With just 10 days left before the 2026 Commonwealth Games begins, Glasgow is set to welcome around 3,000 athletes from 74 nations and territories for an 11-day sporting celebration from July 23 to August 2.
The CGW returns to the Scottish city for the first time since 2014 which will bring together world-class athletes with a fresh competition format. India have named a strong list of contingent which will be led by Olympic medallists Neeraj Chopra, Mirabai Chanu and Lovlina Borgohain.
The 23rd edition of the Commonwealth Games will feature only 10 sports, nine sports fewer than the 2022 edition in Birmingham. The competition will be held across four venues within an eight-mile corridor which makes Glasgow 2026 one of the most compact editions in the event’s history.
Athletics, swimming, 3×3 basketball, track cycling, weightlifting, lawn bowls, artistic gymnastics, netball, boxing and judo are the featured sports in this edition.
India will send a 191-member contingent, including para-athletes, as they will aim to build on the 61 medals they won at Birmingham 2022.
India’s athletics team is expected to attract plenty of attention, with the former Commonwealth champion Neeraj Chopra leading the squad. The team also includes national record holders and international medallists such as Gurindervir Singh, Animesh Kujur and Murali Sreeshankar.
The opening ceremony at the OVO Hydro on July 23 will be attended by King Charles and Queen Camilla. Sir Chris Hoy, one of Scotland’s greatest athletes, will also be part of the ceremony after carrying the first King’s Baton during the relay launched at Buckingham Palace.
Speaking ahead of the event, Sir Chris said: “It is an absolute honour to attend the opening of Glasgow 2026 with the King and Queen. A home Games is always a special occasion and I have so many wonderful memories from competing in the Commonwealth Games myself. I have no doubt the city of Glasgow will yet again be a superb host to what promises to be an exciting event and I very much look forward to being a part of it,” as quoted by the BBC.
Glasgow 2026 Chair George Black CBE added: “Welcoming the King and Queen to the Hydro is a proud moment for everyone building the opening ceremony. We set out to make something bold, unmistakably Glasgow and unlike anything the Commonwealth Games has produced before. To have their Majesties there to see it come to life makes it all the more special.”
Indian athletics team at Commonwealth Games 2026
- Parul Chaudhary (women’s 3000m steeplechase, 5000m)
- Pooja Singh (women’s high jump)
- Manpreet Kaur (women’s shot put)
- Seema Kaliramna (women’s discus throw)
- Nidhi Rani (women’s discus throw)
- Ravina (women’s 10000m race walk)
- Priyanka Goswami (women’s 10000m race walk)
- Rashdeep Kaur (women’s 400m, mixed 4x400m relay)
- Neeru Pathak (women’s 400m, mixed 4x400m relay)
- Ansa Babu (women’s 400m, mixed 4x400m relay)
- Gurindervir Singh (men’s 100m)
- Animesh Kujur (men’s 200m)
- Gulveer Singh (men’s 5000m, 10,000m)
- Tejas Shirse (men’s 110m hurdles)
- Yashas Palaksha (men’s 400m hurdles)
- Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan (men’s 400m hurdles)
- Sarvesh Kushare (men’s high jump)
- Adarsh Ram (men’s high jump)
- Dev Meena (men’s pole vault)
- Kuldeep Kumar (men’s pole vault)
- Murali Sreeshankar (men’s long jump)
- Lokesh Sathyanathan (men’s long jump)
- Praveen Chithravel (men’s triple jump)
- Selva Prabhu (men’s triple jump)
- Samardeep Singh Gill (men’s shot put)
- Tajinderpal Singh Toor (men’s shot put)
- Neeraj Chopra (men’s javelin throw)
- Rohit Yadav (men’s javelin throw)
- Yash Vir Singh (men’s javelin throw)
- Tejaswin Shankar (men’s decathlon)
- Vishal TK (men’s 400m, mixed 4x400m relay)
- Rajesh Ramesh (men’s 400m, mixed 4x400m relay)
Indian artistic gymnastics team
- Pranati Nayak (women’s event)
- Nishka Agarwal (women’s event)
- Eshita Rewale (women’s event)
- Protistha Samanta (women’s event)
- Tapan Mohanty (men’s event)
- Tapeshwarnath Das (men’s event)
- Swatish KP (men’s event)
- Yogeshwar Singh (men’s event)
Indian boxing team
- Sakshi Chaudhary (women’s 51kg)
- Preeti Pawar (women’s 54kg)
- Jaismine Lamboria (women’s 57kg)
- Priya Ghanghas (women’s 60kg)
- Parveen Hooda (women’s 65kg)
- Arundhati Choudhary (women’s 70kg)
- Lovlina Borgohain (women’s 75kg)
- Jadumani Singh (men’s 55kg)
- Sachin Siwach (men’s 60kg)
- Aditya Pratap Singh (men’s 65kg)
- Sumit Kundu (men’s 70kg)
- Ankush (men’s 80kg)
- Kapil Pokhariya (men’s 90kg)
- Narender Berwal (men’s +90kg)
Indian judo team
- Asmita Dey (women’s -48kg)
- Shraddha Kadubal Chopade (women’s -52kg)
- Yamini Mourya (women’s -57kg)
- Unnati Sharma (women’s -63kg)
- Inunganbi Takhellambam (women’s -70kg)
- Ishroop Narang (women’s -78kg)
- Tulika Maan (women’s +78kg)
- Harsh Singh (men’s -60kg)
- Rohit Basir Majgul (men’s -66kg)
- Arun Kumar (men’s -73kg)
- Harsh Tokas (men’s -81kg)
- Karanjit Singh Maan (men’s -90kg)
- Avtar Singh (men’s -100kg)
- Yash Ghangas (men’s +100kg)
Indian lawn bowls team
- Nayan Moni Saikia (women’s singles)
- Rupa Rani Tirkey (women’s pairs – lead)
- Pinki (women’s pairs – skip)
- Putul Sonowal (men’s singles)
- Navneet Singh (men’s pairs – lead)
- Dinesh Kumar (men’s pairs – skip)
Indian swimming team
- Sajan Prakash (men’s swimming)
- Srihari Nataraj (men’s swimming)
- Aryan Nehra (men’s swimming)
- Aneesh Gowda (men’s swimming)
- Dhakshian Shashikumar (men’s swimming)
Indian track cycling team
- David Beckham Elkatohchoongo (men’s track cycling)
- Jemsh Singh Keithellakram (men’s track cycling)
- Dinesh Kumar (men’s track cycling)
- Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam (men’s track cycling)
- Rojit Singh Yanglem (men’s track cycling)
- Harshveer Sekhon (men’s track cycling)
Indian weightlifting team
- Mirabai Chanu (women’s 48kg)
- Gyaneshwari Yadav (women’s 53kg)
- Bindyarani Devi (women’s 58kg)
- Harjinder Kaur (women’s 69kg)
- Sanjana (women’s 77kg)
- Seram Nirupama Devi (women’s 86kg)
- Martina Devi (women’s +86kg)
- Rishikanta Singh (men’s 60kg)
- M Raja (men’s 65kg)
- Ajaya Babu (men’s 79kg)
- Dilbag Singh (men’s 94kg)
- Lovepreet Singh (men’s +110kg)
Indian para-athletics team
- Sharmila (women’s para athletics)
- Shilpa Kanchugarakoppalu Shyla (women’s para athletics)
- Devender Kumar (men’s para athletics)
- Rakeshbhai Bhatt (men’s para athletics)
- Dilip Gavit (men’s para athletics)
- Shubham Juyal (men’s para athletics)
- Mohammed Basil Morssinganakath (men’s para athletics)
- Soman Rana (men’s para athletics)
- Ramesh Shanmugam (men’s para athletics)
- Sagar Thayat (men’s para athletics)
- Shreyansh Trivedi (men’s para athletics)
Indian para powerlifting team
- Jaspreet Kaur (women’s para powerlifting)
- Suman Devi (women’s para powerlifting)
- Kasthuri Rajamani (women’s para powerlifting)
- Ashok (men’s para powerlifting)
- Parmjeet Kumar (men’s para powerlifting)
- Sudhir (men’s para powerlifting)
- Jhandu Kumar (men’s para powerlifting)
- Indian para swimming team
- Ravi Veera Venkata Budigina (men’s para swimming)
- Ali Imam (men’s para swimming)
- Suyash Jadhav (men’s para swimming)
- Chaitanya Vishwas Kulkarni (men’s para swimming)
- Tejas Nandakumar (men’s para swimming)
- Swatik Patil (men’s para swimming)
Indian para track cycling team
- Lisha Das (women’s para track cycling)
Indian wheelchair basketball (3×3)
- Reena Rameshchandra Gupta
- Irengbam Ritu Chanu
- Minakshi Harichandra Jadhav
- Laxmi Rayappa Rayannavar
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