India at Commonwealth Games 2026 | Day 9 Recap

Day 9 of the 2026 Commonwealth Games brought medals galore for India. Two historic judo golds from Harsh Singh and Asmita Dey, two silver medals courtesy of Neeraj Chopra and Yamini Mourya, and two precious bronze medals from Tejaswin Shankar and Yash Vir Singh made it a great day for India at CWG 2026. Ten Indian pugilists also made it to the finals in their respective weight categories, assuring India of ten more medals.

Elsewhere, Australia smashed the CWG record in the 4 × 100m medley relay in swimming, dominating in the pool again, with the women’s team breaking the Games record with a record eighth consecutive gold medal in the 4 × 100m freestyle relay as well.

Here, we look at how things unfolded for India on Day 9 of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.

India at CWG 2026 — Day 9 | Athletics

Men’s Javelin Final: India demonstrated their massive growth in javelin with a double podium finish, with Neeraj Chopra bagging the silver with a season-best throw (85.83m) and Yash Vir Singh (85.41m) grabbing the bronze with a personal best. Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage (89.75m) won the gold. 

Men’s Decathlon: Tejaswin Shankar created history with India’s first decathlon medal, clinching a bronze after the ten events. He ended the competition with 7,976 points, with Victor Lindon of Grenada securing gold with 8,096 points.

Men’s 400m Hurdles Final: Yashas Palaksha and Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan ended the Men’s 400m hurdles final in a disappointing manner, finishing seventh and eighth, respectively.

Mixed 4 × 400m Relay Round 1: The Indian mixed relay team, comprising Vishal TK, Ansa Babu, Rajesh Ramesh, and Rashdeep Kaur, finished fourth in Heat 2 of the mixed 4 × 400m relay first round. They advanced to the final, clocking 3:20.98.

India at CWG 2026 — Day 9 | Boxing

Women’s 51kg Semi-final: Sakshi Chaudhary reached the final in the 51kg category, defeating Canada’s Amber-Jane Wall by a unanimous 5–0 decision.

Women’s 54kg Semi-final: Preeti Pawar was in action in the 54kg semi-finals against Zambia’s Catherine Mwape and won the contest 5–0. She now has a chance to win the gold medal in the final.

Women’s 57kg Semi-final: Jaismine Laboria took on Lesotho’s Rapelang Maselela in the 57kg boxing semi-finals. She won the bout, with the referee stopping the contest (RSC) due to her superiority. Laboria is another contender for gold from the boxing contingent.

Women’s 60kg Semi-final: Priya Ghanghas reached the 60kg final with a 4–1 victory over England’s Lucy Kings-Whitley. 

Women’s 70kg Semi-final: Arundhati Chaudhary too enjoyed a successful outing, reaching the 70kg final by beating Wales’ Rosie Eccles 4–0 in a bloody affair that had both boxers bleeding.

Women’s 75kg Semi-final: Olympian and former world champion Lovlina Borgohain also marked her semi-final outing with a win.

Men’s 55kg Semi-final: Jadumani Singh Mandengbam continued his exceptional form, beating Namibia’s Philip Haoseb 5–0 on points to reach the 55kg final.

Men’s 60kg Semi-final: Sachin Siwach won the 60kg semi-final against Wales’ Owain Harris-Allan by a unanimous 5–0 decision.

Men’s 80kg Semi-final: Ankush Panghal made it to the 80kg final after beating his Canadian opponent, Joshua Ofori, by a unanimous decision. 

Men’s +90kg Semi-final: Narendar Berwal also made it to the final in his weight category with a 5–0 victory over Trinidad & Tobago’s Nigel Paul. 

India at CWG 2026 — Day 9 | Judo

Women’s 48kg Final: Asmita Dey clinched a historic gold in the 48kg category against Canada’s Heidi Quach in a tight contest. With neither judoka able to break the deadlock in regulation time, the contest moved into golden score, where Dey produced the decisive move to grab India’s first Commonwealth Games judo gold.

Women’s 52kg Repechage: Shraddha Chopade’s medal hopes came to an end after a 0–1 defeat to Wales’ Lola Hodson in the 52kg repechage.

Women’s 57kg Final: Yamini Mourya won the silver in the 57kg category, bringing home another judo medal after losing to England’s Acelya Toprak, who took home the gold following three decisive shido penalties against Mourya.

Men’s 60kg Final: Harsh Singh grabbed India’s second judo gold with a hard-fought victory over Australia’s Joshua Katz. He won by waza-ari to seal the contest.

Men’s 66kg Repechage: Rohit Majgul’s campaign came to an end after a 1–2 defeat to England’s Michael Fryer in the 66kg repechage.

India at CWG 2026 — Day 9 | Track Cycling

Men’s 4000m Individual Pursuit: India finished poorly in the men’s 4000m individual pursuit qualifying, as both Dinesh Kumar and Harshveer Sekhon crashed out of contention. Kumar ended the race in 17th place with a time of 4:29.267, while Sekhon finished 19th.

Men’s Elimination Race Final: India’s disappointing performances in track cycling continued as Harshveer Singh Sekhon finished a lowly 21st out of 23 cyclists in the Men’s Elimination Race Final. 

Men’s Keirin First Round Repechage: The trio of Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam, David Beckham Elkatohchoongo, and Jemsh Keithellakpam got another opportunity to qualify for the second round of the keirin event. Both Beckham and Ronaldo were knocked out of the competition as they finished second-last and last, respectively, in the first heat of the repechage. Jemsh, meanwhile, raced in the fourth heat and finished the race a lowly second-last, bowing out in the first round.

India at CWG 2026 — Day 9 | Lawn Bowls

Men’s Pairs Sectional Play Section B, Round 4: Navneet Singh and Dinesh Kumar clinched an easy 2–0 win over Ian Barnes and Oliver Thompson of the Falkland Islands. Only the country that finishes first in the four groups advances to the next stage, which means India’s next game against England will virtually be an eliminator.

Women’s Singles Sectional Play, Section C, Round 4: Nayanmoni Saikia took on Zambia’s Mildred Mkandawire in her fourth match of the women’s singles sectional play. Saikia won the tie 2–0 (17–2, 11–2).

India at CWG 2026 — Day 9 | Medals Tally

Australia continue to dominate the proceedings, especially in the pool, and have now amassed 55 gold medals and a massive 128 medals in total already, with England in second place with 17 gold medals and Canada in third place with 17 gold medals, England boasting more silver than Canada.

India remain tenth in the overall standings with five golds and 23 medals in total so far.