Preeti Pawar started off the boxing medal rush on Saturday at the 2026 Commonwealth Games with a dominant win over Canada's Scarlett Savannah Delgado to win gold in the women's 54kg.
Jaismine Lamboria followed that up immediately with an excellent win over defending CWG champion Michaela Walsh of Northern Ireland in the women's 57kg to make it two golds in two.
Less than an hour later, Jadumani Singh walked in for the men's 51kg final and won a silver to wrap up the morning session in the boxing, after losing to Australia's Jye Dixon.
The evening session started with Sakshi Choudhary giving a boxing lesson to England's Ruby White, easily winning Gold in the women's 51kg. Right after that, Priya Ghanghas beat Marie-Bathoul Al-Ahmadieh (Canada) in the Women's 60kg final in a much tighter final, one that Priya won after a great final round.
Arundhati Chaudhary then got into the ring against Worlds bronze medalist Chantelle Reid in the Women's 70kg final, and comprehensively outboxed her winning gold after a unanimous decision.
Former Olympic medalist Lovlina Borgohain then stepped up for her Women's 75kg final vs two-time Worlds medalist Emma Sue Greentree (of Australia) and lost a tight, tight bout.
Sachin Siwach then produced a tremendous comeback in round 3 of his Men's 60kg final vs Tryagain Morning Ndevelo (Namibia) to win India's sixth gold of the day.
Ankush Panghal walked out for the penultimate Indian final of the day against England's Dimeji Shittu for the Men's 80kg final and after a poor first round, fought back superbly to win gold.
In the final medal bout for India, Narendar went up against England's Damar Thomas in the Men's 90+kg fight and the two big heavyweights slugged it out before Damar overpowered the Indian, relegating him to silver.
You can relive all the action here: India at Commonwealth Games 2026: Live updates from Glasgow on August 1, Saturday
Preeti, 23, is the first female athlete in India to be appointed directly to the post of Nayab Subedar in the Indian Army. Introduced to boxing by her uncle, Vinod Pawar, a national-level medal-winning boxer at the age of 14, she was already an Asian Games bronze medalist and has been in stunning form for some time now. She had entered the CWG with a gold in the World Boxing Cup in 2025 and a flawless win over three-time world champion and Olympic bronze medalist Huang Hsiao-wen at the Asian Elite Boxing Championships earlier this year, and she walks out a gold medalist.
Jaismine, meanwhile, had a tougher time against Walsh, but the class of the defending world champion shone through as the bout went on.
The 24-year-old from Bhiwani, Haryana - India's boxing capital - improved on her 2022 bronze with a class fight in the final, sealing gold. Great-granddaughter of Hawa Singh, double Asian Games gold medalist ('66 and '70), she has boxing running deep in her family. "Right from the time I was very young, I saw my uncles - Sandeep Lamboria and Parminder Lamboria - the way they trained, their medals, their boxing equipment. And then hearing the names and achievements of Mary Kom and Vijender Singh on the news, it sparked a desire within me to take up boxing," she had said earlier.
She rebooted her boxing style in 2024, after a bad loss in the first round of the Paris Olympics, and soon the World Championship gold followed. Now, she's also CWG gold medalist.
Jadumani, 21, from Manipur is one of the hottest prospects in Indian boxing right now. National champion, he beat Amit Panghal (former Asiad gold medalist) to get here and is already a World Boxing Cup silver medalist. The Indian Army man loved football as a kid, but turned to boxing after being introduced to the sport by an uncle.
"I was competing at a district-level event when Sarita [Devi] ma'am and Mary Kom ma'am noticed me and gave me 500 rupees each after my bout in appreciation, besides sharing tips for success," he told Firstpost in an interview last year. "It was a great feeling to receive praise from such great players in my first competition. I slowly started falling in love with boxing thereafter." Now, he stands tall as Commonwealth Games silver medalist.
Sakshi, 25, is another Bhiwani boxer and it's taken some resolve for her to get here, into this Glasgow final. After impressing massively in the junior ranks (back-to-back youth Worlds golds after a jr gold) she looked set to make her on the senior level with a bronze in '21 Asian Champs but a big shoulder injury derailed her progress and made her miss both the '22 CWG and the '23 Asiad
A natural 54kg boxer, her spot on the team was soon taken by Preeti Pawar (who secured a CWG spot with Asian C'ships gold) and to make the flight to Glasgow she dropped to 51kg... and then beat Jyoti Gulia, Nikhat Zareen and reigning world champion Minakshi Hooda. "This was a do-or-die situation for me," she said then. "I wanted to go all out because qualifying for the CWG and Asian Games meant everything after losing out previously."
Her comeback is now complete, with a gold medal on CWG debut.
Priya Ganghas, 20, is the youngest in the contingent. Another Bhiwani boxer, Priya and Sakshi are cousins making their family proud on the biggest stages. She was earmarked as one to watch after a stunning international debut: winning the 60kg gold at the Asian Boxing Championships earlier this year, beating former world champion Chengyu Yang of China en-route.
This CWG gold will only add to the spotlight, and the expectations on her, as the young boxer continues her rise through the boxing world.
Arundhati, 23, from Kota in Rajasthan, not a place known for its boxing heritage, was a junior state-level basketball player till she turned 15, when she picked up boxing on her father's advice, who told her it suited her more. She was one who always got into scraps in school. She told the Times of India in 2021 that she would get into fights whenever she thought she was at the receiving end of discrimination or prejudice. "In one such incident at school, I hit a senior boy with my bottle as he was not letting the girls fill water from the tap on the pretext that men are superior and they will decide who would get a chance," she said.
In 2021, she became the first Rajasthani boxer to be crowned world champion at any level when she won the world youth championships. 2025 is when she made her mark, winning gold in the Boxing World Cup.
At this CWG, she had arguably the toughest semifinal of all, but beat Wales' Rosie Eccles, defending champion fighting in her last tournament, but Arundhati was too good for her by the end. Just like she was for her pedigreed opponent, world no 5, Reid of England.
Lovlina, 28, is easily the most decorated boxer in the Indian contingent at Glasgow. The medal at CWG will give the veteran the confidence that she remains among the world's best despite a poor recent run of form.
The former Olympic bronze medalist (one of only three Indians to medal at the Olympic Games) and World Champion now has won medals at all the big boxing tournaments she's entered - Olympics, Worlds, Asian Games, Asian C'ships. The silver from Glasgow buries the pain of an early exit at Birmingham, but the competitor that she is, she looked quite disappointed in the colour of the medal.
Sachin Siwach, 26, began boxing at the age of 10. Being from Bhiwani, his father, Kishan Kumar, a farmer, and mother, Nirmala Devi, encouraged him to pursue a career in boxing. That career has seen him win multiple medals at the youth CWG and World Youth Championships but he fell off the radar when he transitioned to the seniors, initially.
Recently, though, he's stepped it up. He won gold in the World Boxing Cup Finals in 2025 and won silver at the Asian Championships earlier this year. Now this Commonwealth gold will give him the boost to keep moving on that upward curve.
Ankush, just 22, is having a sensational transition to the senior level after starring in the youth ranks like many of his peers in the contingent. He won silver in the World Boxing Cup Finals before winning the nationals this year, announcing his arrival at the big stage.
A powerful boxer, the Haryana youngster, now has a CWG gold on debut, earmarking him as one to watch for the future.
31-year-old Narendar, from Hisar in Haryana, is the veteran of this contingent and is making his CWG debut here in Glasgow. He's a JCO in the Corps of Signals of the Indian Army and has been a consistent, if unspectacular, performer at the big stages.
He has bronzes at the Asian Games and the Asian Championships as well as the World Military Games, while he also has silvers at the Delhi and Astana legs of the World Boxing Cup in 2025.
The CWG silver that he has won here will now give him a lift as he looks to carry momentum forward into the Asian Games and the World Championships.