Commonwealth Games 2026, Day 5: India touch 10 medals after para-athletics gold, Ajaya Babu silver

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: India stands in seventh spot in the medals tally with 10 medals. Australia remains ahead with 59 medals, followed by England (31) and Canada (21).

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: India have a bronze as well, in women's short put F57 with Shilpa Shyla finishing third. Originally, Nigeria's Eucharia Iyiazi took the bronze medal, but was disqualified and hence the Indian took the third spot. This was the first time that India took double podium at the Games.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: The fifth day in Glasgow comes to an end and India has won five more medals - a gold in para-athletics, a silver in men's high jump and two more second-place finishes in weightlifting, and a bronze in weightlifting as well.

Weightlifting has been India's fortress at the Games this year, accounting to six medals.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Quite a battle in weightlifting! Babu upgraded his attempt to 178kg and lifted it cleanly to script CWG record for a combined lift of 327kg. Meanwhile, Malaysia's Erry Hidayat lifts 181kg to smash the Games record. The Indian betters it within seconds. Lifts 181kg in his final attempt to break the record again for 330kg.Hidayat breaks it again. And he lifts 184kg in his final attempt to take home the GOLD medal. Babu wins SILVER, India's ninth medal at the Games this year.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: The Indian comfortably lifted 174kg on his first C&J attempt, but England's Chris Murray bettered it by three kilos, albeit on his third attempt. Babu will gun for the 178kg mark next.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: The Indian pulls up injured in the 110m hurdles final as he hobbled through the final half of the race. Athletics - Sarvesh Anil Kushare

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Sarvesh could not clear the 2.28m mark and won the silver medal in Men's High Jump. Romaine Beckford also could not clear the similar mark, but took lesser attempts in the contest and hence clinched the gold medal. Kimani Jack took the bronze.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: India have a second gold medal at the CWG and this one has come in women's shot put F57. Shyala finished fourth. Zinabu finished second with her best throw of 8.65m, while Nigeria's Eucharia took the bronze after an 8.19m throw.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: He finally does it. On his third attempt. Raymond Richards could not clear the 2.25m mark and so Kushare is assured of a medal. Silver most likely.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Aadarsh is out of contention after failing to cross the 2.20m mark. Sarvesh Anil remains in the hunt. He failed his first attempt at 2.25m, which Jamaica's Romaine Beckford cleared to assure himself a medal.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Shyla drops to the third spot after Sharmila hurls a season best of 9.81m throw on her third attempt. In fact, none of her throws was below the 9m mark. But one more to go in the women's shot put F57 final with Niegria's Eucharia up next.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Sarvesh Kushare clears 2.20m mark and he goes top of the table. Aadarsh could not clear that mark on either of his two attempts and has now dropped to the third spot.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Ajaya Babu is in action in the Men's 79kg Final. He lifts 149kg on his second attempt to go to the top of the table. That's the Games record as well. He stands just a kilo ahead of Murray and Hidayat is third after a lift of 147kg. Clean and jerk to start in a bit.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Shilpa K Shyla slips to silver-medal position after Ghana's Zinabu Issah hurls an 8.65m throw. We still have two more athletes left -- India's Sharmila and Eucharia Iyiazi from Nigeria.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Shilpa K Shyla in gold-medal spot in Women's Shot Put F57 Final. After 6.69 and 6.95 in her first two attempts, she hurled a 7.26m throw to rise to the top of the chart. That's a personal best as well for Shyla.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Aadarsh Ram Jothi Shankar clears 2.10m in his first attempt.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Sarvesh Anil Kushare clears the 2.05m mark with absolute ease. Tejaswin Shankar couldn't. Wait…he looks like in some sort of a discomfort. There was that DNS in front of his name at the start of the final, before it got removed. But it seems he might be withdrawing his name from the contest.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: India fall out of the race to make the quarters after a defeat to Nigeria. India lost 6-7. The team previously lost to Scotland and Wles.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: No medal for India as Swatik Patil finishes fifth in Men's 100m Breaststroke SB9 category after clocking 1:15.82.

Australia's Beau Matthews takes the gold, followed by New Zealand's Joshua Willmer and Timothy Hodge of Australia.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: There was a DNS beside his name before. Now that has been removed. So all three Indians are part of the high jump final.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Sharmila Dhankar and Shilpa K Shyla are in action in the medal event. F57 is a classification event for seated athletes with lower limb impairments.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Speaking to reporters in the mixed zone, the silver medallist said: "I am extremely happy. This is my first Commonwealth Games. My goal was to achieve my personal best, and that's exactly what I did here. I also tried to win a gold medal for India, but the competition was very tough..."

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Tejaswin Shankar will not start in Men’s High Jump Final. He will be fully focusing on the Men’s Decathlon starting from Friday.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: Putul Sonowal lost the first set 6-8, and while he led the second set 5-4 after first six ends. Hamada of Egypt avoided the tie-breaker by levelling the second set 5-5. He wins -- his first in section D. Putul is disappointed.

CWG 2026 LIVE UPDATES, Day 5: The Indian boxer, who beat Nikhat Zareen and reigning world champion Minakshi Hooda in the trials to book her spot in the CWG, beat Modukanele to move to the quarterfinals after an unanimous decision 5-0.