India Achieves Historic Success at 2026 Commonwealth Games and World Junior Squash Championships

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Key takeaways

Anahat Singh became the first Indian to win the World Junior Squash Championships title by defeating Egypt's Ruqayya Salem in Canada.
Gyaneshwari Yadav secured the silver medal in women's 53 kg weightlifting at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Jhandu Kumar won India's first medal at the 2026 CWG with a bronze in men's heavyweight para-powerlifting lifting 190 kg.
Squash will make its official Olympic debut at the Los Angeles 2028 Games.

Indian athletes achieved remarkable success at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the World Junior Squash Championships in Canada.
Weightlifter Gyaneshwari Yadav won a silver medal, while Jhandu Kumar secured a historic bronze medal in para-powerlifting.
Anahat Singh created history by becoming the first Indian to win the girls' singles title at the World Junior Squash Championships.

Gyaneshwari Yadav won the silver medal in the women's 53 kg weightlifting event at Glasgow.
Nigeria's Onome Omolola Didih claimed the gold medal with a 206 kg total lift, setting a new Commonwealth Games record.
Jhandu Kumar from Bihar secured the bronze medal in men's heavyweight para-powerlifting with a lift of 190 kg, earning India's first medal at the 2026 Games.
He trained at the SAI National Centre of Excellence in Gandhinagar and is a Khelo India athlete who previously won silver in 2024 and gold in 2025 at the Khelo India Para Games.
Bindyarani Devi Sorokhaibam won the bronze medal in the women's 58 kg weightlifting event.
This marked her second consecutive Commonwealth Games medal after winning silver in the 55 kg category at the 2022 Birmingham Games.

Anahat Singh became the first Indian to win the World Junior Squash Championships title at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.
She defeated Egypt's Ruqayya Salem in straight games, ending Egypt's 13-title winning streak in the tournament.
The official World Junior Squash Championships were inaugurated in 1980 for players under 19 years of age.
World Squash was established in 1967 as the international governing body for the sport and currently comprises 115 national federations.
The Squash Rackets Federation of India governs the sport nationally, and squash will make its Olympic debut at the Los Angeles 2028 Games.