Haryana's Golden Day: Six Boxers From One State Power India's Best-Ever CWG Boxing Campaign
Haryana Boxing Gold Rush: India’s boxers delivered the most successful campaign in the country’s Commonwealth Games history — 10 medals, including a record seven gold — and the story behind that number has a clear address: Haryana, and Bhiwani in particular.
North Desk Correspondent
Chandigarh, August 2
Of the seven gold medals, six belong to boxers from Haryana. Preeti Pawar (Bhiwani, Women’s 54kg) and Jaismine Lamboria (Bhiwani, Women’s 57kg) led the way — both training out of NS NIS Patiala, both carrying Bhiwani’s boxing lineage.
ALSO : India Medal Tally at CWG 2026
Haryana Boxing Gold Rush
Jaismine’s is a family trade in the truest sense: her great-grandfather Captain Hawa Singh remains the only Indian boxer to win back-to-back Asian Games golds, and both her uncles boxed internationally before her. She went in as the reigning World Champion and world No. 1, and delivered.
Sakshi Chaudhary (Women’s 51kg) added gold after a build-up that included beating two World Champions — Minakshi Hooda and Nikhat Zareen — just to make the trials cut.
Haryana Boxing Gold Rush: Priya Ghanghas (Women’s 60kg), trained at STC Bhiwani, capped a season that already included Asian Championship gold.
Sachin Siwach (Men’s 60kg) won gold seven years after a coach initially refused to enrol him in a Bhiwani boxing academy for being “undernourished” — his father, brother of Olympic boxer Vijender Singh, pushed until he got a place anyway.
Haryana Boxing Gold Rush: And Ankush Panghal (Men’s 80kg), from the Gohana Boxing Club in Sonipat, defeated an Englishman in the final to complete Haryana’s sweep.
The seventh gold went to Rajasthan’s Arundhati Choudhary (Women’s 70kg), who beat an Olympian and World Championship bronze medallist in the final.
Silvers came from Assam’s Lovlina Borgohain (Women’s 75kg, narrowly out to Australia), Manipur’s Jadumani Singh (Men’s 55kg), and Haryana’s own Narender Berwal (Men’s 90+kg), an Indian Army JCO who lost his final 0-5 to England’s Damar Thomas but closed out the campaign on the podium regardless.
This eclipses India’s previous best of three boxing golds — achieved at Delhi 2010, Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022 — in a single stroke.
Judo Adds a Fourth Medal
India’s judo campaign closed with its fourth medal of the Games: Unnati Sharma won bronze in the Women’s -63kg category, defeating South Africa’s Skye Knoester by Ippon. Harsh Tokas narrowly missed a medal in the Men’s -81kg bronze bout, losing to Australia’s Keishin Ochi.
Gulveer Singh Becomes a Two-Medal Man
Uttar Pradesh’s Gulveer Singh, already a silver medallist from the 10,000m, added bronze in the Men’s 5000m — clocking 13:24.95 to become the first Indian to win two medals in a single edition of Commonwealth Games athletics.
Para Sports Sign Off with a Record Campaign
India’s para-sports contingent closed its Glasgow campaign with its best-ever Commonwealth Games showing: seven medals — three gold, two silver, two bronze.
Para Athletics alone contributed six of those, ending a 20-year Indian wait for a Para Athletics medal at the Games and producing three double-podium finishes, including Haryana’s own Sharmila in the Women’s Shot Put F57. Para Powerlifting added the seventh medal via Jhandu Kumar’s bronze on Day 2. Para-athletics athletes trained out of SAI Bengaluru; the powerlifters prepared at SAI Gandhinagar.
Between a Haryana-powered boxing revolution and a landmark para-sports campaign, Glasgow 2026 is shaping up as one of India’s most complete Commonwealth Games yet.
CWG STORIES:
READ ALSO: Two Golds, A Historic Javelin Double, and a First-Ever Decathlon Medal
READ ALSO: Toka to Podium: Patiala’s Harjinder Kaur Lifts Personal Best to Silver at CWG 2026
ALSO READ: India Medal Tally at CWG 2026
Follow North Desk on WhatsApp for the latest from Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb7ccdxJENy2H87DBG3E
