Commonwealth Games 2026: All you need to know about Yamini Mourya

Yamini Mourya has quietly built one of the most consistent résumés in Indian women's judo, and a red-hot run through 2025 and 2026 has turned her into one of the stalwarts of the sport in the country.

Competing in the women's -57kg category, the 28-year-old from Madhya Pradesh has gone from a junior continental medallist to a multiple-time senior national champion with international gold on her CV and will make her Commonwealth Games debut at Glasgow 2026.

Early days

Yamini Mourya was born on March 26, 1998, in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. Her early promise in the sport showed up on the continental stage as far back as 2015, when she won bronze at the Asian U18 Championships in Bangkok in the -57kg category.

Unlike some of her national teammates, detailed accounts of Yamini's early life and how she first took up judo are not widely documented, but her results from her teenage years onward tell a story of steady, uninterrupted progress through India's junior and senior ranks.

Rising through the ranks

Yamini has represented Madhya Pradesh on the domestic circuit and has become a multiple-time senior national champion, headlined by her gold medal in the -57kg category at the 36th National Games in Gujarat in 2022, where she beat Haryana's Savitri in the final.

Her rise up the international ladder continued in 2023, when she won bronze at the FISU World University Games in Chengdu, China, finishing behind South Korea's Mimi Huh and Japan's Akari Omori.

She has represented India at the Asian Championships, the Asian Games and on the IJF World Tour, and has competed regularly on the international circuit since 2022, and trains at the Inspire Institute of Sport in Karnataka under coach Jiwan Sharma.

A breakout run to Glasgow

The 2025-26 season has been the best of Yamini's career. She won gold at the Asian Open in Kowloon, Hong Kong, in 2025, following it up with a silver medal at the Asian Open in Taipei the same year.

She carried that form into 2026, winning gold at the African Open in Dakar, Senegal, which was her second Asian Open-level gold in the space of a year.

That run of results has made the -57kg category one to watch for India in Glasgow. It's also a category with recent Commonwealth Games pedigree for India, with Suchika Tariyal narrowly missing out on a bronze medal bout in the same weight class at Birmingham 2022.