The Indian athletics contingent endured a successful Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 winning 8 medals in total - one gold, four silver and three bronze medals.
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The Indian athletics contingent endured a successful Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 winning 8 medals in total – one gold, four silver and three bronze medals. The winners included Murali Sreeshankar, Priyanka Goswami, Avinash Sable, Abdulla Aboobacker, Tejaswin Shankar, Sandeep Kumar and Annu Rani. A few of the winners were welcomed back to the country at the Delhi IGI Airport on Tuesday.
Eldhose Paul Paul won Gold in the men’s triple jump event at CWG 2022 with the best jump of 17.03 m, which came in his third attempt. In an interview with ANI, Eldhouse Paul credited Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra for motivating the athletics contingent ahead of the Games this year. He said, “I am happy that the national anthem was playing and the first two athletes were from India. I felt proud.”
“We were already preparing for CWG and Asian Games. The World Championships gave us an experience that benefitted us. Neeraj Chopra’s gold (in Tokyo 2020 Olympics) changed our mentality. Earlier we had set some limitations for us. But now, Indians are capable of doing something magical. We will have to keep working hard and breaking limits set by us.”
Chopra, who won a historic silver at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, United States last month was forced to pull out of the Commonwealth Games due to a groin injury. However, while watching from the sidelines he congratulated the entire Indian contingent who finished 4th at the Games with 61 medals in total.
In a new tweet, he congratulated every winner at the event saying: “My best wishes to all the Indian athletes who participated at the Birmingham 2022 CWG. I am sure that in the upcoming Games like this, we all together will give our best for the country and will be successful in making India a sports nation.” Chopra is expected to return in time for the final legs of the Diamond League which ends in September in Zurich.
The 24-year old even congratulated Pakistani javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem who won Gold with a Commonwealth Games record mark of 90.18m. With the throw, Nadeem went past Chopra’s record at the Tokyo Olympics and the World Athletics Championships to become only the second Asian to touch the 90-m barrier.
