Boxing’s greatest-ever campaign, judo’s first golds, and a stellar para-sports show helped India close the Commonwealth Games with quality trumping quantity
India concluded the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with 39 medals- 13 gold, 17 silver, and 9 bronze falling short of the 50-medal benchmark maintained since 2002. With several traditionally strong disciplines missing from a trimmed-down programme (a consequence of the Games’ financial troubles and late relocation from Victoria, Australia, to Glasgow), the tally reflects context as much as performance.
Weightlifting opened the account with 8 medals, anchored by Mirabai Chanu’s historic third consecutive CWG gold. Boxing then delivered India’s finest-ever showing at the Games: of 10 guaranteed medals, 7 turned gold and 3 silver, the best boxing campaign by any nation in CWG history, led by five women’s gold medals plus wins from Sachin Siwach and Ankush Panghal.
Para-sport athletes matched India’s cumulative medal count from all previous editions combined, winning 7 medals (3 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze) from a 28-member contingent, including three golds in para athletics.
Judo delivered similarly unprecedented results: Harsh Singh and Asmita Dey became India’s first-ever CWG judo gold medallists, with Yamini Mourya (silver) and Unnati Sharma (bronze) rounding out India’s best judo haul yet.
Athletics added 10 medals (5 silver, 5 bronze), highlighted by Tejaswin Shankar’s bronze, India’s first-ever CWG decathlon medal , Gulveer Singh’s double medal in the 10,000m and 5,000m, and Neeraj Chopra’s javelin silver, his first CWG podium since Gold Coast 2018.
The final day brought no fresh medals: judoka Ishroop Narang lost her bronze-medal repechage bout, while cyclists and remaining judokas exited without a podium finish.
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