India at CWG 2026: Sports on the Programme and How to Read the Schedule

Updated July 2026.

Glasgow 2026 is a deliberately smaller Commonwealth Games. The announced programme runs around ten sports concentrated in a handful of city venues, rather than the twenty-odd of Birmingham 2022 — and several disciplines Indian audiences follow most closely are not on the list.

This 6 Club guide sets out the announced programme, explains what that reduction means for the shape of India's campaign, and gives you a conversion table so you know which sessions are worth staying up for. We make no medal predictions and publish no live results or standings.

The sports announced for this edition are as follows. Treat this as the published plan and confirm the final event list on the official Games site, since programmes are occasionally revised.

If you have searched for an India hockey fixture, a squash draw, a badminton schedule, a table tennis order of play, a wrestling session or a shooting final at these Games and found nothing, the reason is structural rather than a website failing you. Those sports are not on the announced Glasgow 2026 programme.

The Games were rescoped after the original host withdrew, and Glasgow stepped in with a reduced, cost-controlled model built around venues the city already has. A velodrome, an arena, a swimming centre and an athletics venue can be reused; a shooting range, a hockey pitch complex and a full squash build-out cannot, cheaply. The programme reflects the venue footprint more than any judgement about the sports.

For Indian viewers, this matters more than it might for most nations. A very large share of India's historical Commonwealth medal history sits in shooting, wrestling, weightlifting, boxing, badminton and table tennis. Remove several of those from the programme and the shape of the campaign changes completely — a smaller contingent, concentrated in fewer sports, with weightlifting, boxing, athletics, gymnastics and judo carrying much more of the load.

What we will not do is turn that into a forecast. We do not publish medal predictions or projected placings, and any site telling you exactly how many medals India will take is guessing in a confident font.

Glasgow runs on British Summer Time (UTC+1) during the Games; India is UTC+5:30. Add 4 hours 30 minutes to every published local time.

Two habits save a lot of frustration. First, always note whether a listing is showing local or converted time — some Indian apps convert and some do not, and neither always says. Second, remember that a session start time is not an event start time; a final buried inside a three-hour athletics session can begin ninety minutes after the session does.

• Athletics: heats, sometimes semi-finals, then a final. Field events run qualification rounds with an automatic standard plus a next-best cut.
• Swimming: morning heats, evening finals, with semi-finals in the shorter events.
• Boxing: a straight knockout draw; both losing semi-finalists take bronze, so there is no bronze bout.
• Judo: knockout with a repechage, which is why an athlete who loses early can still reach a bronze contest.
• Weightlifting: a single session per category, ranked on total. Explained in full in our weightlifting and 49kg category guide.
• Gymnastics: qualification feeds both the all-around final and the individual apparatus finals, with a cap on entries per nation.
• 3x3 basketball: pool play into knockouts, games short enough that a whole medal round fits in an evening.

The official Games results service is the only board that should settle an argument. It is reachable through the Commonwealth Sport federation site, and background on the event's structure and history is summarised on Wikipedia's Commonwealth Games entry. Aggregators are fine for a nudge and poor as a citation.

Once results start landing, the national table becomes the thing everyone argues about — and it is ordered in a way that surprises people. Our explainer on how the medal tally is ranked covers the gold-first rule, and our live-tracking guide covers refresh habits and why unofficial boards lag.

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What Indian viewers ask most about the Glasgow 2026 programme.

Around ten, a deliberately reduced programme compared with Birmingham 2022. The announced list includes athletics, swimming, artistic gymnastics, track cycling, netball, weightlifting, boxing, judo, bowls and 3x3 basketball, each with integrated para events in several cases. Confirm the final list on the official Games site.

Hockey is not on the announced Glasgow 2026 sport list. The Games were rescoped around venues the host city already has, and several sports from previous editions — hockey, squash, badminton, table tennis, wrestling and shooting among them — are absent from the published programme.

The edition was rebuilt on a reduced, cost-controlled model after the original host withdrew, using existing venues in a compact city footprint. Fewer venues means fewer sports, which is a logistical and financial decision rather than a comment on the sports themselves.

Add 4 hours 30 minutes. Glasgow is on British Summer Time (UTC+1) during the Games while India is UTC+5:30. Evening finals in Glasgow therefore fall after midnight in India and appear on the next calendar date in Indian listings.

With shooting, wrestling, badminton and table tennis off the programme, the load shifts to weightlifting, boxing, athletics, gymnastics, judo and the newer disciplines. We are describing programme structure here, not forecasting outcomes — we publish no medal predictions.

Because both losing semi-finalists are awarded bronze. It is standard in international amateur boxing and means a single event can produce four medallists. The medal table still records the medals individually against the nation.

On the Games organisers’ own site, reachable via the Commonwealth Sport federation. Session times can be adjusted during the Games, so a schedule saved weeks ago should be re-checked rather than trusted.

A smaller programme is still a Games, and knowing which sports are actually on it — plus a 4:30 conversion — is most of what an Indian viewer needs. Read how the medal tally is ordered before you argue about a position, and the weightlifting explainer before the lifting starts. Between sessions, 6 Club's quick games are one round long — browse from the homepage, keep it small, 18+.