Canadian gymnast Félix Dolci wins Commonwealth Games silver medal in all-around last

Canada’s Félix Dolci was flying excessive as we speak — coming inside two tenths of gold. Still, the silver-medal within the males’s all-around last was spectacular contemplating Dolci was sitting in seventeenth place at one level. He completed with a rating of 79.450. William Emard additionally represented Canada within the last, ending eighth with a rating of 77.250.

Dolci delivered an enormous rating on the horizontal bar (14.500) within the last rotation, serving to safe his silver medal end. He additionally posted sturdy marks on vault (14.200), parallel bars (13.950) and rings (13.850). His flooring train rating of 13.450 was his highest occasion rating, whereas he recorded a 9.500 on pommel horse. 

Dolci provides to his medal haul after serving to Canada seize gold within the group occasion earlier within the competitors. 

Scotland’s Reuben Ward made historical past on house soil, changing into the primary Scottish gymnast to win the Commonwealth males’s all-around title. Ward claimed gold with a rating of 79.650, whereas Australia’s Jesse Moore took bronze with 79.000.

Canadian swimmers advance from heats

Canadian swimmer Ben Loewen will swim in a medal last on the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Sunday after advancing from the morning heats on the Tollcross International Swimming Centre.

Loewen certified for Sunday’s last within the males’s 200m backstroke by ending his warmth in two minutes and 77-hundredths of a second. Fellow Canadian Ben Winterborn (2:05.44) can be a reserve for the ultimate.

Canada’s Oliver Dawson superior to the lads’s 50m breaststroke semifinals, ending his warmth in 27.47 seconds. Dawson swam to a fourth-place end within the males’s 100m breaststroke last on Saturday.

In the ladies’s 100m heats, Delia Lloyd of Etobicoke, Ont., completed in 58.20 however didn’t qualify for the semifinals. Madison Kryger, of Niagara Falls, Ont., didn’t begin within the occasion.

Canadian Para swimmer Reid Maxwell completed sixth (1:10.31) within the males’s 100m backstroke S9 heats and can compete within the last later Sunday. In the ladies’s 100m backstroke S9 occasion, Danielle Dorris didn’t advance to the ultimate after ending her warmth in 1:26.28.

Other Canadian outcomes on Sunday

• Antonin Lanoue completed fifth in males’s 60kg weightlifting. The 21-year-old had profitable makes an attempt of 101kg within the snatch and 132kg within the clear and jerk.

• Scarlett Delgado superior to the ladies’s 54kg quarterfinals with a dominant resolution victory over Scotland’s Stephanie Kernachan within the spherical of 16. Delgado earned a 5-0 win on factors and can face New Zealand’s Greer Hall within the quarterfinals on Tuesday.

• Gabriel Labrie additionally superior to the quarterfinals with a 5-0 factors victory over Pakistan’s Afzal Khan within the males’s 65kg spherical of 16. Labrie will return to the ring Tuesday for his quarterfinal bout. 

• Canada fell 15-12 to England in ladies’s wheelchair basketball pool play on Sunday. Flag bearer Kady Dandeneau of Pender Island, B.C., led the Canadian offence with 11 of the group’s 12 factors. Canada now sits at 1-1 in pool play and can face Australia on Monday. In the lads’s match, Canada additionally got here up quick in opposition to England, falling 20-10.

• Emma Boyd and Kelly McKerihen improved to 2-2 in ladies’s pairs bowls with a 2-0 match victory over Botswana in Round 4. After falling behind early, the Canadians rallied to edge Botswana 4-3 within the opening set. They then raced out to a 7-0 lead after the second finish of the second set and cruised to a 9-4 win to safe the match. Canada now sits third in its group.