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The Prime Minister issued congratulatory messages on sixteen medals won by Indian athletes on the closing weekend of the Commonwealth Games 2026 at Glasgow.
Gulveer Singh took bronze in the men's 5000m and became the first Indian athlete to win two athletics medals at a single Commonwealth Games, and the first Indian to win a CWG medal in the men's 5000m.
Soman Rana won gold in the men's shot put F57 — India's first-ever Commonwealth Games gold in the event — with Shubham Juyal taking silver in the same event.
Boxing produced seven golds (Preeti, Jasmine Lamboria, Sakshi, Priya Ghangas, Arundhati Choudhary, Sachin Siwach, Ankush Panghal) and three silvers (Jadumani Singh Mandengbam, Lovlina Borgohain, Narender Berwal).
Praveen Chithravel (silver, career-best) and Selva Prabhu Thirumaran (bronze, personal best) filled two triple jump podium places, and Unnati Sharma won judo bronze in the women's 63 kg.
Owns and governs the Commonwealth Games, allocates host cities and sets the sports programme; the organisation adopted the Commonwealth Sport name in its recent rebrand.
International federation founded on 13 April 2023 as a breakaway from the International Boxing Association. The IOC granted it provisional recognition in February 2025 and made it the federation responsible for the boxing tournament and qualification pathway at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
National governing body for boxing in India; its General Assembly approved membership of World Boxing, aligning Indian boxing with the body recognised for LA 2028.
The field arm of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; it runs national centres of excellence and services the Mission Olympic Cell that decides support under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme.
Para athletics uses a letter-and-number code: 'T' for track and jumps, 'F' for field (throwing) events, followed by a two-digit number in which the first digit indicates the impairment group and the second the degree of impairment — a higher second digit means less activity limitation. The F50-series covers athletes who throw from a seated position. F57 is the class for seated throwers with limb deficiency, impaired muscle power, restricted range of movement or leg-length difference who retain the most trunk and leg function within that seated group. Events open to the class are shot put, discus and javelin, thrown from a fixed throwing frame. Because the athlete cannot use a run-up or full leg drive, the interaction between the athlete and the throwing frame largely determines the distance.
Simple Analogy: Think of the number as a scale of how much of the body is available to the throw: within the seated F50s, the higher the second digit, the more trunk and leg control the athlete has to work with, so F57 athletes throw from the strongest seated position in that group.
Identify and fund athletes with genuine medal potential at the Olympic Games, launched in September 2014 under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and revamped in April 2018.
Key: Selection and support decisions are taken by the Mission Olympic Cell, headed by the Director General of the Sports Authority of India; support covers foreign training, coaching, equipment and an out-of-pocket allowance. TOPS also runs a development tier for younger athletes.
Broad-base talent identification and grassroots sports infrastructure, with the Khelo India Games launched in 2018 as a unified national competition structure.
Key: The inaugural edition was held at New Delhi in January 2018 with over 3,500 athletes across 16 disciplines; the Games have since expanded into Youth, University, Winter and Para editions, feeding athletes upward into TOPS.
The Glasgow silver in the women's 75 kg adds to an Olympic bronze at Tokyo 2020 in the women's 69 kg, where she became the third Indian boxer to win an Olympic medal after Vijender Singh at Beijing 2008 and Mary Kom at London 2012.
Olympic boxing was in doubt after the IOC's break with the International Boxing Association. World Boxing's provisional recognition in 2025 and the inclusion of boxing at LA 2028 under it restored the pathway, and the Boxing Federation of India's decision to join placed Indian boxers inside that pathway.
Unlike the Olympics and Paralympics, which are separate events, the Commonwealth Games integrate para events into the main programme and the same medal table. Soman Rana's F57 gold therefore counts within India's 39 medals, which is why para classifications turn up in general current-affairs questions.
Glasgow 2026 was itself a rescue host after Victoria, Australia, withdrew, and the 2030 centenary edition goes to Ahmedabad. India's hosting record in the event runs Delhi 1951 and Delhi 1982 for the Asian Games and Delhi 2010 for the Commonwealth Games — Ahmedabad 2030 will be the country's second Commonwealth Games.
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Mary Kom's most recent international gold medal was won at which tournament?
Answer: President's Cup, Indonesia
Multi-sport-event medal facts appear in almost every SSC, Railway and Banking general-awareness paper in the months after the event.
The original name of the Commonwealth Games, used from the first edition at Hamilton, Canada in 1930 until 1950.
A para-athletics field classification for seated throwers with limb deficiency or related impairment who retain the most trunk and leg function in the seated group; contests shot put, discus and javelin.
The body headed by the Director General of the Sports Authority of India that selects and reviews athletes supported under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme.
The current operating name of the Commonwealth Games Federation, the London-headquartered body that governs the Games.