CWG 2010 - Medal Winning Players (Men)

GOLD

1. Rahul Banerjee, individual recurve archery, West Bengal

2. Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, 10m air rifle pairs, Punjab

3. Somdev Devvarman, tennis, Assam

4. Yogeshwar Dutt, freestyle wrestling (60kg), Haryana

5. Achanta Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha, table tennis doubles, Tamil Nadu and
West Bengal

6. Imran Hassan Khan and Gagan Narang, 50m rifle 3 positions, Uttar Pradesh and
Punjab

7. Anil Kumar, greco-roman wrestling (96-kg), Haryana

8. Manoj Kumar, boxing (64kg), (Haryana)

9. Rajender Kumar, greco-roman wrestling (55kg), Haryana

10. Ravi Kumar, weightlifting (69kg), Orissa

11. Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh, 25m rapid fire pistol pairs, Himachal Pradesh and
Punjab

12. Vijay Kumar and Harpreet Singh, 25m centrefire pistol pairs, Himachal Pradesh and
Haryana

13. Vijay Kumar, 25m rapid fire pistol, Himachal Pradesh

14. Sanjay Kumar, greco-roman wrestling (74kg), Haryana

15. Sushil Kumar, freestyle wrestling (66kg), Delhi

16. Gagan Narang, 10m air rifle, Punjab

17. Paramjeet Samota, boxing (over 91kg), Haryana

19. Gurpreet Singh and Omkar Singh, 10m air pistol pairs, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh

20. Harpreet Singh, 25m centrefire pistol, Haryana

21. Omkar Singh, 50m pistol, Madhya Pradesh

22. Omkar Singh, 10m air pistol, Madhya Pradesh

23. Ravinder Singh, greco-roman wrestling (60kg), Haryana

24. Suranjoy Mayengbam Singh, boxing (52kg), Manipur

25. Narsingh Panch Yadav, freestyle wrestling (74 kg), Haryana

SILVER*

1. Abhinav Bindra, 10m air rifle, Punjab

2. Chandrashekhar Kumar Chaudhary and Samresh Jung, 25m standard pistol pairs,
Himachal Pradesh

3. Ritul Chatterjee, Jignas Chittibomma, and Chinna Raju Srither, compound archery,
Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu

4. Bharat Kumar Chetri (Karnataka), Bharat Chiraka, Arjun Halappa (Karnataka), Tushar
Khandkar (Karnataka), Dhananjay Mahadik, Danish Mujtaba (Uttar Pradesh), Ravi Pal
(Punjab), Vishnu Vikram Pillay (Maharashtra), Dharamvir Singh, Gurbaj Singh (Punjab),
Raj Pal Singh (Punjab), Sandeep Singh, Saravanjit Singh (Punjab), Sardar Singh,
Shivendra Singh (Punjab), Prabodh Tirkey, field hockey

5. Sukhen Dey, weightlifting (56kg), West Bengal

6. Vikas Shive Gowda, discus throw, Karnataka

7. Anuj Kumar, freestyle wrestling (84kg), Uttar Pradesh

8. Ashish Kumar, gymnastics (vault), Uttar Pradesh

9. Joginder Kumar, freestyle wrestling (120kg), Haryana

10. Manoj Kumar, wrestling (84kg), Maharashtra

11. Asher Noria and Ronjan Sodhi, double trap pairs, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab

12. Deepak Sharma and Omkar Singh, 50m pistol pairs, Madhya Pradesh

13. Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Mansher Singh, men’s trap pairs, Punjab

14. Ronjan Sodhi, individual double trap pistol, Punjab

15. Vijay Kumar, 25-meter centerfire pistol, Himachal Pradesh

BRONZE
1. Rahul Banerjee, Jayanta Talukdar and Tarundeep Rai, team recurve archery, West
Bengal, Jharkhand and Sikkim

2. Jai Bhagwan, boxing lightweight (60kg), Haryana

3. Mahesh Bhupati and Leander Paes, tennis doubles, West Bengal and Karnataka

4. Dharmender Dalal, greco-roman wrestling (120kg)

5. Samresh Jung, 25m standard pistol, Himachal Pradesh

6. Anil Kumar, freestyle wrestling (55kg)

7. Ashish Kumar, gymnastics (floor), Uttar Pradesh

8. Sudhir Kumar, weightlifting (77kg), Karnataka

9. Sunil Kumar, greco-roman wrestling (66kg), Haryana

10. V.S. Rao, weightlifting (56kg), Andhra Pradesh

11. Manavjit Singh Sandhu, men’s trap, Punjab

12. Amandeep Singh, boxing lightflyweight (49kg), Punjab

13. Dilbagh Singh, boxing welterweight (69kg), Punjab

14. Gurpreet Singh, 25m rapid fire pistol, Punjab

15. Vijender Singh, boxing middleweight (75kg), Haryana

16. Sharath Kamal Achanta, Anthony Amalraj and Abhishek Ravichandran, table tennis
team, Tamil Nadu

17. Sharath Kamal Achanta, table tennis individual, Tamil Nadu

18. Prasanta Karmakar, para sport 50m freestyle swimming, Karnataka

19. Parupalli Kashyap, badminton, Andhra Pradesh

20. Renjith Maheswary, triple jump, Tamil Nadu

21. Kashinath Naik, javelin throw, Karnataka

22. Shameer Naseema Manzile, Rahamatulla Molla, Md. Abdul Najeeb Qureshi and
Suresh Sathya, 4×100m relay, Andhra Pradesh

23. Harminder Singh, 20km race-walk, Punjab

24. Jayanta Talukdar, recurve archery, Jharkhand

*India also won a silver in a mixed badminton event featuring Andhra Pradesh’s Jwala
Gutta and Kerala’s V. Diju.

CWG 2010 - Medal Winning Players (Women)

GOLD

1. Ashwini Chidananda Akkunji, Sini Jose, Mandeep Kaur and Manjeet Kaur, 4×400m
relay, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab and Punjab

2. Anita, freestyle wrestling (67kg), Haryana, wrestling

3. Dola Banerjee, Deepika Kumari, Bombayala Devi Laishram, team recurve archery,
West Bengal, Jharkhand, Manipur

4. Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa, badminton doubles, Andhra Pradesh and
Karnataka

5. Deepika Kumari, archery, Jharkhand

6. Saina Nehwal, badminton, Andhra Pradesh

7. Krishna Poonia, discus throw, Rajasthan

8. Geeta Rani, freestyle wrestling (55kg), Haryana

9. Anisa Sayyed, 25m pistol, Maharashtra

10. Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed, 25m pistol pairs, Maharashtra

11. Heenu Sidhu and Annu Raj Singh, 10m air pistol pairs, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh

12. Alka Tomar, freestyle wrestling (59kg), Uttar Pradesh

13. Renu Bala Chanu Yumnam, weightlifting (58kg), Manipur

SILVER*

1. Babita Kumari, freestyle wrestling (51kg), Haryana

2. Soniya Chanu, weightlifting (48kg), Manipur

3. Mouma Das, Poulomi Ghatak, Kumaresan Shamini, table tennis team event, West
Bengal, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu

4. Nirmala Devi, freestyle wrestling (48kg), Haryana

5. Prajusha Maliakkal, long jump, Kerala

6. Sania Mirza, tennis individual, Andhra Pradesh

7. Tejaswini Sawant, 50m rifle prone, Maharashtra

8. Rahi Sarnobat, women’s 25m pistol, Maharashtra

9. Harwant Kaur, discus throw, Punjab

10. Tejaswini Sawant and Lajja Goswami, 50m rifle 3 positions pairs, Maharashtra and
Gujarat

11. Heena Sidhu, women 10m air pistol, Punjab

BRONZE

1. Seema Antil, discus throw, Haryana

2. Sandhya Rani Devi Atom, weightlifting (48kg), Manipur

3. Dola Bannerjee, archery, West Bengal

4. Bheigyabati Chanu, Jhano Hansdah and Gagandeep Kaur, compound team archery,
Manipur, Jharkand and Punjab

5. Rushmi Chakravarthi and Sania Mirza, tennis doubles, Tamil Nadu and Andhra
Pradesh

6. Mouma Das and Poulomi Ghatak, table tennis doubles, West Bengal

7. Jyothi Hiriyur Manjunath, Srabani Nanda, Geetha Satti and Priya P.K., 4×100m relay,
Karnataka, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala

8. Meena Kumari and Tejaswini Sawant, 50m rifle prone pairs, Chhattisgarh and
Maharashtra

9. Suman Kundu, freestyle wrestling (63kg), Haryana

11. Monika Laishram Devi, weighlifting (75kg),

12. Kavita Raut, 10,000m, Maharashtra

13. Suma Shirur and Kavita Yadav, 10m air rifle pairs, Karnataka

*India also won a silver in a mixed badminton event featuring Ms. Gutta and Kerala’s V.
Diju.
Quiz on CWG 2010

Question 1. When did Delhi win the right to host the 2010 Games?
13 November 2003
22 November 2003
22 May 2005
18 October 2003

Question 2. How many sports will the D2010 Program feature?

21
17
32
19

Question 3. Shake hand and pen hold grips are used in which sport?
Table tennis
Tennis
Shooting
Squash

Question 4. The total medals to be won in D2010?

271
115
127
217

Question 5. Which sport is governed by the “Queensberry” rules?

Archery
Boxing
Athletics
Badminton

Question 6. Name venue of the closing ceremony of D2010?

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Indira Gandhi Sports Complex
Siri Fort Sports Complex
Thyagaraj Sports Complex

Question 7. When did India debut at the Commonwealth Games?

2000
1943
1927
1934

Question 8. How many kilometers will be covered and the number of days travelled on
the international sector of Queen’s Baton Relay 2010 Delhi?
130,000kms for 240 days
170,000 kilometers for 240 days
150,000 kilometers for 245 days
110,000kms for 245 days
Question 9. Whom did Mohammad Ali refer to when he said that while he does consider
himself the greatest heavy weight in boxing history X is the greatest pound for pound
boxer of all time?
Joe Louis
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Leonard
Mohammad Ali

Question 10. When did the Queen’s Baton Relay become a part of the Games tradition?
1958
1956
1947
1964

Question 11. When did the Queen’s Baton Relay become a part of the Games
tradition?
or, In which year did the Queen’s Baton Relay become a component of the Games
custom?
1958
1956
1947
1964
 
Question 12. At Queen’s Baton Relay in Delhi 2010, how many kilometers are
expected to be covered in the 240 days of sports extravaganza?
130,000 kilometers
170,000 kilometers
150,000 kilometers
110,000 kilometers
 
Question 13. Where is the international tennis Hall of Fame?
or, In which country is the intercontinental tennis Hall of Fame situated?
Germany
Scotland
London
Newport USA
 
Question 14. In which year was the Indian Olympic Association initiated?
1927
1956
1947
1964
Answers :
Q. 1. 13 November 2003
Q. 2. 17
Q. 3. Table Tennis
Q. 4. 271
Q. 5. Boxing
Q. 6. Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Q. 7. 1934
Q. 8. 170,000 kilometers for 240 days
Q. 9. Sugar Ray Robinson
Q. 10. 1958
Q. 11. 1958
Q. 12. 170,000 kilometers
Q. 13. Newport USA
Q. 14. 1927
Medals Tally COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2010

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total

Australia 74 54 48 176
India 38 27 36 101
England 37 59 46 142
Canada 26 17 32 75
South Africa 12 11 10 33
Kenya 12 11 9 32
Malaysia 12 10 14 36
Nigeria 11 10 14 35
Singapore 11 11 9 31
Scotland 9 10 7 26
New Zealand 5 22 8 35
Cyprus 4 3 4 11
Northern Ireland 3 3 4 10
Samoa 3 0 1 4
Wales 2 7 10 19
Jamaica 2 4 1 7
Pakistan 2 1 2 5
Uganda 2 0 0 2
Bahamas 1 1 3 5
Sri Lanka 1 1 1 3
Nauru 1 1 0 2
Botswana 1 0 3 4
Cayman Islands 1 0 0 1
Saint Vincent and 1 0 0 1
 GK Highlights September 2010

A high-speed train in China has set a new world speed record during a trial run. The
train hit a maximum of 416.6 km per hour on its journey between Shanghai and
Hangzhou. The train is designed to run at a speed of 350 km per hour.

Amir Khan’s “Peepli Live”, a satire on media’s trivialisation of farmers’ suicide, has been
selected as India’s official entry at the 2011 Oscars, in the Best Film category.

The Union Cabinet has approved the National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010,
which envisages making UIDAI a statutory body.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee launched the Swavalamban Scheme of Life

Insurance Corporation (LIC) on September 25, 2010. The scheme seeks to provide
pension scheme to the un-organised sector. Under the scheme, the Central government
will contribute Rs 1,000 per year to each National Pension Scheme (NPS) account
opened in year 2010-11 and for the next three years, till 2013-14.

The World Tourism Day is observed on September 27.

The UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, was held in

September 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York, USA.

Chowmhalla Palace in Hyderabad, spectacular 18th century monument, has been

selected for the Heritage “Award of Merit” by the UNESCO, for cultural heritage
conservation for 2010.

The Business Standard Best Business Schools Survey 2010 shows that India’s top
business schools are: Indian Institutes of Management in Ahmedabad and Kolkata,
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in New Delhi, Institute of Management Technology at
Ghaziabad, Management Development Institute at Gurgaon, National Institute of
Industrial Engineering in Mumbai and XLRI Jamshedpur.

A new wholesale price index series with an updated product portfolio was launched on
September 14, 2001. The series will have 2004-05 as the base year, as against 1993-94
in the previous model. Some important items included in the new series basket are:
flowers, lemon, crude petroleum, scooter and motorcycle tyre, polymers, marble, silver
and gold.

The Employee Provident Fund trustees have decided to raise the interest for 2010-11
to 9.5 percent.

The World Tiger Summit was held in September 2010 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The six living species of Tigers are: Amur, Bengal, Indochinese, Malayan, South China
and Sumatran. The Bali, Caspian and Javan tigers have become extinct.

Navodaya Vidyalayas celebrated 25 years of existence in 2010. A befitting match to

costly private schools, the Navodayas have shown in last 25 years how gifted children
with humble means can rise to life.
India has replaced the US as the second most important Foreign Direct Investment
(FDI) destination for trans-national corporations, according to a survey conducted by
UNCTAD. Global FDI flows are expected to jump from $1.2 trillion in 2010 to $1.5 trillion
in 2011 and $1.6-2.0 trillion in 2012.

As per the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University rankings, Cambridge

University, UK, is the top university of the world, followed by Harvard University, USA,
Yale University, US, University College London (UCL), UK, and Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, USA, in that order.

Rajkot People’s Cooperative Bank does not offer any job to people who smoke
cigarette or eat gutkha. Even the customers with the habits have to pay higher interest
on loans.

Reliance Industries has been ranked second in the list of world’s 10 biggest
‘sustainable value creators’—companies that have been successful in creating the most
shareholder value over the last decade—prepared by Boston Consulting Group. Brazil-
based mining and materials giant Vale has been ranked the top value creator.

India’s first agri-biotechnology institute, the National Agri Food Biotechnology Institute
(NABI) is being set up in Mohali, near Chandigarh.

APPOINTED; ELECTED Etc.

Arjun Munda: He has been elected as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand.
A.N. Tiwari: He has been appointed as the Chief Information Commissioner of India. He
succeeds Wajahat Habibullah.
Ansar Parvez: He has been name head of IAEA, the UN nuclear watchdog. Head of
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Ansar Parvez, will remain Chairman for the next
12 months, taking over from Malaysia.
P.J. Thomas: He has been appointed as the Central Vigilance Commissioner of India.

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
Armando Guebuza: President of Mozambique
Donald Tusk: Prime Minister of Poland.

DIED
Arjun Sengupta: Eminent economist and Rajya Sabha MP. He leaves behind a policy
footprint that changed the way poverty alleviation programmes are discussed in India.
Homi N. Sethna: Former Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India and the
guiding force behind India’s first nuclear test. He was 86.

EVENTS
SEPTEMBER
2—Palestinian and Israeli leaders meet after a 20-month hiatus under the US brokered
peace talks.
9—The Union Cabinet gives its approval for a caste-based census, to be implemented
through a separate house-to-house enumeration from June to September 2011.
29—Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hands over the first set of Unique Identification
Number (UID) cards in Tembhail village of Maharshtra. The UIDAI scheme, announced
in 2009, will provide a unique identity to each Indian over the next five years.
30—Allahabad High Court’s please-all verdict on Babri-Masjid-Ram Temple dispute in
Ayodhya divides the disputed site among the three petitioners

MILESTONES
Mazlan Othman: Malaysian astrophysicist, she has been appointed as the head of the
UN’s little-known Office for the Outer Space Affairs (UUNOOSA). She is officially the
world’s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting.
A. Divya: She is the first woman cadet in the history of the Officers Training Academy,
one of India’s premier defence training institutes, to be decorated with its highest award,
the ‘Sword of Honour’.
Sachin Tendulkar: Leading cricketer of India, he has been given honorary rank of
Group Captain by the Indian Air Force.

ARCHERY
India wins gold in fourth leg of World Cup
The Indian men's recurve team of Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai and Rahul Banerjee
won gold in the fourth leg of the World Cup archery in Shanghai. The trio whipped
Japan, who had beaten the formidable Koreans in the semi-final.

Talukdar won bronze in the individual event defeating Athens Olympic champion Marco
Galiazzo of Italy 7-3.

Deepika Kumari lost the women’s recurve final, but the silver medal ensured Deepika
her maiden place in the grand final in Edinburgh.

BOXING
Mary Kom wins World Championship
India’s woman boxer MC Mary Kom claimed a historic fifth successive world
championship title on September 18, 2010, beating Steluta Duta of Romania 16-6. This
mother-of-two from Manipur remains the only boxer to have won a medal in each edition
of the world championship.

CRICKET
T20 Champions League, 2010
IPL champions Chennai Super Kings, led ably by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, defeated the
Warriors of South Africa by eight wickets to win the Airtel Champions League, played in
South Africa.

J.P. Atray Trophy

ONGC posted a six-wicket victory over Air India to win the 17th J.P. Atray Memorial
Cricket tournament.

England-Pakistan One-Day series

England defeated Pakistan by 121 runs in the fifth and final match to win the series3-2.

GOLF
DLF Masters
Ashok Kumar won the DLF Masters. Gaganjeet Bhullar won the second spot.

HOCKEY
Women’s World Cup
Argentina defeated reigning World and Olympic champions Netherlands 3-1 to win their
second field hockey world title. They had earlier won the title in 2002 in Australia. The
championship was held at Rosario, Argentina.

SHOOTING
Ronjon shoots gold at ISSF World Cup
India’s Ronjon Sodhi clinched a gold at the double trap in the ISSF World Cup finals in
Izmir, Turkey with a stunning score of 195 out of 200.

TENNIS
US Open, 2010
Rafael Nadal of Spain defeated Novak Djokovic (Serbia) to win the men’s singles title.
The win gave him his first US open title and was his ninth Grand Slam win.

Kim Clijsters of Belgium defeated Vera Zvonareva (Russia) to take the women’s
singles title.

The men’s doubles title was won by Mike and Bob Bryan of USA who defeated Indo-
Pak team of Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq.

The women’s doubles title was won by Vania King (USA) and  Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhistan) while the mixed doubles title was won by  Liezel Huber (USA) and Bob
Bryan (USA).

India enters Davis Cup World Group

In a stunning turnaround, Somdev Devvarman and Rohan Bopanna powered India to the
elite Davis Cup World Group by scripting a sensational 3-2 win over Brazil. The matches
were played in Chennai.

WRESTLING
Sushil becomes first Indian to win World Championship gold
Wrestler Sushil Kumar has become the first Indian to win a gold medal in the World
Wrestling Championships, held in Moscow. He defeated Alan Gogaev in the 66-kg
freestyle category.