India left Glasgow with 39 medals – 13 gold, 17 silver and nine bronze – to finish fourth on the final Commonwealth Games medal table. Given the reduced ten-sport programme excluded traditional Indian strongholds like wrestling, badminton, table tennis, hockey and shooting, it was a campaign that punched above expectations.
Boxing carried the campaign
No sport did more for India’s tally than boxing. The 14-strong squad reached ten finals and won seven of them, the most gold medals any nation has ever won in boxing at a single Commonwealth Games. Sakshi Chaudhary, Preeti Pawar, Jaismine Lamboria, Priya Ghanghas, Arundhati Choudhary, Sachin Siwach and Ankush Panghal all struck gold, while Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain settled for silver. For the full list of bouts, see our dedicated boxing results roundup.
Medals across the rest of the programme
- Weightlifting: Mirabai Chanu gold (48kg), Rishikanta Singh and Muthupandi Raja silvers.
- Athletics: Neeraj Chopra and Yash Vir Singh went silver-bronze in javelin; Gulveer Singh added silver and bronze on the track.
- Judo: India’s best-ever Games in the sport, with two golds – including its first-ever judo gold – and a bronze.
- Para sport: A record seven medals, matching India’s combined para haul from every previous edition.
Individually, several Indian athletes stood out above the rest, while a handful of younger competitors announced themselves for the first time on this stage. For context on how this compares with India’s past campaigns, our edition-by-edition history of India at the Commonwealth Games traces the journey from a single bronze in 1934 to 101 medals at the 2010 Delhi Games.
With shooting and wrestling both set to return for the 2030 Ahmedabad Games, India’s medal count on home soil is likely to look very different. Officials within the Indian Olympic Association have already pointed to Glasgow 2026 as a useful staging post – proof that a leaner Indian contingent can still compete for medals across a wide spread of disciplines, from combat sports to field events.