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:
Northern Ireland clinch lawn bowls gold by thrashing India in men’s fours final
Northern Ireland secured a second Commonwealth Games gold medal after their lawn bowlers defeated India 18-5 in the men’s fours final on Saturday.
The quartet of Sam Barkley, Adam McKeown, Ian McClure and Martin McHugh established a 7-0 lead after four ends, setting the scene for a one-sided victory at Victoria Park in Leamington Spa.
McKeown said: “You’re always looking at the finishing line, but you just have to take it end by end, and keep them ticking over, and I think we did that well here. It’s an outstanding achievement.”
Northern Ireland clinch lawn bowls gold by thrashing India in men’s fours final
Sam Barkley, Adam McKeown, Ian McClure and Martin McHugh raced to victory in Leamington Spa.
Hodgkinson ‘frustrated’ by bittersweet second as England rack up athletics silvers
Keely Hodgkinson will be the first to admit that not all silvers are equal.
It’s just over a year since she won that medal at the Olympics in Tokyo, her face etched with wide-eyed shock and disbelief as she also broke Kelly Holmes’ British 800m record.
And it’s 12 days since she won silver at the World Championships in Oregon, just eight-hundredths of a second off top spot.
Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games was due to be the place where she finally perfected the alchemy needed for a golden upgrade, with friends and family watching on another rocking night at the Alexander Stadium.
But the 20-year-old again had to settle for silver, beaten in a sprint finish by Kenya’s Mary Moraa, who also lowered her colours at Stockholm’s Diamond League earlier this season.
Hodgkinson ‘frustrated’ by bittersweet second as England rack up athletics silvers
Laura Muir claimed bronze behind Hodgkinson while Zharnel Hughes produced a season’s best showing to claim a podium spot in the men’s 200m
England lose in men’s hockey semi-final
Disappointment for England as the major force in men’s hockey, Australia, produce a comeback performance from 2-0 down to win 3-2.
They go through to the final and England will have to aim for bronze.
Men’s pole vault: two medals for England
Harry Coppell can’t clear the bar at his third attempt and that means he stays in the bronze-medal position.
Hague has already gone over so is guaranteed at least a silver, with Australia’s Marschall having already cleared 5.60m.
Adam Hague goes again for his final shot at 5.65 to try and move into gold...but he can’t quite get his run-up in the right stride and that means he’ll indeed take silver.
Kurtis Marschall takes gold, but he’s still going to run again and try to go higher.
200m women’s final: Thompson-Herah sets new GR for gold
The final now of the women’s 200m. Elaine Thompson-Herah, the double-double Olympic champion, is the clear favourite.
She starts fast and is way in front as they round the bend - she wins it by an absolute mile! A new Games record time of 22.09!
Nigeria’s Favor Ofili takes silver, a very strong run indeed, with Christine Mboma taking bronze.
Scottish finalist Beth Dobbin finishes eighth.
Jack Laugher talks up newfound mental resilience despite losing 3m springboard crown to Dan Goodfellow
It turns out Jack Laugher is fallible after all.
England swept the podium in the men’s 3m springboard, but it was not the one-two-three many had expected as Dan Goodfellow dethroned the defending champion.
Not since Glasgow 2014 had Laugher lost a Commonwealth Games final, having already retained his 1m springboard and synchronised 3m springboard titles in Birmingham.
But after nerves almost cost him a place in the final - scoring zero on his first dive in the morning preliminaries - Laugher had to settle for bronze behind his former synchro partner.
Goodfellow claimed his first individual Commonwealth Games gold ahead of Jordan Houlden as Laugher took encouragement from the way he responded to his earlier wobble.
Laugher talks up newfound mental resilience despite losing 3m crown to Goodfellow
A one-two-three on the podium for England as Jordan Houlden joined his compatriots and took silver
Men’s 200m final: silver for England
Zharnel Hughes is in great shape and is head-to-head with Jereem Richards as they go into the straight - but it’s the Trinidadian Richards who surges away to not just win, but set a new Games record - a fantastic run from both. Silver for England there and a PB for the season for Hughes.
Joseph Paul Amoah takes bronze for Ghana.
- Richards 19.8s (GR)
- Hughes 20.12 (SB)
- Amoah 20.49
Second medal for Spendolini-Sirieix with silver alongside Cheng
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix secured her second medal of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Saturday night in the women’s 10m synchro platform competition.
The 17-year-old secured top spot on the podium with victory in the individual women’s 10m platform on Thursday and claimed silver alongside Eden Cheng in the synchronised event.
Spendolini-Sirieix is the daughter of First Dates star Fred Sirieix, who was also at the Aquatics Centre in Sandwell earlier in the week to witness her winning gold.
Commonwealth Games: Men’s pole vault
And it’s cleared for Kurtis Marschall too! He gets over at 5.50m and goes second.
The pole vault event was delayed earlier as the actual poles went missing, which is a bit of an important issue really.
Thankfully they eventually turned up and there are two medals coming England’s way, but Coppell, Hague and Marschall will all continue shortly to see who finishes where on the podium.
Commonwealth Games: Men’s pole vault
Adam Hague takes the lead in the pole vault as he clears 5.45m and that guarantees him a medal.
All depends on the final jumps at 5.50m...Harry Coppell clears it! That’s an England 1-2, with one Australian to go.
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