Malaysia:first Asian country to host the CWG Games/Suresh Kumar Lau

In 1998, Kuala Lumpur was the first Asian city to host the Games. In 16^th Commonwealth Games 1998, five new sports – Cricket, Hockey, Squash, Rugby and Netball were including in the competition programme for the first time. Jaspal Rana continued to impress in Shooting. India won 7 gold, 10 silver and 8 bronze medals and occupied the seventh position in the medals table. The Indian Shooters and weightlifters continued to win the laurels for the country. The weightlifter won 3 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze medals, while shooter won 4 gold, 2 silver and a bronze medals. Jaspal Rana (Centre Fire Pistol), Roopa Unikrishnan (Sports rifle prone event), Ashok Pandit/ Jaspal Rana (Centre Fire Pistol Pairs) and Mansher Singh/Manavjit Singh (Trap pairs) won gold in shooting, while Arunugam Pandian (56 kg), Dharmaraj Wilson (56 kg) and Satish Rai (77 kg) were gold medal winner for India in weightlifting. Aparna Popat won a silver and Gopichand a bronze in badminton.