CWG 2026: India signs off Glasgow campaign with 39 medals; boxing leads charge ahead of Ahmedabad 2030

India's Commonwealth Games campaign in Glasgow ended with 39 medals- 13 gold, 17 silver and nine bronze, as 38 Indian athletes returned home with at least one medal, with Gulveer Singh the only Indian to win two medals. India finished fourth in the overall standing, bringing the curtain down on a campaign led by a record-breaking boxing performance and strong showings in athletics, para-athletics, weightlifting and judo.

Boxing delivers India's biggest highlight

Indian boxing produced its ‘best-ever Commonwealth Games campaign’, with the contingent winning 10 medals- seven gold and three silver. All 10 Indian boxers who reached the medal bouts returned with a podium finish, underlining the depth of the contingent. The seven gold medals came from five women and two men.


Jaismine Lamboria added a Commonwealth Games title to her credentials with gold in the women's 57kg category, while Preeti Pawar won the women's 54kg gold. Sakshi Chaudhary triumphed in the women's 51kg category, Priya Ghanghas took the women's 60kg title and Arundhati Choudhary won gold in the women's 70kg category.

On the men's side, Sachin Siwach won the 60kg gold and Ankush Panghal secured the 80kg title. The three boxing silvers went to Lovlina Borgohain in the women's 75kg category, Jadumani Singh in the men's 55kg category and Narender Berwal in the men's +90kg category.

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Beyond boxing, India had several standout performances in Glasgow. Neeraj Chopra returned to the Commonwealth Games with a silver in men's javelin, throwing 85.83m, while compatriot Yashvir Singh added bronze with a personal best of 84.41m. Gulveer Singh emerged as the only Indian to win two medals, taking silver in the 10,000m and bronze in the 5,000m. In judo, Unnati Sharma won bronze in the women's 63kg category, while Mirabai Chanu opened India's gold-medal account with the women's 48kg weightlifting title. India's para-athletes also delivered a landmark campaign, winning seven medals, including golds for Soman Rana, Sharmila Dhankar and Dilip Gavit.

How does Glasgow compare with India's best-ever CWG?

In terms of the overall medal count, Glasgow is nowhere near India's record Commonwealth Games performance. That record came at the 2010 Delhi Games, when India won 101 medals, including 38 gold, 27 silver and 36 bronze, finishing second in the standings.

The comparison with Birmingham 2022 is more relevant. India won 61 medals there, including 22 gold, and finished fourth. Glasgow's 39 medals are 22 fewer than Birmingham, while the gold tally is down by nine. But the smaller Glasgow programme meant Indian athletes had far fewer medal opportunities, particularly in disciplines that have traditionally delivered for the country.

The Glasgow campaign therefore cannot simply be read as a decline from Birmingham. The Games themselves were substantially smaller, and the removal of several sports eliminated 30 medal opportunities India had converted into podium finishes at Birmingham.

The 2026 edition was reduced to 10 sports after Glasgow replaced Victoria as host following Australia's withdrawal. For India, the absence of sports such as wrestling, badminton, table tennis, hockey, squash and cricket was particularly significant. At Birmingham in 2022, India had won 61 medals- 22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze, to finish fourth.

In fact, six sports that were removed from the Glasgow programme- wrestling, table tennis, badminton, hockey, squash and cricket, had contributed 30 of India's 61 medals at Birmingham. Wrestling alone produced 12 medals, while table tennis and badminton contributed seven and six respectively. Shooting and archery, two other traditional Indian strengths, were also absent.

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So while India's 39-medal haul represents a sharp decline in absolute numbers from Birmingham, it came in a much smaller sporting programme. The 2026 campaign also produced a particularly striking shift in the medal mix, with boxing emerging as the biggest success story.

From Glasgow to Ahmedabad 2030

The closing ceremony in Glasgow also marks the beginning of India's next Commonwealth Games chapter. Ahmedabad will host the 2030 Commonwealth Games, after India secured the hosting rights in a vote in Glasgow in November 2025. The event will be particularly significant as it will mark the centenary edition of the Commonwealth Games. India had previously hosted the Games in Delhi in 2010.

The Ahmedabad edition is currently planned to feature 15 to 17 sports. Sports already confirmed include athletics and para-athletics, swimming and para-swimming, table tennis and para table tennis, bowls and para bowls, weightlifting and para powerlifting, artistic gymnastics, netball and boxing. Other sports under consideration include archery, badminton, cricket, cycling, hockey, judo, shooting, squash and wrestling.

Preparations are already underway. Key venues including the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sports Enclave and Gujarat Police Academy sports facilities are being developed, with key complexes expected to be ready by 2029.

For Indian sport, Ahmedabad 2030 will therefore offer a very different backdrop from Glasgow: a larger programme, home advantage and the opportunity to bring back several disciplines that were missing in 2026. After a 39-medal campaign in a sharply reduced Games, the challenge for India will be to convert that home advantage into a return towards the medal numbers seen at Birmingham and eventually challenge the benchmark set by the historic 101-medal haul in Delhi.