Seventeen gold medals will be decided across Track Cycling, Para Track Cycling, Athletics, Para Athletics and Weightlifting, while the final Netball group matches also take place.

Here are some of the Commonwealth stories to follow.

Maketu continues strong Games for GAPS athletes

South African athletes Sheryl James and Masala Makatu who have formed a complementary partnership in their journey to qualify for Glasgow 2026.

Photography Glasgow 2026

South Africa’s Masala Maketu competes in the men’s 100m T12 final after progressing through Commonwealth Sport’s GAPS programme.

Maketu attended the programme’s Stellenbosch camp earlier this year, where Athletes and coaches from 11 African nations prepared for Glasgow 2026. He was coached there by Birmingham 2022 silver medallist Sheryl James.

His final comes a day after fellow GAPS athlete Goodness Nwachukwu defended her women’s discus F42-44/61-64 title with another world record.

Namibia’s Ananias Shikongo, the country’s first Paralympic champion and a Birmingham 2022 bronze medallist, is also in the field.

 

Pacific lifters build on Stowers success

Seine Stowers of Team Samoa competes in Women's 77kg during the Weightlifting on day six of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games

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Samoa’s Weightlifters look to build on Seine Stowers’ victory when the programme concludes on Thursday.

The 18-year-old claimed Samoa’s first gold of the Games on Wednesday and set a Commonwealth Games snatch record of 107kg in the women’s 77kg final.

Jack Opeloge returns after winning silver at Birmingham 2022, Sanele Mao competes eight years after claiming gold at Gold Coast 2018 and Iuniarra Sipaia is still seeking her first Games medal 16 years after making her debut.

Fiji’s Birmingham 2022 bronze medallist Taniela Rainibogi adds another Pacific challenge in the men’s 110kg final.

 

Tchatchet completes full-circle Glasgow return

Cyrille Tchatchet II represents England in the men’s 110kg final, 12 years after competing for Cameroon at Glasgow 2014 and leaving the Athletes’ Village to seek asylum in the UK.

After experiencing homelessness and mental-health difficulties, he rebuilt his life through education and now works as an NHS mental-health nurse.

Tchatchet narrowly missed the podium at Birmingham 2022 and now returns to the city where his life changed seeking a medal.

 

LaFond targets historic Dominica gold

Thea LaFond competes in the women’s triple jump final looking to complete a bronze-silver-gold progression across three Commonwealth Games.

She delivered Dominica’s first Commonwealth medal with bronze at Gold Coast 2018 before improving to silver at Birmingham 2022.

LaFond has since become the country’s first Olympic champion after winning gold at Paris 2024.

Victory in Glasgow would give Dominica its first Commonwealth Games title.

 

Paul leads Trinidad and Tobago’s Track challenge

Nicholas Paul, the Birmingham 2022 keirin champion, leads Trinidad and Tobago in the men’s team sprint.

He will attempt to extend his influence beyond the individual events and deliver another significant result for one of Track Cycling’s smaller programmes.

India also compete, with the wonderfully named David Beckham Elkatohchoongo returning for his second Games after becoming the first Indian cyclist to reach an Asian Games sprint quarter-final.

 

Women begin historic Commonwealth mile

The women’s mile appears on the Commonwealth Games athletics programme for the first time on Thursday.

The event was contested between 1930 and 1966 but remained men-only. Its return, replacing the women’s 1500m, means Glasgow 2026 will crown the first women’s Commonwealth mile champion.

Australia’s Jessica Hull and Abbey Caldwell, Scotland’s Jemma Reekie, England’s Katie Snowden and Canada’s Lucia Stafford are among those competing.

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