Overview
- By the evening of July 28 India had 12 medals — two gold, seven silver and three bronze — with weightlifting and para‑weightlifting supplying seven of those podium finishes.
- Mirabai Chanu won the women’s 48kg weightlifting gold with a 190kg total, setting new Commonwealth and Commonwealth Games records and claiming her third successive CWG title.
- Sharmila Dhankar secured India’s first Commonwealth Games gold in para‑athletics with a season‑best 9.81m in the women’s shot put F57, a win that athletes and reports say will help her secure employment and stable housing.
- Harjinder Kaur produced multiple Games‑record lifts to take silver in the women’s 69kg weight class, and Gulveer Singh earned a historic silver in the men’s 10,000m on July 28 as India added high‑profile non‑lifting podiums.
- Three Indian boxers advanced to the semifinals on July 28, guaranteeing at least three more bronze medals, and remaining athletics, boxing and weightlifting finals in Glasgow could further change India’s medal standing.