Canadian gymnasts Fontaine and Carroll declare gold for Canada at Commonwealth Games

Canada’s Lia-Monica Fontaine, the 2025 world silver medallist on vault, captured Commonwealth Games gold on vault with a rating of 14.000 in Glasgow on Monday.

It marks Fontaine’s third medal, including to her staff silver and all-around bronze at these Games. England’s Abigail Martin claimed silver with a rating of 13.799, whereas Wales’ Abigail Roper took bronze at 13.433.

Jordan Carroll of Canada captured gold within the males’s pommel horse ultimate, scoring an impressive 15.000. Scotland’s Reuben Ward earned silver with a rating of 14.966, whereas teammate Cameron Lynn took bronze with 13.833, giving Scotland a double podium end.

2024 Paris Olympic champion Rhys McClenaghan of Northern Ireland completed sixth.

Canada’s René Cournoyer posted a rating of 13.966 to seize the silver medal within the males’s flooring train ultimate on the Commonwealth Games.

England’s Luke Whitehouse claimed gold, whereas Australia’s James Hardy earned bronze. Fellow Canadian Felix Dolci completed simply off the rostrum in fourth place with a rating of 13.233.

Young Canadian weightlifting expertise secures bronze

In her Commonwealth Games debut, Canada’s 20-year-old Rebeka Groulx captured bronze within the ladies’s 53kg weightlifting class. Groulx recorded profitable lifts of 83kg within the snatch and 95kg within the clear and jerk, ending with a mixed complete of 178kg. 

Nigeria’s Onome Omolola Didih claimed gold with a Commonwealth Games document complete of 206kg, whereas India’s Gyaneshwari Yadav earned the silver medal, with a complete of 199kg.

Back on the monitor

Some of Canada’s high monitor and discipline athletes had been in motion as athletics competitors acquired underway at Scotstoun Stadium.

Reigning world, Olympic, and Commonwealth Games champion Camryn Rogers breezed via qualification within the ladies’s hammer throw with a throw of 68.81 metres, tops amongst all qualifiers.

Fellow Canadians Jinaye Shomachuk (64.84) and Jillian Weir (63.84) will be a part of Rogers in Tuesday’s ultimate.

In the primary spherical of the lads’s 100m, Canada’s Duan Asemota certified for the semifinals with a time of 10.16 seconds. Fellow Canadian Eliezer Adjibi (10.31) didn’t advance.

The ladies’s 100m heats featured new Canadian document holder Sade McCreath and teammate Gabrielle Cole. Both Canadians certified after topping their respective heats, McCreath in 11.33 and Cole in 11.48.

They’ll be a part of Canadian Audrey Leduc within the semifinal spherical, who was one in every of seven sprinters given a bye.

Canadian swimmers advance

Canada’s swimmers had been again in motion at Tollcross International Swimming Centre for the morning session heats.

Kylie Masse, of LaSalle, Ont., was the highest qualifier within the ladies’s 50m backstroke heats, transferring on to the semifinals after posting a time of 27.79 seconds. Madison Kryger (28.77), of Niagara Falls, Ont., additionally earned a spot within the semis.

Josh Liendo was the lone Canadian to advance to the semifinals of the lads’s 100m freestyle occasion. The Toronto native – who gained gold within the males’s 100m butterfly on Sunday – completed his warmth in 49.79. Montreal’s Antoine Sauve was disqualified whereas Ben Winterborn, of Kingston, Ont., didn’t begin.

Canada’s Sophie Angus superior to the semifinals of the ladies’s 50m breaststroke with a time of 30.79.

Canadians punching their tickets straight to Monday’s finals included Ella Jansen (4:45.19) and Julie Brosseau (4:51.45) within the ladies’s 400m particular person medley, in addition to Ben Loewen (1:58.87) within the males’s 200m butterfly.

Para swimmer Fernando Lu was the quickest within the males’s 100m breaststroke SB9 heats, ending in 1:11.62. Lu’s teammate Jack Gill (1:13.65) additionally certified for Monday’s ultimate, whereas Alex Elliot (1:17.52) shall be a reserve.

Other Canadian outcomes on Monday

• The ladies’s bowls pairs duo of Kelly McKerihen and Emma Boyd defeated Fiji, profitable the units 8-2 and 6-3.
• Matt Darsigny, of Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., completed sixth within the males’s 71kg weightlifting class. Darsigny had profitable lifts of 130kg within the snatch and 155kg within the clear and jerk.
• Edmonton’s Amber-Jane Wall started her boxing match in the present day within the ladies’s 51kg class. Wall confronted Ramatu Quaye of Ghana, profitable the bout by a unanimous 5-0 resolution. Wall advances to the quarterfinals, the place she’s going to compete on Wednesday.
• Boxer Joshua Ofori continued his profitable streak within the males’s 80kg spherical of 16. Ofori confronted Fiji’s Aminiasi Saratibau, incomes the victory on the 2:58 mark of the second spherical. Ofori will compete within the quarterfinals on Wednesday.
• In a rematch of the 2022 Commonwealth Games ultimate, Canada’s males’s wheelchair basketball staff took on Australia. Canada fell 20-12 to the defending Commonwealth champions. Reed Michael De’aeth led Canada’s offence with 9 factors. Canada now sits at 1-2 in group play. Canada additionally confronted Australia within the ladies’s match, falling 12-10 in additional time.