Key events
Netball: Back to the NEC and England lead Uganda 18-12 in the second quarter of their Pool B game. They’re starting to take control after a tight start.
Judo: It’s another gold for Australia! Aoife Coughlan has beaten Jamaica’s Ebony Dysdale-Daley by Ippon in the women’s 70kg category. Both athletes walk off with arms around each other after an attritional battle. Lovely to see.
Jake Jarman is England’s Mr Bling at these Games. The gymnast has four gold medals dangling from his neck and is understandably chuffed with his haul.
It’s always very challenging no matter how well you might do. You are under just as much pressure at big and small competitions. To be able to come and enjoy everything and produce an amazing result I’m absolutely delighted.
You can read more in Tumani Carayol’s gymnastics report here:
Netball: Hello everyone. Over at the NEC, England’s netball team – the reigning champions, no less – are in action. They’re up against Uganda and lead 9-5 in the first quarter. They’re in for a test, with Uganda ranked sixth in the world. England are currently the world’s third best team, in case you were wondering.
Over to Gregg Bakowski, who is here to guide you through the next little bit.
Women’s hockey: South Africa have just handed out a 15-0 drubbing to Kenya in Pool B, which means the RSA team have a chance of progress, despite losing their first two matches.
Gold for England’s Daniel Powell in the –73kg judo!
The score was 10-0, and it’s another gold medal for England.
That could have been Gambia’s first gold medal at the Commonwealth Games for their beaten finalist, Faye Njie. Instead it’s a first silver in their history.
Sean Ingle
Britain’s 800m world silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson says she always knew her schoolmate Ella Toone would become an England star because she used to “smoke” all the boys at football.
Judo: England’s Gemma Howell has lost out to Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard in the Women’s -63kg final. The result, says the official website, was IPP (10s2 – 0s2).
Gymnastics: After a one-two in the women’s floor exercise, Ondine Achampong and Alice Kinsella pose for a photo with the royals –
Women’s netball: England have announced their starting seven for the match against Uganda: Mentor, Guscoth, Francis-Bayman, Clarke, Metcalf, Housby and Cardwell.
Bronze for England in the men’s 3×3 wheelchair basketball!
A 21-11 win against Malaysia seals another medal for the host nation.
3 x 3 WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL BRONZE MEDALLISTS 🥉 👏
— Team England (@TeamEngland) August 2, 2022
Our most recent pieces on the Commonwealth Games below – including Adam Peaty’s rousing words last night, when he said he will be like a wounded lion in this evening’s 50m breaststroke final:
Don’t forget, Adam Peaty will be back in action in the pool later in the 50m breaststroke final. There will also be an evening session of athletics, judo and more.
Gymnastics: The women’s floor exercise podium – Alice Kinsella and Ondine Achampong sealed a one-two for England:
England’s Keely Hodgkinson says she is living the dream with football hero Ella Toone. The 20-year-old, in action at the Commonwealth Games, has been inspired by her lifelong friend Toone’s stunning Euro 2022 success.
Toone scored a brilliant opener in England’s 2-1 extra-time win over Germany on Sunday to help the Lionesses win their first major tournament. It came after Hodgkinson won 800m silver at last month’s World Championships in Eugene.
The pair went to Fred Longworth High School in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, having grown up together.
“We are just two young girls living their dreams,” said Hodgkinson, who reached Saturday’s 800m final at the Commonwealth Games following Tuesday’s heats. “I was always referred to as the ‘mini Ella’ growing up at school. So we kept in touch from that and she was in Tokyo last year as well with the football.
“Ella did so well to score as well. I know she’s on cloud nine so big congrats to her, it’s good to see. We went to school together. She was two years older than me but somehow we just ended up getting on really well. We did some cross countries – I always tended to beat her on the running, that was my forte, but she was naturally very good, she’s got a lot of talent.
“She used to play on our boys’ football team and she was smoking them, so there was absolutely no way she wasn’t going to make it. She’s very good. We were raised about four miles away from each other, so it’s putting our hometowns on the map and I know they are very proud of us.
“I thought it (Sunday) was absolutely amazing, I really enjoyed watching it. What that’s going to do for women’s football, women’s sport, I’ve seen all the little girls watching it and it’s really nice for them to see that because before they wouldn’t have had that.”
Hodgkinson is joined in Saturday’s final in Birmingham by England teammate Alexandra Bell and Scotland’s Laura Muir. She added: “It’s actually a very world-class field. I feel like the only people missing is probably the Americans and some of the Ethiopians. It’s not going to be easy but I hope I can come away with gold this time.” (PA Media)
Bowls: In the Para-lawn bowls men’s pairs B6-B8 gold medal match, Garry Brown and Kevin Wallace of Scotland trail Australia 4-3 after five ends. Will it be another gold for Australia?
3×3 basketball: As you would expect, the bronze-medal match between Australia and New Zealand is a hard-fought affair. Amazingly, Australia have pulled it back to lead 15-12 after trailing 10-6 … and they are into the final minute.
And it’s bronze for Australia! They close it out, 15-13, after New Zealand had a chance to go for a two-pointer in the final couple of seconds, but strangely elected not to.
Gold for Ilias Georgiou in the men’s horizontal bar!
An incredibly committed, brave routine from Illias Georgiou, after which he celebrates passionately by punching the air and roaring with exhilaration, nails the gold medal.
1) Ilias Georgiou (Cyprus) 14.466
2) Tyson Bull (Australia) 14.233
3) Marios Georgiou (Cyprus) 14.133
Gold for Alice Kinsella of England in the women’s floor!
That’s a stunning effort from Kinsella after a couple of big disappointments earlier in the week.
1) Alice Kinsella (England) 13.366
2) Ondine Achampong (England) 13.033
3) Emily Whitehead (Australia) 13.000
3×3 basketball: Canada have just edged out Scotland 13-12 to win a bronze medal in the men’s competition. The women’s bronze medal match, between Australia and New Zealand, is coming up now.
Women’s hockey: England sealed a 3-1 win against India to make it three wins out of two in Pool B. The goals came from Giselle Ansley, Tess Howard and Hannah Martin. That makes it seven points for England, four for India, with Wales third in the group on three points from two matches.
In Pool A, Australia lead the way with two wins from two, followed by South Africa and New Zealand, who are both on four points.
South Africa currently lead Kenya 4-0 going into the second quarter of that one.
Gymnastics: Kinsella moves into the lead of the women’s floor exercise final with 13.366!
As it stands, Kinsella first, Achampong second, Spence (Canada) third.
Gymnastics: The women’s floor final is ongoing, and here comes Alice Kinsella of England … she carries off her routine excellently, and looks highly emotional as she waves to the crowd and walks off. Will it be enough? As it stands, Ondine Achampong of England leads the way with a score of 13.033 …
Gold for Samoa’s Don Opeloge in the men’s 96kg weightlifting!
A remarkable display: a snatch Games record (171kg), a Games and Commonwealth record for the clean and jerk (210kg) for a total, and perhaps needless to say a Games record, of 381kg. Silver for Vikas Thakur of India and bronze for Taniela Rainibogi (Fiji).
As you may have heard, England’s Lionesses won Euro 2022 by defeating Germany in the final on Sunday. Relive their road to glory, in pictures, right here:
Men’s horizontal bar: Fraser scores 12.266 after that fall … he shrugs into the camera and looks almost apologetic, applauding the crowd as they applaud him … he’s been fantastic these past couple of days.
Weightlifting: In the men’s 96kg, England’s Cyrille Tchatchet is out of contention for a medal. It appears he’s carrying an injury from an earlier clean and jerk attempt.
Men’s horizontal bar final: Joe Fraser is up now, the man who has already won two golds … he executes the first part of his routine flawlessly … but then fails to catch the bar and ends up on the floor! He picks himself up, dusts himself down and goes again, but that will be a full mark off his total. He rounds off his routine, lands it beautifully, and cracks a knowing smile – that was so nearly good enough for another medal.
How about a collection of some of the most compelling images from day five at the Commonwealth Games? Why not, eh?
Thanks to Tumaini for that update, hot off the press from Birmingham. Now, the England gymnast Giarnni Regini-Moran, on his birthday, speaks to the BBC about how his day has been: “It’s been incredible … I’ve come away with two silver medals … the fact that the crowd sang me a happy birthday, I don’t think I’ve ever heard that before, so that was even more special.
“I couldn’t ask for much more today … I performed to the level I wanted to perform and at the end of the day that’s all that matters, so I got the result I wanted.
“It’s been so special … the crowd has been really electric … but to feel happy on a world stage again feels special … I’ve had a lot of injuries … [but] everything’s starting to pay off.”
Tumaini Carayol
We’re down to the last two gymnastics finals of the Commonwealth Games in the packed Arena Birmingham: women’s floor and men’s horizontal bar. Today has once again been dominated by Joe Fraser and Jake Jarman, really the two world-class performers of this event.
Jarman won a men’s record fourth gold medal of the Games with some unbelievable vaulting, nailing his Dragulescu (a handspring double front with a half twist), then his Kaz 2.5 (which requires a total of three-and-a-half twists). It is hard not to overstate how incredibly impressive this has all been from 20-year-old Jarman, as that is some of the best vaulting from any gymnast today. For comparison, the 2020 Olympic vaulting champion won with the score of 14.866. Jarman scored 14.916 today.
Then there is Fraser, who will be back out for the high bar as he also chases a fourth gold medal. As the top qualifier, he will be the favourite. This has been an incredible meet in its own way for Fraser considering his recent foot fracture and ruptured appendix. He is such a talented gymnast, now a World and Commonwealth parallel bars champion, and it feels like this event is setting him up for more global success once he is fully healthy.
Alice Kinsella will get one final opportunity at redemption in the floor final, where she was the first qualifier. What started as such a great meet for her with a really impressive performance to lead England to team gold has really fallen apart. Two major errors cost her in the balance beam final, leaving her in fourth place on her best event.
Women’s netball: Final score in Pool A – Jamaica 78-34 Scotland.
As a result, the top of Pool A looks like this:
1) Australia 8pts
2) Jamaica 8pts
3) South Africa 2pts
4) Wales 2pts
Australia and Jamaica have both played four, RSA and Wales have played three. Scotland are second-bottom with zero points from three matches.
Weightlifting: In the men’s 96kg final, Barredo of (you guessed it) Australia leads the way with a total of 306. Burger (RSA) sits second, with 303 total, Koret of Mauritius is in bronze-medal position with a total of 301.
A well-known family enjoy the Commonwealth Games action.
Women’s hockey: England now lead India 2-0 in Q4. The goals came from Giselle Ainsley and Tess Howard. Both teams had a win and a draw in Pool B before this.
Gold for India in the women’s fours lawn bowls!
India see off South Africa 17-10 in the gold medal match. New Zealand defeat Fiji 17-6 to take the bronze.
Men’s parallel bars: The medalists, including England’s Regini-Moran and Fraser, embrace warmly on the podium at the conclusion of the medal ceremony.
Women’s netball: Jamaica now lead Scotland 52-21 in the third quarter of their Pool A clash.
News from the world of women’s football:
England, the newly crowned European champions, are due to host the United States, the World Cup holders, at Wembley on 7 October.
Gold for England’s Joe Fraser in the men’s parallel bars!
Fraser’s ludicrously good score of 15.000 was not to be beaten. Giarnni Regini-Moran nabs silver (14.733), with the former champion Marios Georgiou winning bronze (14.533).
That is Fraser’s second gold in as many days … and he had to contend with a ruptured appendix and a broken foot all within five weeks of the Games beginning. Remarkable.
