Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games announces medal event programme
Largest ever Para sport programme will showcase 47 medal events across six sports: Para athletics, Para powerlifting, Para swimming, 3x3 Wheelchair Basketball, Para track cycling and Para bowls 06 Feb 2025
The Glasgow 2026 Organising Company announced on Thursday (6 February) the medal event programme for the 23rd Commonwealth Games, with Para sports set for the most extensive medal event programmes in Commonwealth Games history.
The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games will take place from 23 July to 2 August 2026 and will feature a 10-sport programme concentrated across four venues within an eight-mile corridor of the city, with over 200 gold medals up for grabs across the 10 days of sporting competition.
Glasgow 2026 will showcase a fully integrated Para sport programme across six of the ten sports, with a Commonwealth Games record 47 medal events in Para disciplines.
The action-packed sporting programme will take place at the Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Scottish Exhibition Centre (SEC), Scotstoun Stadium and Tollcross International Swimming Centre, with the 10 sports on the schedule comprising of:
Artistic Gymnastics
Athletics and Para Athletics
3x3 Basketball and 3x3 Wheelchair Basketball
Boxing
Swimming and Para Swimming
Bowls and Para Bowls (indoor)
Judo
Netball
Track and Para Track Cycling
Weightlifting and Para Powerlifting
The complete Glasgow 2026 medal event programme can be found here
The Commonwealth Games is an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. It was first held in Hamilton, Canada in 1930 and since 2002 in Manchester, Great Britain includes Para sports in the official programme. The last edition took place in Birmingham, Great Britain in 2022.
Glasgow hosted the event in 2014 and will be home to Commonwealth Games again next year after the state of Victoria in Australia withdrew in 2023.
For the next edition, the Tollcross International Swimming Centre will see a jam-packed schedule as Glasgow 2026 prepares for the most extensive swim programme in Commonwealth Games history, with 56 medal events in total across both Para and non-Para competition.
In Scotstoun, for the first time in the history of the Commonwealth Games, the Para Athletics will see athletes competing in jumping, throwing and track events, with all three disciplines being included on the programme for the first time.
Para powerlifting will be held at the Scottish Exhibition Centre with four medal events in the programme as at Birmingham 2022.
The Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome is set to see a very busy and full programme of racing, as Glasgow hosts the biggest Track Cycling programme ever seen at a Commonwealth Games. The Track Cycling programme will see 26 medal events in total across Para and non-Para disciplines.
The Para Track Cycling programme has doubled in size from Birmingham 2022, with eight medals available, including the C1-C3 (men) and C4-C5 (women) Time Trials and Individual Pursuits for the first time.
Over on the Basketball court, the huge success of the 3x3 programme in Birmingham has seen the 3x3 Wheelchair Basketball competitions for men and women extend from six teams to eight and 3x3 Basketball competitions for men and women extend from eight teams to 12.
