England and India are joint top of the medal count table at the 2026 Commonwealth Games with 10 each after the second day of boxing quarter finals at the Scottish Exhibition Campus (SEC).
A day of top-class boxing saw 28 men and women guarantee at least a bronze medal with bouts in the women’s flyweight (W51kg), featherweight (W57kg) and light-middleweight categories and the men’s lightweight (M60kg), light-middleweight (M70kg), light-heavyweight (M80kg) and super-heavyweight (M90kg+) competitions.
The top performing nations on the second day of quarter finals were India with six winners followed by England and Wales with four each. It means that 16 countries have won a medal in boxing at the Games.
The afternoon session featured two defending female champions as Northern Ireland’s Michaela Walsh and Rosie Eccles of Wales made their first appearances in the competition.
At featherweight (W57kg), Walsh showed all her experience in a comfortable win over Lara Brown of Scotland winning every round on all five judges’ scorecards to guarantee a fourth Commonwealth Games medal. She will be looking to change the colour when she meets Fiji’s Jasmine Daunakamakama in their semi-final on Friday.
Rosie Eccles was equally untroubled in her light-middleweight (W70kg) contest which was brought to a halt by the referee in round two after the Welshwoman inflicted two knockdowns on Samukelisiwe Sinothile Ncube of South Africa.
The 2022 champion can expect a more taxing contest in Friday’s semi-final, when she faces the world number two, Arundhati Choudhary of India, who overcame New Zealand’s Morgan Henderson on a 3:1 split.
The other female winners in the early afternoon session were Amber-Jane Wall of Canada and India’s, Sakshi Sakshi, who will face-off in their flyweight (W51kg) semi-final on Friday.
The men’s weights saw more success for India with wins for Sachin Sachin (M60kg), Ankush Ankush (M80kg) and Narender Narender (90kg+) to finish the first session with five wins.
Not far behind were Wales who saw Owain Harris-Allan defeat Scotland Nicholas Devlin at lightweight (M60kg) while Orlando Holley-Sotomi delivered a stunning first round knockout to progress at light-middleweight (M70kg) and secure Wales’s third victory of the afternoon.
The other male winners in the afternoon session were Merven Clair of Mauritius (M70kg), Nigel Paul from Trinidad and Tobago (90kg+) and Canada’s Joshua Ofori, who received a walkover.
England did not have any boxers in the afternoon session but enjoyed another strong evening with four wins for Ruby White (W51kg), Chantelle Reid (W70kg), Dimeji Shittu (M80kg) and Damar Thomas (M90kg+).
The team’s only reverse came at featherweight (W57kg) where Elise Glynn lost out to Indian world champion Jaismine Jaismine who required a strong last round to edge past her English opponent on a 4:1 split.
The other featherweight semi-final featured another historic moment as Rapelang Maselela became the first women from Lesotho in history to win a Commonwealth Games medal in any discipline. She will join her teammate Pooana Khoahli in Friday’s semi-final after his victory in yesterday’s welterweight (M65kg) quarter final.
Other winners in the evening session included Northern Ireland’s 2022 gold medallist, Jude Gallagher, who defeated Albert Ngulube of Zambia on a split decision at lightweight, and home favourite Sonny Kerr, who secured Scotland’s third boxing medal of the Games with a comfortable win at light-middleweight (M70kg) over Marion Ah Tong of Samoa.
At light-heavyweight (M80kg), Australia’s Paul Trainor delivered a gritty performance and a strong final round to overcome Daniel Pitt of Wales and set-up a semi-final with England’s Dimeji Shittu.
The night ended with two super heavyweight (M90kg+) bouts, Northern Ireland’s William John McCartan comfortably outpoint Ghana’s Daniel Plange and England’s Damar Thomas overcome Aziz Abdul of Uganda.
Thomas dealt well with the unorthodox style of the Ugandan and was well ahead on the cards when the referee stepped-in in round three to disqualify Abdul for use of the head, following two previous warnings. Thomas will meet McCartan in Friday’s super-heavyweight semi-final.
All of today’s results, details of the draw, daily schedules and all other competition information is HERE.
Tomorrow is a rest day in the boxing and the action will resume on Friday 31 July 2026 with 28 semi-finals across three sessions of boxing, starting at 10:30, 14:30 and 19:00 local time.
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