India, July 28 -- Amid the spotlight on weightlifting, which fetched India six medals-including a gold-over the first five days of the Commonwealth Games 2026, history unfolded late on Monday night in Glasgow as India celebrated its second gold of the Games.

For the first time ever, India won a Commonwealth Games gold medal in para-athletics, of Sharmila Dhankar, who clinched the women's Shot Put F57 title with a season-best throw of 9.81m. The triumph also ended India's 20-year wait for a para-athletics medal at the Commonwealth Games, while making Sharmila the first Indian woman ever to stand on a CWG para-athletics podium.

Yet, remarkable as the achievement is, the gold medal may not even be the greatest triumph of her life.

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