Indian boxers capped off an incredible campaign at the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow on Saturday by securing a record haul of seven gold medals.
No country has won more gold medals in boxing at a single edition of the Commonwealth Games.
Previously, England had won six golds twice (London 1934 and Gold Coast 2018), while Canada matched the tally at Edinburgh 1986.
Having reached 10 finals at Glasgow 2026, India were already assured of their most comprehensive medal haul ever in the CWG, eclipsing the nine, including three golds, from Gold Coast 2018.
The final day of the boxing events saw Sakshi Chaudhary (women’s 51kg), Preeti Pawar (women’s 54kg), Jaismine Lamboria (women’s 57kg), Priya Ghanghas (women’s 60kg), Arundhati Choudhary (women’s 70kg), Sachin Siwach (men’s 60kg) and Ankush Panghal (men’s 80kg) stand on the top of the podium.
Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain (women’s 75kg), Jadumani Singh Mandengbam (men’s 55kg) and Narender Berwal (men’s +90kg) missed out and settled for silver medals.
At the Scottish Event Campus, Asian Games bronze winner Preeti Pawar began the medal-fest in the women’s 54kg, outboxing Scarlett Delgado of Canada handily to win the final by unanimous decision to claim gold.
Olympian Jaismine Lamboria added a second gold to the tally after defeating Northern Ireland’s Michaela Walsh, a gold medal winner from Birmingham 2022, in the women’s 57kg final.
Jaismine, the reigning world champion in the division, also won 5-0 like Preeti but was made to work considerably harder by Walsh, who picked up her fourth Commonwealth Games medal on the night.
The Indian boxer secured her second CWG podium finish, having won bronze in the women’s 60kg at the 2022 edition in Birmingham.
Jadumani Singh, however, stumbled in the men’s 55kg as he squandered a first-round advantage to lose 5-0 against Australia’s Jye Dixon and settled for the silver.
However, Sakshi Chaudhary brought India back to the top podium in the women’s 51kg category with a 5-0 victory over Ruby White in the final, snapping the 19-year-old English boxer’s extraordinary 68-fight winning streak at the start of her senior career.
Sakshi, interestingly, had taken out two world champions in Nikhat Zareen and Minakshi Hooda in the trials to make the Indian team for Glasgow 2026. Zareen, incidentally, had also won gold in the 50kg division at Birmingham 2022.
Arundhati Choudhary, who had defeated 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Rosie Eccles of Wales in the semis, turned up with another big performance in the women’s 70kg final. She beat England’s Chantelle Reid, an Olympian and world championships bronze medallist, 5-0 to be crowned the new champion.
In the last women’s final, Lovlina Borgohain lost a closely-fought contest 4-1 against Australian world championships bronze medallist Emma-Sue Greentree to settle for the 75kg silver.
Greentree had four of the five judges call it 10-9 in her favour in the opening round before Lovlina flipped the card in her favour in the second round. With everything to fight for in the final round, the Aussie pugilist eventually persevered.
Meanwhile, in the men’s 60kg, Sachin Siwach endured a battle against Namibia’s Tryagain Morning Ndevelo before coming out as a 3-2 split decision victor ultimately. The win saw Siwach add a senior gold to his Commonwealth Games Youth title from 2017.
Ankush Panghal claimed the men’s 80kg title after defeating another Englishman, Dimeji Shittu, 4-1 in the penultimate final.
Nerender Berwal then added a Commonwealth Games silver to keep his Asian Games bronze company after losing 5-0 to Damar Thomas of England.
English boxers, incidentally, matched India’s total tally of 10 medals at Glasgow 2026, accumulating four golds, three silvers and as many bronze.
