India celebrated an unprecedented day on the Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow, attaining a historic medal haul, pushed by a file seven boxing gold medals, stellar performances in judo, and important contributions from para observe and subject athletes.
IMAGE: Preeti Pawar celebrates along with her gold medal after a dominant victory over Canada’s Scarlett Delgado within the ladies’s 54kg gold medal bout on the 2026 Commonwealth Video games on Saturday. {Photograph}: ANI
Key Factors
- India secured a record-breaking seven gold medals in boxing, topping the boxing medal desk with seven gold and three silver.
- Girls pugilists contributed 5 gold medals, whereas Sachin Siwach and Ankush Panghal received males’s titles, marking India’s best-ever boxing efficiency on the Commonwealth Video games.
- Judo noticed India’s best-ever Commonwealth Video games marketing campaign within the sport, with Unnati Sharma clinching a bronze, including to 2 golds and a silver.
- Soman Rana received gold in males’s F57 para shot put, main a historic haul of seven medals for Indian para sports activities athletes, equalling all earlier editions mixed.
- India climbed to fourth within the medal desk with 13 gold, 17 silver, and eight bronze, totalling 38 medals on the penultimate day of competitions.
IMAGE: Jaismine Lamboria outclassed Northern Eire’s Michaela Walsh within the last to say the gold medal within the ladies’s 57kg. {Photograph}: ANI
Boxers punched their technique to a record-breaking haul of seven gold medals, whereas judokas and para observe and subject athletes additionally shone on the best day for India within the Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow on Saturday.
On the penultimate day of competitors, India jumped to fourth spot within the medals desk with 13 gold, 17 silver and eight bronze for a complete of 38 medals.
Australia led the medal desk with 61 gold medals, adopted by England and Canada.
Out of the eight gold received by the Indians, boxers contributed seven of their greatest ever present within the Commonwealth Video games.
India topped the boxing medals desk with seven gold and three silver.
The opposite gold was received by Soman Rana, within the males’s F57 para shot put occasion.
Most Gold by Boxers
IMAGE: Sakshi Chaudhary kisses her gold medal from the ladies’s 51kg class.. {Photograph}: Andrew Couldridge/Reuters
Within the boxing ring, India reigned supreme, their ladies pugilists residing as much as their billing with a dominant five-gold haul, whereas Sachin Siwach and Ankush Panghal sealed males’s titles because the nation produced its greatest-ever efficiency within the sport on the Commonwealth Video games.
Reigning World champion Jaismine Lamboria (57kg), Asian Video games medallist Preeti Pawar (54kg), Asian champion Priya Ghanghas (60kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (51kg) and Arundhati Choudhary (70kg) received gold medals, whereas Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) settled for silver.
Within the males’s competitors, Sachin (60kg) and Ankush (70kg) struck gold, whereas Jadumani Singh (55kg) and Asian Video games bronze medallist Narender Berwal (+90kg) completed with silver medals.
India’s earlier greatest boxing marketing campaign on the Commonwealth Video games was in Gold Coast in 2018, when it received seven medals, together with three gold.
Finest Ever Present by Judokas
IMAGE: Unnati Sharma received the bronze medal within the ladies’s judo 63kg class. {Photograph}: ANI
In judo, Unnati Sharma clinched a bronze medal within the ladies’s 63kg occasion to proceed the nation’s historic run on the Commonwealth Video games. She defeated South Africa’s Skye Knoester by ippon, wrapping up the competition in only a minute and 7 seconds with a decisive transfer, hooking her leg to unbalance Knoester earlier than throwing her cleanly onto her again to earn an ippon — the best rating in judo — and seal the bout immediately.
The Indian had earlier gone right down to Australia’s Saya Middleton within the semi-finals, however bounced again strongly to safe a spot on the rostrum with an emphatic victory.
The bronze was India’s fourth medal in judo, persevering with the nation’s best-ever Commonwealth Video games marketing campaign within the sport.
The historic run was led by Harsh Singh (males’s 60kg) and Asmita Dey (ladies’s 48kg), who grew to become India’s first-ever Commonwealth Video games judo gold medallists with twin titles on Saturday.
Yamini Mourya added a silver within the ladies’s -57kg class, giving India their file haul.
India can have an opportunity so as to add to their file tally on the concluding day, Sunday, with Ishroop Narang (ladies’s 78kg), Avtar Singh (males’s 100kg) and Yash Ghangas (males’s 100kg) all in medal rivalry.
Within the last bout of the day, India’s Harsh Tokas narrowly missed out on a bronze medal within the males’s 81kg judo, shedding to Australia’s Keishin Ochi by ippon.
Nevertheless, Inunganbi Takhellambam (ladies’s 70kg) and Karanjit Singh Maan (males’s 90kg) bowed out after shedding their repechage bouts.
Document Present by Para Athletes
In athletics, Rana received the lads’s F57 para shot put gold with a season-best effort of 13.40m, main an Indian one-two as compatriot Shubham Juyal claimed silver with 13.28m.
India additionally celebrated a double podium end within the males’s triple leap, with Praveen Chithravel taking silver with 16.58m and Selva Prabhu Thirumaran securing bronze with 16.52m behind Jamaica’s Jordan Scott (16.72m).
Ramesh Shanmugam completed seventh within the males’s T54 1500m para last, whereas Priyanka Goswami was positioned seventh within the ladies’s 10,000m race stroll with a season-best time of 45:53.93. Ravina was disqualified in the identical occasion.
It was a historic second for Indian para sports activities athletes within the Glasgow Commonwealth Video games as they equaled the haul of all of the earlier editions put collectively, profitable seven medals, together with one gold and silver on Saturday.
The 28-member Indian para sports activities contingent ended their marketing campaign with seven medals — 3 gold, 2 silver and a pair of bronze.
On Sunday, Indians will function in observe biking and para observe biking occasions.
It’s the greatest ever efficiency for Indian para sports activities within the Commonwealth Video games. For the reason that introduction of para-sports within the CWG in 2002 version in Manchester, India have received a complete of seven medals — one gold, two silver and 4 bronze.
Earlier than Glasgow, the 2022 Birmingham Video games was the best one for Indian para sports activities, Bhavina Patel and Sonalben Patel profitable a gold and a bronze respectively in para desk tennis.
Sudhir, who received gold in para powerlifting in Birmingham, was later stripped of his medal after failing an in-competition dope check.
In Glasgow, para observe and subject athletes scooped six medals — 3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze — whereas Jhandu Kumar clinched the opposite bronze in para powerlifting.
The para athletics staff additionally ended India’s 20-year await a medal on the CWG.
The final medal from para athletics earlier than Glasgow got here from Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan within the males’s seated Discus Throw occasion within the 2006 version.
There have been three double podium finishes for India in para athletics in Glasgow — Sharmila (gold) and Shilpa Shyla (bronze) in ladies’s shot put F57; Dilip Mahadu Gavit (gold) and Mohammed Basil (silver) in males’s 100m T47; and Soman Rana (gold) and Shubham Juyal (silver) in males’s Shot Put F57.
Indian para athletes additionally created one Video games file and one Asian file.
