National Games 2022 medal tally: Know the final standing and winners
Services won the National Games 2022 with 128 medals, including 61 golds, 35 silvers and 32 bronze.
The National Games 2022 was held across six cities, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar, in Gujarat.
Though the official start date for the 36th edition of the National Games, India’s very own homespun Olympics, was September 27, events, starting with table tennis, got underway from September 20 to avoid a clash with the world table tennis championships, which began on September 30 in China. The National Games 2022 concluded on October 12.
Almost 7,000 athletes from 28 Indian States, eight Union Territories and Services, the sports team of the Indian Armed Forces, competed for medals in 36 different sports. These included traditional Olympic disciplines as well as indigenous sports like mallakhamb, kho kho and kabaddi, amongst others.
The complete list of sports which were competed at the National Games 2022 in Gujarat are: aquatics, archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing & kayaking, cycling, fencing, football, gymnastics, golf, handball, hockey, judo, kabaddi, kho-kho, lawn bowls, mallakhamb, netball, roller skating, rowing, rugby 7s, shooting, softball, soft tennis, squash, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, wushu and yogasana.
Services came into the 2022 edition as three-time defending National Games champions, having won in 2007, 2011 and 2015. The Army team won their fourth consecutive title with 128 medals; 61 golds, 35 silvers and 32 bronze. As many as 29 teams won at least one gold medal at the edition.
Hosts Gujarat, incidentally, won the first gold medal of the National Games 2022, clinching the men’s table tennis team title after beating Maharashtra in the finals.
Here’s the full National Games 2022 medals table.