Commonwealth Games 2026: first gold goes to England; Ramsay-Peaty eases by on day one – reside | Commonwealth Games

Artistic gymnastics: Twenty minutes to go earlier than the beginning of the ultimate session of the lads’s crew remaining, with England gunning for his or her fourth consecutive Commonwealth gold on this occasion.

Mark Swan speaks to TNT about securing gold, having received silver in Birmingham and on the Paris Olympics. He explains how he wasn’t anticipating gold after failing to make his third carry.

“I never paid attention to anybody that was before me so it was a big shock. I thought maybe a bronze medal but it was actually our performance director that was like: ‘Mark, you’ve won gold.’ I was looking around like: ‘Are you sure – you’re not winding me up?’”

Para powerlifting: That’s two medals for England after the primary two medal occasions, with Olivia Broome (bronze) becoming a member of Mark Swan (gold).

Here comes Olivia Broome, going for 124kg, however she will be able to’t enhance upon her 119kg carry. Having received silver in Birmingham 4 years in the past, she’ll must accept bronze this time spherical. Nworgu information a no carry whereas making an attempt to ship 124kg, and right here comes Oyema, who additionally fails to drag off a clear carry – Nworgu takes gold!

Para powerlifting: Esther Nworgu, having damaged the Commonwealth document together with her first carry, screams earlier than going for her second. And she’s lifted 123kg to document 119 factors! Her compatriot Esther Oyema brushes apart her earlier no carry and delivers at a whopping 125kg. With her physique weight at 50.3kg, that takes her to 115.5 factors and second place. It may very well be a Nigeria one-two within the girls’s light-weight remaining.

Para powerlifting: Thanks, Billy. We’re nonetheless centered on the ladies’s light-weight remaining with the medals incoming … dangerous information for Nigeria’s Esther Oyema and India’s Suman Devi, each recording no lifts. England’s Olivia Broome lifted 115kg together with her first go, now she’s making an attempt 119kg – and he or she delivers! Broome’s on target for silver.

Taha Hashim has returned and he’ll see you thru the following couple of hours.

Para powerlifting: England’s Lottie McGuinness takes a bow to the Yorkshire-flag-waving crowd (she’s from Harrogate) after she completes her first carry of 105kg in Group A. Her teammate Olivia Broome follows with a managed carry of 115kg.

The two Esthers from Nigeria, Nworgu and Oyema, have formidable beginning weights and would be the primary challengers for gold. Nworgu lets out a scream as she leans again for her first carry … and breaks the Commonwealth document with ease – 118kg. Good luck, everybody else.

Para powerlifting: An inspiring story in Group B of the ladies’s light-weight competitors. Natasha Price, now 45, awoke on Boxing Day in 2008 blind in her proper eye. “Within approximately a week or so, I’d gone completely blind in both eyes. Within a month of that I was paralysed from the waist down,” she stated. The Australian was informed she had a uncommon illness affecting her spinal twine and optic nerve and may need as little as 5 years to reside. “I spent approximately 10 years bed-bound,” she stated, earlier than getting her life again on monitor.

After being concerned as a volunteer on the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, she determined she needed to change into an athlete. She can be now a keynote speaker and founding father of InvincAble, a social influence organisation empowering folks and redefining how the world sees incapacity.

Price is all smiles as she efficiently lifts 63kg and 66kg earlier than falling quick on 68kg. She finishes fifth in Group B at her first Commonwealth Games.

“I’m super happy just to be out here,” says Rhys McClenaghan on TNT Sports.

The ground was a pleasant bonus – I haven’t been on ground since 2018. The vitality is nice right here in Glasgow. It would’ve been good to return residence with two medals however it received’t be a ground remaining for me right here.

My pommel horse was removed from good – there are folks from everywhere in the world who can beat that. That was the perfect rating I acquired all 12 months. It executed the job however we construct from right here.

Will he watch the remainder of the competitors later?

Maybe. I’m unsure. I don’t like to look at an excessive amount of gymnastics once I’m out right here. I’ll most likely be watching my routine again greater than anyone else’s. Slow-motion, body by body, cease and zoom it in.

Gymnastics: Rhys McClenaghan’s ground routine consists of a few stumbles on the finish. His hopes of qualifying for the ground remaining are within the stability a bit – a rating of 12.350 places him into fifth place within the standings. The 2024 Olympic pommel horse champion needed to compete in one other occasion remaining at these Games.

His Northern Irish teammate Eamon Montgomery, fifth within the ground remaining in 2022, ends with a double-twist, double-back somersault and lands it. He posts a rating of 13.000 and goes 4th.

3×3 Basketball: New Zealand’s males have stormed to a 21-3 victory over Guyana in Pool A, bouncing again from their opening defeat to Australia this morning. New Zealand’s basketball crew are often called the Tall Blacks, which is simply improbable.

Canada, Australia and England had a stranglehold over 3×3 basketball on the 2022 Games – all 4 occasions, together with the wheelchair classes, ended with these three nations within the medals.

More competitions beneath method are the bowls – England face Tonga within the girls’s pairs – and the ladies’s light-weight para powerlifting – England’s Olivia Broome goes in Group A later.

The sixth and remaining rotation of the second subdivision of the lads’s gymnastics crew remaining can be in progress. Northern Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan is because of compete on the ground.

3×3 basketball: The afternoon session is beneath method with Australia’s girls making it two from two immediately with a 21-13 win in opposition to Jamaica – the 2022 bronze medallists additionally beat Kenya 21-5 in Pool A this morning.

England’s nationwide anthem, Jerusalem, performs as Mark Swan stands on prime of the rostrum with the primary gold medal of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, handed to him by the Duke of Edinburgh. All three medallists obtain a luxurious unicorn toy as properly, after all.

Scotland’s Finlay Davidson did properly to complete fifth from Group B.

Men’s light-weight para powerlifting: Final standings

Gold: Mark Swan (England) 153.9pts (222kg prime carry)
Silver: Roland Ezeruike (Nigeria) 153.9 (185kg)
Bronze: Bonnie Bunyau Gustin (Malaysia) 153.5 (220kg)
4th: Ashok (India) 143.8 (200kg)

After silver on the 2022 Commonwealth Games and 2024 Olympics, it’s gold for England’s Mark Swan! He fails along with his world-record try of 232kg however doesn’t realise he’s nonetheless received gold! His coach breaks the information and his smile returns.

The massive favorite Gustin had gone for 230kg and didn’t fairly return it to the peak of the bar. He opts to not enchantment and can accept bronze. Nigeria’s Ezeruike wins silver.

Para powerlifting: Nigeria’s Ezeruike’s arms go all wobbly as he makes an attempt and fails at 190kg – his gold medal hopes are over. India’s Ashok additionally falls quick along with his remaining carry. It’s between England’s Swan and Malaysia’s Gustin for the primary gold of the Games. Swan goes to try to equal the world document …

Para powerlifting: Bonnie Bunyau Gustin of Malaysia, who’s the defending Commonwealth champion and world document holder, lifts 220kg to maneuver into silver medal place on factors.

England’s Mark Swan, who received silver in 2022, goes into provisional gold with a unprecedented carry of 222kg – grand piano ranges of weight!

Para powerlifting: Those factors scores keep in mind the burden lifted and the way a lot the athletes weigh themselves. Nigeria’s Roland Ezuruike leads the best way after the primary spherical after his carry of 178kg – he weighs round 20kg lower than Swan and Gustin.

Thanks Taha. Scotland’s Finlay Davidson set the benchmark in Group B of the lads’s light-weight para powerlifting with a rating of 141.4pts, with a greatest carry of 166kg.

He’s out of medal competition now after the beginning of Group A. Malaysia’s Bonnie Bunyau Gustin has simply lifted 210kg on his first go – that’s greater than the common grownup gorilla. England’s Mark Swan goes greater with a 112kg first carry. Each athlete will get three lifts and a complete factors rating.

My first shift is over – it’s time handy over to Billy Munday. He’ll be following the para powerlifting, the place we’re going to see the primary medals of those Games.

A pleasant learn by Yara from earlier within the week:

While there are indicators that a world sporting occasion is imminent – lamppost banners, purple merchandise and the occasional volunteer – the loudest soundtrack comes from the relentless hum of development equipment.

Para powerlifting: Quite one thing to see Cameroon’s Belinga Manga lifting 145kg on the age of 56 within the males’s light-weight occasion.

3×3 basketball: Scotland and Guyana are in motion within the males’s comp … and it takes fairly a little bit of time for the primary bucket, almost a minute. Here are the principles in case you’re new to this factor: the primary aspect to 21 factors takes the win. If no aspect will get to 21 after 10 minutes, it goes to those within the lead. There are 12 seconds on the shot clock as the sport strikes at tempo on a half court docket.

Artistic gymnastics: Rhys McClenaghan, the defending Olympic pommel horse champion, is up. But the place does that achievement sit if you’ve also won Dancing With the Stars? He underwent shoulder surgical procedure final 12 months however he whizzes away on the horse with no hassle by any means. And he goes to the highest of the leaderboard with a rating of 14.5.

Swimming: You could breathe: the lane line has been fastened. Ramsay-Peaty has the lead on the midway mark and he dominates with a time of 59.46, the perfect of all of the heats within the males’s 100m breaststroke.

Swimming: ‘COMPETITION DELAYED’: up it flashes on the telly, the indifferent lane line inflicting hassle. Must be very annoying for the swimmers who have been nearly to get going of their 100m breaststroke warmth.

Swimming: Adam Ramsay-Peaty, with 4 Commonwealth golds to his identify – his first collected at Glasgow 2014 – is up within the males’s 100m breaststroke heats. We’ve acquired a delay to the motion although – a lane line has indifferent, forcing a swimmer to leap in and assist the officers.

Para powerlifting: I’d prefer to see some prizes quickly: the primary medal occasion of the Games is in para powerlifting, with the lads’s light-weight remaining beginning at 1.10pm BST.

Boxing: England’s Lauren Mackie, within the girls’s 54kg, punches by to the spherical of 16 with a unanimous victory in opposition to Kenya’s Amina Faki. DJ Khaled’s All I Do Is Win blasts across the ring.

This story has caught the attention, courtesy of Reuters:

Australian swimmers competing on the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will earn as much as ⁠A$50,000 ($35,000) for particular person gold medals received in world document instances beneath an incentive scheme funded by Gina Rinehart, the nation’s ⁠richest particular person.

Swimmers in particular person ⁠occasions will ​earn A$20,000 for gold, A$15,000 for silver and A$10,000 for bronze, whereas relay swimmers will earn between A$2,500 and A$5,000 ⁠for ending on the medal podium.

Swimmers clocking a world document will earn an A$30,000 bonus.

With Australia probably the most dominant swimming energy by far ⁠within the Commonwealth, loads of the crew’s prime athletes shall be anticipated to money ​in at Glasgow.

“These bonuses are a ‌way of Australia saying ‌thank you and showing the appreciation our athletes deserve for bringing our country such ‌a sense of pride and achievement,” mining billionaire Rinehart stated in a Swimming WA assertion on Friday.

“There is something very uplifting about seeing an Australian athlete stand on the podium while our flag is raised. Such exciting times make Australians proud and deserve to be celebrated.” Reuters

Swimming: Scott wins his warmth with a time of 1:58.81, edging out his compatriots Evan Jones and Matthew Ward. Jones – who claimed two bronze relay medals in 2022 – will be part of Scott within the remaining.

Swimming: The focus is on Scotland’s Duncan Scott within the males’s 200m particular person medley heats. He’s acquired eight Olympic medals, 13 within the Commonwealth Games – together with three golds. And now he’s acquired the prospect to thrive at residence.

Swimming: Goggles on – they’ve entered the pool. First up is the ladies’s 400m freestyle heats. Ariarne Titmus – the Australian nice who retired final 12 months – claimed gold 4 years in the past within the remaining.

3×3 basketball: It’s an Australian present in the meanwhile. They’re dominant in opposition to Kenya within the girls’s occasion, successful 21-5. Australia claimed bronze again in 2022.

3×3 basketball: Australia completed as runners-up within the males’s 3×3 basketball 4 years in the past – they’ve simply kicked off their 2026 run with a 21-15 win in opposition to New Zealand.

Artistic gymnastics: We’re underway within the males’s inventive gymnastics, with a crew medal up for grabs immediately.

As Yara El-Shaboury factors out, Rhys McClenaghan – who’ll function within the afternoon – is one to look at.

Artistic gymnastics could function for under 5 days, however it boasts one of many strongest fields of the Games. The reigning Olympic champion, Rhys McClenaghan, headlines the competitors because the Northern Irishman hopes to reclaim the pommel horse title he received in 2018 after taking silver in Birmingham 4 years in the past. He returns from damage alongside a bunch of established names, together with Australia’s Georgia Godwin and Canada’s four-time Olympian Ellie Black, each additionally making welcome comebacks after damage. Scotland’s younger squad, led by Reuben Ward, will hope residence assist can encourage an upset.

Here’s how the opening ceremony went down (KT Tunstall is class).

After a soccer World Cup that threatens to get greater and larger, right here comes one thing going the opposite method. This is, as you’ve most likely heard, the stripped-back Commonwealth Games, with Glasgow stepping in after Victoria pulled out. There aren’t any new glitzy stadiums, solely 10 sports activities and absent stars akin to Keely Hodgkinson. Yet Phil Batty, the chief government of Glasgow 2026, has one other story to inform. “This is going to be a Games that stands shoulder to shoulder with previous Games,” he informed Sean Ingle. “It was an event that was in jeopardy which needed to reinvent and make itself fit for purpose for the future. We have created a format of the event that’s flexible, relevant and integrated para-sport.”

Well it’s time to take a look: immediately brings medal occasions in para powerlifting, inventive gymnastics and swimming. I’ll preserve tabs on every thing however it is a group effort, people – drop me a line together with your ideas and something I’ve missed. There’s a lot to get caught into.