India Finished Fourth at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games With 39 Medals, 13 of Them Gold, and Won Seven Boxing Golds, the Most Any Nation Has Taken in the Sport at One Games

India finished fourth at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with 39 medals: 13 gold, 17 silver and 9 bronze. Boxing alone produced seven of the golds, which the Games organisers describe as the most any nation has won in the sport at a single Commonwealth Games.

The Games ran from 23 July to 2 August 2026. Australia, England and Canada finished ahead of India on the medal table, according to Outlook India’s medal table.

The count, and how it was reached

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the squad on 3 August, writing: “Delighted that India has won 39 medals, including 13 Golds.” India sent a 126-member contingent, Brut India reports, including a 32-member athletics squad led by Neeraj Chopra.

Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said the same day that the programme lacked several disciplines in which India is strong. In the disciplines that Glasgow and the previous Games share, he said, India’s medal count rose from 30 to 39, according to News On AIR.

Medals came from boxing, weightlifting, athletics, para athletics and para powerlifting, among other sports.

Ten finals, seven golds in the ring

On Saturday 1 August, at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, India had ten boxers in ten finals. All ten had won their semi-finals the day before, The Bridge reported on 31 July. By the end of the night the Indian team had seven golds and three silvers, and led the boxing table, World Boxing, the sport’s governing body, reported.

The golds went to:

• Sakshi Chaudhary, women’s 51 kg, who beat England’s Ruby White.
• Preeti Pawar, women’s 54 kg, who beat Canada’s Scarlett Delgado.
• Jaismine Lamboria, women’s 57 kg, who beat Northern Ireland’s Michaela Walsh.
• Priya Ghanghas, women’s 60 kg, who won 4:1 on a split decision, per IANS.
• Arundhati Choudhary, women’s 70 kg, who beat England’s Chantelle Reid on all five judges’ cards.
• Sachin Siwach, men’s 60 kg, who beat Namibia’s Tryagain Morning Ndevelo 3:2 and became the first Indian man to win boxing gold at these Games.
• Ankush Panghal, men’s 80 kg, who beat England’s Dimeji Shittu 4:1 on a split decision.

The three silvers went to Jadumani Singh Mandengbam at 55 kg (beaten by Australia’s Jye Dixon), Lovlina Borgohain at 75 kg (beaten 4:1 by Australia’s Emma-Sue Greentree, on World Boxing’s account) and Narender Berwal at over 90 kg (beaten by England’s Damar Thomas in the final bout of the Games).

What the record is measured against

The Glasgow 2026 organisers wrote that seven golds is the most by any nation in boxing at a single Commonwealth Games and that the previous best by one nation was six. The Bridge adds that six was set by England in 1934 and matched twice since. For India, the previous best was three golds, reached at New Delhi 2010, Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022, The Bridge and IANS both report.

Jaismine’s final was close in its first round, which she won 3:2 on a split decision before taking the second outright, the organisers wrote. Walsh’s silver gave her a fourth Commonwealth medal, a first for any boxer. After the bout, Jaismine said: “In the ring we have to fight for our country, but outside the ring we are friends.”

India’s boxing federation president, Ajay Singh, told The Bridge that the Glasgow performance could not be replicated at the Asian Games. Coach Santiago Neiva pointed to the five golds India won at the Asian Championships a couple of months earlier and called Glasgow a sign the team is “on the right track”.

Mirabai Chanu’s third straight gold

Weightlifting brought a gold on 26 July, in the women’s 48 kg final. Mirabai Chanu, 31, lifted 85 kg in the snatch and 105 kg in the clean and jerk for a 190 kg total. Nigeria’s Ruth Asuquo Nyong took silver on 168 kg, 22 kg behind.

It was Chanu’s third consecutive Commonwealth Games gold, after Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022, and her fourth medal in all, counting a silver from Glasgow 2014. She missed her opening attempts in both lifts (82 kg in the snatch, 105 kg in the clean and jerk) and made them on the next try. Indian outlets differ on which lifts counted as records. The Free Press Journal called the total a Games record; The Week reported records in the clean and jerk and the total. Neither gave the old figures, so tuput does not state them. Modi wrote on X that she “remains an inspiration for every Indian”.

Podiums on the track, in the field and in para sport

Neeraj Chopra took javelin silver on 31 July, throwing 85.83 m, his best of the season. Rumesh Pathirage of Sri Lanka won with 89.75 m, and Yashvir Singh took bronze with a personal best of 85.41 m on his final throw. The Bridge reports that was India’s first double podium in the men’s javelin at a Commonwealth Games. Chopra’s career is covered in more detail in our piece on Neeraj Chopra and the javelin.

Gulveer Singh won silver in the men’s 10,000 m and bronze in the 5000 m in 13:24.95, which The Bridge describes as India’s first Commonwealth Games medal in that event. He was India’s only double medallist in athletics. Pravreen Chithravel took triple jump silver and Selva Prabhu bronze, a second successive double podium for India in the event after the gold and silver of Birmingham.

In para athletics, Soman Rana won the men’s F57 shot put with Shubham Juyal taking silver, and Dilip Gavit won the men’s 100 m T47, according to Deccan Chronicle and Outlook India.

A smaller Games than Birmingham

Gulf News noted that 39 is lower than the 61 medals India won at Birmingham 2022, and that the comparison is affected by the much smaller Glasgow programme. Glasgow had ten sports: athletics and para athletics, swimming, artistic gymnastics, track cycling, netball, weightlifting and para powerlifting, boxing, judo, bowls and 3x3 basketball. Hockey, cricket, badminton, wrestling and shooting were not on it. ThePrint reported when the list was announced that India’s all-time Commonwealth Games tallies include 135 medals in shooting and 114 in wrestling, and that the programme has nine fewer events than Birmingham.

The Bridge also noted that several leading boxing nations, among them Uzbekistan, Cuba, the United States, Kazakhstan and China, did not enter the Glasgow tournament.

The flag moves to Ahmedabad

At the handover ceremony, the Games flag and baton were presented to Neeraj Chopra, Indian Olympic Association president P. T. Usha and Gujarat’s Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi, Gulf News reported. India hosts the 2030 Centenary Commonwealth Games in Ahmedabad, and Mandaviya said the government is committed to making them one of the best editions in the Games’ history. The bid, the venues and the eight confirmed sports are set out in our article on the Ahmedabad 2030 Games, and the country’s other 2026 multi-sport campaign is in our account of India at the Asian Games.