Seven boxing golds. Saturday did the heavy lift
India’s Saturday haul at Glasgow — 16 medals with seven boxing golds — pushed the overall tally to 39 and fourth place, according to a day-end report. The ring did the work; the victory laps in Delhi can wait.
India’s boxers supplied seven of the day’s gold medals at Glasgow.
India’s medal-heavy Saturday at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games delivered 16 medals, including seven boxing golds, taking the reported overall to 39 (13 gold, 17 silver, nine bronze) and fourth place after the day’s events, according to a day-end tally. The ring was the engine: 10 boxing medals from 10 finals — seven gold, three silver — with athletics, para athletics and judo adding six more. (Source: a day-end report.)
The boxing golds named were Sakshi Chaudhary (51kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Jaismine Lamboria (57kg), Priya Ghanghas (60kg), Arundhati Choudhary (70kg), Sachin Siwach (60kg) and Ankush Panghal (80kg). Silvers: Lovlina Borgohain (75kg), Jadumani Singh (55kg), Narender Berwal (90kg). Athletics/para athletics/judo on Saturday: Soman Rana gold (men’s F57 shot put), Shubham Juyal silver (F57 shot put), Praveen Chithravel silver (triple jump), Selva Prabhu Thirumaran bronze (triple jump), Gulveer Singh bronze (5,000m), Unnati Sharma bronze (women’s -63kg judo). India’s mixed 4x400m relay? Final done; sixth in 3:20.32.
World Boxing set the stage: Glasgow 2026 ran seven men’s and seven women’s classes, with 14 champions crowned on August 1 and India fielding 14 boxers — parity in the program, and apparently parity in medals too. The “record-breaking” label getting tossed around needs an actual record attached; park that till the official tables land. For now, credit to the athletes who did the scoring while the BJP-led Centre and the Congress spin units sharpen their tweet threads. The podiums were in Glasgow; the press conferences, predictably, are in Delhi.