India at CWG 2026: Which Sports Are Actually On, and How to Read the Schedule in IST
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If you are planning what to watch from India, start with an unglamorous fact: Glasgow 2026 runs a reduced programme of ten sports, and several sports people strongly associate with the Commonwealth Games are simply not part of it. This 6 Club guide walks through what is on, how each sport awards its medals, and the time conversion that turns a Glasgow schedule into something usable in Indian Standard Time.
Read this before you plan anything: hockey and squash are not on
Both sports draw enormous Indian search interest during any multi-sport event, and both are absent from the Glasgow 2026 programme. Hockey has its own international calendar; squash players compete on the PSA circuit and at continental championships. Neither will contribute a single medal to the CWG 2026 tally. This is worth stating plainly, because a lot of aggregator pages are still recycling event lists from previous editions and presenting them as this year's schedule.
The ten sports, and how each one produces medals
Knowing the medal structure of a sport tells you more about a tally than any forecast does. Boxing produces two bronzes per weight class. Netball produces three medals in total after a fortnight of matches. Those two facts alone explain most of the shape of a Commonwealth Games medal table.
Athletics & para athletics
The biggest medal programme of the Games
Heats and finals are split across separate sessions, sometimes days apart. Field events run concurrently with track, so the schedule page is worth reading carefully rather than skimming.
Weightlifting & para powerlifting
One medal set per bodyweight category
Decided on the combined snatch and clean-and-jerk total. Groups can run long. Our separate guide covers the format and Mirabai Chanu's career in full.
Boxing
Two bronzes per weight class
Both beaten semi-finalists take bronze, so a strong squad banks medals before any final is fought. Nishant Dev is among the Indian boxing names Indian audiences search for around multi-sport events.
Artistic gymnastics
Team, all-around and apparatus finals
Qualification scores decide who reaches finals but award nothing themselves — a regular source of confusion for viewers who see a high score and expect a medal.
Swimming & para swimming
One set per event, plus relays
Morning heats, evening finals. For Indian viewers that means one session in the afternoon IST and one after midnight IST.
Track cycling & para track cycling
Sprint, endurance and team events
Velodrome programmes are dense, with qualifying rounds, repechages and finals often inside the same session.
Judo
Two bronzes per weight category
Repechage gives beaten quarter-finalists a route back, so a single weight class can produce four medallists.
Bowls & para bowls
Singles, pairs, triples and fours
A long-format sport spread across many days, unfamiliar to most Indian viewers but a steady medal source for several Commonwealth nations.
Netball
One medal set
A full team tournament producing a single gold, silver and bronze. Days of play, three medals.
3x3 basketball & 3x3 wheelchair basketball
Short-format team tournament
Games are fast and stacked close together, so the tournament resolves quickly compared with a full 5x5 competition.
The BST to IST conversion, done once
Glasgow publishes session times in British Summer Time. India is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead. Do the arithmetic once and keep it handy:
| Glasgow (BST) | India (IST) | What that means for you |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | 13:30 | Early heats land in the Indian afternoon |
| 12:00 | 16:30 | Midday sessions are comfortable viewing |
| 15:00 | 19:30 | Afternoon finals hit Indian prime time |
| 19:30 | 00:00 (next day) | Evening finals cross midnight in India |
| 21:00 | 01:30 (next day) | Late finals resolve overnight IST |
The overnight crossover is the single biggest practical annoyance for Indian followers. Medals decided in the Glasgow evening appear on the board while most of India is asleep, which is why the table you check at breakfast can look nothing like the one you saw at bedtime. It is not an error in the tally — it is the clock.
A five-step routine for following the Indian contingent
- Pick your sports from the ten on the programme. Do not build a watchlist from memory of a previous Games.
- Convert the session times to IST once, and note which sessions fall after midnight so you can decide what to catch on replay.
- Check the official start list on the morning of the event. Withdrawals and reseedings are normal and are not always reported.
- Follow the results service rather than a tally. The tally is a summary; the results service is the record.
- Read the board at the end of the day. Mid-session tables are always incomplete, and arguing over one is arguing over a snapshot.
Where to check, officially
Session times, start lists and results are published by the Commonwealth Games Federation, and background on the event, its history and its changing sports programme is summarised on Wikipedia's Commonwealth Games page. For how the table itself is ordered, read our medal tally explainer. For the weightlifting programme specifically, see the Mirabai Chanu background guide, and for a sane refresh habit during live sessions, the live-results guide.
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