Vote comr Ayantuga Adetola (ABJ) as director of sports NANS National LASU Ticket Commonwealth Games 2014 Medal Table: Nigeria Ranks 9th in the Medal Tally with 27 medals By Rashmi Mishra@rashmi_178 | August 02, 2014 1:57 PM | comment Tags: 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Games 2014, Commonwealth Games 2014 Medals, CWG 14 Tweet (L-R) Silver medallist Seema Punia of India, gold medallist Dani Samuels of Australia and bronze medallist Jade Lally of England pose on the podium during the medal ceremony (Getty Images) India finished with a 5th place after the end of Day 9 at the Commonwealth Games 2014 with 51 medals. Their medal tally includes 13 gold, 23 silver and 15 bronze so far at the Glasgow 2014. India have assured minimum of 5 more silver coming into the Day 10 with four boxers and squash players Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa assured India of their maiden Commonwealth Games squash medal after they beat second seeds Kasey Brown and Rachael Grinham to make the women’s doubles final. In the meanwhile England continue to be table toppers with 140 medals including 48 gold, 49 silver and 43 bronze. As for second ranked Australia, their athletes Eleanor Patterson and Dani Samuels helped Australia narrow down the vast gap of medals between them and medal table toppers England with their respective gold medals. Australia won gold medals in Women’s High Jump Final and Women’s Discus Throw Final to take their medal tally to 124 including 40 gold, 40 silver and 44 bronze at the 20th Commonwealth Games. Still the 2nd-ranked Australia are way behind England who are on top of the medal table with 139 medals including 48 gold, 48 silver and 43 bronze. Commonwealth Games 2014 kick started on July 23 at the beautiful city of Scotland, Glasgow. Australia notched up the top slot in the last edition’s Commonwealth Games with 177 medals while 19th Commonwealth Games hosts India finished second in the medals tally with total of 101 medals. They had won 38 gold, 27 silver and 36 bronze medals. Australia was on the top of medals table with 74 gold, 55 silver and 48 bronze medals. Commonwealth Games that are perceived secondary to the Summer Olympics will be hoping to revamp the old thoughts as the beautiful Scottish city Glasgow looks ready to host the 12-day event from July 23 to August 3, 2014. The number of sporting events has been brought down to 17 from 21 earlier played in the 19th edition. They are: Aquatics, Diving (10), Swimming (44), Athletics (50), Badminton (6), Boxing (13), Cycling – Mountain biking (2), Road (4), Track (17), Gymnastics – Artistic gymnastics (14), Rhythmic gymnastics (6), Hockey (2), Judo (14), Lawn Bowls (10), Netball (1), Rugby sevens (1), Shooting (19), Squash (5), Table tennis (7), Triathlon (3), Weightlifting (19), Wrestling – Freestyle (14). India will be participating in 14 of those 17 events at Glasgow. The three events India will not be participating are netball, rugby sevens and triathlon. There are total 1, 385 medals to be won in this edition of Commonwealth Games. The medals tally of the Commonwealth Games 2014 will be decided on the number of gold medals won. With the nations tied at gold medals, the second yardstick to measure is on the silver medals and then bronze. If the teams are still tied, they would be given equal ranking with the team placed according to alphabetical order. There are 4, 947 athletes participating from 71 countries. The country wise medals table for the 20th Commonwealth Games are here: Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 England [ENG] 48 49 43 140 2 Australia [AUS] 40 40 44 124 3 Canada [CAN] 30 14 28 75 4 Scotland [SCO] 17 14 18 49 5 India [IND] 13 23 15 51 6 New Zealand [NZL] 13 11 15 39 7 South Africa [RSA] 12 10 16 38 8 Kenya [KEN] 7 8 4 19 9 Nigeria [NGR] 7 6 14 27 10 Jamaica [JAM] 7 4 7 18 11 Singapore [SIN] 6 2 4 12 12 Wales [WAL] 4 10 20 34 12 Malaysia [MAL] 4 6 5 15 14 Cyprus [CYP] 2 4 2 8 15 Papua New Guinea [PNG] 2 0 0 2 16 Cameroon [CAM] 1 3 3 7 17 Uganda [UGA] 1 0 4 5 18 Grenada[GRE] 1 0 1 2 19 Botswana [BOT] 1 0 0 1 19 Kiribati [KIR] 1 0 0 1 21 Trinidad and Tobago[T&T] 0 2 3 5 22 Pakistan [PAK] 0 2 1 3 22 Samoa [SAM] 0 2 1 3 24 Northern Ireland [NIR] 0 1 7 8 23 Bahamas [BAH] 0 1 1 2 25 Mozambique [MOZ] 0 1 1 2 27 Bangladesh [BAN] 0 1 0 1 27 Isle of Man [IOM] 0 1 0 1 27 Nauru[MAR] 0 1 0 1 27 Sri Lanka [SRI] 0 1 0 1 31 Ghana [GHA] 0 0 2 2 31 Namibia [NAM] 0 0 2 2 31 Zambia[ZAM] 0 0 2 2 34 Barbados [BAR] 0 0 1 1 34 Fiji [FIJ] 0 0 1 1 34 Mauritius [MAU] 0 0 1 1 33 St. Lucia 0 0 1
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