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 - Swimming
Scotland’s swimmers are in action later today. Here’s a brief look at some of the competitors.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Rugby Sevens
England win!
They’ve blown Sri Lanka away in their opening match. Maude earned her second try of the match before Grace Crompton picks up a try right at the death to add to the tally.
They’ve won 57-0. A huge margin in the women’s rugby sevens.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Rugby Sevens
England pick up where they left off. Pace and power sees Alicia Maude played in under the sticks but she misses the conversion and has to settle of five points.
38-0. Four minutes to play.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Rugby Sevens
Four tries in the first half from Ellie Boatman and one for Amy Wilson Hardy gives England a totally dominant 33-0 at the end of the first half.
No-one has ever scored four tries in the first half of a Commonwealth Games Rugby sevens match before.
Sri Lanka are being made to pay for their lack of experience and England should see themselves winning this one from here. The visitors have never played at this level before and they haven’t been allowed to get into gear in that half.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Rugby Sevens
England are in again! It’s a perfect start for them as they pass the ball sharply along the line before Boatman dives over the try line at the corner.
14-0 with three minutes to go in the first half. England are bossing this one.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Rugby Sevens
Sticking with the rugby, England’s women get their campaign started against Sri Lanka and have taken an early lead.
Ellie Boatman takes the outside line on the right wing and hands off her Sri Lankan counterpart to bomb into space and over the line for the first try of the game.
7-0 England. Five minutes in the first half to go.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Rugby Sevens
It’s over! Viniana Riwai comes off the bench for Fiji, break through the Scottish defence and goes over for another try.
The Olympic bronze medallists take their first win of the games beating Scotland 31-12.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Rugby Sevens
Scotland are having a tough time of things in their opening match in the women’s rugby sevens. They’re up against Fiji and trail 21-12 with three minutes to go in the second half.
Sesenieli Donu receives an offload and dives across the line into the corner to move Fiji even further ahead.
26-12.
Commonwealth Games 2022
Here’s a breakdown off the action across the games this morning:
Badminton - The mixed team group matches with England playing Barbados in their opening Group B fixture.
Boxing - England’s Joe Tyers, Scotland’s Reese Lynch, Northern Ireland’s John Paul Hale, Isle of Man’s Jamie Devine and Jersey’s Tom Frame are in action in the men’s light welterweight last 32.
Bowls - The men’s para pairs, men’s triples, women’s singles and women’s para pairs all start this morning.
Cricket T20 - Australia face India in a heavyweight Group A contest.
Cycling (track) - The women’s tandem sprint, the women’s 4,000m team pursuit qualifying, the men’s 4,000m team pursuit and the women’s team sprint all take place.
Gymnastics - England are hoping to become the first team to win three golds in a row as the men’s team final and individual qualification gets started.
Hockey - Scotland play their first match since last October when they take on South Africa in women’s pool B. Defending champions New Zealand play Kenya in the same group.
Rugby Sevens - Scotland face Olympic bronze medallists Fiji in women’s Pool B while England begin their campaign against Sri Lanka in Pool A. England’s men face a tough opener against Samoa later in the day.
Swimming - Australia’s Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus, South African star Chad le Clos and British champion Dan Jervis are some of the headline acts in the pool with the men’s 400m freestyle, women’s 200m freestyle and men’s 50m butterfly among the events to start early.
Triathlon - England’s Olympic silver medallist Alex Yee starts as one of the favourites for gold.
Commonwealth Games 2022
Welcome to The Independent’s coverage of the 2022 edition of the Commonwealth Games from Birmingham. There are 16 medal events taking place today with lots of action across a variety of sports.
England have interest in gymnastics, triathalon, netball and cycling before getting their rugby sevens campaign’s underway in both the women’s and men’s events.
Scotland’s Reese Lynch begins his competition in the boxing and the women’s hockey team play their first game since October when they take on South Africa.
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