Seema Kaliramna won the bronze medal in women’s discus throw at the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow on Thursday, taking India’s tally in athletics up to four.
The 27-year-old Indian athlete managed a best mark of 58.66m – just shy of her personal best of 59.73m – with her third attempt of the night at the Scotstoun Stadium to fend off a tough challenge from compatriot Nidhi Rani, who finished fourth with 57.10m.
Jamaica’s Samantha Hall won the Commonwealth Games title with a throw of 61.66m while the silver went to Canada’s Julia Tunks with 60.67m.
Seema only logged two valid attempts in her sequence of six with the other one – 57.32m – coming with her second attempt.
The podium marked the first major international medal for Seema Kaliramna, who is also a PhD aspirant and a mother of a four-year-old baby boy Rudra.
Motherhood, in fact, has coincided with Seema’s growth into a top athlete.
Before her son Rudra was born in 2022, her personal best was 48.08m. She returned to competitive discus throw in 2024 and improved it to 57.19m before hitting 59.73m at the Indian Championships in Bhubaneshwar earlier this year.
Kamalpreet Kaur holds the women’s discus throw national record of 66.59m among Indians.
Meanwhile, Parul Chaudhary will be returning empty-handed from Glasgow 2026 after finishing an underwhelming 13th in the women’s 5000m with a time of 15:08.56. She had finished fifth in the 3000m steeplechase on Thursday.
Australia’s Rose Davies won the 5000m in 14:44.53. Parul’s personal best of 15:04.26, a national record, would have only earned her a 12th place finish.
In the men’s shot put, Tajinderpal Singh Toor’s quest for a maiden CWG medal also ended in disappointment as he finished fifth with a 20.27m best effort, which came in his third attempt.
The Indian shot put national record holder breached the 20m mark thrice in his six attempts – 20.06m with his first and 20.26m with his sixth besides his ranking mark.
Samardeep Singh Gill finished seventh with a best of 20.03m. Nigeria’s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi took gold with 21.07m and was followed to the podium by New Zealand’s Tom Walsh (21.03m) and England’s Scott Lincoln (20.99m).
The men’s triple jump qualifiers, meanwhile, saw India’s Praveen Chithravel and Selva Prabhu Thirumaran ease into the final.
Praveen jumped 16.41m with his very first effort to finish second while Selva Prabhu leapt to the third position in the standings with his do-or-die final attempt after fouling the first two. Jordan Scott of Jamaica topped the qualifiers with 16.56m.
Eldhose Paul and Abdulla Aboobacker had logged a 1-2 finish for India in the event at Birmingham 2022 and Praveen and Selva Prabhu will look to emulate the same during Saturday’s final.
In the men’s 400m semi-finals, Vishal TK clocked 46.33s – a 0.16-second improvement from his time in the qualifiers – but failed to qualify for the medal race.
He placed sixth in his heat and 14th overall in the semis. Only the top two from each of the three semi-final heats and the next two fastest runners across all groups qualified for the final.
Animesh Kujur suffered a similar fate in the men’s 200m semis. He clocked 20.65 seconds to finish sixth in his heat and bowed out. Qualification criteria for the final was similar to the 400m.
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