New Delhi, July 31 — Seema Kaliramna, daughter of a former basketball player and javelin thrower in the Indian Army, won the bronze medal in the women’s discus throw at the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow on Thursday, taking India’s athletics tally to four.

The 27-year-old managed only two valid throws across six rounds after repeatedly seeing the disc become entangled in the side netting. The podium finish marked the first major international medal of her career. Kaliramna is also a PhD aspirant and the mother of a four-year-old son, Rudra.

Motherhood has coincided with her rise as a top-level athlete. Before Rudra was born in 2022 her personal best stood at 48.08 metres. After an 11-month break she returned to competition in 2024 and improved the mark to 57.19 metres, later reaching 59.73 metres at the Indian Championships in Bhubaneswar earlier this year.

She is coached by her husband, Ravinder Kaliramna, himself one of India’s leading discus throwers and a former gold medallist at the national under-18 and under-20 championships. Alongside her sporting commitments she is pursuing a PhD in Physical Education at Chaudhary Bansi Lal University in Bhiwani.

Her career had earlier suffered a major interruption when a serious knee injury kept her out of competition for more than three years. Through extensive rehabilitation and sustained determination she returned successfully and re-established herself among the country’s leading discus throwers.

She won gold at the 2025 National Games and later claimed the national title. Her resurgence continued with gold at the 2026 South Asian Athletics Championships and a series of strong performances on the national circuit. In 2026 she recorded a personal best of 59.73 metres, emerging as one of India’s top performers in the event and securing qualification for the Asian Games as well as selection for the Commonwealth Games squad.

Kaliramna’s bronze in Glasgow therefore represents both a competitive breakthrough and the culmination of a recovery that has spanned injury, motherhood and academic pursuits while she continued to raise her performance standards.