Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2026 – Final Day Recap

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

Elsewhere England’s Tara Neyland broke both the commonwealth games and the world record in the Women’s Para cycling C4-C5 4000m Individual Pursuit with a record time of 4:49.648 enroute to her gold medal. New Zealand’s Devon Briggs also wrote his name in CWG history with a games record in the Men’s Para-Cycling C3 1000m Time Trial with a timing of 1:05.536 breaking Scotland’s Finn Graham’s record of 1:07.527 made 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 outing.  Massive shoutout to the boxing contingent that brought an incredible haul of 10 medals including seven gold medals and three silver medals. 

Gulvir Singh was undoubtedly the best athlete of the campaign for India, 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.

Let’s take a look at India’s schedule and medals from the final day of CWG 2026 – 

CWG 2026 Judo 

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

Men’s 100 kg Round of 16 – Judoka Avtar Singh lost his RO16 match by ippon to Cyprus’ Aristos Michael – a very disappointing result from the 2016 Olympian against a fairly inexperienced opponent. 

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

CWG 2026 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 but it wasn’t enough to get him a medal spot. 

CWG 2026 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 minutes. Australia’s Tayla Neyland took the gold medal. 

Medals Tally – 

Australia ended the 2026 CWG top of the table with a successful campaign yet again. They finished top of the table with 70 gold medals and an incredible 171 medals in total with England in second place with 29 gold medals and 110 total medals and Canada in third place with 19 gold medals and 62 medals in total. India ended their CWG campaign in fourth place with 13 gold medals and 39 medals in total.