Indian sport is having a genuinely golden stretch across almost every discipline right now, worth taking a step back to appreciate how wide it's spread
Ayush Shetty just upset World No.1 and defending champion Shi Yuqi in the opening round of the BWF World Championships 2026, right after PV Sindhu won the Japan Open last month. Gukesh D is the reigning World Chess Champion, still just a teenager when he won it. Aman Sehrawat, Paris Olympics bronze medallist, just returned from the Asian Wrestling Championships with gold. Suraj Chand became the first Indian ever to win a FISU World University squash title. Chirag Yadav's spiking and defensive play helped India's volleyball team to a bronze medal in June.
At the Commonwealth Games, India delivered its best performance with 39 total medals alongside strong showings in boxing, judo, and weightlifting. Neeraj Chopra, Murali Sreeshankar, and Tejaswin Shankar all added to the athletics medal tally too, with Shankar becoming the first Indian ever to medal in the decathlon at a CWG.
What stands out isn't any single result, it's how spread out these wins are now. A few years back most of India's global medals came from a narrow set of sports. Now boxing, judo, chess, squash, volleyball, and athletics are all producing genuine world class results in the same window of months. Hope this depth actually translates into a bigger medal haul at the next Olympics, feels like the base has genuinely widened rather than just one or two athletes carrying everything.