India at the 1978 Commonwealth Games

India at the
1978 Commonwealth Games

CGF code

IND

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Flag bearer

Opening:
Closing:

Medals
Ranked 6th

Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
5	5	5	15

Commonwealth Games appearances (overview)

British Empire Games
1934 1938 1950
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
1954 1958 1962 1966
British Commonwealth Games
1970 1974
Commonwealth Games
1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014

This was the 8th time India participating in the Commonwealth Games.^[1] India ranked 6th in the medal tally.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
01 ! Gold	Prakash Padukone	Badminton	Men's Singles
01 ! Gold	Ekambaram Karunakaran	Weightlifting	Flyweight
01 ! Gold	Ashok Kumar	Wrestling	Light Flyweight
01 ! Gold	Satbir Singh	Wrestling	Bantamweight
01 ! Gold	Rajinder Singh	Wrestling	Welterweight

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
02 ! Silver	Tamil Selvin	Weightlifting	Bantamweight
02 ! Silver	Sudesh Kumar	Wrestling	Flyweight
02 ! Silver	Jagdish Kumar	Wrestling	Lightweight
02 ! Silver	Jagminder Singh	Wrestling	Featherweight
02 ! Silver	Satpal Singh	Wrestling	Heavyweight

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
03 ! Bronze	Suresh Babu	Athletics	Long jump
03 ! Bronze	Ami Ghia Kanwal Singh	Badminton	Women's Doubles
03 ! Bronze	Birender Thapa	Boxing	Light Flyweight
03 ! Bronze	Kartar Singh	Wrestling	Light Heavyweight
03 ! Bronze	Ishwar Singh	Wrestling	Super Heavyweight

Associations at the 1978 Commonwealth Games

Africa	The Gambia Ghana Kenya Lesotho Malawi Mauritius Sierra Leone Swaziland Tanzania Zambia

Americas	Bermuda British Honduras Canada Guyana

Asia	Bangladesh Hong Kong India Malaysia Singapore Sri Lanka

Caribbean	Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Cayman Islands Grenada Jamaica Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands

Europe	Cyprus England Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Oceania	Australia Cook Islands Fiji New Zealand Papua New Guinea Western Samoa

India at the Commonwealth Games

1934 1938 1954 1958 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014

India did not compete in Games before 1934, in 1950, in 1962, or in 1986

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