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 - Cricket
England’s women are getting their cricket campaign underway against Sri Lanka - that’s just started and England are bowling at Edgbaston. The cricket is a T20 format remember.
Katherine Brunt is winning her 100th T20I cap in this match - absolute legend of the sport.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Hockey
FULL-TIME: England 12-0 Ghana
A complete thumping by England as they score four goals in the final quarter to seal a 12-0 triumph over Ghana in the women’s hockey competition.
Grace Balsdon, Anna Toman, Hannah Martin and Laura Unsworth netted in that fourth quarter. Job done.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Cycling
A huge relief that Truman and Glaetzer are both moving and hopefully no long-lasting damage has been done. They’re in safe hands with the medical personnel.
In the carnage of the crash, they’re taking the result of the heat as it occurred so close to the end, meaning Shah Sahrom of Malaysia, Trinidad’s Kwesi Browne and Jack Carlin of Scotland advance to the men’s keirin final.
The track is cleared and tidied and the second semi-final can commence. There’s a bit of an edge to the atmosphere (understandably) at the Lee Valley Velodrome but it’s a second Trinidadian, Nicholas Paul, who wins it, while Callum Saunders (NZL) and Matt Richardson (AUS) also advance in second and third.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Cycling
CRASH! This looks really, really nasty for England’s Joe Truman.
In the first men’s keirin semi-final, on the final lap, Australia’s Matt Glaetzer goes down after clipping the bike in front, right in front of Truman, who can’t avoid him and goes down hard. Truman’s body seems to go limp as he slides down the banking and he doesn’t move for a couple of minutes as medics surround him. It’s scary stuff
Eventually he sits up, amid huge roars from the crowd. That’s a huge relief. He is put into an oxygen mask, transferred into a wheelchair and wheeled off the track.
Glaetzer also went down hard - his skinsuit is in an absolute state, torn to shreds but the two-time Commonwealth keirin champion was able to get up of his own accord and walk back to the Australian pen.
They were probably travelling at 70kph when the crash happened.
Climate change crisis looms large over Tuvalu’s beach volleyball Commonwealth Games dream
Saaga Malosa and Ampex Isaac could be forgiven for not being too concerned by talk of the relevance of the Commonwealth - or these Games. They are more worried for the future of their nation, writes James Toney in Birmingham.
Tuvalu - population 11,931 - is the third smallest country in the world, behind only Nauru and Vatican City. Compromised of just nine islands and thinly-populated atolls, it faces extinction because of climate change.
Rising seas and deadly storms have started to swamp the islands, specks in the Solomon Sea, and fears are growing that Tuvalu will be soon uninhabitable or may vanish completely.
There is even an emergency plan to evacuate the entire country to a few uninhabited islands that currently belong to Fiji.
All of which puts a 21-10, 21-12 defeat to England’s Javier and Joaquin Bello in the beach volleyball preliminary rounds into rather stark contrast.
Climate crisis looms large over Tuvalu’s beach volleyball Commonwealth Games dream
The Pacific island nation faces extinction as Saaga Malosa and Ampex Isaac are competing on the global sporitng stage at Birmingham 2022
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Cycling
England’s Charlie Tanfield misses out on bronze in the men’s 4000m individual pursuit as Australia’s Conor Leahy edges him by over a second in the bronze medal race.
Tanfield has to settle for fourth, meanwhile it’s another bronze for the Australian medal tally.
Rugby sevens turmoil worsened by dismal Commonwealth Games for home nations
A home nations humbling at the Commonwealth Games has only exacerbated the turmoil in rugby sevens ahead of next season’s merger of England, Scotland, and Wales, writes Andy Baber in Birmingham.
Only Scotland’s men made it through to the knockout phase at Birmingham 2022, with Team England’s men and women both falling short of the medal matches in Coventry.
This year’s hosts claimed double bronze at Gold Coast 2018 but comprehensive defeats to New Zealand in their final group games ensured there would be no repeat four years later.
Those results come off the back of the decision from the three unions to combine once again to form Great Britain men’s and women’s teams for the 2023 World Sevens Series.
And opinion amongst the players was mixed on the future direction of the sevens game.
Rugby sevens turmoil worsened by dismal Commonwealth Games for home nations
Ahead of next season’s merger, Scotland’s men were the only home nations team to reach the knockout stage at Birmingham 2022
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Hockey
England 8-0 Ghana
England are hammering Ghana in the women’s hockey now and double figures are well within sight.
Tess Howard, Hannah Martin and Lily Owsley have added goals since half-time and we’re now at the end of the third quarter.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Cycling
Valiant efforts from both Emma Finucane and Sophie Capewell in the second heats of their best-of-three women’s sprint semi-finals after losing the opener but ultimately to no avail.
They both get pipped on the line, meaning it will be England vs Wales in the bronze medal contest later this afternoon, with Ellesse Andrews (NZL) and Kelsey Mitchell (CAN) battling for gold.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Cycling
The men’s keirin first-round repechages are underway and England’s Joe Truman wins his repechage ahead of Scotland’s Alistair Fielding to reach the second round.
Only the winner of each repechage advances and England’s Hayden Norris misses out as Australia’s Thomas Cornish beats him on the line.
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