India win record seven golds as boxing campaign ends with 10 medals at Commonwealth Games

Preeti Pawar, Jaismine Lamboria, Sakshi Chaudhary, and Priya Ghanghas struck gold, while Jadumani Singh settled for silver to give the country a flying start on a day featuring 10 medal bouts.

Update: 2026-08-01 10:52 GMT

Preeti, Jaismine strike gold as boxers make dream start to Commonwealth Games finals

India scripted history at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, producing its finest-ever boxing campaign by winning seven gold medals and three silvers from ten finals in Glasgow.

Having already guaranteed themselves ten medals after every Indian boxer reached the final, the contingent surpassed the country's previous best of three gold medals at a single edition of the Games, set at New Delhi 2010, Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022.

The gold rush began with Preeti Pawar, who comfortably defeated Canada's Scarlett Delgado by unanimous decision in the women's 54kg final.

Soon after, reigning world champion Jaismine Lamboria upgraded her 2022 Commonwealth Games bronze to gold, beating Northern Ireland's Michaela Walsh with another unanimous verdict in the women's 57kg final.

In the men's 55kg final, where Jadumani Singh settled for silver after losing unanimously to Australia's Jye Dixon despite winning the opening round.

The evening session belonged entirely to India.

Sakshi Chaudhary claimed the women's 51kg title with a composed unanimous decision victory over England's Ruby White before Priya Ghanghas fought back from losing the opening round to defeat Canada's Marie Al-Ahmadieh 4-1 on split decision and add another gold in the women's 60kg category.

Arundhati Choudhary then outclassed England's Chantelle Reid 5-0 in the women's 70kg final, controlling the contest throughout to hand India its fifth gold medal in boxing.

India's men soon joined the party.

After conceding the opening round and receiving a point deduction in the second, Sachin Siwach produced a remarkable comeback to edge Namibia's Tryagain Morning Ndevelo 3-2 on split decision in the men's 60kg final, becoming India's first male boxing gold medallist of the Games.

Moments later, Ankush Panghal overturned a first-round deficit to defeat England's Dimeji Shittu 4-1 in the men's 80kg final. Two point deductions against Shittu proved decisive as Panghal completed another memorable comeback to secure India's seventh gold medal.

The campaign concluded with Lovlina Borgohain and Narender Berwal narrowly missing out on gold.

Olympic medallist Lovlina settled for silver after losing 4-1 on split decision to Australia's Emma Sue Greentree in the women's 75kg final, while Narender finished with silver in the men's +90kg category after going down unanimously to England's Damar Thomas.

With seven gold medals and three silvers, India ended the boxing competition with its most successful Commonwealth Games campaign ever.

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