# Army Sports Institute Pune credited with boosting India’s Commonwealth Games boxing medals 2026-08-05T23:18:11+00:00 | Business & Economy | Indian Opinion Desk The Times of India runs a feature crediting the Army Sports Institute (ASI) in Pune, set up in 2005 as the Indian Army's high-performance centre, with a significant share of India's medal count at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. ASI brings coaching, sports science, strength and conditioning, nutrition, psychology, physiotherapy, recovery management and performance analytics together under a single roof, with its Boys and Girls Sports Companies feeding talented young athletes and Olympic hopefuls into the system. Boxing gets the most attention, with Army boxers said to have taken eight medals between them at the Games. Track and field and weightlifting medallists Gulveer Singh, Sarvesh Kushare and Ajaya Babu are also named as products of the institute. The same article gives India's overall boxing haul at the Games as seven gold and three silver medals, which it calls the team's best ever Commonwealth Games performance. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The Times of India feature credits the Indian Army athletes' Glasgow campaign to the institute's integrated training model, and its case rests on the medal count it lists rather than on any comparison with other training centres. Its figures are specific: eight medals from army boxers, a national boxing tally of seven gold and three silver, silver for Gulveer Singh in the 10,000m with bronze in the 5,000m, silver for Sarvesh Kushare in the high jump and a silver and a snatch record for Ajaya Babu in weightlifting. One internal date does not hold: the piece dates the institute's establishment to 2005 and then places that vision twenty-five years later. A discipline-wise breakdown of the Glasgow results would show how much of the haul came from athletes trained there. ## Coverage - The Times of India Tags: Army Sports Institute, Commonwealth Games Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/how-the-army-sports-institute-has-become-indias-premier-high-performance-centre/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/how-the-army-sports-institute-has-become-indias-premier-high-performance-centre/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.