Key events
Day summary
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Here’s one of the gold winners this evening, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, speaking to the BBC: “It feels amazing, I’ve had a tough couple of years so I hope this is the start of my next new career.”
Gold for Elaine Thompson-Herah in the women’s 100m
Athletics: It’s gold for the favourite. Elaine Thompson-Herah cruises clear to win it. Julien Alfred got silver, with Neita picking up bronze. Neita will be kicking herself though – she got a horrible start and Thompson-Herah’s winning time was slower than Neita’s semi-final time.
Athletics: So here comes the women’s 100m. It’s Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah v England’s Daryll Neita for gold, though surely Thompson-Herah has been holding something back in the competition so far. Julien Alfred of St Lucia should also be in the mix for a medal.
Athletics: Aled Davies has bagged gold in the men’s F42-44/61-64 discus. There was a lovely moment as Sri Lanka’s Palitha Halgahawela Gedara, who won silver, ran over to his compatriot Abeykoon and the pair embraced.
Omanyala bags the gold but the bigger story is Yupun Abeykoon clinching the 100m bronze! Abeykoon has won Sri Lanka’s first athletics medal in 24 years. 🇱🇰
He was able to participate at #CWG2022 after the SL cricket team helped fund the contingent amidst the economic crisis. pic.twitter.com/sfSSzUMaGA
— Shyam Vasudevan (@JesuisShyam) August 3, 2022
Athletics: 10.02sec was the winning time, with clear daylight between Omanyala and the rest. Mitchell-Blake limped home after picking up an injury, while Wales’s Jeremiah Azu was just 0.05sec outside the medals in fifth.
Ferdinand Omanyala wins men’s 100m gold
Athletics: Ferdinand Omanyala, the reigning African champion, powers away to win it for Kenya! Akani Simbine of South Africa took silver, with Yupun Abeykoon of Sri Lanka the bronze. But it’s disappointment for Australia’s Rohan Browning, who finishes in sixth place, 0.06 seconds off a bronze medal.
Athletics: The men emerge for the 100m final. England’s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake gets a huge roar as he emerges from the tunnel.
Athletics: Back to the track where Australia’s Evan O’Hanlon has stormed to gold in the men’s T37/38 100m final.
Swimming: And that’s that for the action in the pool – the swimming action at least – for this Commonwealth Games.
Swimming: In the women’s 4x100m relay medley it’s gold for Australia, silver for Canada and bronze for England.
Athletics: We’ve still got the men’s and women’s 100m finals to come but this is surely the story of the night on the track: what a run it was.
Athletics: Hamish Kerr has won gold for New Zealand in the men’s high jump.
Swimming: Back to the pool and the final two events: the men’s and women’s 4x100m relay finals. The men are first up … and it’s a terrific race, with England, Australia and Scotland battling it out up front. It’s neck and neck down the final straight between England and Australia … and England and Tom Dean, ending his run of silvers, win the gold!
Athletics: O’Connor hung on to silver for Northern Ireland, while England’s Jade O’Dowda picked up the bronze.
Gold for Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the heptathlon
Athletics: KJT stays on the shoulder of O’Connor for a while then eases past on the second lap. O’Connor fights back but Johnson-Thompson could have walked the final 50m and still picked up gold.
Athletics: Time for the final event of the women’s heptathlon. Katarina Johnson-Thompson has a 136-point lead over Northern Ireland Kate O’Connor – that works out at about eight seconds over the 800m, so this should be a done deal really.
Swimming: Back in the pool, Ariarne Titmus has won the women’s 400m freestyle. It’s her seventh Commonwealth gold, in addition to two Olympic golds and two world titles. And she’s just 21.
Athletics: I think readers in the UK should be able to watch that final 200m from McColgan here:
Athletics: New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr and Australia’s Brandon Starc have both gone clear at 2.25m in the men’s high jump. Tejaswin Shankar (India), Donald Thomas (Bahamas) and Joel Clarke-Khan (England) are also still in the hunt.
Swimming: While that was all going on, Australia’s Sam Short did indeed win the 1500m freestyle in the pool. Daniel Wiffen of Northern Ireland picked up the silver.
Athletics: What a run that was! Eilish, wrapped in a Saltire, runs to the crowd to hug her mum. They both look absolutely chuffed, as they should.
Athletics🎽 – A mother and child reunion for Scotland’s most recent 🥇 in athletics at Commonwealth Games
2022 – 10000m – Eilish McColgan🏴 (👩👧)
1994 – 10000m – Yvonne Murray🏴
1990 – 10000m – Liz McColgan🏴 (👩👧)
1986 – 10000m – Liz McColgan🏴 (👩👧)#Birmingham2022 #CWG2022— Gracenote Olympic (@GracenoteGold) August 3, 2022
McColgan wins 10,000m gold!
Athletics: The pair are shoulder to shoulder as they come round the final bend, so it’s all on the kick down the final straight. Kiprotich kicks first but McColgan digs in, then powers past over the final 60m. She has emulated her mum Liz, who won Commonwealth gold in 1986 and 1990.
Athletics: There’s the bell! One lap to go.
Athletics: Kiprotich has picked up an injury and drops back so it’s a two-horse race over two laps: McColgan v Cheptai.
Athletics: Four laps to go in the 10,000m and it’s as-you-were. It’s a three-horse race over the final 1,600m.
Athletics: That move from the Kenyan pair has cut the lead group down further. Only McColgan is able to live with the pace, with England’s Jess Judd and Uganda’s Stella Chesang, the defending champion, losing touch.
Athletics: McColgan’s pace has whittled the lead group down to six in the women’s 10,000m. The two Kenyans, Irine Cheptai and Sheila Kiprotich, have taken over at the front.
Swimming: Another distance event – the men’s 1500m freestyle – is next up in the pool. Australia’s Sam Short was the fastest qualifier by more than 20 seconds.
Athletics: The pack is down to eight athletes in the 10,000m as we head towards the halfway stage.
Athletics: We’re down to the last six in the men’s high jump. Australia’s Brandon Starc, fresh from being the Three Eyed Raven and the King of Westeros, is the latest to clear 2.19m.
Athletics: A very, very gentle first few laps in the 10,000m. McColgan is setting the pace but the pack is tightly bunched behind her.
Athletics: The women’s 10,000m is next on the track. Scotland’s Eilish McColgan has every chance in this one.
Swimming: The women’s 50m backstroke final is next up in the pool. The entire field is in a line as they enter the final 10 metres and Canada’s Kylie Masse just gets the nod for gold.
Athletics: So the women’s 100m final on the track has been lined up – Neita was comfortably the fastest through, her 10.90sec a personal best. The final is at 9.45pm BST.
Ben Proud wins 50m freestyle gold
Swimming: Proud dominates the race to take gold, while England’s Lewis Burras takes the silver.
Athletics: Over on the track England’s Daryll Neita has stormed into the women’s 100m final.
Swimming: Back in the pool it’s the men’s 50m freestyle final next up, the fastest event in water (you know, without using a boat or paddle of some sort). England’s Ben Proud is the favourite for gold.
Athletics: Elaine Thompson-Herah cruises through her 100m semi-final, coasting from the 50m mark.
Athletics: Katarina Johnson-Thompson has just set a lifetime best of 44.33m in the javelin. She has held on to the lead through one of her weakest events – just the 800m to come later on.
Athletics: The men’s 100m semi-finals have been completed during that flurry of action in the pool. Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala is the fastest qualifier, with Wales’s Jeremiah Azu and England’s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake also into the showpiece.
Swimming: Canada’s Nicholas Bennett, just 18, takes gold in the men’s S14 200m freestyle, with Australia picking up silver and bronze. England’s Reece Dunn, a Paralympic champion last year, was down in fifth.
Squash: It’s gold for Georgina Kennedy in the women’s singles – she holds off Hollie Naughton to win 3-1, a terrific result for the 25-year-old from Beckenham.
Swimming: Firth takes the gold for Northern Ireland. Jessica-Jane Applegate picks up silver for England.
Swimming: The women’s S14 200m freestyle has just started. Bethany Firth, a gold medal winner at the Paralympics last year, is aiming to win Northern Ireland’s first gold of the Games in the pool.
Athletics: Katarina Johnson-Thompson, with a narrow lead going into the final two events of the heptathlon, has slung her javelin out to 36.19m with her first attempt.
Swimming: Dean now has a slightly ridiculous six silvers from these Games – he was just 0.13sec off the gold.
Duncan Scott wins gold!
Swimming: Scott holds on by a whisker to beat Dean into silver, with New Zealand’s Lewis Clareburt taking bronze.
Swimming: First up as we turn our attention to the day’s main events in the pool and on the track, it’s the men’s 200m individual medley final. Scotland’s Duncan Scott and England’s Tom Dean, both Olympic champions, are the favourites and emerge into a febrile atmosphere at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre.
Gold for Scotland’s Sarah Adlington in judo
Judo: With the final minute approaching, Adlington scores an ippon and takes the gold! There are emotional scenes as she picks up her second Commonwealth medal.
Judo: The 35-year-old Adlington made her Commonwealth Games debut back in 2014, when she won gold. She’s fallen behind here, though, with 90 seconds left on the clock.
Judo: Sarah Adlington gets a huge ovation as she emerges into the Coventry Arena. She faces Tulika Maan in the women’s +78kg gold medal match.
Squash: Georgina Kennedy has won the first game of her gold medal match against Canada’s Hollie Naughton.
Still to come this evening:
- Now Judo – Scotland’s Sarah Adlington goes for gold.
- Now Squash – singles gold medal matches, featuring England’s Georgina Kennedy in the women’s and Wales’s Joel Makin in the men’s.
- 7pm Athletics – a big night of track and field featuring KJT and the men’s and women’s 100m finals.
- 7pm Swimming – the final session in the swimming pool featuring a plethora (El Guapo!) of top talent including Australia’s Ariarne Titmus.
Summary so far
It’s been a busy old Wednesday:
- England’s Emily Campbell took gold in the women’s 87kg+ weightlifting, setting a Commonwealth Games record in the process.
- Evie Richards won women’s mountain biking gold for England, while New Zealand’s Sam Gaze defended his men’s cross-country cycling title.
- Emma Reid and Jamal Petgrave have won judo gold, while Wales’s Natalie Powell picked up a silver. Scotland’s Sarah Adlington goes for gold soon.
- England cricket captain Heather Knight is out of the Games with a hip injury.
- And here’s the medal table.
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Squash: Ghosal is bouncing around the University of Birmingham arena, having left a deflated-looking Willstrop in his wake, cantering to the bronze medal – India’s first medal in singles at the Commonwealth Games. He took the match 3-0: 11-6, 11-1, 11-4.
Judo: Lovell-Hewitt takes charge against Ozcicek-Takagi, putting his opponent on the back foot. The Australian can’t help but rack up three shido penalties, which all appeared to be for naughty gripping within Lovell-Hewitt’s sleeve to try and restrict the scope of his attacks. That adds up to a disqualification, which is a damp squib of a way to lose a medal, but hey that’s judo.
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