Tamil Nadu secured
8th position in the 2015 National Games. Tamil Nadu won a total of 52 medals
(includes 16 Gold Medals). From the athletics field alone, Tamil Nadu won a
total of 10 medals (includes 3 Gold Medals). Table Tennis is another area where
Tamil Nadu excelled by winning a total of 6 medals (including 3 Gold medals).
In Swimming, Tamil Nadu won a total of 8 medals (but with just one Gold medal)
Tamil
Nadu’s performance in National Games
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Year
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TN’s Position
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
|
Total
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2011
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12th
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14
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12
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27
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53
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2015
|
8th
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16
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16
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20
|
52
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TN's medal tally 2015 National Games:
Sport
|
Gold
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Silver
|
Bronze
|
Total
|
Athletics
|
3
|
5
|
2
|
10
|
Basketball
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
Cycling
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
Fencing
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
Weightlifting
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
3
|
Shooting
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
3
|
Squash
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
5
|
Swimming
|
1
|
1
|
6
|
8
|
Taekwondo
|
0
|
1
|
3
|
4
|
Tennis
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
6
|
Table Tennis
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
6
|
Volleyball
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
Total
|
16
|
16
|
20
|
52
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Top
players from TN who won multiple medals in 2015 National Games:
Men
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Player
|
Sport
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Gold
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Silver
|
Bronze
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Total
|
Amalraj Anthony
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Table Tennis
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
4
|
Gishonidhi Kumaresanpadma
|
Fencing
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
Ramkumar Ramanathan
|
Tennis
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
Women
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Jayaveena Arcot Vijayakumar
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Swimming
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
4
|
Shamini Kumaresan
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Table Tennis
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
Govindarajan Gayathri
|
Athletics
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
Gold
Medals
|
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#
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Event
|
Players
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1
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Shooting (Women: Team Trap)
|
Asiya Khilji
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N Nivetha
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Asila Khilji
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2
|
Table Tennis (Men’s Group)
|
Amalraj Anthony
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Sathyian Gnanasekaran
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Prabhakaran Ekambaram
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Sushmit Sriram
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Sivananda Seshadri
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3
|
Table Tennis (Women’s Singles)
|
Shamini Kumaresan
|
4
|
Table Tennis (Men’s Singles)
|
Amalraj Anthony
|
5
|
Weightlifting (Men’s 77 kg)
|
Sathishkumar Sivalingam
|
6
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Squash (Men’s Singles)
|
Saurav Goshal
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7
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Squash (Women’s Singles)
|
Joshanna Chinappa
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8
|
Swimming (Women: 50m Breast Stroke)
|
Jayaveena Arcot Vijayakumar
|
9
|
Tennis (Men team)
|
N Sriram Balaji
|
Ramkumar Ramanathan
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Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
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Vijay Sundar Prashanth Natarajan
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10
|
Tennis (Men’s Singles)
|
Ramkumar Ramanathan
|
11
|
Fencing (Men Sabre)
|
Gishonidhi Kumaresanpadma
|
12
|
Fencing (Men’s team)
|
Gishonidhi Kumaresanpadma
|
B Vinod Choudhary Choudhary
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Dhinesh Mohan Jothi
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Gishonidhi Kumaresanpadma
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Vijeaya Venkatathri M S Mulleri
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13
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Athletics (Men: 4*400m relay)
|
Balamurugan Thiyagarajan
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Deepanchakravarthy Arumugasamy
|
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Mohankumar D Raja
|
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Raja Kamaraja
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14
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Athletics (Women: 100m hurdles)
|
Govindarajan Gayathri
|
15
|
Athletics (Women: pole vault)
|
Sureka Suresh Babu
|
16
|
Volleyball (Men’s team)
|
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Gold Medal winners [Athletics (Men: 4*400m relay)]: Balamurugan Thiyagarajan,
Deepanchakravarthy Arumugasamy, Mohankumar D Raja and Raja Kamaraja
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Gold Medal winners [Table Tennis (Women’s
and Men’s Singles)]: Shamini Kumaresan and Amalraj Anthony è
Silver
Medals
|
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#
|
Event
|
Players
|
1
|
Squash (Men’s Singles)
|
Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu
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2
|
Squash (Women’s Singles)
|
R. Lakshaya
|
3
|
Table Tennis (Men’s Doubles)
|
Amalraj Anthony
|
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
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4
|
Table Tennis (Mixed Doubles)
|
Amalraj Anthony
|
Shamini Kumaresan
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5
|
Swimming (Women’s 200m Individual
Medley)
|
Jayaveena Arcot Vijayakumar
|
6
|
Tennis (Men’s Singles)
|
N Sriram Balaji
|
7
|
Tennis (Men’s Doubles)
|
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
|
Vijay Sundar Prashanth Natarajan
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8
|
Cycling (15km Scratch Race Men)
|
Rajesh Chandrasekar
|
9
|
Athletics (Men’s Longjump)
|
Premkumar Kumaravel
|
10
|
Athletics (Men: 110m hurdles)
|
Surendhar Jayakumar
|
11
|
Athletics (Men: 200m)
|
Manikandan Arumugam Manickam
|
12
|
Athletics (Women: 800m)
|
Gomathi Marimuthu
|
13
|
Athletics (Women 4*400m relay)
|
Archana Sussendran
|
Deepika Parasuraman
|
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Govindaraja Gayathri
|
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Radhika Radhakrishnan
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14
|
Taekwondo (Men)
|
Janey Dharma
|
15
|
Basketball (Men’s team)
|
|
16
|
Basketball (Women’s team)
|
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è
Gold Medal winners [Volleyball Team (Men)]
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Gold
Medal winners [Tennis (Men’s Singles)]: Ramkumar Ramanathan; he also won Gold
Medal in Tennis Team Event. è
Bronze
Medals
|
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#
|
Event
|
Players
|
1
|
Weightlifting (Men: 69 kg)
|
Rengaraj
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2
|
Weightlifting (Women: 75 kg)
|
Pounraj
|
3
|
Table Tennis (Women team)
|
Shamini Kumaresan
|
Amruthapushpak Shekhar
|
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Vidya N Vidya
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Narasimhapriya Sundarajan
|
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Reeth Tennison
|
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Niveditha Arumbakam Vidyasagar
|
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4
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Swimming (Women: 4*400m medley relay)
|
Aishwarya Selvakumar
|
Abishiktha P M
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Jayaveena Arcot Vijayakumar
|
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Meenakshi V K R
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5
|
Swimming (Women: 4*400 individual)
|
Meenakshi V K R
|
6
|
Swimming (Men: 200m stroke)
|
Sethumanickavel Thirumaran
|
7
|
Swimming (Women: 200 m Butterfly)
|
Sherlyn Devadason
|
8
|
Swimming (Women: 50m Butterfly)
|
Sherlyn Devadason
|
9
|
Swimming (Women: 100m Breaststroke)
|
Jayaveena Arcot Vijayakumar
|
10
|
Shooting (Women: Trap)
|
Asiya Khilji
|
11
|
Shooting (Women: 50m. Rifle 3
Position)
|
Sandhya Winfred
|
12
|
Tennis (Women’s team)
|
Rushmi Chakravarthi
|
Snehadevi Reddy Sankarasubbu
|
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Samhitha Sai
|
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Sharon Sanchana Paul
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13
|
Tennis (Women’s singles)
|
Snehadevi Reddy Sankarasubbu
|
14
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Squash (Men’s Singles)
|
Ravi Dixit
|
15
|
Athletics (Men: 400m hurdles)
|
Binuaquito Chandrasekaran
|
16
|
Athletics (Women: 100m hurdles)
|
Deepika Parasuraman
|
17
|
Taekwondo (Men: 54-58 kg)
|
Dinesh Babu
|
18
|
Taekwondo (Men: 80-87 kg)
|
Balasubramani Haribabu
|
19
|
Taekwondo (Men: >87 kg)
|
Prasanth Mohan
|
20
|
Volleyball (Women team)
|
|
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è Gold Medal winners [Shooting
(Women's Trap Event)]: N. Nivedha, Asiya Khilji and Asila Khilji
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Gold
Medal winners [Athletics (Women: 100m hurdles)]: Govindarajan Gayathri è
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