1986 commonwealth games medal tally

A country's ranking in the medals tally is ascertained by the gold medals won and bronze a somewhat indicator of hanging on to a podium place. As each edition has passed by, India have earned more bronze medals than they have gold. At the Games, ratio of India's gold medal exploits to that of picking up bronze stood at The most positive gold-to-bronze ratio was seen at Asian Games in Bangkok where 11 golds came as against 6 bronze. However, a total of 28 medals left India in sixth place. In the last two editions, the gold to bronze ratio has gone from almost 1 gold to 2 bronze and in Incheon, one gold for three bronze medals.

Athletics is by far India's biggest avenue for getting medals at Asian Games. This translates to more than a third of India's medals. To compound athletics' glory further, it is India's best chance at earning the yellow metal with almost a third of all medals in athletics resulting in gold. Compare this with India's record in athletics at the Commonwealth Games - 5 gold, 10 silver and 13 bronze for a total of 28 medals.

Significant factor to that is the presence of behemoths on the tracks at the CWG. Elsewhere, wrestling is important and sees strong medal returns at both quadrennial events. At the Asian Games, Indian grapplers have won 56 medals while they come back with medals at the Commonwealth Games.

At the other end of the spectrum scale, shooting dominates the medal count at the Commonwealth Games with to their name while at the Asiad, that number falls significantly to There is little separate boxing at both events with 37 medals at the Commonwealth Games and 55 at the Asian Games. Earlier in the year, Mirabai Chanu bagged India's first medal in Gold Coast and etched her name in history books. The weightlifters would go on to win five golds, two silvers and two bronze to take India's tally in the sport at Commonwealth Games to In the pool Adrian Moorhouse added the m breaststroke title to his m gold four years earlier to confirm his place as a Commonwealth Games favourite.

Sarah Hardcastle won her first medals at the Games at the second attempt with two gold medal victories in the m and m freestyle events. England dominated track and field thanks to a series of household names.

In the men's track events Roger Black won the m, Steve Cram above, centre the m and m the former a Games record that still stands as of , Steve Ovett the m, and Jon Solly the 10,m. England's women did just as well. All combined it saw England thrash Canada by eight gold medals to finish with 18 gold, 18 silver and 12 bronze. It was business as usual in badminton as the mixed team, men's and women's singles, and the women's doubles titles all went to England.

A fantastic array of talent including Steve Baddeley men's and mixed team champion and the two Gillians, Clark and Gowers mixed and women's doubles champions - pictured above stormed to success. Malcolm Cooper and Ian Peel were the two standout names in shooting. See the full ranking list from the years , , , and Share: Facebook Twitter.

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