxing on the CWG and Asian Video games does no longer see a lot distinction. The rustic is positioned tenth with a complete of 37 medals within the CWG and 8th on the Asian Video games with 57 medals. However considerably, maximum of India’s good fortune on the Asian Video games got here within the overdue Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. Whilst the Indian boxers have gained 8 gold medals on the Commonwealth Video games, the place England leads the all time medal tally with 60 gold, India has gained 9 gold medals on the Asian Video games. Alternatively, on the 2018 version, Indian boxers gained handiest two medals – Amit Panghal’s gold and Vikas Krishan Yadav’s bronze.
However from the CWG the similar yr, the boxers returned with 9 medals together with 3 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals, together with two medals in girls’s boxing. Whilst the Indian boxers have to stand opposite numbers from international locations like England, Canada, Scotland and Northern Eire in CWG, the principle problem on the Asian degree comes from boxing powerhouses like South Korea, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Gymnastics: Eyeing an excellent touchdown
Pranati Nayak (Specific Representation)
Be it the Commonwealth Video games or the Asian Video games – India has handiest just lately began to make its presence felt. On the 2010 Commonwealth Video games in New Delhi, Ashish Kumar gained a silver and a bronze medal – the rustic’s first-ever in a significant pageant. That used to be adopted through a bronze through Dipa Karmakar within the 2014 version at Glasgow.
Since then, Indian gymnasts have no longer gained a unmarried medal on the Commonwealth or Asian Video games. Karmakar used to be fourth within the vault tournament on the Asian Video games in 2014 and didn’t make an look in 2018.
On the 2022 Birmingham Video games, England and Canada are anticipated to dominate. For India, 27-year-old Pranati Nayak, a two-time Asian Championship bronze medallist, will spearhead the contingent. She completed twentieth on the 2014 CWG and 8th within the 2018 version within the particular person segment.
Hockey: Personal targets galore
The Manpreet Singh-led Indian crew gained the bronze in Tokyo Video games previous this yr to finish a 41-year medal stay up for the rustic. (Document)
On the Asian Video games, the boys have steadily choked below power, as noticed within the ultimate version in 2018. India are head and shoulders above the remainder of the continental groups, evidenced through the truth that they’re nearly all the time the one Asian facet pushing for medals at main international occasions. But, their superiority hasn’t all the time mirrored at the area, the place they’ve misplaced out because of foolish errors at the most important junctures.
Against this, their failure to win the gold medal on the CWG is in large part on account of one crew – Australia, who’ve gained the identify in each and every version. Hockey at CWG has all the time been aggressive because of the presence of England and New Zealand, except Australia, with Pakistan, Malaysia, Canada and South Africa with the ability to spring a marvel.
The ladies were on an upward curve in each occasions and even if they haven’t come just about matching the gold on the 2002 CWG, they reached their first Asian Video games ultimate after twenty years within the ultimate version, dropping narrowly to Japan. They’ll fancy their probabilities on the subsequent Asian Video games however the CWG may stay a step too a ways, given how robust Australia and England are.
Weightlifting: 125 medals at CWG, 14 at Asiad
Olympics medallist Mirabai Chanu. (Document)
The distinction within the pageant in weightlifting between the CWG and Asian Video games may also be gauged from the truth that India comes 2d with 125 medals, together with 43 gold, at the back of Australia’s medal tally of 159 medals within the all-time medal record of the CWG whilst it has gained handiest 14 medals – 5 silver and 9 bronze – within the historical past of the Asian Video games.
The ultimate time an Indian weightlifter gained a medal on the Asian Video games used to be in 1998 when Karnam Malleswari gained silver in girls’s 63 Kg class whilst on the ultimate Commonwealth Video games in 2018, India crowned the medal tally within the game with a complete of 9 medals together with 5 gold.
The principle explanation why for disparity is that powerhouses like China, Iran, South Korea, Japan, North Korea, Kazakhstan and Chinese language Taipei dominate the Asian Video games which characteristic a number of international champions. Come Birmingham, Indian weightlifters are anticipated to dominate sooner than fact hits them at subsequent yr’s Asian Video games with in all probability the exception of Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu.
Desk Tennis: Dwelling in China’s shadow
Manika Batra (Document)
The Chinese language are probably the most dominant drive in desk tennis, which makes the Asian Video games a difficult nut to crack. India have gained 20 medals in desk tennis because the game used to be offered on the CWG in 2002 whilst they’ve gained simply two bronze on the Asian Video games thus far. India are eleventh within the desk tennis medal tally on the Asian Video games, whilst they’re 3rd at the back of Singapore (50) and England (20) on the CWG.
Gold Coast 2018 used to be India’s best-ever display on the CWG with 8 medals. Manika Batra used to be the famous person of the display, successful gold within the girls’s singles, silver in girls’s doubles partnering Mouma Das and bronze within the blended doubles with G Sathiyan. Each the boys’s and girls’s crew gained gold within the crew tournament.
Wrestling: Laggards in Asia, leaders at CWG
Indian famous person wrestler Bajrang Punia. (Document)
On the Commonwealth Video games, India sits lovely in the second one place at the back of Canada, successful a complete of 102 medals together with 43 gold. Relating to the Asian Video games, the location adjustments dramatically – 59 medals general and handiest 11 gold.
For Indian wrestlers, the choice trials to get into the CWG squad are harder than competing on the Video games themselves, the place since 1970, Indians and Canadians have ruled the development. The struggle for gold throughout classes is in large part between those two international locations, whilst Nigeria has given the Indians a difficult struggle in some girls’s weight categories.
On the Asiad, Indians were in Iran’s shadow, with South Korea being dominant in males whilst Japan in girls. When Yogeshwar Dutt gained gold in 2014, it used to be for the primary time in 28 years that an Indian wrestler completed on best of the rostrum on the Asian Video games. In 2018, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat gained titles of their classes, a unprecedented instance when India completed with two gold medals.
Squash: Higher at CWG than Asian Video games
Dipika Pallikal clinched a bronze medal in girls’s singles squash at Asian Video games 2018 on August 25. She misplaced her semifinal fit towards the protecting champion from Malaysia, Nicol Ann David. (Supply: Twitter/@DipikaPallikal)
Squash is among the few sports activities the place India has finished higher on the Asian Video games as in comparison to the Commonwealth Video games.
India has gained a complete of 13 medals on the Asian Video games (1 gold, 3 silver and 9 bronze). In males’s singles, Saurav Ghosal has gained one silver and 3 bronze medals thus far. India’s handiest gold used to be gained through the boys’s crew on the 2014 Incheon Video games.
It’s other on the Commonwealth Video games the place India has gained simply 3 medals (1 gold and a pair of silver).
India has but to medal within the singles tournament, despite the fact that the ladies’s doubles pair of Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa scripted historical past through successful gold in 2014. They adopted it up with a silver in 2018.