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 - Netball
England take in the applause from the paked NEC crowd as their opening fixture against Trinidad and Tobago comes to an end. Their title defence is off to the perfect start as the eased to a dominant 74-22 win.
Eleanor Cardwell, Laura Malcolm, Sophie Drakeford-Lewis, Layla Guscoth and Imogen Allison all got their Commonwealths debuts out of the way too.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Rugby Sevens
Canada inflicted a 31-0 defeat on Wales in their men’s rugby sevens match earlier on meaning, like England, Wales’ hopes of reaching the quarter-finals are hanging by a thread.
The top two teams progress from the group, Wales face Zambia tonight before a final group game against Olympic champions Fiji on Saturday.
There were no such problems for Scotland. They eased to a 41-0 win over Tonga after South Africa easily defeated Malaysia 46-0.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - T20 Cricket
England Cricket have confirmed that captain Heather Knight will miss her side’s first game against Sri Lanka on Saturday evening with Nat Sciver to continue as Captain.
Knight picked up a hip injury in a T20 against South Africa but she could return for the second game on 2nd August.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Gymnastics
It was a fine morning for Wales and Northern Ireland in the gymnastics.
Northern Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan cruised into the pommel horse final with an almost flawless routine and his compatriot Ewan McAteer scored 13.950 on the vault, putting him second behind Wales’ Emil Barber in the standings.
Eamon Montgomery also performed well for NI who have had a disruptive build-up to the games after the International Gymnastics Federation told them they were not permitted to compete due to representing the Republic of Ireland previously.
That decision was overturned though and here them are.
Also nailing his routine was Wales’ Brinn Bevan who was exceptionalduring his parallel bars routine. His difficulty was a whole mark higher than the next most-difficult as he scored a whopping 14.450 - the best performance seen on that apparatus today by a long way.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Track Cycling
A good morning for Welsh cycling.
Around the Games
Squash and Boxing both got underway at 12pm with some home grown competitors in action.
In the Squash, Wales’ Emyr Evans has beaten Luca Reich of the British Virgin Islands 3-0 in the Men’s Singles Round of 64, and Reese Lynch of Scotland recorded an RSC win over Timon Aaree of Kiribati in the Men’s Boxing Light Welterweight Round of 32.
Alex Yee wins first gold medal of Commonwealth Games 2022
Here’s the moment England’s Alex Yee took the gold in the men’s triathlon this morning. It was the first medal awarded of the games in Birmingham.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Track Cycling
England are into another cycling final!
Ryan Owens, Hamish Turnbull and Joe Truman qualify for the gold medal race with the second fastest time of 43.296 seconds in the men’s team sprint and alos guarantee themselves a Commonwealth medal.
They will face Australia - who just set a new Games record time of 42.222 - in the final.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Swimming
More succes for the Home Nations in the pool.
Welsh duo Alys Margaret Thomas and Harriet Jones advance to the semi-finals of the Women’s 100m butterfly alongside England’s Holly Hibbott.
Canada’s Maggie Macneil and Australia’s Emma McKeon are very much the ladies to beat with Olympic champion Macneil second fastest behind the Olympic 50m and 100m freestyle champion McKeon after this morning’s qualifying races.
Commonwealth Games 2022
Seem like the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, enjoyed himself at the Opening Ceremony last night. One of the perks of the job is getting invited to these incredible international sporting events.
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