Gulveer Singh became the first Indian to win a 5000m medal in the Commonwealth Games as well as the first from the country to win two athletics medals a single edition of the Games, while para shot putter Soman Rana clinched a gold on a historic day for differently abled athletes here on Saturday (August 1, 2026).
Triple jumpers Praveen Chithravel and Selva Prabhu Thirumaran also bagged a silver and a bronze respectively to swell the total medal for India from able-bodied track and field athletes to 10 — 5 silver, 5 bronze.
Though without a gold to show, athletics medal tally in Glasgow was the second best by the able-bodied athletes after the 12 medal haul in the 2010 edition in New Delhi.
Reigning Asian champion Gulveer, who had won a silver in the 10,000m on July 28, finished third in the 5000m with a time of 13 minute 24.95 seconds to complete a historic double on the concluding day of the athletics competition.
Mathew Kipchumba Kipsang of Kenya took the gold with a time of 13:23.61, while Australia's Ky Robinson, who had earlier won the gold in the 10,000m, clinched the silver, clocking 13:24.70.
