Well, what an exciting finish to day five of the Commonwealth Games. Australia have had another productive session, collecting plenty of medals in the pool, there was a squash final to savour for England’s James Willstrop, Adam Peaty being stunned by Cameron van Der Burgh and it finished with the surprise of Yohan Blake failing to produce in the men’s 100m final. Thanks for reading. Bye.
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100m gold for South Africa!
Akani Simbine rips away from the field to win in 10.03sec! Henricho Bruintjies, another South African, takes silver and Jamaica’s Yohan Blake, who was the favourite, started poorly out of the blocks and had to settle for bronze after making up for it with a strong finish. He just about saw off Nigeria’s Seye Ogunlewe, who looked like he was going to finish third for much of the race. Simbine can’t quite believe it. He was a bit of an outsider - but he’s a 100m champion now!
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The men’s 100m final is about to begin. Usain Bolt is the favourite.
Swimming gold for South African!
Chad Le Clos is too strong for the field in the men’s 100m butterfly final. England’s James Guy is more than happy to settle for silver after swimming 51.31sec to 51.50sec from Australia’s Grant Irvine.
Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images
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“That’s shocking,” England’s Asha Philip says after finishing fourth in the 100m final. “On to the next one. I’ve just got to get over these hiccups.”
100m gold for Trinidad & Tobago!
It’s the first gold for a female athlete at the Commonwealth Games! Michelle-Lee Ahye is the sprinter who’s made history for her country. Jamaica’s Christania Williams had a poor start but recovered to take silver ahead of her team-mate, Gayon Evans. Asha Philip finished fourth.
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It’s almost time for the women’s 100m final. Can England’s Asha Philip get herself on the podium?
Swimming gold for Wales!
It’s all happening! Alys Thomas has won the women’s 200m butterfly final, beating two Australians, Laura Taylor and Emma McKeown.
Shot put gold for New Zealand!
Tomas Walsh was too strong for Nigeria’s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi and Canada’s Tim Nedow. Uganda’s Stella Chesang has also won the women’s 10,000m final.
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More swimming glory for South Africa!
This time it’s Tatjana Schoenmaker in the women’s 100m butterfly. Canada’s Kierra Smith takes silver, pushing Australia’s Georgia Bohl into bronze.
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“I’ve been off my best all week,” Adam Peaty says. “But I’m enjoying it, so that’s what counts.”
Swimming gold for South Africa!
Cameron Van der Burgh had something to say all right! The South African swims his heart out during the men’s 50m breaststroke final, even though Adam Peaty’s on his tail throughout, and he holds off the favourite in a photo finish! Van der Burgh swam in 26.58sec - Peaty finished in 26.62sec. England’s James Wilby took bronze.
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The men’s 50m breaststroke final is 10 minutes away. It’s Adam Peaty’s gold medal to lose, you’d imagine. Unless you’re Cameron Van der Burgh.
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Swimming gold for New Zealand!
Sophie Pascoe takes the women’s SB9 100m breaststroke final! The Australian, Paige Leonhardt and Madeline Scott, take silver and bronze respectively.
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Table tennis gold for India!
The men were too strong for Nigeria in the team final, winning 3-0.
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Squash gold for England!
The Guardian’s James Willstrop has done it at last, a gold medal his to cherish in his final Commonwealth Games, New Zealand’s Paul Coll no match for him! What a proud day for this newspaper! That’s the story, isn’t it?
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There’s been another gold for Australia in the pool: Matthew Levy edged out South Africa’s Christian Sadie and Singapore’s Wei Soongh Toh in the men’s S7 50m final.
India’s Muhammed Anas Yahiya wins the third men’s 400m semi-final. Jamaica’s Rusheen McDonald is second and Trinidad & Tobago’s Machel Cenadio is third in 46.19sec.
Nigeria’s Chidi Okezie wins the second 400m men’s semi-final. Michael Mathieu of the Bahamas is second and Kimorie Shearman of St Vincent and the Grenadines is third in 45.92sec.
It’s 1-0 to England’s James Willstrop in his squash final against New Zealand’s Paul Coll.
Shock! Botswana’s Isaac Makwala has won the first men’s 400m semi-final. Jamaica’s Javon Francis finishes second. Australia’s Steven Solomon was third in 45.55sec.
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Swimming gold for Australia!
Ariane Titmus dominates the women’s 800m freestyle final, and her compatriots Jessica Ashwood and Kiah Melverton take silver and bronze respectively. Melverton was almost pipped to third by England’s Holly Hibbott.
Javelin gold for Wales!
It’s Hollie Arnold with a world record effort of 44.43m in the F46 javelin final!
So proud of my roomie @HollieA2012 WR and 🥇❤️ I knew you could do it!Your amazing! 😁😁😁 pic.twitter.com/Xvm1wh1RSJ
— oliviabreen (@BreenOlivia) April 9, 2018
England have taken bronze in the men’s team table tennis, beating Singapore 3-0.
Swimming gold for Australia!
It’s an Australian 1-2-3 in the men’s 200m backstroke final. Mitch Larkin takes the gold, Bradley Woodward takes silver and Josh Beaver takes the bronze. England’s Luke Greenbank finishes fourth.
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The men’s 200m backstroke final is about to begin...
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Squash gold for New Zealand!
It was a brilliant comeback from England’s Sarah-Jane Perry, but she’ll have to settle for silver. Joelle King wins the fifth game 11-8 and with it she takes the gold!
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Joelle King was 5-0 up in the fifth game. Her lead’s been whittled down by Sarah-Jane Perry, though. It’s 8-6...
You have to hand it to England’s Sarah-Jane Perry. She was 2-0 down to New Zealand’s Joelle King in the women’s squash final, but she’s just won the fourth game 13-11 and they’re all square at two games all!
The athletics session is about to resume. Remember, we’ve got 100m finals later. The swimming is also set to begin soon.
It’s on! Sarah-Jane Perry wins the third game 11-6. Are they going the distance?
England’s Sarah-Jane Perry is fighting back in the third game of the squash final...
Honk! Honk! Honk! It’s finished Australia 78-32 England in Pool A in the women’s basketball.
It’s 2-0 to Joelle King. New Zealand’s squash hope took a less dramatic second game 11-8 and Sarah-Jane Perry is staring up a mountain now.
They’re deep into the second game, by the way, and Joelle King has a slender advantage over Sarah-Jane Perry.
In the women’s squash, England’s Sarah-Jane Perry is taking on New Zealand’s Joelle King in the gold medal match. King won a tight first game 16-14.
England are still getting hammered in the women’s basketball. Make it stop, make it stop! Australia are showing no mercy.
— Adam Gemili (@Adam_Gemili) April 9, 2018
It’s Australia 49-20 England in that women’s basketball match. Two quarters left. Or one half.
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On the BBC, we watch highlights of a boxing bout that finished a few hours ago.
Over in the women’s basketball, Australia are giving England a bit of a lesson in Pool A. They lead 28-12 in the first quarter.
Adam Gemili pulls out of men's 100m final!
It’s agony for the English sprinter! He tweaked an adductor muscle in his semi-final and has been advised not to aggravate the injury. That’s got to hurt.
Gymnastics gold for England!
England’s Nile Wilson has done it in the men’s horizontal bar, a score of 14.533 enough to earn him the main prize. Canada’s Cory Paterson is second and it’s, er, a one-three for England, with James Hall in bronze.
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Gymnastics gold for Australia!
It’s not enough from Alice Kinsella. The women’s floor final is over and the big gong goes to Australia’s Alexandra Eade. Silver goes to Latalia Bevan, bronze to Canada’s Shallon Olsen. Though the Canadian coaches seem to be mounting some kind of protest with the judges. It seems they also think that Elisabeth Black, who’s in fourth place, should also be in the medal positions. But the inquiry has been rejected! The result stands! Canada will have to settle for one medal. What drama!
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England’s Alice Kinsella, who won gold in the women’s balance beam, is closing out the women’s floor final here. She’ll need a big performance to clamber into the top three.
Scotland’s Frank Baines closes out the men’s horizontal bar final with a stylish performance. His effort did contain a minor error, though, and that’s enough to keep him off the podium. The margins are that tight.
Thanks, Richard. On my television at the moment, we’re watching the women’s floor exercise final. There’s lots of smiling. In the women’s balance beam final, there’s been a gold for Ingerlund’s Alice Kinsella, silver for Australia’s Georgia-Rose Brown and a bronze for Ingerlund’s Kelly Simm.
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Well, as in every good relay there comes a time to pass on the baton – no pressure obviously, but watch carefully in the next few seconds to see if years of training is about to be poured down the drain.
Richard Parkin here in Australia signing off, but I’ll leave you in the more than capable hands of Jacob Steinberg. A massive evening in store with none other than Yohan Blake in action in the men’s 100m final. Can anyone stop him? Reboil the kettle, settle in and find out first, here.
It's raining gold.. for Cyprus!
Two big results in gymnastics and shooting has seen an unlikely mover up the overall leader board, with Cyprus grabbing back-to-back golds to secure their third and fourth majors of the meet, leaving the tiny mediterranean nation on track for its best ever Commonwealth Games.
Gymnast Marios Georgiou has continued his golden Games, picking up his second win, this time in the men’s parallel bars event by the narrowest of margins to relegate England’s Nile Wilson to silver, and Scotland’s Frank Baines to bronze.
Both Wilson and Georgiou finished with a score of 14.533 but for the second time in as many days an English athlete has lost out on a tie-break, with Georgiou’s execution score of 8.533 just edging his opponent.
Elsewhere, in the men’s skeet shooting final compatriot Georgios Achilleos has edged Wales’ Ben Llewellin by one shot, 57 to 56, to take gold, with Northern Ireland’s Gareth McAuley (no, not the centre back) finishing with the bronze.
Llewellin hit 35 marks in a row before wobbling with two consecutive misses to hand the advantage to the Cypriot, who held his nerve to close.
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Around the grounds
Some bad news filtering in for Wales in the athletics, with confirmation that former world 400m champion Dai Greene has withdrawn from the Games with a hamstring injury.
Greene won the European and Commonwealth titles in 2010 and was crowned world champion a year later in Daegu, South Korea.
“I am really disappointed to miss out on what would have been my fourth Commonwealth Games,” the 31-year-old said. “It’s been an emotional 18 months and this is hard to take at such a late stage.”
A better result for the Welsh in the lawn bowls with confirmation that men’s pair Daniel Salmon and Marc Wyatt have clinched Wales’ first gold medal on the bowls rink as they fought back from a 5-1 deficit to beat defending champions Paul Foster and Alexander Marshall of Scotland, 12-10.
As mentioned earlier, the Cook Islands’ pair Aidan Zittersteijn and Taiki Paniani took bronze with a 17-11 win over Malta’s Shaun Parnis and Brendan Aquilina to grab the nation’s first ever Commonwealth Games.
And, finally a boilover in the women’s 75kg boxing – where favourite England’s Natasha Gale has crashed out, going down 30-26 in an unanimous points decision across all five judges to Australian hopeful Caitlin Parker.
Women's weightlifting – medals decided and drama as favourite withdraws
Some big news coming out of Carrara, with confirmation that New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard – for many the handsdown favourite in the women’s 90+kg category – has withdrawn from the event with injury.
Chasing her own Commonwealth record of 132kg in the snatch component, Hubbard dramatically injured her elbow, with the transgender athlete unable to return for the clean and jerk element. Disaster for Hubbard, but it opens the field up with everyone now chasing Samoa’s Feagaiga Stowers for the gold.
Meanwhile in the 90kg category Australia’s Kaity Fassina has finished with a silver medal after a stunning final clean and jerk lift of 128kg.
Under tough competition from Cameroon’s Clementine Noumbissi the Tasmanian posted a 104kg lift in the snatch to lead the division, with Noumbissi unable to match in the clean and jerk, and resigned to settle for the bronze.
Fiji’s Eileen Cikamatana then joined the competition knowing exactly what she needed to beat, and made short work of a remarkable 130kg first attempt to secure the gold, just the Pacific nation’s fourth of all-time.
And in the 90+kg category it has been Stowers who’s swept the field, courtesy her 10kg advantage over the rest of the field following the snatch component.
Nauru’s Charisma Amoe-Tarrant and England’s Emily Campbell are now locked neck and neck for the silver and bronze. A remarkable final lift of 139kg from Campbell – a whopping 10kg above her previous mark has put her second; Amoe-Tarrant will now need to lift 142kg to grab the silver.
And she’s stuck it! Eighteen-year-old Amoe Tarrant with silver for Nauru, Campbell takes the bronze; Stowers of Samoa walks away with the gold.
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Chris Remkes wins Australia's first gymnastic gold!
In a discipline that’s been largely dominated by England and Canada at these Games finally some good news for fans of Australian gymnastics, with Chris Remkes posting two very impressive runs to land the gold medal in the men’s vault final.
Having qualified third behind the impressive English duo of Courtney Tulloch and Dominick Cunningham, the South Australian stuck both his efforts, with the judges rewarding Remkes with scores of 9.266 and 9.133, as both Remkes and Tulloch elected to take on difficulty levels of 5.600 for both runs.
It’s validation for Remkes’ hard work and sacrifice, with the Philippines-born and Adelaide-raised athlete electing to move to Canberra four years ago to aid his training. Not a move anyone ever makes lightly, so congratulations Chris and the training program at the AIS!
Tulloch and Cunningham finished with the silver and bronze respectively, with the former narrowly missing his third gold of the Games.
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Netball – Australia v Fiji
It’s a comfortable start for the Diamonds in their fourth Pool A group encounter with Fiji. With six minutes to play in the second quarter the gold-medal favourites have already raced to a 46-12 lead. Fiji are yet to record a win at these Games and it appears both Australia and Jamaica are nicely poised to take the qualifying spots irrespective of what transpires in their final game showdown on Wednesday.
As mentioned earlier the real interest here will be what happens in Pool B as England and New Zealand are still yet to play each other, with the Kiwis still presumably reeling from their shock loss to Malawi yesterday. It all matters come the knockout stages as goal difference could yet play a factor in determining the semi-final pairings.
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Women’s weightlifting – possible injury
And back to Carrara, it’s becoming apparent that it could be a two-horse race here with New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard seemingly in a league of her own alongside Samoa’s Feagaiga Stowers, with the rest of the field pinned around the 100kg mark.
Emily Campbell of England was successful with her third lift of 103kg to move into the bronze medal position at the conclusion of the snatch component.
Stowers, this remarkable woman from Samoa, just 17 years old, then opened with a successful lift of 108kg, before Hubbard allowed the bar to move to 120kg before she made her first attempt of the meet.
The New Zealander paused, took her time before rising, before flashing a terrific smile of relief once the green light signalled.
Stowers attempted to go with her, but was unsuccessful at 120kg. Hubbard then pushed to 127kg but couldn’t quite stick it. With her third and final lift though she raised the bar further to 132kg with an eye on her Commonwealth record of 131kg.
The lift started nicely; Hubbard appeared to have the leg strength but a slight over-correction took a potentially disastrous turn, with the 2017 World Championship silver medallist now facing an anxious wait to see if a potential elbow injury has put her out of the competition!
A horrific turn here, we wait to see how this now plays out.
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Gold for Australia in the women's fours!
What a nail-biter! It’s finished 18-16 after fifteen ends with the lead oscillating several times, but the host nation have held off South Africa to claim lawn bowls gold.
The Australians failed to score in four consecutive ends as they looked to have squandered a comfortable 9-3 lead, with South Africa bringing it back to 9-10. But that power-drive from Natasha Scott (see earlier) proved a pivotal moment, as the local girls steadied the ship winning three consecutive ends.
“It was pretty exciting game and to get over the line at the end was unreal”, said Scott, with team-mate Carla Krizanic paying tribute to the team’s closeknit nature.
“We’re a solid team that’s played a fair bit together over the past three years ... the previous experience as a four has definitely helped”, said Krizanic.
Congratulations, Australia has its first gold of the day.
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Weightlifting - women’s 90kg and 90+kg finals
We’re in the early stages over at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre, where the strong women of Commonwealth weightlifting are strutting their stuff.
There will be many eyes tracking this one keenly following the participation of Laurel Hubbard the transgender weightlifter from New Zealand who’s inclusion has divided opinion.
Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive David Grevemberg has called on Hubbard’s country to get behind the weightlifter.
“I hope all New Zealanders ... would get behind one of their athletes that has gone through the pathway to achieve greatness, and within the rules of the sport,” Grevemberg said.
But it hasn’t prevented other nations’ federations from criticising, with Samoa’s Jerry Wallwork deeming her inclusion “unfair” to other female weightlifters.
Nauru’s Charisma Amoe-Tarrant has just made a clean opening lift of 98kg, but no such luck for England’s Emily Campbell who has faltered on 99kg.
Local hope Deborah Acason, née Lovely, has just got the crowd roaring with a successful 99kg lift. You might remember the name from the Melbourne 2006 Games, where she took home gold in the 75kg category. Great to see Deborah still competing at the very top.
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Latest medal tally
And with those medals earlier in shooting, weightlifting and bowls, here’s how we stand:
India move back onto the podium courtesy Jitu Rai’s gold in the men’s 10m air pistol.
The subcontinental giants have been the big movers thus far, grabbing one gold, two silver and two bronze in the four events thus reconciled today.
Lawn bowls – women’s four gold medal match, Australia v South Africa
Over at the Broadbeach Bowls Club we’ve got an absolute humdinger going down in the fight for bowls gold in the women’s four.
We’re currently in the 12th end and it’s Australia leading a fast-finishing South Africa. It was nicely set up with RSA looking at one or two here, but a power-drive from Natasha Scott has blasted an Australian ball into the prime spot. A knowledgeable crowd responds appreciatively, as the local team take a point and edge to a 15-12 lead.
Don’t look away from this one but, this is set to go down to the wire. Or right to the turf. Insert bowls-appropriate analogy here.
Netball – Pool B, England v Wales
Let’s go first to the Gold Coast Exhibition and Convention Centre, where there’s very much an exhibition going down with Tracey Neville’s women riding roughshod over their geographical neighbours – it’s currently 79-25 with around six minutes to play.
So avert your eyes if you’re in a Welsh/Anglo bordertown and partial to leeks, or at least pretend you’re from Chester not Wrexham today.
It’s a more emphatic performance from one of the favourites following a nervy test against Uganda in their second pool match. They survived that one 55-49, but face a big show down with New Zealand in their next outing – their antipodean rivals no doubt smarting after a shock loss to Malawi.
Tl;dr – it’s bubbling nicely for England in Pool B thus far.
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Welcome to day five
Kia ora koutou – wherever this finds you around this glorious Commonwealth of ours!
If you missed last night’s action it was another bumper for Australia on track and in pool; the redemption of Matthew Glaetzer leading the way. There’s a very lovely feature on the oldest female competitor at the Games, NZ’s Sue Curran. And a more sombre but incredibly important counterpoint to the national euphoria surrounding the Games.
There’s been early action already today including Cook Islands first ever Commonwealth Games medal, with lawn bowls pair Taiki Paniani and Aidan Zittersteijn etching their names in local folklore with bronze. Wales and Scotland took gold and silver respectively.
Congratulations too to Australia’s Kerry Bell who’s grabbed a silver in the men’s 10m air pistol, with Samoa grabbing gold in the men’s 105kg weightlifting thanks to Sanele Mao’s combined lift of 360kg. Phwaor.
Here’s what’s still to come on day five. Remember, all times are local – the Gold Coast is GMT +10:00 and EST +14:00.
Coming up
We’ve weightlifting with the women’s 90kg and 90+kg finals from around 2pm local, hockey action as Wales and South Africa lock horns, there are five medals on offer today in the gymnastics – men’s vault, parallel and horizontal bars, with women’s beam and floor also in action from Coomera.
Australia takes on Fiji in the netball, and there’s women’s 10m air rifle and men’s skeet finals from around 3.30pm. Table tennis gets to the business end from 4pm in the men’s team event, before lawn bowls, netball and basketball retake centre stage with an England v Australia grudge match in the women’s competition from 5.30pm, with badminton gold also up for grabs.
