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India added two more medals on Day 8 of the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow — Lovepreet Singh set a Commonwealth Games snatch record of 176kg en route to silver in the men’s 110+kg, while Seema Kaliramna battled treacherous conditions to claim bronze in the women’s discus throw with a best of 58.65m. Ten boxers march into Friday’s semifinals with finals berths and a guaranteed gold or silver in their sights, as Neeraj Chopra, Tejaswin Shankar and Praveen Chithravel set the stage for a blockbuster Day 9.
Glasgow, Scotland: India’s Commonwealth Games 2026 campaign has taken on a momentum that borders on the relentless. Day 8, Thursday July 30, added two more medals to a tally that continues to grow with each passing session — and beyond the confirmed hardware, the scoreboard told an even bigger story: ten Indian boxers are through to semifinals, all of them guaranteed at minimum a silver medal come Friday night. With Neeraj Chopra waiting in the javelin final and Tejaswin Shankar lying second in the decathlon overnight standings, India’s finest Games away from home is building to a genuinely historic crescendo.
The day’s action moved from the SEC Armadillo weightlifting hall to the Scotstoun track in winds that turned the discus competition into a survival exercise, before the boxing ring at the SEC Centre took centre stage and delivered the kind of scorecards that will define India’s legacy at these Games.
Lovepreet Misses Gold by a Single Kilogram
The first medal of the day came from the weightlifting platform, where Lovepreet Singh — Birmingham 2022 bronze medallist in the 109kg category — stepped into the men’s 110+kg final and dismantled expectations from the very first attempt. After opening with 168kg, he improved to 173kg before producing a 176kg snatch on his third attempt that shattered the Commonwealth Games record and gave him a commanding 10kg lead heading into the clean and jerk.
What followed was one of the defining pieces of drama at Glasgow 2026. New Zealand’s David Liti, trailing by a double-digit margin, produced a monumental clean and jerk performance including a Games record lift to accumulate 389kg total — eclipsing Lovepreet’s 388kg (176kg snatch + 212kg C&J) by the narrowest possible margin of one kilogram. England’s Andrew Griffith took bronze with 356kg. The gold slipped away, but the silver — and that 176kg snatch Games record — confirmed Lovepreet as one of the finest super-heavyweight lifters the Commonwealth has seen. India’s overall weightlifting haul in Glasgow stands at eight medals.
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Seema’s Grit in the Wind
Later in the night, at a Scotstoun Stadium battered by a wild Glasgow wind that made clean throwing almost impossible, Seema Kaliramna produced one of the gutsiest performances of India’s entire CWG campaign. The 27-year-old PhD scholar and mother making a remarkable comeback to elite athletics opened with a foul as the discus crashed into the netting, but responded with a second-round throw of 57.32m and then — when it mattered most — launched the discus to 58.65m in the third round to secure bronze.
She could not improve in her final three attempts, all of which fouled in the difficult conditions. But 58.65m was enough. Jamaica’s Samantha Hall took gold with 61.66m, Canada’s Julia Tunks claimed silver with 60.67m, and India’s Nidhi Rani finished an agonising fourth with 57.10m — just 1.55m away from a second Indian podium in the same event. Seema’s bronze, coming off a 2025 National Games gold on her return from maternity, is as moving a comeback story as Indian athletics has produced in years.
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Shankar Climbs, Chopra Waits, Chithravel Lines Up
Day 8 was also a day of positioning for Friday’s grands finales. Tejaswin Shankar, competing in the decathlon after managing a knee flare during the high jump final on Monday, overcame fitness concerns to top the high jump discipline within the decathlon with a clearance of 2.15m and set a personal best in the long jump, ending Thursday’s five events in second place overall on 3,502 points — superbly placed for a gold medal challenge in Friday’s final five disciplines.
Praveen Chithravel (16.41m, second overall) and Selva Prabhu Thirumaran (16.26m, third) both qualified for the men’s triple jump final in the morning session, offering India a compelling double-medal opportunity in the horizontal jumps. And Neeraj Chopra — navigating blustery conditions at Scotstoun that made clean throwing difficult — put together a best of 79.61m in qualification to advance fifth into Friday’s javelin final, where he faces a field that includes defending champion Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan, reigning world champion Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago, and former world champion Anderson Peters.
The Morning’s Hard Truths
Not everything ran smoothly. Tajinderpal Singh Toor, the Asian Games champion and national record holder at 21.77m, produced a best of 20.27m in the men’s shot put final — nearly a metre and a half below his personal best — to finish fifth. Samardeep Singh Gill placed seventh with 20.03m. For Toor, it is a result that raises uncomfortable questions about his peak, and India’s athletics selectors will need to examine whether the injury management around the country’s most prolific shot putter has been adequate.
Parul Chaudhary’s 5000m campaign ended in 13th place — her 15:08 pace was solid but nowhere near medal-contention in a field dominated by the finest distance runners in the Commonwealth. It is a second consecutive disappointment in Glasgow after her steeplechase exit, and given her form earlier in 2025, the track at Scotstoun has simply not been kind to her.
Vishal TK exited the men’s 400m semifinal (46.33s, sixth), Animesh Kujur could not progress from the 200m semi, and both the men’s team sprint cycling trio and para-cyclist Lisha Das were eliminated from their respective events.
Ten Boxers, Ten Finals in Sight
The day’s most significant collective story was the confirmation that all ten Indian boxers who entered the semifinals had a finals spot in their sights. Sakshi Choudhary (51kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Jaismine Lamboria (57kg), Priya Ghanghas (60kg), Arundhati Choudhary (70kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) lead India’s women’s boxing charge into Friday’s semifinal session. On the men’s side, Jadumani Singh (55kg), Sachin Siwach (60kg), Ankush Panghal (80kg) and Narender Berwal (+90kg) take the ring with gold or silver now the only acceptable outcomes.
India is guaranteed ten boxing medals at Glasgow 2026 — its highest-ever count in the sport at a single Commonwealth Games, and a number that still does not fully capture how dominant this contingent has been from the opening bell to this point.
Day 8 Medal Summary: 🥈 Lovepreet Singh — Weightlifting, Men’s 110+kg (388kg; 176kg snatch — CWG record) 🥉 Seema Kaliramna — Athletics, Women’s Discus Throw (58.65m)
India’s overall tally after Day 8: 3 Gold | 10 Silver | 4 Bronze = 17 confirmed medals (+ 10 boxing finals guaranteed — all 10 boxers into semis, each assured gold or silver)
