Glasgow 2026:India's Golden Day 8🥇,5 🥈, 3🥉Medals
Published on Aug 2, 20264 min readBy The Bharat 2030 CWG Team
India won 16 medals on Day 9 at Glasgow 2026 — 8 gold in boxing, plus shot put, triple jump, and 5000m podiums. Total 39 medals: 13 Gold, 17 Silver & 9 Bronze.
India's Best Day : 8 Gold, 5 Silver, 3 Bronze on Day 9 at Glasgow 2026
Day 9 (1 August) was India's biggest medal haul of the Games by some distance — 16 medals in a single day: 8 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze, headlined by a boxing clean-sweep of seven golds and a rare 1-2 finish in the men's Shot Put F57.
Boxing — 7 Gold, 3 Silver
India's boxers delivered the day's biggest medal count on their own, going 7-3 across ten finals.
Gold — Preeti, Women's 54kg: Preeti beat Canada's Scarlett Savannah Delgado 5-0 on points (30-27 on all five cards, one knockdown scored against Delgado).
Gold — Jaismine, Women's 57kg: Jaismine beat Michaela Walsh (Northern Ireland) 5-0 on points, sweeping every round on all five judges' cards.
Gold — Sakshi, Women's 51kg: Sakshi beat England's Ruby White 5-0 on points (30-27, 29-28, 30-27, 30-26, 30-27).
Gold — Priya, Women's 60kg: Priya beat Canada's Marie-Bathoul Al-Ahmadieh 4-1 on points in a close contest that went the distance.
Gold — Arundhati Choudhary, Women's 70kg: Choudhary beat England's Chantelle Reid 5-0 on points, winning every round comfortably (30-27 on four of five cards).
Gold — Sachin, Men's 60kg: Sachin edged Namibia's Tryagain Morning Ndevelo 3-2 on points in the tightest final of the day, with a knockdown scored in his favour in round 3.
Gold — Ankush, Men's 80kg: Ankush beat England's Dimeji Shittu 4-1 on points, scoring a knockdown in round 1 en route to the win.
Silver — Jadumani Singh Mandengbam, Men's 55kg: Mandengbam lost the final 0-5 on points to Australia's Jye Dixon.
Silver — Lovlina Borgohain, Women's 75kg: Lovlina Borgohain lost the final 1-4 on points to Australia's Emma-Sue Greentree.
Silver — Narender, Men's 90+kg: Narender lost the final 0-5 on points to England's Damar Thomas.
Source: Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Results - Sport - Boxing
Athletics & Para Athletics — 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 2 Bronze
Gold + Silver — Men's Shot Put F57: India went 1-2: Soman Rana took gold with a season-best 13.40m (his second-round throw), and Shubham Juyal took silver with a season-best 13.28m on his final attempt. Bronze went to Cameroon's Cedric Idriss Lekezo Azamdzi (12.57m SB).
Men's Shot Put F57 - Final result
Rank | Athlete | Country | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
Gold | Soman Rana | IND | 13.40 (SB) |
Silver | Shubham Juyal | IND | 13.28 (SB) |
Bronze | Cedric Idriss Lekezo Azamdzi | CMR | 12.57 (SB) |
Source: official Glasgow 2026 results sheet
Silver + Bronze — Men's Triple Jump Praveen Chithravel took silver with 16.58m (fourth-round leap), and Selva Prabhu Thirumaran took bronze with 16.52m (fifth round) — India's second double-medal event of the day. Gold went to Jamaica's Jordan Scott (16.72m).
Men's Triple Jump - Final result
Rank | Athlete | Country | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
Gold | Jordan Scott | JAM | 16.72 |
Silver | Praveen Chithravel | IND | 16.58 |
Bronze | Selva Prabhu Thirumaran | IND | 16.52 |
Source: Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Results - Sport - Athletics and Para Athletics
Bronze — Gulveer Singh, Men's 5000m Singh ran a strong closing 800m (moving from 5th at 4200m to 3rd at the finish) to take bronze in 13:24.95, just 0.25 seconds behind silver medallist Ky Robinson (Australia) and 1.34 seconds behind gold medallist Mathew Kipchumba Kipsang (Kenya) in a tight finish.
Men's 5000m - Final result (top 3)
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
Gold | Mathew Kipchumba Kipsang | KEN | 13:23.61 |
Silver | Ky Robinson | AUS | 13:24.70 |
Bronze | Gulveer Singh | IND | 13:24.95 |
Source: Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Results - Sport - Athletics and Para Athletics
Judo - 1 Bronze
Bronze — Unnati Sharma, Women -63kg : Unnati Sharma won the bronze medal contest against South Africa's Skye Knoester by ippon in 1 minute 7 seconds.
Source: Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Results - Sport - Judo
Legend (as per official Glasgow 2026 results site):
GR — Commonwealth Games Record
CR — Commonwealth Record
PB — Personal Best
SB — Season's Best
Source: Glasgow 2026
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