5 issues to not miss on Day 2 of the Games

Must-watch moments on Saturday 25 July at Glasgow 2026.

• Key numbers:

  • 9 golds up for grabs
  • 8 in Swimming & Para Swimming
  • 1 in Artistic Gymnastics

  It’s Day 3 within the Bowls & Para Bowls competitors. Catch up with the newest motion right here (LINK to assessment). Swimming received off to an exciting begin on Friday (LINK) and continues, as do Artistic Gymnastics, Para Powerlifting and Boxing and 3×3 Basketball & 3×3 Wheelchair Basketball (LINK to all evaluations).

  Click right here for the detailed schedule of precisely what is occurring and when on Saturday.

  Saturday’s top-five highlights:

  1. Jersey’s Nowacki out to spoil Ramsay-Peaty’s pool occasion

   

Already a junior world and European champion, 18-year-old Filip Nowacki has the prospect on Saturday to turn out to be Jersey’s first Commonwealth champion in 36 years. To accomplish that, {the teenager} should get the higher of the 100m Men’s Breaststroke world file holder, three-time Olympic champion and four-time Commonwealth gold medallist, Adam Ramsay-Peaty.

Poppy Maskill and William Ellard shall be trying so as to add to the English pleasure, because the S14 Paralympic champions compete of their first Games.

2. Tonga tackle Netball giants Australia

Tonga face one of many largest challenges in Netball, making an attempt to get the higher of Australia on a Commonwealth courtroom. Not solely are the Aussie Diamonds defending champions and winners of three golds this century, they’ve a exceptional win file of 89.5%.

Scotland’s problem is sort of as fierce, with the hosts taking up world No.2 ranked facet New Zealand within the occasion opener.

3. Changalawe flies the flag for Tanzania within the Boxing ring

Yusuf Changalawe will carry the hopes of Tanzanian boxing followers on his shoulders when he goes within the Men’s Light-Heavyweight class. The 28-year-old strongly fancies his probabilities having bagged a shock bronze 4 years in the past.

4. Veteran Black leads Canadian cost in stacked Women’s Team ultimate

England will be the defending Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Team champions however a bunch of heavyweight challengers are lined as much as attempt to wrestle their crown away.

Twelve years after powering to gold on the Balance Beam, Ellie Black arrives again in Glasgow as a embellished veteran main a assured Canadian crew. Add an Australian outfit boosted by the by the return of Georgia Godwin and Kate McDonald, who received three of the 5 particular person titles between them 4 years in the past, and it’s clear the motion within the Glasgow International Arena is to not be missed.

5. Around the Games

The 18-year-old Tiana Sumanasekera is on a mission to problem what she sees because the under-representation of elite gymnastics in South Asia. A crew gold medallist for the USA on the 2025 Pan American Championships and a former coaching companion of seven-time Olympic champion Simone Biles, Sumanasekera will signify Sri Lanka, her mother and father’ place of origin, at these Games.