With 100 days to go until Glasgow 2026, the countdown is well and truly on and if you want to be part of it, now is the time to act.
Six days of world-class Athletics and Para Athletics await from 27 July to 1 August, with 3,000 of the world’s best athletes from across the Commonwealth set to compete across ten sports and six Para sports.
Sprint royalty comes to Glasgow
Dina Asher-Smith, the current European 200m champion and fastest British woman in history over the distance, is set to light up the sprint programme at Glasgow 2026. The 200m final on 31 July promises to be one of the evenings of the Games, but all eyes will also be on the 100m on 28 July, where Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia will be looking to go one better than the silver she claimed at Birmingham 2022
Asher-Smith said: “You are going to see a lot of talented athletes come out and perform from all across the Commonwealth and I think we’re also going to have a lot of Scottish newcomers, so you should definitely come and support.”
Alfred, who claimed her first World Indoor title in this very city, is equally eager to return. “The Commonwealth title is very much one I would like to add,” she said, “as I try to build a legacy so that when I do one day step away from the track, people will say I accomplished everything I possibly could.”
Oblique Seville, the reigning world 100m champion and current world number one, brings the star power of the fastest man on the planet to Scotstoun; the first Jamaican to hold the world title over the distance since Usain Bolt. He takes to the track on 27 July for the 100m heats, with the final the following evening.
Scotland’s finest on home soil
The home crowd will have plenty to cheer. Eilish McColgan, Commonwealth 10,000m champion, four-time Olympian and Glasgow 2026 Games Ambassador, returns to the city where her Commonwealth story began, carrying British and European records and the weight of home expectation.
She will be joined by a Scottish middle-distance trio that would be the envy of any nation. Jake Wightman, the 2022 world 1500m champion, lines up alongside Josh Kerr, who has been targeting a world mile record this season, and Neil Gourley, fresh from world indoor silver. The iconic Commonwealth Mile makes its long-awaited return on 1 August. Georgia Hunter Bell, reigning world indoor 1500m champion and 800m world silver medallist, arrives with her sights set on a first Commonwealth title.
A world-class field event line-up
Beyond the track, the field events will feature some of the biggest names in the sport. Australia’s Nina Kennedy, the reigning Olympic and Commonwealth pole vault champion, is confirmed for Glasgow. India’s Neeraj Chopra, former Olympic, World and Commonwealth javelin champion, is expected to make a return to the Games.
Para Athletics at the heart of Glasgow 2026
Glasgow 2026 will showcase the very best of Para Athletics, with Wales’ Olivia Breen among those set to compete. A two-time Commonwealth champion, world champion and four-time Paralympian, Breen is returning to Glasgow 12 years after making her debut here in 2014. “The Commonwealth Games is such a special event because the Para events really help with publicity and inspiring the next generation,” she said. “Glasgow was my first Commonwealth Games when I was just 17-18, and now to be going back at the age of 30 is really exciting.”
Don’t miss out
Phil Batty OBE, Chief Executive of Glasgow 2026, said: “One hundred days to go and the response from the public has been incredible. With just 26,000 tickets remaining in Athletics and the velodrome and pool virtually sold out, the message is simple: if you want to be there, now is the time to act.
“From some of the fastest men and women on the planet to a Scottish distance running line-up that will be the envy of the sport, this is going to be a remarkable ten days for Glasgow and for Scotland.”
Source: Glasgow