POST GAMES REPORT - Commonwealth Games Federation

• Australia has been the most successful CGA in every
Games since 1990
• England was the third-best CGA at this Games, behind
India. Only once before, at the Victoria 1994 Games, have
two CGAs performed better than England
• India won more Gold medals than it had won before in
one Games. It took 38 Gold medals, its previous record
was 30 in 2002
• With its 101 medals in total, India finished runner-up in
the medal tally and became the fourth CGA to reach the
century mark in one Games
• Every host nation of the Commonwealth Games has
beaten its previous record number of medals, and India
has joined that list in 2010
• Natasha Mayers (SVG) clinched the first Gold for St. Vincent
and the Grenadines, in the Women’s 100 m in Athletics, on
7 October
• Amantle Montsho (BOT) won Botswana’s first Gold in the
Women’s 400 m in Athletics on 8 October
• Faavae Faauliuli (SAM) collected Samoa’s first Gold medal
in Commonwealth Games history, in the Men’s 94 kg
Weightlifting on 9 October. One day later, two other
Samoans won Gold in this sport
• On 11 October, Cydonie Camile Mothersill (CAY) won
the first Gold medal for Cayman Islands, when she ran to
victory in the Women’s 200 m event in Athletics
• On 8 October, Kasey Brown (AUS) clinched Australia’s
2000th medal in all Commonwealth Games. She took the
Bronze medal for Australia in the Women’s Singles in Squash
• The Women’s Hockey team won Australia’s 800th Gold
medal in Commonwealth Games history on 13 October
• Croak won a Gold medal in Diving in Delhi 2010, and had
previously won Gold in Artistic Gymnastics in Manchester
2002
• Alexandra Croak (AUS) became the first athlete to win
Gold in two different sports at the Games, considering
Cycling Road and Cycling Track as the same sport
• In six Athletics events, one CGA swept the podium, more
medal sweeps than ever at the Commonwealth Games in
this sport
• Kenya clinched the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in four
events: the Women’s and Men’s 3000 m Steeplechase, the
Men’s 800 m and the Women’s 5000 m
• England swept the podium in the Men’s 110 m Hurdles and
India won all medals in the Women’s Discus Throw
• New Zealand won the Rugby Sevens Gold in Delhi,
as it had also done in the three previous Rugby Sevens
tournaments at the Commonwealth Games. New Zealand
has never lost a match in Rugby Sevens in Games history
• Australia won the title in Men’s Hockey, having won Gold
in the event at all three previous Games in which it was
held
• Canada kept its 100 percent record in Synchronised
Swimming alive. It has won all 14 events since the sport was
included in the Games in 1986
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POST GAMES REPORT DELHI 2010