2030 Ahmedabad Commonwealth Games set to feature around 17 sports disciplines

Along with confirming Ahmedabad because the host of the 2030 Commonwealth Video games, the Commonwealth Sport (CS) on Wednesday mentioned that 15 to 17 disciplines, with the scope of together with two new or conventional sports activities, would function within the Centenary Video games.

The number of disciplines will observe CS’s recently-concluded Sport Programme Evaluate, which outlines the sports activities to function on the CWG. They embrace athletics and para athletics, swimming and para swimming, desk tennis and para desk tennis, bowls and para bowls, weightlifting and para powerlifting, inventive gymnastics, netball and boxing.

“The method to finalise the rest of the programme will begin subsequent month and the total Centenary Video games line-up might be introduced subsequent 12 months,” mentioned a launch.

The sports activities into account — archery, badminton, 3×3 basketball and 3×3 wheelchair basketball, seashore volleyball, T20 cricket, biking, diving, hockey, judo, rhythmic gymnastics, rugby sevens, taking pictures, squash, triathlon and para triathlon and wrestling — embrace a number of the place India has been doing nicely internationally.

“The host also can suggest as much as two new or conventional sports activities,” the discharge added.

The likelihood to incorporate conventional sports activities could open the doorways for indigenous disciplines, corresponding to kabaddi and yogasana, to be a part of the Commonwealth Video games.

Kabaddi has been a part of the Asian Video games since 1990, whereas yogasana is about to make its debut as an illustration sport within the 2026 version.