Home turf, home conditions and home support play a big role for any sports person in the international arena and it proved true for the Indian athletes at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in New Delhi. India finished second on the medal tally behind Australia - their best showing at the Games till date - by winning 101 medals which included 38 gold, 27 silver and 36 bronze medals.
For the first time in the history of the Games, India won over 100 medals in total. For the first time ever India won a medal in gymnastics, with Ashish Kumar winning a silver and a bronze. And it was after a gap of 52 years that India had won a gold in a track and field event - after legendary sprinter Milkha Singh's gold medal at the 1958 Cardiff Games - when Krishna Poonia won the yellow metal in the women’s discus throw event. Geeta Phogat scripted history as she became the first Indian woman wrestler to win a gold - in the women’s 55kg category - at the Commonwealth Games.
