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Statistics of the Games commonwealth games 2010

Delhi 2010 changed the record books and gave stat gurus lots to work for. Presenting the

statistics of the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi:

Australian Coutts and Indian Narang Queen and King of the Games

With five Gold medals in Swimming, Alicia Coutts (AUS) was the most successful athlete atthe Games Gagan Narang (IND) was the most successful male athlete. He won four Gold medals inShooting.

Australians Jones and Seebohm equal all-time medal records

Leisel Marie Jones (AUS) became the third person to win 10 Gold medals in theCommonwealth Games history, tying the all-time record of Susie ONeill (AUS) and Ian Thorpe(AUS) Emily Jane Seebohm (AUS) equalled the record of winning eight medals in total in one Games.Swimmers Ralph Hutton (AUS) in 1966 and Susie ONeill (AUS) in 1998 were the only other athletes to achieve this feat

Australia was the most successful Commonwealth Games Association(CGA) in Delhi

Australia was the most successful CGA at Delhi 2010. It won 74 Gold, 55 Silver and 48 Bronzemedals. It was the 12th time they led the medal table

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 Victoria1994 Games, have two CGAs performed better than England

Host nation India performs better than ever

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 fourthCGA 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

Four CGAs win their first Commonwealth Games Gold medals

Natasha Mayers (SVG) clinched the first Gold for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in theWomens 100m in Athletics, on 7 October Amantle Montsho (BOT) won Botswanas first Gold in the Womens 400m in Athletics on 8October

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Faavae Faauliuli (SAM) collected Samoas first Gold medal in Commonwealth Games history,in the Mens 94kg Weightlifting on 9 October. One day later, two other Samoans won Gold inthis sport On 11 October, Cydonie Camile Mothersill (CAY) won the first Gold medal for CaymanIslands, when she ran to victory in the Womens 200m event in Athletics

Australia reaches medal milestones in Delhi

On 8 October, Kasey Brown (AUS) clinched Australias 2000th medal in all CommonwealthGames. She took the Bronze medal for Australia in the Womens Singles in Squash The Womens Hockey team won Australias 800th Gold medal in Commonwealth Gameshistory on 13 October

Australias Croak wins Gold in two different sports at the Commonwealth Games

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 Croak won a Gold medal in Diving in Delhi 2010, and had previously won gold in ArtisticGymnastics in Manchester 2002

More podium sweeps than ever in Athletics

In six Athletics events, one CGA swept the podium, more medal sweeps than ever at theCommonwealth Games in this sport Kenya clinched the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in four events: the Womens and Mens3000m Steeplechase, the Mens 800m and the Womens 5000m England swept the podium in the Mens 110m Hurdles and India won all medals in the

Womens Discus Throw

Winning streaks in Rugby Sevens, Mens Hockey and Synchronised Swimming extended

New Zealand won the Rugby Sevens Gold in Delhi, as it had also done in the three previousRugby Sevens tournaments at the Commonwealth Games. New Zealand has never lost a matchin Rugby Sevens in Games history Australia won the title in Mens Hockey, having won Gold in the event at all three previousGames in which it was held Canada kept its 100 per cent record in Synchronised Swimming alive. It has won all 14 eventssince the sport was included in the Games in 1986