Commonwealth Games 2022 LIVE: Laura Muir storms to 1500m gold after England win women’s hockey title
Follow day 10 at the 2022 Commonwealth Games with 45 gold medals up for grabs
A thrilling penultimate day at Birmingham 2022 has delivered more action to this thoroughly entertaining Commonwealth Games, with 45 gold medals in total set to be dished out by the end of the evening.
Tonight was all about Laura Muir, and the Scotland star produced a brilliant kick to win gold in the women’s 1500m final, adding to her 800m bronze from the previous evening. Later, a wide-open men’s 800m final, was won by Kenya’s Wyclife Kinyamal ahead of Australia’s Peter Bol, with England’s Ben Pattison taking bronze.
Eilish McColgan added to her 10,000m gold with a gutsy silver in the 5,000m and there was further joy as England’s women wrapped up the action at the Alexander Stadium with a dramatic gold in the 4x400m final. It was short lived, however, after the team was disqualified following a lane infringment.
Earlier, home-town hero Matt Hudson-Smith was left disappointed when forced to settle for silver in the men’s 400m, while Victoria Ohuruogu was more upbeat, grabbing a silver in the women’s 400m final. There was drama in the 4x100m relay finals, with England men and Nigeria women prevailing.
In the afternoon, a dramatic men’s cycling road race saw Geraint Thomas fall just short with a late push to break the lead group, leaving New Zealand’s Aaron Gate to sprint clear and win a fourth gold at these Games. And in the result of the day, England pulled off a shock to stun Australia and win Commonwealth gold in the women’s hockey final. Follow all the action throughout the evening below:
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Track Cycling
Qualifying for the men’s team pursuit is taking place and Wales’ quartet - led by European bronze medallist Rhys Britton - go into second in qualifying with a time of 3:54.613.
New Zealand are the team to beat so far who are 4.7 seconds quicker than the Welsh.
Australia are up next before England take to the track. Can one of the Home Nations make it into the gold medal race?
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Swimming
England’s Freya Anderson qualifies for the medal race in the Women’s 200m freestyle. She stuck close to Australia’s Ariarne Titmus during her heat and qualifies fourth with a time of 1:57.59.
She’ll have some work to do to upset the three top Australians though. Titmus, Mollie O’Callaghan and Madison Wilson all finished ahead of her.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Triathlon
Alex Yee has taken three seconds off the lead of Hayden Wilde!
They’ve now completed three of the four 5km laps of the cycling tracks can the Englishman continue to close the gap?
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Triathlon
10km gone for the cycling section and the trio of Riddle, Wilde and Reid have extended their lead by a couple of seconds. Alex Yee has dropped further away.
He’s now 21 seconds behind with 10km left on the bike before a 5km run to the line.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Swimming
Canada’s Summer McIntosh has cruised through her heat in the women’s 400m individual medley. The 15-year-old world champion qualifies with a time of 4:36.72 and is a big favourite to take the gold medal.
Scotland’s Katie Shanahan ended fourth in the same heat with a time of 4:46.19 but England’s Freya Colbert wins the second heat with a fine swim.
She comes home in 4:42.64.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Triathlon
Alex Yee was around 16 seconds off the pace as the athletes came out of the water but is in the chasing pack of cyclists hunting down the leading trio.
Yee is a very good runner and could bring some seconds back in the final stage of the race. Can he get close enough to Wilde during this ride?
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Triathlon
Hayden Wilde puts in a fantastic swim for New Zealand leaving the water in third place in the men’s triathalon with Alex Yee quite a few places behind him.
There are three riders out front as the tri-athletes take to the road. Jamie Riddle and Tayler Reid are the two others up top with Wilde.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Lawn Bowls and Para Bowls
There has been quite a bit of home nation action in the Lawn and Para Bowls this morning. Here’s a few of the results.
England, Scotland and Northern Ireland all triumphed in the Men’s Triple Play although England were forced into a nervous finish against Malaysia:
England 13 - 12 Malaysia
Scotland 28 - 6 Malta
Norfolk Island 10 - 24 Northern Island
In the Men’s Pairs the Scots got one over the English with a 23-12 victory before Laura Daniels of Wales and Scotland’s Dee Hoggan eased through their first Women’s singles matches.
Laura Daniels (Wales) 21 - 2 Daphne Arthur-Almond (Falkland Islands)
Dee Hoggan (Scotland) 21 - 10 Tania Choudhury (India)
Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games kicks off in a carnival of colour
Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games kicked off in a carnival of colour at the Alexander Stadium on Thursday night.
Local musical heroes Duran Duran and Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi guest-starred on a night which celebrated Birmingham’s industrial heritage and its multicultural tradition, as competitors from the Commonwealth’s 72 nations and territories were cheered into the arena by a 30,000 crowd.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall arrived in style, driving into the venue in an Aston Martin as part of a convoy of 72 cars which formed a Union Jack when viewed from above.
Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games kicks off in a carnival of colour
The 22nd edition of the Games are now officially under way.
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