And with a Simple Minds crescendo, and a cascade of fireworks, Glasgow 2026 comes to an end.
Thanks for joining us across the 11 days. Well done to our journalists on the ground and of course all the athletes.
Fireworks over The Hydro and all down the River Clyde.
Sympathy for the pets and wild animals of Glasgow. But fair play, that is quite the light show.
Jim Kerr still has some moves!
He looks a little kanckered, but finds an extra gear as he starts belting out Don’t You (Forget About Me).
Oh wow, Simple Minds are on the stage.
Founded in 1977, Nick Mullins calls them one of the greatest bands to ever come out of Scotland.
My dad in Durban won’t be watching, but he’d be enjoying this if he was.
GBX, aka DJ George, aka Scottish legend George Bowie is on the decks.
The Scottish athletes have kept their traffic cones on their heads.
We’re not done yet!
More pipes with Reel Time Cailidh Band, a modern, Scottish folk-rock group.
Their jams give the colunteers a moment in the spotlight as the camera catches a bunch of them dancing Scottish jigs.
Closing us out is Diversity, the dance troupe that won Britain’s Got Talent in 2009.
More bagpipes. You didn’t think that was the end of them, did you?
Alongside them and the thumping drumbeat are dance moves I am not qualified to describe. Take my word for it, they’re impressive.
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HRH Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, takes the microphone.
His opening contribution is to tell the athletes to turn around. In fairness, they are facing the wrong way.
He then gives them their richly deserved dues, so the japes can be parked for a moment.
He thanks everyone involved with the Games and calls upon all the athletes to “gather in four years’ time in Amdavad” for the 24th Commonwealth Games as well as the centenary of the Games.
He “proclaims Glasgow 2026 closed”.
BTW, India finished fourth on the medal table with 13 gold, 17 silver and 9 bronze.
In fact, their tally of 39 overall is equal to Scotland’s haul.
You just KNOW that they are going all in to improve on that in four years’ time.
Music, like sport, has a way of collapsing borders.
With a distinctly Scottish thread running through it, the voices of the Mahadevan brothers – Shankar, Siddharth and Shivam - bring Glasgow and Gujarat together.
Their crescendo is met with fireworks as Bhoomi Trivedi joins them on stage.
We have a palate cleanser in the form of music.
Rishab Rikhiram Sharma is playing a sitar – one of my favourite instruments – and alongside him, Scotland’s own Ross Ainslie is playing a flute.
Much better when humans create art, isn’t it?
My word, that was awful.
If the worst thing about Amdavad 2030 is that video it’ll be a good time.
“Before the whistle, before the roar, there was the body”.
India use yoga to get us in the mood for 2030. As a bonafine (read, wannabe) yogi, I support this message.
Although, I can’t help but feel this montage was in part made with AI. I can’t be certain but that looks lile certified AI slop to me. YUCK!
The screen behind the stage is speckled with white, gree and saffron.
A deep voice from a speaker says, “sport in India is more than just a game'.”
Anyone who follows cricket doesn’t need reminding.
I wonder if cricket will return, now that I think about it.
A whole lot of colourful dancers are performing a very Indian dance on the stage. Vibe!
Lovely stuff from the Doc.
Scotland’s own Shereen Cutkelvin takes centre stage, bathed in a spotlight.
She opens with ‘Caledonia’, which is just lovely.
As she sings, the handing-over bit of the ceremony is taking place.
The ceremonial baton will pass from Scotland to India as the Games head to Amdavad in 2030.
Some rain bantz as Dr Ronald basically calls the Glasgow rain soft, challenging anyone who fancies to head to his native Uganda.
There you’ll see some proper rain – he more or less says.
Mel Woods wins David Dixon Award
The outstanding athlete at these Games won two gold medals.
She claimed the Women’s 1500m T54, in a Commonwealth Games record of 3min 32.20sec. She actually had to win it twice after the original final was voided and rerun following appeals over a first-lap crash.
And just to put the icing on top, she won the Women’s 400m T54, completing the double.
We’re well into the official bits now.
It’s Dr. Donald Rukare, President of Commonwealth Sport.
He says that these Games have been a “true bridge to a bright and united future of our Commonwealth.”
He also notes a first ever medal for Rwanda, a first gold for Dominca, the largest ever para-sport programme in the Games’ history and the first medal awarded for para-power lifting at the Games.
Next it’s George Blacks’ time to shine.
The Chair of the Glasgow 2026 Organising Company calls these Games “Eleven days of excellence.”
He says that “the Commonwealth matters, that the Games matters.”
Good on him. Glad it all took place. We may look back on Glasgow 2026 as the moment the Games were saved.
Now we shall all observe the lowering of the Commonwealth Sports Flag.
Solemn music plays as serious looking military men fold it up and march it away.
Next up is Elephant Sessions, a four-piece with a drummer, base player, a violinist and someone absolutely going to town on what I think is a mandolin.
Over the top is the spoken word of Hamish Kiernan-Hutcheson who is half-rapping about ‘dreary nights’, but he says ‘“this is where my love began”.
Glaswegians sure do love their city.
• This post was amended on 3 August 2026 to correct the surname of Hamish Kiernan-Hutcheson.
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More pipes (doubt that’ll be the last) starts a montage carried by the poetry of Jackie Kay.
“Glasgow, never a city to blow your own trumpet.
But always a city to step in at the last minute’”
She asks, “What is Glasgow if not a city to welcome the world?”
Went to Glasgow for the first time last year for a wedding. I loved it, I’ve got to say. Not that I’m entirely clued up, but I endorse every word of this message.
She also sends her best to the next host city in four years time, Amdavad. Or, as most of us might know it, Ahmedabad.
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Bemz joins the party.
The Glasgow-based rapper who – according to the quick Google I just did – is know for his raw, socially conscious lyracism.
That checks out as he calls for unity in ‘our city’.
The opening monologue from Primal Scream’s ‘Loaded’ is flashed across the screen.
Just what is it that you want to do?
Well, we wanna be free, we wanna be free to do what we wanna do
And we wanna get loaded and we wanna have a good time
And that’s what we’re gonna do (away baby, let’s go)
We’re gonna have a good time, we’re gonna have a party
But this version is accompanied by drums of Metronomes Steel Orchestra and and the horns of Brass, Aye?
Digging this!
Not sure about the dancers on centre stage. Unless they are meant to be dancing out of sync. In which case, they’re smashing it!
Now some pipes in the mix.
No doubt what Farnham always wanted for this track.
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Cammy Barnes joins Delta on the stage.
He belts out the opening lines to John Farnham’s ‘You’re the Voice’ and I’m here for it!
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“I can’t change the past, but I’m wiser, I’m wiser
I conquer it all
Warrior”
Word, Delta.
Delta calls for one final cheer for “the incredible athletes in the room”.
Then she breaks into the melodic opening of “Warrior” as black and white videos of former Games plays on a giant screen behind her.
There are the Scottish traffic cones!
They’re front and centre. One piece of advice for all the other athletes. If you’re going to an after party, make sure you’re with the Scots!
Now here come the athletes who represented 74 nations.
Loads of colour and love as 74 flags are thrust skyward.
“Sitting on top of the world” sings Delta Goodrem.
Imagine for a moment being one of those athletes, representing your country at this level.
Aussie singer Delta Goodrem adds some gloss in a shiny dress behind an even shinier black piano.
Fair enough. Australia dominated the Games, figure they deserve a singer on the stage too.
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Now a music video of Cammy Barnes’ “Whisky Roll”.
“When the whiskey hits my soul, I’m gonna roll, roll, roll
Through the highs and the lows”
When a man with a ginger beard plays the pipes while singing those lyrics, you know it’s a Scottish party.
Loved that. Bagpipes, drums, a thumping bit of lighthearted nationalism. Nothing wrong when it’s done properly, with love and open arms.
Closing Ceremony kicks off
Ooooh, here we go!
Sandi Thom, with Clann An, kicks things off with “I’m proud to be from Scotland”. She’s wearing a dress with the Saltire on it.
Nick Mullins is on lead comms tonight.
Wouldn’t want anyone else, to be honest.
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Scotland’s flag bearer tonight, gymnast Reuben Ward, who won gold and silver in these Games, is wearing a fake traffic cone on his head.
He’s expressing great sentiment in an interview with TNT, speaking about nationalism and his double-tug as a result of him living in England, but to be honest I couldn’t really focus on anything else besides the traffic cone.
He said that this was an expression of his patriotism. Apparently everyone in Team Scotland will be wearing one tonight.
A word for the volunteers.
Glasgow 2026 has been kept moving by 4,000 volunteers, officially known as the Games’ “Legends”. They span an extraordinary 80 years in age: the youngest is 16, while 96-year-old Moira Cross is the oldest volunteer at the Games.
It’s almost time for the closing ceremony at The Hydro.
Simple Minds, BEMZ, Cammy Barnes and Sandi Thom will all be performing, while Australian singer Delta Goodrem will also take the stage.
The Welsh cyclist Emma Finucane wrote her name into the history books on the final day of the Commonwealth Games, but Glasgow 2026 will be remembered most for Australia’s dominance.
Before the Games, Australia swimmer Sam Short had told reporters: “I’m so pumped – I can’t wait to go over there and smash those Pommies up.” And the whole Australia team seemed to get the memo as they finished with 171 medals, of them 70 gold. That put them a staggering 61 clear of England, who won 110 medals, with Canada third after winning 62.
However Finucane will certainly go down as one of the athletes of the Games after becoming the first sprint cyclist to win four track gold medals at the same Commonwealth Games.
The best images from the final day of action in Glasgow, featuring netball, bowls, judo and track cycling. Take a peek.
Final medal table
Australia reach a phenomenal 70 golds in the end with England, Canada, India and Scotland rounding out the top five.
Here’s the final Commonwealth Games 2026 medal table with more than 50 countries winning a gong of some shiny tint. Check them all out.
Glasgow 2026 chief hails ‘phenomenal’ success of Games
This year’s Commonwealth Games has been “phenomenal” and shown the event has the potential to carry on for another 100 years, the chief executive of Glasgow 2026 has told the Guardian. Phil Batty also insisted that the revamped Games, which included only 10 sports rather than the 19 in Birmingham four years earlier, had showcased a formula that made it financially sustainable as it heads to Amdavad in 2030.
“What a phenomenal 11 days,” Batty said. “I have had absolute pride in the way that the city and the Commonwealth has come together. These Games have not only exceeded expectations. They have demonstrated that major events can flex and evolve to be fit for purpose in the future.”
So that, folks, is that as far as sporting action is concerned for these Commonwealth Games.
The Closing Ceremony will take place at 9pm and I’ll be back for that.
Between then and now we’ll keep the blog rolling with stories, updates and other bits (so do write in if you fancy).
What was your highlight? Who was your athlete of the Games?
Enjoy the break. Catch you in a few hours.
“It means the world to me, my family and everyone back home,” says a beaming Bostock.
He says that his first cycling memory was watching Cavendish 20 years ago.
How cool is that!?
Matthew Bostock wins gold for Isle of Man
He’s just the fourth athlete from his little island to claim gold in the Commonwealth Games!
20 years since Mark Cavendish, what a race from Bostock!
It went down to the final lap, the final half lap, the final 100m. Oh the drama!
Bostock finishes with 83 points, adding two to his tally from the final sprint.
Oliver Bleddyn from Australia holds on to second with 80 points. New Zealand’s George Jackson leapfrogs Scotland’s Mark Stewart and his countryman, Thomas Sexton, from fifth to third at the death.
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Double points on offer at the finish line. So it’s all on here.
Another sprint. Bleddyn cuts the lead with 10 laps to go.
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 81
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 76
Stewart 🏴 – 55
Sexton 🇳🇿 – 53
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Perrett 🏴 – 50
Bostock on course with history.
The Isle of Man’s last Commonwealth Games cycling gold came 20 years ago, when Mark Cavendish won the men’s scratch race at Melbourne 2006. Before that, Peter Buckley won the road race in 1966.
Bostock adds to his tally with 19 laps to go.
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 78
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 71
Stewart 🏴 – 55
Sexton 🇳🇿 – 53
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Another five for Stewart who moves into the podium.
29 laps to go.
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 75
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 69
Stewart 🏴 – 55
Sexton 🇳🇿 – 53
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Perrett 🏴 – 50
Interesting now how some riders are getting help from their countrymen.
Bostock from Swift, Bleddyn from, Agnoletto, etc.
Another sprint lap down with Stewart bagging five points.
38 to go.
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 72
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 69
Sexton 🇦🇺 – 53
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Stewart 🏴 – 50
Perrett 🏴 – 50
Big changes with Matthew Bostock from the Isle of Man the big mover.
With 60 laps to go, here’s how it looks:
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 72
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 69
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Perrett 🏴 – 50
Sexton 🇳🇿 – 49
Stewart 🏴 – 45
80 laps to go.
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 49
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 49
Perrett 🏴 – 27
Agnoletto 🇦🇺 – 26
Big cheers as Scotland’s Logan Maclean registers his first points (3) of the race from the most recent sprint lap.
Gold for Cyprus as Giannis Antoniou wins the men’s +100kg judo.
In a tight bout, he beat Australia’s Kayhan Ozcicek-Takagi.
That means it’s just this 40km Men’s 40km Points Race left in the Games.
100 laps to go in the Men’s 40km Points Race Final.
With 11 sprints to go, here’s who is leading:
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 31
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 29
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 29
Perrett 🏴 – 27
Sexton 🇦🇺 – 24
120 laps to go.
George Jackson 🇳🇿 – 30
Oliver Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 27
William Perret wales 🏴 (and a few others) – 24
Now for the final cycling event of these Games.
It’s the Men’s 40km Points Race Final.
160 laps with points on offer every lap.
Four riders score points for finishing in the top four places.
At the end of the race, the rider with the most points wins.
Switched to the judo now where Scotland’s Gregor Miller goes down in the bronze medal bout in the men’s +100kg judo.
That trinket will go to New Zelaand’s Kody Andrews.
The other bronze (there are two awarded in judo_ went to Tonga’s Paula Monta.
Just the final coming up before judo comes to a close at the Games.
That’ll be between Australia’s Kayhan Ozcicek-Takagi and Giannis Antoniou from Cyprus.
And that is the first world record broken on the track this Commonwealth Games.
Quite a flex that she Neyland broke her own record.
Aren’t athletes amazing?
Tara Neyland wins gold in stunning final push
Agony for England’s Kadeena Cox who was praying right til the final seconds.
Neyland also broke her own world record with the final ride of the competition, clocking 1min 08.761sec to beat Cox by 1.182sec.
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It’s the Women’s C4-C5 1000m TT Final at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
This is cycling’s purest race against the clock: each rider starts alone and has four laps, or one kilometre, to post the fastest time. The C classifications are for athletes who compete on standard bicycles with physical impairments affecting their limbs, coordination or muscle power; C4 and C5 are the two least impaired categories. Because the classes are combined here, times are adjusted using a factoring system to produce the final standings.
England’s Kadeena Cox is the lead with 1min 09.943sec, taking more than three and a half seconds off Erin Normoyle’s previous benchmark. It’s a nervy wait as only Tara Neyland from Australia – the world record holder – is yet to ride.
Sydnee Andrews adds another notch to Australia’s gold medal tally.
She beat Richelle Anita Soppi Mbella from Cameroon in the women’s 78+ kg judo final.
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To reiterate, no man or woman has achieved what Wales’ Emma Finucane has just done.
Four sprint races. Four gold medals.
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Emma Finucane makes history with a fourth gold!
Every single sprint race she entered she won!
Unreal. That surely makes her the athlete of these Games. The Welsh rider is the Queen of the Commonwealth!
New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews takes silver with Kristina Clonan from Australia rounding out the podium.
The motorised bike is gone and Finucane makes a move and is up to first for the final lap!
History beckons.
Wales’s Emma Finucane has already swept every sprint event she has entered in Glasgow and now stands on the brink of becoming the first sprinter, male or female, to win four gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games. One last blast around the boards in the keirin final could complete an unprecedented clean sweep.
Over to the Women’s Keirin final.
Was scrolling through socials to find inspiration for some more quirk and was reminded of this from five years ago:
Well, we had something similar in Glasgow.
Australia’s Kyle Chalmers and Ben Armbruster could not be separated in the men’s 50m butterfly final. Both touched in a Games-record 22.73sec, so both received gold; Cameron McEvoy completed an all-Australian podium.
Feast your eyes on these snaps:
It’s the women’s keirin second round.
The what?
The riders begin behind a motorised pacer, which steadily lifts the speed while they fight for position but cannot pass it. When the pacer leaves the track, three laps remain and the race becomes an all-out sprint, with slipstreaming, timing and avoiding being boxed in every bit as important as raw power.
Three riders from two heats have qualified for the women’s finals.
Two from Wales – Emma Finucane and Lowri Thomas – two Australians – Alessia McCaig and Kristina Clonan – Katy Marchant from England and New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews who topped her heat.
How about another quirky yarn?
The oldest of Glasgow 2026’s 4,000 volunteers is 96-year-old Moira Cross. That leaves an extraordinary 80-year gap between her and the youngest volunteer, who is 16; the youngest competing athlete was Uganda’s 14-year-old para swimmer Condoleeza Nyamisanga Nakazibwe.
England win gold with Matthew Robertson on the track
Fin Graham from Scotland exploded out of the blocks but couldn’t keep his pace up.
So it’s gold for England’s Matthew Roberston after breaking the Commonwealth Games record in the Men’s C1-C3 3000m Individual Pursuit.
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Devon Briggs took home the bronze medal in the men’s C1-C3 3000m Individual Pursuit after beating Gordan Allan.
A win for the Kiwis over the Aussies as 3:26.682 beats 3:31.060.
Meanwhile, England’s Matthew Robertson has just broken a Commonwealth Games record in the gold medal race! A staggering time of 3:33.597!
Scotland’s Fin Graham will have to make history if he wants to stand on top of the podium.
Emma Reid wins gold for England in women's 78kg judo
Unbelievable scenes!
With seconds left on the clock and staring at a 1-0 deficit, Emma Reid got into a dominant position and forced a submission against the favourite, Australia’s Maria Swan.
Wow! What a finish.
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It’s the Men’s C1-C3 3000m Individual Pursuit Finals.
This is Para track cycling’s version of a three-kilometre chase. Two riders start on opposite sides of the velodrome and race 12 laps against the clock. The first rider across the line wins, unless one catches the other, which ends the contest immediately.
The C means the athletes ride standard bicycles, with adaptations where required. The classifications run from C1 to C5, with C1 indicating the greatest level of physical impairment. This event combines riders from C1, C2 and C3, with a calculation used to account for the different classifications when performances are ranked.
Scotland’s Finlay Graham, who recorded 3min 22.921sec in qualifying, faces England’s Matthew Robertson for the title. Australia’ds Gordon Allan is up against Devon Briggs for bronze.
England’s Emma Reid is 0-1 down in the women’s 78kg judo final.
She’s facing Australia’s Maria Swan.
Alyssa Polites wins gold in women's eliminator
It’s an Australian one-two with Georgia Baker taking silver.
Utter dominance from the Aussies who dominated from start to finish.
Canada’s Maggie Coles-Lyster takes bronze after crashing yesterday.
That was fun. Would love to see other sports adopt a similar method of eliminating participants as the action unfolds.
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England are out! Madelaine Leech is a goner.
So it’s two Australians v the one Canadian.
Oh no! Maggie Coles-Lyster runs out of steam so she gets bronze.
It’ll be a straight shootout between the two Austrealians, Georgia Baker and Alyssa Polites.
New Zealand are done. Ally Maree Wollaston is out.
Just four left. Two Aussies, one Canadian and one from England.
Squeaky bum time as just six riders are left.
That’ll be five. Wales’ Anna Morris is out by a whisker.
Scotland are done. Erin Boothman is out.
Carys Lloyd of Wales is out.
She finishes in 8th.
Two Aussies, one each for Wales, Canada, England, New Zealand and Scotland left.
An Aussie goes. So does a Kiwi!
Eight riders remain.
A reminder how this works.
The last rider at the back of the pack at specific intervals (usually every lap or every two laps) is removed until only two riders remain to sprint for the win.
Wales lose their first of three riders as Jessica Roberts is out.
Another English rider is out.
Abigail Miller leaves in 13th place.
Three Ausies, three Kiwis and three Welsh riders remain.
Make that two Kiwis as Prudence Fowler makes way.
Just 10 riders left.
Another Scot bites the dust
Kate Richardson departs. Just one Scot, Erin Boothman, remains.
It’s not great for the Home Nations as Northern Ireland’s Erin Creighton is booted out.
England’s Sophie Lewis is out.
So too is Canada’s Alexandra Volstad.
Scotland’s Neah Evans is the sixth rider out.
South Africa’s S’annara Grove is the first cyclist eliminated.
Just two laps for her.
This is such a brutal sport.
Esther Won from Northern Ireland joins her. From 22 riders we have 19.
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Over to the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome where a bunch of track cycling events will take place.
First up is the Women’s elimination race.
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Winning any medal is always the result of hard graft. Exvept when it isn’t.
Tuvalu’s Tarona Taafaki won her country’s first Commonwealth Games medal despite not winning a bout. The 20-year-old received a bye into the five-woman 75kg semi-finals and was guaranteed bronze before losing to Lovlina Borgohain. “Probably 95% of the audience don’t know where my country is,” she said.
I’ve done some digging to find some of the quirkier stories from these Games.
To kick things off, this has got to be the quirkiest.
There have been some hastily assembled relay teams over the years, but St Helena’s men may take the prize. The four runners live across three islands separated by 3,200km and had never met before arriving in Glasgow.
They finished seventh in their men’s 4x100m heat in 44.56 sec, so did not reach the final.
It’s never too late to achieve greatness.
Don’t take my word for it. Read on and be inspired.
Those two gold medals were the 27th and 9th for England and New Zealand respectively.
Australia lead the way with 68 golds and a total of 163 medals.
England are in second with a tally of 106. Hosts Scotland have 38, 13 of them gold.
England’s captain, Fran Williams, gets emotional speaking to TNT after her team’s bronze medal match defeat.
She says she’s so “proud to represent England”.
I believe her.
Fair play to the Jamaicans.
They were well beaten but they are dancing alongside their opponents and sharing loads of hugs.
Hope this doesn’t sound too twee, but you really love to see that in sports.
New Zealand win gold in netball
They’re dancing and jumping and hollering!
Good on the Kiwis. They were top drawer and deserve their first CG gold in 16 years!
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The Kiwi reserves are revved up. They’re ready to storm the court…
Less than a minute to go. New Zealand 56-47 Jamaica.
3.15 left in the Netball.
New Zealand have this in the bag. 56-44 up on Jamaica.
England’s Katherine Rednall wins gold in bowls
Victory over Guernsey’s Ali Merrien. They’ll be singing and dancing in Ipswich!
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Heffernen has the ball pinging around between Kiwi hands, setting up a goal.
Jamaica answer back straight away but they’re nine adrift with 7.52 left.
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Both teams notch a goal. That’ll do for the Silver Ferns. 49-40 up with now less than nine minutes to go.
Champion teams seem to have higher gears and these Kiwis are about to become champions having found theirs.
48-38 with less than 10 to go. That’s a goal a minute needed for the Sunshine Girls if they want to create history.
Aiken-George gets one. Nine needed now.
Ekenasio is dominating the semi-circle.
That’s another goal for her. Jamaica answer back soon after but the Silver Ferns lead 46-38 with just over 11 minutes left.
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Top start from the Kiwis. They look so composed, moving the ball at pace.
44-36. Three points in a flash. Is that the game?
Alrighty, final 15 minutes left of the netball.
Thanks The Jamaicans were dancing during the interval. They’ll want to start well to close this 41-36 deficit.
The bowls women’s single gold medal match is underway.
England’s Katherine Rendall won the first set against Ali Merrien from Guernsey 8-6.
She’s 4-2 up in the second.
NZ miss a free throw after a Jamaican foul but they head into the final quarter 41-36 up.
Jamaica rushing things in possession and handing it away cheaply.
They pull one back to reduce the gap to four though.
Five point gap for the first time in 30 minutes.
NZ seemed to flick a switch and suddenly there’s daylight.
Thanks Rob.
This is epic. 2:15 left in Q3. NZ with a flurry to open a 38-34 lead.
With the netball final locked at 35-35*, I’m going to hand over to Daniel Gallan for the home straight. Bye!
* NZ now lead Jamaica 37-35 with 3.13 to play in quarter 3.
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Netball: Jamaica 33-33 New Zealand With 6.23 to play in the third quarter, the netball final is all square!
Bowls: Women’s singles final England’s Katherine Rednall has taken the first set against Guernsey’s Ali Merrien.
Netball: Jamaica 25-28 New Zealand Half time at the Hydro, where New Zealand maintained their three-goal lead from the first quarter.
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Bowls Gold for the Australian pair of Damien Delgado and James Reynolds in the para men’s pairs B6-B8; they beat New Zealand 2-0.
England took bronze ahead of Scotland after winning a tie-break.
Netball: Jamaica 21-23 New Zealand The gap is down to three goals with 5.15 remaining in the second quarter. This could be develping into an epic.
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Netball final: Jamaica 13-16 New Zealand Three goals in it after the first quarter at the Hydro.
Netball final: Jamaica 4-7 New Zealand New Zealand have edged ahead as we approach the halfway point of the first quarter. Helluva long way to go, though.
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Bowls Here’s a report from the Press Association on the remarkable Louise Hoskins, who became the oldest gold medalist in Commonwealth Games history.
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A remarkable final delivery from her para bowls playing partner has secured Commonwealth Games gold for Australia’s oldest athlete in Glasgow.
Down 4-1 in the second set, Louise Hoskins and Serena Bonnell were headed for the lottery of a sudden-death tiebreaker with New Zealand in their women’s pairs B6-B8 showdown.
A sprinkle of magic dust from Bonnell was the difference, as she nudged the jack and delivered three points to Australia to tie the set and secure a 6-3 4-4 win.
“It is incredible. I’m still pinching myself,” said 76-year-old Hoskins, who was born during the 1950 Auckland Empire Games. “I never thought I’d ever get (a gold medal) at my age. Get out there and have a go, and never give up.”
Kiwi pair Julie O’Connell and Teri Blackbourn were world champions in 2023 and opened their Glasgow campaign with victory over Australia, dropping just one match en route to the final.
But Bonnell had a feeling she and Hoskins would be able to turn the tables with gold on the line.
The 44-year-old, who won silver in Birmingham four years ago, needed some words of wisdom from the sidelines before holding her nerve when it mattered most.
“I had good weight on my first, crap line on my second and my coach took a time out,” Bonnell said. “She settled me down, supported me and that was enough for me to play the bowl and win the game.
“I have been dreaming and visualising the fact that I was going to have to play big bowls and Louise led exceptionally well. Thankfully I was able to play the bowl when I needed to.”
Hoskins was the contest’s dominant figure and was delighted for her partner to play the match-winning bowl. “The moment Serena released it I could see she had it,” Hoskins said. “It was amazing and just heading for the jack. You could see it. I knew it was there before it even came through.”
Asked how she planned to celebrate, Hoskins noted Bonnell still owed her a few drinks. What will it be then?
“Whatever Serena’s going to give me,” Hoskins laughed.
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Netball We’re a few minutes away from the final between New Zealand and Jamaica.
New Zealand have won gold on two occasions, in 2006 and 2010. Jamaica, who lost to Australia in the final four years ago, are hoping to make history: they have never won netball gold at the Commonwealth Games.
Bowls Australia lead New Zealand 1-0 in the para men’s pairs B6-B8 gold medal match. The score in the bronze match is Scotland 0-1 England.
Leigh Hoffman wins cycling gold
Men’s 1000 time trial final England’s Joe Truman runs Leigh Hoffman close, taking silver in 59.525. That means Australia’s Tatye Ryan (59.684) is relegated to bronze.
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Men’s 1000 time trial final A sensational performance from Australia’s Leigh Hoffman, who leads the way after setting a new Commonwealth Games record of 58.530.
Men’s 1000 time trial final A surprise in the Velodrome, where Nicholas Paul of Trinidad and Tobago has missed out on the podium after registering a time of 1:00.794.
That puts him fourth, with Harry Ledingham-Horn (1:00.039) still in the lead.
Netball The gold medal match between Jamaica and New Zealand kicks off in just over an hour, at 1pm local time. In case you missed it, Jamaica stunned the reigning champions Australia in yesterday’s semi-final.
76-year-old Hoskins wins gold!
Bowls Australia have beaten New Zealand 1.5-0.5 in the para women’s pairs B6-B8 gold medal match. Louise Hoskins and Serena Bonnell took the first set 1-0 before drawing the second to seal victory.
At the age of 76 years, 173 days, Hoskins becomes the Commonwealth Games’ oldest gold medalist. The previous record holder was George Miller, who was 75 when he took bowls gold four years ago.
Malaysia took bronze from Scotland with a 2-0 victory.
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Cycling Harry Ledingham-Horn leads the men’s 1000m time trial final in a time of 1:00.039. The great Mohd Azizulhasni Awang is in second on 1:01.357.
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This is worth clicking purely for Tom Jenkins’ photograph of Nina Kennedy in the pole vault final. But the whole darn thing is great.
Cycling The men’s 1000m time trial final is up and pedalling in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. Cole Dempster of Canada currently has the fastest time: 1:02.169.
Australia delivered an unprecedented podium sweep in the women’s mile on the final day of athletics competition at the Commonwealth Games, after Abbey Caldwell upset Jessica Hull to secure one of seven track and field gold medals including a breakthrough victory for Lachie Kennedy’s 4x100m relay team.
The haul exceeds the six gold medals from one day in Auckland in 1950, when Marjorie Jackson and Shirley Strickland were among the winners, to make it Australia’s most successful track and field day at the Commonwealth Games.
Judo: women’s +78kg Huge disappointment for Scotland’s Sarah Adlington, who was beaten by Marie Loanne Durhone in the round of 16.
Adlington, who won Commonwealth Games gold in 2014 and 2022, was in tears after the bout and during a later interview on TNT Sports.
I can’t thank [enough] the people who have been in my corner during the highs and the lows of the past 22 years. It didn’t finish the way I wanted today, but I’m proud of what I’ve achieved. I was a flag-bearer for Team Scotland.
[Apart from] stepping away with a medal today, and hearing Flower of Scotland, what more could you ask for, really? To get a standing ovation from a home crowd shows that people appreciate what I’ve done for the sport.
To be an ambassador for Scottish sport, for women and young girls… to show them it doesn’t matter what shape or size you are: big, small, tall, I guess chunky. There’s a place in sport for you. If you’re watching this, and you’re questioning yourself, do it. Just go out there and do it.
Bowls The next gold on offer is in the para women’s pairs B6-B8 gold medal match. New Zealand lead Australia 3-1 in set 1, it says here.
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McKeown and Kelly win bowls gold!
The Northern Ireland pair of Adam McKeown and Gary Kelly have beaten England’s Nick Brett and Jamie Walker in the men’s pairs gold medal match. Amirul Danial Abdul Rahim and Mohammad Soufi Rusli of Malaysia beat Canada to bronze.
Australia beat England to netball bronze
It’s not the medal Australia wanted, but a 68-50 victory over England means they will take bronze in the netball. There were no signs of a hangover from yesterday’s shock defeat to Jamaica.
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Josh Kerr’s summer of miracle and wonder continued in front of his adoring home fans as he added Commonwealth gold to his glittering collection.
In a slowly run race that frequently resembled dodgems, Kerr made a devastating kick for home with 250 metres remaining to eviscerate a high-quality field and take the title in 3:54.12.
Some had feared that Kerr might have an emotional hangover after shattering the mile world record a fortnight ago. Others believed he might be vulnerable in a last-lap sprint. So much for all that. He destroyed them all.
In fact, the 28-year-old Scot was so far in front before the end he even had time to smile and gesture excitedly to those roaring him on in the main stand.
“I couldn’t switch off because it’s been a real rollercoaster of a week,” Adam Ramsay-Peaty says with a weary smile on a quiet Thursday morning in Glasgow. He has just endured a rough night in which, after winning his third medal of the Commonwealth Games, he managed less than three hours of sleep. The medals consist of bronze in the 100m and 50m breaststroke and a silver in the men’s 4x100m medley. For most swimmers this would constitute success and satisfaction, but Ramsay-Peaty is different.
The fact that none of his three medals are gold, or attached to anything remotely like the kind of supreme performance that Ramsay-Peaty churned out with an aura of invincibility for eight years, has taken a chunk out of the double Olympic champion. There have been tears of frustration and an admission that “nothing makes sense this week”.
Ramsay-Peaty also sent out a fiery message to his tormentors in the tabloid press, and on social media, to stress that “you can’t hurt me” before urging an end to the excessive intrusion into his private life: “It has to stop. How many athletes have to go through this until the media learn their lesson?”
Day nine at the Games
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Hello and welcome to live coverage of the final day of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The city is still high on Josh Kerr’s glorious victory last night, and for the spectator, today has the feel of a slow, steady comedown. There are still 15 gold medals up for grabs, including the netball final between New Zealand and Jamaica and several cycling events.
For now our focus is on netball bronze, which is heading Australia’s way. They lead England 49-36 at the end of the third quarter.
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