{"id":821,"date":"2026-08-01T07:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilnadutribune.in\/?p=821"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:27:28","slug":"india-wins-historic-judo-double-gold-at-commonwealth-games-2026-asmita-dey-and-harsh-singh-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"India Wins Historic Judo Double Gold at Commonwealth Games 2026; Asmita Dey and Harsh Singh Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indian judokas won two gold medals at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026 on Friday.<strong> Asmita Dey and Harsh Singh achieved a major milestone by winning India&#8217;s first Commonwealth Games gold medal in judo, while Yamini Maurya won a silver medal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> India concluded the competition with a total of two gold and one silver medal. This is considered India&#8217;s most successful performance in the sport since judo was included as a medal event at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tripura&#8217;s 23-year-old Asmita Dey made history by winning the gold medal in judo at the Commonwealth Games. She defeated Canada&#8217;s Heidi Quach in a thrilling final in the women&#8217;s 48kg category. After losing an early lead, Asmita staged a magnificent comeback to secure the winning point during the &#8216;Golden Score&#8217; period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subsequently, Harsh Singh also won a gold medal, achieving the distinction of becoming the first Indian male judoka to win gold at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Making his Commonwealth Games debut, 23-year-old Harsh Singh clinched the gold medal in the men&#8217;s 60kg judo category by defeating Australia&#8217;s experienced Olympian, Joshua Katz. In a thrilling contest, Harsh secured a decisive waza-ari with 41 seconds remaining and maintained his lead until the final moments to win the gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These historic victories by Asmita Dey and Harsh Singh gave Indian judo a new identity and ended a wait of over three decades for a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian judokas won two gold medals at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026 on Friday. Asmita Dey and Harsh Singh achieved a major milestone by winning India&#8217;s first Commonwealth Games gold medal in judo, while Yamini Maurya won a silver medal. India concluded the competition with a total of two gold and one silver medal. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[192,248,155,247],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-commonwealthgames2026","tag-indianjudo","tag-indiawinsgold","tag-sportsnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}