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 events today including Laura Kenny and Adam Peaty
Laura Kenny aims for her first Commonwealth Games gold of 2022 after Jake Jarman edged out James Hall for gold in the all-around final.
Hall was hoping to land an elusive all-around gymnastics gold medal in the men’s all-around final at Arena Birmingham after taking silver behind the now-retired Nile Wilson on the Gold Coast in 2018, but Jarman, just 20 years old, produced a stunning displayy with Hall battling through a foot problem and forced to settle for silver.
Kenny will be back in action at the Lee Valley VeloPark on Sunday as she goes for gold in the women’s points race. Kenny was part of the England team pursuit squad that took bronze on Friday and will also be riding the scratch race on Monday.
Commonwealth Games events today including Laura Kenny and Adam Peaty
A number of medals are on offer on day three in Birmingham
Gymnastics: Men’s all-around final - James Hall and Jake Jarman react
James Hall: “I don’t know how I did it, this guy helped me straight away, the crowd lifted me. If I was at the gym at home, there’s no way I could have done it.
“Jake is my hero, the champion.”
Jarman: “The team comp was the most important day, the others a bonus, I wanted to get out here and have fun.”
Hall ends the conversation by slapping Jarman on the stomach, “Commonwealth champ, mate!”
Gymnastics: Men’s all-around final - Jake Jarman wins gold!
Disappointment written across Hall’s face, Jarman has done it!
It’s silver again for Hall, Georgiou with the bronze.
A brilliant all-around final!
Gymnastics: Men's all-around final
James Hall helped away from the high bar, a lovely routine, packed with neat work.
Huge ovation, is it silver? Or can he pull off a special score to deny Jarman for gold?
Gymnastics: Men's all-around final
Marios Georgiou going well on the high bar and records 13.550. He takes over at the top of the leaderboard.
Now Jarman on the high bar... it’s 13.400, he takes the lead! Stunning from the 20-year-old.
Only James Hall can deny him now...
Gymnastics: Men's all-around final
One more round to go and Jarman has leaped into first place (55.950), Karnejenko is second (55.000) and Hall third (54.800) with Marios Georgiou of Cyprus fourth (54.950).
Gymnastics: Men's all-around final
We're three rounds into the men's all-round final, Pavel Karnejenko of Scotland is top on 41.600, but it's tight, James Hall of England second on 41.000 and Jake Jarman third on 40.650.
Hall appealed the difficulty score on his rings routine, that's been rejected.
Ondine Achampong holds nerve as Claudia Fragapane claims fifth Commonwealth Games gold
Teenager Ondine Achampong nailed her crucial final vault to land women’s team gymnastics gold for England at Arena Birmingham on a night that could have spelled the swansong of former world medallist Claudia Fragapane.
In her first major multi-sports competition, 18-year-old Achampong shrugged off the inevitable nerves to score 14.15, enough to see off the surging Australian team, who had reduced the deficit to a mere 0.05 points going into the final rotation. But it was Fragapane, a gymnast at the opposite end of her career, who brought the house down with a stirring floor routine that, whilst failing to land her a place in the individual final, proved a fitting send-off from her Commonwealth Games career as she claimed a fifth gold medal.
Alice Kinsella, Georgia-Mae Fenton and Kelly Simm were the other members of England’s victorious team. Fragapane had burst onto the scene at the 2014 Games in Glasgow, when she claimed four gold medals, and was forced to battle through a series of career-threatening injuries, including concussion and operations on her ankle and elbow, to earn her place in Birmingham.
Fragapane, 24, shared a lingering embrace with 27-year-old Simm, who also won a medal in Glasgow, and, with retirement talk in the air, she admitted: “This is definitely our last Commonwealth Games because we’re not going to go on for four more years.
“I’ve had four major injuries so just to get back and do it again was my main goal. I shouldn’t have come back so quickly but I pushed myself to get here. I’ll take it one step at a time - I’ve got to be careful with this fragile body now.”
England, who were pipped by Canada to gold on the Gold Coast four years ago, started as heavy favourites to regain their title but it fell to a series of cool-headed vault performances to see them safely over the line.
“I was a bit nervous but I just told myself to go out and do the vault I usually do which is more than fine,” admitted Achampong, who delivered the decisive performance.
Besides the battle to beat the Australians, the secondary narrative became a fight between England team-mates to secure the two places per nation available for all-around and individual apparatus finals. Birmingham-born Kinsella topped the all-around qualifying standings on 54.450, 0.3 clear of second-placed Achampong, with Fenton, who finished fourth, the unlucky one to be eliminated. But Fenton, the defending champion, will contest the uneven bars final after a top-scoring 14.0 ahead of Achampong, who was hugely impressive on what was her debut in senior international competition.
Kinsella, the 2019 European champion, was second best on beam behind Australia’s Georgia Godwin, with Fenton taking third and with it England’s second final place over Achampong by virtue of a higher execution rating. Kinsella again top-scored with 13.450 on the floor while, where Achampong will join her in the final. Fragapane finished well adrift of the final places with 12.450, but appeared content as the final twists and turns of her career played out. Scotland’s Shannon Archer had a successful night, top-scoring in vault qualifying with 13.5 and also reaching the horizontal bars final, while she will be joined by compatriot Cara Kennedy in the all-around final.
Gymnastics: Men's all-around final
James Hall (27.700) leads now and Jarman second, but it’s all gone wrong for Dolci.
The Canadian’s legs separate on the horse, he'll lose a full mark there. Costly.
He's now down in 13th.
Gymnastics: Men's all-around final
After the first rotation, it’s Canada’s Felix Dolci (14.200) who leads.
Dolci has capitalised on one of his strongest pieces, the floor, but early momentum could be key.
Jake Jarman (14.000) is second and James Hall (13.450) third.
Scotland’s Frank Baines (13.350) is fourth.
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