India closed the curtain on the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with 39 medals -- 13 gold, 17 silver and nine bronze. It was short of the symbolic 50-medal mark the country had maintained at every Commonwealth Games since 2002, but this was never going to be a tournament judged purely by numbers.
With several medal-rich sports absent from the programme, owing to financial constraints in hosting the Games, whose rights were initially reserved by the state of Victoria in Australia before moving to Glasgow, expectations were naturally tempered. But the nation found new heroes, new disciplines and new reasons to celebrate. The contingent may not have managed to add to their tally on the final day, but the campaign in the port city in Scotland ended on a memorable note, one headlined by a historic boxing sweep, an unprecedented para-sports performance and Indian judo's greatest-ever Commonwealth Games showing.
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Weightlifting got the campaign underway for India, delivering eight medals — one gold, six silver and one bronze. Mirabai Chanu once again proved why she remains India's undisputed queen of weightlifting, as she scripted history with a third successive CWG gold.
