More than 200 gold medals will be won over 10 days from the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, the 23rd edition of the event, with para sport, track bike and swimming offering the highest medals. The competition will be held from July 23 to August 2 of next year and will showcase a “10 sports program concentrated in four places in a corridor of eight miles from the city”. While the mixed 4x400m relay has been added to the calendar, Commonwealth Mile will return for the first time since 1966.
The president of world athletics, Sebastian Coe, said in a statement: “The Mile is the event par excellence of the Commonwealth Athletics whose return to the Games in Glasgow 2026 I welcome them a lot.” “From 1930 to 1966, the Mile was the Blue Riband event for each match and the Mile magic continued to resonate with sports fans,” he added.
The para sport program will include six of the 10 sports and will have a record of 47 medal events.
The Games will take place at Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Scottish Exhibition Center (SEC), Scotstoun Stadium and Tollcross International Swimming Center.
The 10 sports at the CWG 2026 deadlines are artistic gymnastics, athletics and para, 3X3 basketball and basketball in 3×3 wheelchair, boxing, swimming and swimming para, bowls and para (interior), judo, netball, track and para cycling.
“The track cycling program will see 26 medal events in total through the paragraph and non-paragraphic non-disciplines,” the organizers said in a press release.
“The Para Track cycling program has doubled the size of Birmingham 2022, with eight medals available, including C1-C3 (men) and C4-C5 (women) and individual activities for the first time,” he added.
The swimming competition in the para and non -para categories will have 56 medal events.
“In a first match, the 800m freestyle male races and the 1500m female free will be included,” the statement said.
Para athletics will also have athletes who participate in jumps, launch and follow events for the first time while the athletics program will take place on “the 74 territories”.
The director general of Glasgow 2026, Phil Batty, said: “The huge bicycle and swimming programs of the track, alongside the return of Mile in athletics, a richness of disciplines introduced through paragraph, para -cycling, cycling and swimming programs by.
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