3 min readUpdated: Jul 25, 2026 11:37 PM IST
Mirabai Chanu will be in the spotlight on Sunday as the 2026 Commonwealth Games rolls onto its fourth day. The face of weightlifting in India for over a decade, Mirabai will be vying for her third CWG gold and fourth Games medal overall. She and boxer Lovlina Borgohain were India’s flagbearers at the opening ceremony as well. India have thus far won just one medal, which is Jhandu Kumar’s bronze in men’s heavyweight para powerlifting, although Lovlina is already assured of at least a bronze medal even before throwing a punch.
Here are the sports and events that Indians would be participating in along with their times in IST:
| Sport | Event | Name of athlete(s) | Stage | Opponent (Country) | Time (IST) |
| Lawn Bowls | Women’s Pairs | Rupa Rani Tirkey and Pinki | Sectional Play | Amanda Steenkamp and Diana Viljoen (Namibia) | 1pm |
| Weightlifting | Men’s 60kg | Rishikanta Singh | Final | – | 2.15pm |
| Artistic Gymnastics |
Men’s All-Around | Tapan Mohanty | Final | – | 4.30pm |
| Swimming | Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay | Srihari Nataraj, Aryan Nehra, Aneesh Gowda, Dhakshan Shashikumar | Heat 2 | – | 4.39pm |
| Weightlifting | Women’s 48 Kg | Mirabai Chanu | Final | – | 6.45pm |
| Lawn Bowls | Men’s Singles | Putul Sonowal | Sectional Play | Shaun James Parnis (Malta) | 7.15pm |
| Lawn Bowls | Women’s Pairs | Rupa Rani Tirkey & Pinki | Sectional Play | Amy Pharaoh and Sian Honnor (England) | 10.05pm |
| Artistic Gymnastics | Women’s All-Around | Pranati Nayak, Nishka Agarwal, Protistha Samanta, Eshitaa Rewale | Final | – | 10.30pm |
| Boxing | Women’s 54kg | Preeti | Round of 16 | Deborah Mtenje (Malawi) | 11.37pm |
| Weightlifting | Men’s 65kg | Raja Mathupandi | Final | – | 11.15pm |
| Boxing | Men’s 55kg | Jadumani Singh Mandengbam | Round of 16 | Sumama Rehman (Pakistan) | 11.45pm |
| Boxing | Men’s 65kg | Aditya Pratap Yadav | Round of 16 | Nuhu Batte (Uganda) | 12.45am |
| Swimming (Subject to qualification) | Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay | Srihari Nataraj, Aryan Nehra, Aneesh Gowda, Dhakshan Shashikumar | Final | – | 1.55am |
Day 3 recap:
It was a quiet day for India on Saturday with no big finish, unlike what happened on Friday when Jhandu Kumar won India’s first and thus far only medal with the last event of the day for the country. The India lawn bowls women’s pair of Rupa Rani Tirkey and Pinki Singh as well as boxer Sachin Siwach were the shining lights in an otherwise disappointing day for India at the Commonwealth Games (CWG). In lawn bowls, men’s singles Putul Sonowal suffered his first defeat after back to back victories in the Games while swimmers Dhakshan Shashikumar (3:58.09s) and Aryan Nehra (4:00.26s) failed to qualify for the final of the 400m freestyle event. It was also a day to forget for the wheelchair women’s basketball team, with India losing 1-16 vs Wales in their Group B match.
