GLASGOW, SCOTLAND: India wrapped up the 2026 Commonwealth Games with 39 medals, 13 of which were gold. This was the first time in this century that India ended a Commonwealth Games campaign with fewer than 50 medals, having last done so in Kuala Lumpur in 1998. In Glasgow, they finished fourth in the nations’ tally, alongside hosts Scotland, who, too, had 39 medals, including 13 golds.
Although India finished with fewer than 50 medals in this edition of the Games, it was also one of their most successful endeavours. Readers will remember that the just-concluded Games were a much-reduced affair with just ten full-fledged sporting disciplines due to financial constraints. This played a big role in India’s medal tally ending below the much-vaunted tag of 50.
India ended the Glasgow Games with an average of 3.90 medals, which is a remarkable feat for a country long cursed with sporting poverty. With the disciplines of shooting, badminton, wrestling, table-tennis and hockey kept away from the 2026 Commonwealth Games due to rising costs, India missed out on winning more medals in sports that they have traditionally dominated.
Neeraj Chopra missed out on a gold medal
For instance, India have won 135 Commonwealth Games medals in shooting, 114 in wrestling, 31 in badminton and 28 in table tennis so far, but were deprived of recreating their success this time around. Therefore, the success that the country achieved must be viewed through the lens of relativity. This proves that the 2026 Games were indeed a successful endeavour for India.
Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu continued to make the nation proud with her third successive gold medal in the Commonwealth Games, but it was the failure of javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra to do so that raised alarm bells for India. The gold medalist from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics came second behind Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage, and had to be content with a silver medal.
Boxer Lovlina Borgohain was another athlete who fell short of the desired mark, winning silver when a gold was expected of her. Nonetheless, para athletes Sharmila Dhankar, Dilip Gavit and Soman Rana, who all won gold medals, showed their indomitable spirit by overcoming physical barriers and standing on par with the rest of the world, especially since they were dealt a raw hand by Nature. Gulveer Singh, meanwhile, stood out by winning two medals – silver in men’s 10,000m and bronze in men’s 5,000m.
India’s medal tally at the 2026 Commonwealth Games
This is the list of medals won by India at the 2026 Commonwealth Games:
- Mirabai Chanu, Gold, Women’s 48kg weightlifting
- Sharmila Dhankar, Gold, Women’s shot put F57 para athletics
- Dilip Gavit, Gold, Men’s 100m T47 para athletics
- Asmita Dey, Gold, Women’s 48kg judo
- Harsh Singh, Gold, Men’s 60kg judo
- Preeti Panwar, Gold, Women’s 54kg boxing
- Jasmine Lamboria, Gold, Women’s 57kg boxing
- Sakshi Chaudhary, Gold, Women’s 51kg boxing
- Priya Ghanghas, Gold, Women’s 60kg boxing
- Arundhati Chauhdari, Gold, Women’s 70kg boxing
- Sachin Siwach, Gold, Men’s 60kg boxing
- Ankush Panghal, Gold, Men’s 80kg boxing
- Soman Rana, Gold, Men’s shot put F57 para athletics
- Mohammed Basil, Silver, Men’s 100m T47 para athletics
- Rishikanta Singh, Silver, Men’s 60kg weightlifting
- Raja Muthupandi, Silver, Men’s 65kg weightlifting
- Gyaneshwari Yadav, Silver, Women’s 53kg weightlifting
- Valluri Ajaya Babu, Silver, Men’s 79kg weightlifting
- Sarvesh Kushare, Silver, Men’s high jump
- Gulveer Singh, Silver, Men’s 10,000m athletics
- Harjinder Kaur, Silver, Women’s 69kg weightlifting
- Lovepreet Singh, Silver, Men’s 110kg+ weightlifting
- Murali Sreeshankar, Silver, Men’s long jump
- Yamini Mourya, Silver, Women’s 57kg judo
- Neeraj Chopra, Silver, Men’s javelin throw
- Praveen Chithravel, Silver, Men’s triple jump
- Jadumani Singh, Silver, Men’s 55kg boxing
- Lovlina Borgohain, Silver, Women’s 75kg boxing
- Narender Berwal, Silver, Men’s 90kg+ boxing
- Shubham Juyal, Silver, Men’s shot put F57 para athletics
- Jhandu Kumar, Bronze, Men’s para-powerlifting
- Bindyarani Devi, Bronze, Women’s 58kg weightlifting
- Shilpa K Shyla, Bronze, Women’s shot put F57 para athletics
- Seema Kaliramma, Bronze, Women’s discus throw athletics
- Tejaswin Shankar, Bronze, Men’s decathlon
- Yashvir Singh, Bronze, Men’s javelin throw
- Selva Prabhu, Bronze, Men’s triple jump
- Unnati Sharma, Bronze, Women’s 63kg judo
- Gulveer Singh, Bronze, Men’s 5,000m athletics (second medal)
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