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Commonwealth Games: what is coming up later on …
Here is what you need to know to plan the rest of your day’s watching/reading/listening …
(All times BST)
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14.00 – 16.30 Weightlifting, the men’s 94kg final 🥇
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14.00 – 17.30 Netball group matches: Jamaica v Scotland, England v Tonga
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15.00 – 22.00 Bowls and Para-bowls
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16.30 – 21.30 3x3 Basketball and 3x3 Wheelchair Basketball medal matches 🥇
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18.00 – 21.30 Boxing
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18.30 – 21.00 Weightlifting, the women’s 86kg final 🥇
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18.30 – 21.45 Athletics and Para-athletics featuring eight finals including the men’s long jump, the women’s steeplechase, and the conclusion of the heptathlon 🥇
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19.00 – 22.30 Netball group matches: New Zealand v Wales, Australia v South Africa
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19.00 – 22.00 Swimming and Para-swimming featuring 11 finals 🥇
That is me done for the day, see you tomorrow.
Netball: Scotland v Jamaica has started in Group B. Both sides are on four points, with a further group match remaining after this. New Zealand are heading the group, unsurprisingly, on six points. You feel that the winner today would put themselves in pole position to claim the second semi-final spot available from this group, assuming the Silver Ferns aren’t going to relinquish their top spot.
Track cycling: Australia’s England’s Matt Richardson has withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games with an injury, PA reports.
Richardson, who switched allegiance shortly after winning two silver medals for Australia at the Paris 2024 Olympics, sustained an injury during training in Japan earlier this week. The Commonwealth Games cycling programme gets under way tomorrow.
3x3 wheelchair basketball: England held on to beat Canada. They will play Australia in the final at 6.30pm BST. Canada will face Scotland for bronze an hour earlier.
The women’s 3x3 basketball has also reached the semi-final stage, and Australia are currently giving Jamaica a bit of a baller lesson, leading 19-7 with five minutes to go.
If you didn’t manage to catch much of the action live yesterday – and the fact that the Commonwealth Games are mostly not free-to-air* in the UK this year has caused some controversy – then there is this highlights reel from the organisers which just went up on YouTube.
[*There are highlights on Five and some non-English language broadcasts available on iPlayer]
3x3 basketball: In the men’s competition the final will feature England v Australia after the earlier semi-finals. That will take place at 7.30pm BST tonight. New Zealand and Scotland will contest the bronze medal match at 4.30.
In the 3x3 wheelchair basketball, England are beating Canada at the moment in the second semi-final – they are four points up with 18 seconds to go. Australia beat Scotland 19-12 in the first semi-final.
Boxing: Northern Ireland’s Michaela Walsh has beaten Lara Brown (🏴SCO) in the women’s 57kg quarter-finals, and was effusive in her praise for her young opponent after the bout, saying the 19-year-old gave her “a hell of a fight”.
Mens 200m: The heats have finished now, and these were the fastest qualifiers …
1. Jevaughn Powell (🇯🇲 JAM) 20.28
2. Udodi Chudi Onwuzurike (🇳🇬 NGR) 20.31
3. Christopher Taylor (🇯🇲 JAM) 20.36
4. Zablon Ekwam (🇰🇪 KEN) 20.42
5. Zharnel Hughes (🏴 ENG) 20.45
6. Animesh Kujur (🇮🇳 IND) 20.46
The newly crowned Commonwealth Games 100m champion, Cameroon’s Emmanuel Eseme, is also safely through.
There are still tickets available for lots of the remaining sessions if you are near Glasgow, although I must confess my appetite for introducing my kids to a major athletics games would be somewhat dampened by the prices. If I wanted to dash up to Scotland from London for the track events tomorrow, one adult and one child ticket for the evening would be setting me back something like £160, before I have even thought about travel, food and accommodation costs. That is not cheap.
Women’s heptathlon: Kate O’Connor from Northern Ireland – who don’t have a flag emoji for historical/political reasons – is ripping this contest up. She already had a nearly 200 point lead over Mia Scerri (🇦🇺 AUS) after the long jump, and has now posted a season’s best throw of 52.85m in the javelin. That is more than 8 metres clear of anybody else so far, and vastly superior to the 36.30m that Scerri has thrown. Jade O’Dowda (🏴 ENG) is also in the medal hunt, as is Ella Rush (🇬🇮 GIB) and O’Connor’s teammate Anna McCauley.
Boxing: Amber-Jane Wall (🇨🇦 CAN) has beaten Niamh Brookes (🏴 WAL) in the women’s 51kg quarter-final. Brookes will be disappointed as she started the bout strongly but faded badly. There are a lot more boxing quater-finals to come, with the session running until 3.30pm BST this afternoon.
Martin Belam
Hiya, good afternoon, or evening or morning, depending on where you are. That was a filthy night of weather on the track last night, wasn’t it? I watched the men’s 10,000m thinking I wouldn’t want to be doing my leisurely plod round my local parkrun in this, let alone try to do an elite race. It doesn’t look like the weather is going to be that clever this evening, either.
To guide you through the next little while is Martin Belam, ta-ra.
Men’s 100m medley relay It’s England, Scotland, Wales as one-two-three in their heat, with Jersey fourth. Australia and South Africa in the next heat to qualify for the final tonight.
Women’s 100m medley relay Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Guernsey have progressed into the final but Australia are heavy favourites after finishing four seconds quicker than any other team in the heats.
Men’s 200m Picking out the Brits, Zharnel Hughes, running for England, dominated his heat. He looked like he was easing down in the last 100m time of 20.42secs. He’ll be in the semi-finals. Asked post-heat about his expectations: “Progress through the rounds.”
Men’s 3x3 basketball Australia have beaten Scotland in the semi-final 21-14. Engand take on New Zealand in the other semi.
Women’s heptathlon In the long jump, Northern Ireland’s Kate O’Connor has gone furthest, with a jump of 6.37m to earn 955 points. That will extend her lead to 4496 points after five events, where she now has a 84-point advantage over England’s Jade O’Dowda, with Australia’s Mia Scerri currently in the bronze medal position, trailing O’Connor by 196 points. We have the javelin and the 800m to come in that one.
Seine Stowers wins 77kg women's weightlifting gold for Samoa!
Stowers topped a podium made up British athletes with Isabella Brown of England taking silver after posting a PB in the snatch and Laura Hughes of Wales taking bronze.
Men’s mile In the second heat, Scotland Jake Wightman finished behind Australia’s Cameron Myers and just ahead of Jake Heywood of Wales. Wightman and Myers will provide stiff competition for new world record holder Kerr in the final.
Men’s mile Josh Kerr progressed serenely through his heat, safely placing himself on the front and and signalling the crowd to make some noise in the home straight. He’ll be in the final.
Women’s 200m To tidy up qualification, Jamaica’s Lavanya Williams and Veronica Shanti Pereira of Singapore progressed from heat five. Heat six was quick and saw Jamaica’s Alana Reid win in 22.95, with Frédérique Chiasson (Canada), Anthonique Strachan (Bahamas) and Asimenye Simwaka (Malawi) all run fast times to progress.
Men’s 200m freestyle James Guy qualifies for the final with the quickest time but Scott hasn’t done enough with Tom Dean making it through depsite finishing fourth in his heat.
Men’s 200m freestyle Scott looks like he’ll miss out with heat six seeing three men, including Matt Richards of Wales and Northern Ireland’s Jack McMillan, go faster.
Men’s 200m freestyle A couple of updates from the pool England’s James Guy won his heat beating Sam Short of Australia. Gabriel Shepherd finished third in that heat with a time of 1min 48.99secs, we’ll have to wait to see if that’s quick enough. Home favourite Duncan Scott could only finish fourth in heat, with a time of 1min 47.83secs, having led at halfway. Wales’ Tyler Melbourne-Smith is in with a chance after fiishing third but Harrison Tyler impressed there, winning heat five in 1min 46.08.
Women’s 200m Heat four is won by Nigeria’s Jennifer Obi Chukwuka ahead of a great run in lane eight by Marie-Éloïse Leclair of Canada.
Women’s 200m Another heat won by an Australian, this time it’s Monique Hanlon finishing ahead of Zambia’s Edna Ng’andula.
Women’s 200m The second heat is won well ahead of the field by Australia’s Misa Gross in 23.21, with Millicent Ndoro of Kenya in second. That should be good enough to go through.
Women’s 200m breaststroke Angharad Evans, who is emerging as one of the stars of these games with a gold medal and a relay bronze, is in action in the heats, turning on the burners in the last 10m to go through with the fastest time from the three qualifiers. Winning her hear 2mins 26.48secs, ahead of Australia Tara Kinder.
Women’s 200m Big cheer at the Scotsoun Stadium as Alyson Bell crosses the line just behind heat winner, the fabulously named Beyonce Defreitas of the British Virgin Islands.
Hello, thanks for joining me this morning. We’ve got some gripping Commonwealth Games action coming up today. Ongoing currently is the women’s 77kg weightlifting final, while out on the track are the heats in the women’s 200m and a intriguing batch of heats from the early session in the pool.
Preamble
Tom will be with you shortly. Here’s what to look out for today:
Morning (10am-1pm BST)
Weightlifting - women’s 77kg final
Athletics and Para-athletics heats
Swimming and Para-swimming heats
Bowls and Para-bowls (through the day)
Afternoon (1-5pm BST)
3x3 basketball and 3x3 wheelchair basketball
Weightlifting - men’s 94kg final
Netball: Jamaica v Scotland, England v Tonga
Evening (5-10pm BST)
3x3 basketball/wheelchair basketball: medal matches
Boxing - seven quarter-finals
Weightlifting - women’s 86kg final
Athletics and Para-athletics - eight finals
Swimming and Para-swimming - 11 finals
Netball: New Zealand v Wales, Australia v South Africa
