Sammi Kinghorn and Ben Sandilands were joint winners of our 4J Para Athlete of the Year title and now look to have a Commonwealth Games medal chance (photo by Bobby Gavin)
Glasgow 2026 event schedule announcement
Paralympic champions Samantha Kinghorn and Ben Sandilands will have medal chances with Team Scotland at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The event schedule has been released now for the Games in Glasgow next year.
Athletics will consist of 59 medal opportunity events with 16 of those featuring our Para athletes.
And the good news is the Men’s T20 1500m event – featuring Paris gold medallist Ben of Fife AC – and wheelchair events applicable to 100m Paralympic champion Sammi of Red Star AC are included in the Glasgow 2026 programme.
In terms of relays there is a change for Glasgow 2026 with the introduction of the Mixed 4x400m Relay which has been popular in recent global events.
World Athletics draws up the programme working with the Commonwealth
Other facets for Scotstoun are:
- The reintroduction of the Mile, replacing the 1500m for men and women
- All field events and Combined Event opportunities
- Dropping the 4x400m male and female races
- Enhanced Para programme, including the addition of the men’s T20 1500m and women’s 400m T53/54 and Para jumps and throws events
The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games will take place on Thursday 23 July to Sunday 2 August 2026 and will feature a 10-sport programme concentrated across four venues within an eight-mile corridor of the city, with over 200 gold medals up for grabs across the 10 days of sporting competition.
Glasgow 2026 will showcase a fully integrated Para sport programme across six of the ten sports, with a Commonwealth Games record 47 medal events in Para disciplines.
In Scotstoun, World Athletics has made an innovative change to the athletics competition with the return of the Commonwealth Mile.
Last run in 1966, the Mile race, which will be run on the track, is a nod to the ‘The Miracle Mile’ at the Commonwealth Games in Vancouver,
Canada in 1954, when England’s Roger Bannister and Australian John Landy – the only two sub-four-minute runners in the world at the time – went head-to-head only two months after Bannister became the first athlete to run a sub-four minute mile.
The Athletics programme has also been adapted to encourage strength and depth of competition across all 74 territories, with the Mixed 4x400m relay included.
It is also the first time in the history of the Commonwealth Games that Para Athletics will see athletes competing in jumping, throwing and track events, with all three disciplines being included for the first time
Laura Muir won Women’s 1500m gold at Birmingham in 2022 – with the Glasgow 2026 programme now featuring the mile instead (photo by Bobby Gavin)
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Ben Sandilands, Commonwealth Games, Glasgow 2026, Laura Muir, Samantha Kinghorn
