Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2026 – DAY 7 Recap

The Indian athletes had a superb outing on Day 7 of the Commonwealth games. With the five boxers ensuring a medal by reaching the semi-finals of their respective categories, Murali Sreeshankar clinched a silver medal in the Men’s Long Jump. However, the big news came in Para Athletics where India achieved a double podium in the Men’s 100 m T47 category with Dilip Gavit and Mohammed Basil Morssinganakath finishing in gold and silver positions. 

Elsewhere Kate O’ Connor of Northern Ireland won her country’s first CWG Gold Medal after a hiatus of 40 years. She won the medal in the Women’s Heptathlon. Canada’s Josh Liendo broke the Commonwealth record in the Men’s 100 m butterfly with a time of 50.52 seconds. 

Let’s take a look at India’s schedule and medals on Day 7 of the CWG 2026 –

CWG 2026 Weightlifting 

Women’s 77 kg – Indian weightlifter Sanjana crashed out early in the competition as she failed to log a single attempt in the snatch round, failing all three attempts to lift 94 kg. Sanjana was eliminated even before the Clean and Jerk round. 

CWG 2026 Athletics

Men’s Shotput Qualifying – Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Samardeep Singh Gill qualify for the Men’s Shotput final with throws of 20.14m and 19.95 m. Even though Samardeep didn’t meet the 20 m qualification mark, he qualified by finishing fifth on the leaderboard. 

Men’s 200m Heats – Indian sprinter Animesh Kujur ran a season best of 20.46 seconds and won his heats to qualify for the Men’s 200m semi-finals. 

Men’s Long Jump Final – Murali Sreeshankar repeated his feat of Birmingham 2022, bagging his second Commonwealth games Silver with a jump of 8.09 metres. Lokesh Sathyanathan ended in fifth place. Tajay Gayle of Jamaica won the gold with an 8.15 m effort. 

Women’s Shotput Final – Manpreet Kaur finished the competition in fourth place with a throw of 17.49 metres. She missed the bronze by a whisker as she fouled in her final throw and couldn’t better the 17.87 m throw that won the bronze. 

Women’s 3000m Steeplechase Final – Parul Chaudhary disappointed with a fifth-place finish in the Women’s 3000m steeplechase with a timing of 9:26.75s which is 14 seconds slower than her personal best. 

Men’s 400 m hurdles Heats – Yashas Palaksha and Santhosh K. Tamilarasan have both qualified for the 400m hurdles final as the fastest losers. Santhosh clocked 49.51s while Yashas had a timing of 49.65s.

CWG 2026 Para Athletics

Men’s Discus Throw F42-44/F61-64 – Indian discus throwers Sagar Thayat (51.79m) and Devender Kumar (48.20m) finished sixth and seventh after the final round of the Men’s Discus Throw in the F42-44/F61-64 category.  

Men’s 100m T47 – India achieved a stunning double podium finish in the Men’s 100m T47 category with Dilip Gavit and Mohammed Basil Morssinganakath winning the gold and silver. Gavit set a games record with a 10.71 seconds sprint while Mohammed Basil clocked 10.83 seconds. 

CWG 2026 Swimming

Men’s 200 m freestyle Heats – Sajan Prakash and Aneesh Gowda failed to qualify for the 200m freestyle final. Sajan finished fifth in his heat clocking 1:51.99s while Aneesh finished seventh in his heat with a timing of 1:51.64.

Men’s 1500 m freestyle Final – Aryan Nehra finished 8th in the men’s 1500m freestyle final, clocking a time of 15:36.25.

CWG 2026 Para Swimming

Men’s 50 m freestyle S7 Heats – Para Swimmers Suyash Narayan Jadhav and Chaitanya Vishwas Kulkarni finished the men’s 50m freestyle S7 Heats. Kulkarni was placed fourth with 32.77 seconds while Jadhav clocked 35.35 seconds. Both of them failed to qualify for the final. 

CWG 2026 Boxing

Women’s 51 kg – Sakshi Chaudhary boxed into the semi-finals with a dominant victory over Caitlyn Fryers of Northern Ireland. Sakshi won the bout 5-0 with a unanimous decision. India is now assured of a medal in the Women’s 51 kg category. 

Women’s 57 kg – Olympian Jaismine Lamboria capped off a superb outing for the boxers with an entry into the semis with a 4-1 win against England’s Elise Glynn. Lamboria too has assured a medal for India. 

Women’s 70 kg – Arundhati Choudhary of India also entered the semi-finals with a 3-1 split decision win over New Zealand’s Morgan Henderson. India is assured of another CWG Boxing medal. 

Men’s 60 kg – Indian pugilist Sachin Siwach got the better of Botswana’s Treasure Moremi in a one-sided encounter to enter the semis. He won the bout 5-0 with a unanimous ruling in the Indian boxer’s favour. The boxing contingent has done extremely well with another boxer ensuring a medal. 

Men’s 80 kg – Ankush Panghal ensured another medal for India with a 5-0 thrashing of Seychelles’ boxer Jade Micock in the Men’s 80 kg category. He is into the semi-finals. 

Men’s 90+ kg – Narender Berwal had a close encounter against Samoa’s Michael Seko with the Indian narrowly winning the tie 3-2 by a split decision to progress to the semis and guaranteeing India another boxing medal. 

CWG 2026 Lawn Bowls 

Men’s Pair Sectional Play Section B, Round 2 – Navneet Singh and Dinesh Kumar won their second straight match of the Pair Sectional Play winning 2-0 (5-3, 6-3) against Namibia’s Christo Steenkamp and Waylon Wentzel. 

Women’s Singles Sectional Play Section C, Round 2 – After losing her Round 1 match, Nayanmoni Saikia made a fabulous comeback in the Singles sectional play Round 2 with a win over Caroline Whitehead from the Isle of Man. Saikia won 2-0 (11-2, 7-4).