Ahead of the Glasgow meet, India won 564 medals at the Commonwealth Games across 18 appearances, making them the fourth-most successful nation in the history of the quadrennial meet after Australia, England and Canada.
Glasgow 2026 marks the country’s 19th CWG participation with the first coming way back in 1934.
Pistol shooter Jaspal Rana sits at the top of India’s all-time Commonwealth Games winners list with 15 medals – nine gold, four silver and two bronze.
Shooting has been the single biggest contributor to India’s Commonwealth Games medals tally, though the sport has not featured on the programme since Gold Coast 2018.
India’s best-ever showing came at New Delhi 2010, where the hosts won 101 medals – 39 gold, 26 silver and 36 bronze – to finish second on the CWG medals table, their highest position at any edition. It remains the only time India crossed 100 medals at the Commonwealth Games.
India finished fourth at Birmingham 2022 with 61 medals, including 22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze. A pared-back Glasgow programme, however, has dropped nine of the sports contested in Birmingham – among them wrestling, badminton, table tennis and hockey – which together accounted for 25 of those 61 medals.
