India at Commonwealth Games 2026 | Final Day Recap

India had judo and track cycling competitions to contend with on the final day of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, followed by the closing ceremony, which was led by boxer Jaismine Lamboria. However, none of the participating athletes could add to the country’s total medal tally, although Ishroop Singh came really close to a bronze medal.

Elsewhere, England’s Tara Neyland broke both the CWG and world records in the Women’s Para Cycling C4-C5 4000m Individual Pursuit with a record time of 4:49.648 en route to her gold medal. New Zealand’s Devon Briggs also wrote his name into CWG history with a Games record in the Men’s Para Cycling C3 1000m Time Trial with a time of 1:05.536, breaking Scotland’s Finn Graham’s record of 1:07.527, set earlier on the same day.

More than 3,000 athletes from 74 Commonwealth nations and territories competed in 215 medal events across ten sports at Glasgow 2026. Despite missing out on major sports like shooting, badminton, wrestling, and table tennis, where India had earned a majority of their medals in the past, reaching 39 medals has been an impressive achievement. Massive shoutout to the boxing contingent that brought an incredible haul of ten medals, including seven gold medals and three silver medals.

Gulveer Singh was arguably India’s best athlete of the campaign, winning a historic silver in the Men’s 10,000m and a bronze in the Men’s 5000m races, becoming the first Indian track and field athlete to win two CWG medals in a single campaign.

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

India at CWG 2026 — Final Day | Judo 

Women’s 78kg bronze medal match: Ishroop Narang came close but narrowly missed out on bronze in the women’s 78kg event, losing to Canada’s Coralie Godbout.

Men’s 100kg Round of 16: Avtar Singh lost his Round of 16 match by ippon to Cyprus’ Aristos Michael, a very disappointing result for the Olympian against a fairly inexperienced opponent. 

Men’s +100kg Round of 16: Yash Ghangas lost comprehensively to Wales’ Joshua Whitehouse. The British national champion won by a yuko to progress to the quarter-finals.

India at CWG 2026 — Final Day | Track Cycling 

Men’s 40km points race qualifying: Dinesh Kumar exited the men’s 40km points race in his qualifier, while Harshveer Singh Sekhon bowed out in his qualifying heat too after being disqualified (handed a DNF by the officials).

Men’s 1000m time trial final: Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam finished 20th in the men’s 1000m time trial final, clocking 1:04.191, which wasn’t enough to earn him a medal spot. 

India at CWG 2026 — Final Day | Para Track Cycling 

Women’s C4-C5 1000m time trial final: Lisha Das finished sixth in the 1000m time trial final with a time of 1:34.410. Australia’s Tayla Neyland took the gold medal. 

India at CWG 2026 — Final Day | Medals Tally

Australia ended CWG 2026 top of the table with another successful campaign, taking home 70 gold medals and an incredible 171 medals in total. England finished in second place with 29 gold medals and 110 medals in total, while Canada finished third with 19 gold medals and 62 medals in total.

India ended their campaign in fourth place with 13 gold medals and 39 medals in total.