A 126-member contingent of Indian athletes will be participating in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026, which begin today. Overall, around 3,000 athletes from 74 Commonwealth nations and territories will be competing across 13 disciplines, including para sports.
The Indian contingent comprises 77 men and 49 women, competing in both able-bodied and para events as the country looks to add to its rich Commonwealth Games medal tally.
Athletics will have the largest Indian representation, with 32 athletes (22 men and 10 women). The remaining able-bodied disciplines include boxing (14), judo (14), weightlifting (12), artistic gymnastics (8), bowls (6), track cycling (6), and swimming (5).
India’s para contingent will compete in para-athletics (11), para-powerlifting (7), para-swimming (5), 3×3 wheelchair basketball (4), and para-track cycling (1).
With big names like Neeraj Chopra, Lovlina Borgohain, Murali Sreeshankar and Mirabai Chanu in the mix, India will be hoping that they can rake in medals in the watered down CWG which does not include wrestling, badminton, hockey and table tennis.
India’s Medal Hopefuls
Neeraj Chopra (Javelin)
The first name on India’s medal hopes list is javelin star Neeraj Chopra, who made history as the first Indian track and field athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, achieving the milestone at the Tokyo 2020 Games with a throw of 87.58m. He skipped the 2022 Commonwealth Games due to a groin injury sustained during the World Athletics Championships. Since then, Chopra won the silver medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics. He also claimed silver at the 2024 Doha Diamond League and gold at the 2024 Paavo Nurmi Games.
In May 2025, Chopra breached the elusive 90-metre mark for the first time, registering a personal best of 90.23m at the Doha Diamond League. However, he finished eighth at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, ending his streak of podium finishes. A subsequent injury kept him out of action for nine months before he returned at the 2026 Doha Diamond League, where he finished fourth.
Chopra had said his body was still not back to its best after that event in June. With strong competition from Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage, Grenada’s Anderson Peters, Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, and fellow Indian Rohit Yadav, the two-time Olympic medallist will have to be at his best to claim his second Commonwealth Games medal.
Mirabai Chanu (Weightlifting)
Mirabai will be looking for her second Commonwealth Games medal as well, having bagged a gold at the 2022 Birmingham Games. Chanu, who turns 32 on August 8, has been India’s leading weightlifter for close to a decade and has also won the silver medal in the women’s 49kg category at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Although she was unable to replicate that success at the 2024 Paris Olympics, she remains one of India’s strongest medal hopes in Glasgow. She is also a multiple medallist at the World Championships. Ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, she looks in great form, having lifted 89kg in the women’s 48kg category at the 2026 Weightlifting Nationals and equalling her personal best with a total lift of 205kg. Chanu created three national records in the 48kg category: 89kg in snatch, 116kg in clean and jerk, and 205kg overall. She matched her 49kg category best mark, which came at the 2021 Asian Championships.
Lovlina Borgohain (Boxing)
Boxer Lovlina claimed the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics before winning gold at the 2023 World Championships. She also secured a silver medal at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou and is expected to be among India’s leading medal contenders in Glasgow. However, her Paris campaign ended in disappointment after losing the quarterfinal bout to China’s Li Qian.
However, since moving up to the 75kg weight class, Lovlina has seen a drop in performance barring her world championship title at home and Asian Games silver in 2023. However, Lovlina will be hoping to add the only major medal missing from her cabinet which is a CWG one as she gets set to compete in her Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Murali Sreeshankar (Long Jump)
27-year-old Sreeshankar will be looking for another podium finish after winning silver in the 2022 Birmingham Games with a 8.08m leap. Last month, at the 65th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championship, Sreeshankar won with 8.38m — the second-best jump of his career, behind only his national record of 8.41m.
Sreeshankar had suffered a career-threatening knee injury in 2024 that ruled him out of the Paris Olympics. “After the injury, I never thought I would jump this far. When I first broke my knee and had the MRI report in my hand, it looked over for me,” he said. The knee is still not fully right. “One knee is big and one is small. There are three anchor screws in my knee, so I need to ice it regularly and take a deep tissue massage. But I have got used to the new training regime now.” Now, he is one of India’s brightest prospects for a podium finish at CWG.
Tejinderpal Singh Toor (Shot Put)
One of India’s most accomplished shot put athletes, Tejinderpal Singh Toor, will enter the Commonwealth Games 2026 with a season-best effort of 21.03 metres. Despite his impressive international record, Toor is yet to secure a Commonwealth Games medal and will be determined to end that wait in Glasgow.
He is expected to face strong competition from Nigeria’s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi and England’s Scott Lincoln, both of whom have regularly crossed the 21-metre mark this season.
