Day 3 of the Commonwealth Games 2026, on July 26 in Glasgow, turned into a breakthrough day for India, with weightlifting delivering three medals in a single session and pushing the country’s overall tally to four.
The headline result belonged to Mirabai Chanu, who won gold in the women’s 48kg category with a combined lift of 190kg. The Olympic silver medallist set a Commonwealth record in the snatch with 85kg before producing a Games record clean and jerk of 105kg, securing her third consecutive Commonwealth Games gold medal and India’s first gold of these Games.
Rishikanta Singh opened India’s weightlifting account earlier in the day, winning silver in the men’s 60kg category with a total of 264kg, having set a Games record in the snatch with a 121kg lift despite competing through an injury. Raja Muthupandi added India’s third weightlifting medal of the day, taking silver in the men’s 65kg category with a total lift of 286kg, capping a long comeback from a serious elbow injury and missed Birmingham 2022 selection.
It was not all good news, however. India’s men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team of Srihari Nataraj, Aryan Nehra, Aneesh Gowda, and Dhakshan Shashikumar finished sixth in the final, well off the podium pace set by Australia’s Games record-breaking quartet. In lawn bowls, Rupa Rani Tirkey and Pinki Singh suffered their first defeat of the tournament, losing a tiebreak to Namibia. Boxing produced a mixed bag, with Preeti Pawar and Jadumani Singh both winning their round of 16 bouts, while Aditya Yadav suffered India’s first boxing loss of the Games, going down 3-2 to Uganda’s Nuhu Batte.
By the end of Day 3, India’s medal tally stood at four: one gold and two silver from weightlifting, plus the bronze secured earlier by para powerlifter Jhandu Kumar. That was enough to lift India to eighth position in the overall standings, with Australia dominating the top of the table on 17 gold medals, followed by England and Scotland.
The result set the stage for an even bigger day to come, with track and field events beginning on Day 4 alongside more weightlifting finals, as India’s campaign in Glasgow continued to build momentum through the middle stretch of the Games.