Balancing Gold Medals and Degrees: Meet the Amity University Online Students at Commonwealth Games 2026

Most athletes at the Commonwealth Games wake up thinking about one thing: performance. The training session ahead, the competition schedule, the weight on the bar or the opponent in the ring. What fourteen students of Amity University Online are also thinking about is their next assignment.

These are not part-time athletes who happen to be studying. They are elite competitors who have earned their place in India's contingent at the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow across Weightlifting, Boxing, and Cycling, and they are doing it while remaining enrolled in recognised degree programmes at Amity University Online. Early mornings before training. Late nights after competition. Assignment deadlines that do not move just because a national camp does.

Fourteen students. Three sports. One university. And a story that goes well beyond what any scoreboard will show.
 

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Where Sport and Study Meet

Commonwealth Games qualification demands years of structured training, national-level competition, selection trials, and physical and mental preparation that leaves little room for anything else. The fact that each of these athletes chose to remain enrolled at Amity University Online through this process says something important about both their character and the institution that made it possible.

Here is what makes Amity University Online the right fit for a student-athlete:

• Lectures are accessible on demand, not tied to a fixed timetable.
• Assignments can be completed on the student's schedule, not the institution's.
• Academic support is available without requiring physical presence on a campus.
• Programmes span Psychology, Sports Psychology, Business Administration, and Management.
• The digital learning platform works whether the student is at a national training camp, an international competition, or home between fixtures.

For an athlete whose training is in one city and whose next competition is in another country, this is not just convenient. It is the only model that genuinely works.
 

The Weightlifters: Six Students, One Platform

Six students of Amity University Online carry India's weightlifting hopes to Glasgow. Each of them is competing at Commonwealth Games level while remaining enrolled in a degree programme, and each of them has a story worth knowing.

• Mirabai Chanu, a student of the Psychology programme at Amity University Online, is an Olympic silver medallist, multiple Commonwealth champion, and proof that the pursuit of academic and athletic excellence is not in conflict but in conversation with each other.
• Rishikanta Singh, a student of Sports Psychology at Amity University Online, is a competitive record built over years of national-level competition, paired with an academic commitment that reflects how seriously he takes life beyond the platform.
• M. Raja, a student of Sports Psychology at Amity University Online, is part of a generation of Indian weightlifters who understand that physical preparation alone is not enough, and that mental and academic development matter just as much.
• Lovepreet Singh, a student of Sports Psychology at Amity University Online, is one of the most closely watched names in Indian heavyweight weightlifting, bringing the same intensity to his studies at Amity University Online that he brings to competition.
• For Amity University Online Sports Psychology student Seram Nirupama Devi, the career is totally based at the highest levels of the sport, with an academic pursuit that reflects a perspective that goes way beyond the competition platform.
• Martina Devi, a student of Sports Psychology at Amity University Online, is completing a weightlifting lineup that reflects the genuine depth of Indian talent and the breadth of what Amity University Online makes possible for its student-athletes.
   

The Boxers: Five Students, One Ring

Five students of Amity University Online lace up their gloves for India at the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow. Every one of them fought their way here, and every one of them is doing it while staying enrolled in their degree programme.

• Aditya Pratap Yadav (65 kg), a BA student at Amity University Online, is technically sharp and ring-smart. His bout in Glasgow is among the more anticipated on India's boxing schedule.
• Kapil Pokhariya, an MBA student at Amity University Online, has been quietly building a serious international record. Pursuing a postgraduate degree at the same time says everything about where his ambitions sit.
• Jaismine Lamboria (57 kg), a student of MBA at Amity University Online, won bronze at Birmingham 2022 and arrived in Glasgow knowing exactly what it takes to perform at this level.
• Arundhati Choudhary (70 kg), a BA student at Amity University Online, is an Asian Games gold medallist. That pedigree travels with her to Glasgow, as does her commitment to her studies at Amity University Online.
• Sakshi Chaudhary (51 kg), an MBA student at Amity University Online, is young, hungry, and representing the next chapter of Indian women's boxing. The MBA is just the beginning of what she is building.
   

The Cyclists: Three Students, One Track

Cycling at Commonwealth Games level is not just about physical strength. It demands technical precision, tactical awareness, and a mental composure that separates competitors when the race is at its hardest. Three students of Amity University Online bring all of that to the track in Glasgow.

• David Beckham Elkatohchoonga, a student of Sports Psychology at Amity University Online, approaches competition the way his academic programme teaches him to. 
• Rojit Singh Yanglem, a student of Sports Psychology at Amity University Online, is still building toward his peak and Glasgow is part of that journey. His studies at Amity University Online run alongside a cycling career that has plenty of road ahead of it.
• Sekhon Harshveer Singh, a student of Sports Psychology at Amity University Online, rounds off a cycling contingent that reflects where Indian track cycling is heading. An athlete and a student at the same time, he is exactly who Amity University Online had in mind when it built a platform for people who refuse to choose between their ambitions.
   

Why This Matters Beyond the Medals

The Games will end and the scores will be recorded. Some of these fourteen will come home with medals. All of them will come home still enrolled and still progressing toward a degree.

The results from Glasgow have already begun to tell the story. Mirabai Chanu, a student of the Psychology programme at Amity University Online, created history by winning the Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow. She did not pause her education to win. She did both simultaneously. Rishikanta Singh, a student of Sports Psychology at Amity University Online, added to India's weightlifting glory by claiming the Silver Medal at the Games. M. Raja (Raja Muthupandi), student of Sports Psychology at Amity University Online, also stepped onto the podium with a Silver Medal, completing a remarkable showing for Amity University Online students on the weightlifting platform.

Three medals. Three students of Amity University Online. One platform in Glasgow.

This is not exceptional. At Amity University Online, this is exactly the point. Every young athlete told to choose between sport and education should know these fourteen students exist. And every young athlete watching the medal tally from Glasgow should know that the athletes on that podium are also enrolled in a degree programme, studying, learning, and building a future that goes well beyond the platform.
 

Conclusion

When Mirabai Chanu, Jaismine Lamboria, David Beckham Elkatohchoonga, and every one of their twelve teammates step up to compete in Glasgow, they do so as athletes and as students of Amity University Online. That combination is not coincidental. That is the whole point. Amity University Online is proud of each of them, not just for what they will achieve in Glasgow, but for refusing to choose between their dreams.