Commonwealth Games 2026: athletics begins, plus swimming and gymnastics on day 4 – stay | Commonwealth Games 2026

Athletics: The ladies’s T37/38 100m first spherical has began, and England’s Sophie Hahn has received the primary warmth. In the ladies’s 100m, Imani Lansiquot (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG) is among the many 17 qualifiers in her first outing after a few injury-ravaged years. In an interview after her warmth she mentioned that athletes seldom speak concerning the psychological well being affect of long-term damage, and was clearly overjoyed to be again competing.

Very a lot not overjoyed is Australian dash star Rohan Browning. Eight runners within the males’s 100m qualify routinely for the latter levels with out having to run a warmth, primarily based on instances earlier this 12 months. Browning mentioned it was clearly “not fair” and “extremely weird”. He narrowly made the minimize to seem within the semi-finals tonight.

Boxing: Nicholas Devlin (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SCO), Owain Harris-Allan (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 WAL), Treasure Moremi (🇧🇼 BOT) and Sachin Siwach (🇮🇳 IND) have all punched their method by means of the spherical of 16 within the males’s 60kg prelims, the latter on the expense of England’s William Hewitt, regardless of a factors deduction.

In different athletics-but-not-Commonwealth-Games-news: Olympic triathlon champion Cassandre Beaugrand (🇫🇷 FRA) won’t participate in subsequent month’s European championships in Birmingham. Beaugrand’s agent Julien Galland instructed AFP that whereas the “desire was very strong”, there had not been sufficient time to organize for the occasion, which is scheduled for August 10-16.

PA is carrying some quotes from England’s Gabriel Langton, who mentioned he feared for his gymnastics future after his fall on the opening day.

The 19-year-old, who sustained head and neck accidents after slipping off the excessive bar, mentioned:

I knew that I might speak nonetheless, I might transfer a whole lot of issues however I used to be simply hoping that I might do health club once more actually. With different accidents like a leg damage, it’s not good however you recognize more often than not that these issues will heal. I suppose neck accidents are to be taken critically, so I used to be simply hoping that it wasn’t something too unhealthy. When I acquired the scans again, it was a giant reduction. My thought course of switched fairly shortly to being ‘I should be back in the gym quite soon.’

Athletics: My colleague Taha Hashim earlier steered that individuals have mentally ready the pose they might strike for the cameras whereas ready to run a serious 100m race. Personally? I’d simply be holding my tummy in. Not an issue for skilled athletes.

The ladies have simply began the heats for the 100m. Mabel Akande (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG) and Leah Bertrand (🇹🇹 TTO) have received the primary two. That doesn’t truly assure they progress. It goes to be the quickest 17 athletes by absolute time, not place, that undergo, so that is extra of a private time trial towards the clock than a “heat”.

Hi, good afternoon (or night or morning). This is my first stint on the Glasgow 2026 stay weblog, though I used to be almost all the way down to do the opening ceremony. Let me let you know, if I had been on the stay weblog when there was an sudden cameo by seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy, the remainder of the night would largely have consisted of me typing ‘jsjkdjdgsgjs!!jdkhkhsk’ like an over-excited social media producer for a soccer group who simply scored a final minute winner. Here are some behind the scenes clips of McCoy’s cameo in your pleasure.

It’s time for Martin Belam to steer issues for the following couple of hours.

Athletics: England’s Sam Bennett has made it to the ultimate of the lads’s 110m hurdles on his Commonwealth Games debut, having put collectively the very best time within the heats: 13.20 (wind +2.1). Bennett claimed gold on the UK Championships in June with a time of 13.41.

Swimming: The males’s 100m freestyle heats are in full circulation, with the 16 quickest swimmers progressing to the semi-finals. Australia’s Kyle Chalmers took gold on this occasion 4 years in the past and he’s up within the final warmth, towards Scotland’s Jensen Norris and Stefan Krawiec. Chalmers is fourth on the midway mark … however is victorious with 49.06.

Nigeria’s Edidiong Umoafia claims the primary gold medal of the day, ending with a rating of 319 after lifting 147kg within the snatch and 172kg within the clear and jerk. England’s Jonathan Chin has to accept fourth.

Athletics: Do you, like myself, think about what poses you’d strike for the digital camera earlier than your 100m warmth? No, simply me? OK. After 9 heats within the males’s 100m, the quickest time belongs to Ghana’s Benjamin Azamati with 10.00. Two extra heats to go.

A couple of tales from Sunday:

Swimming: It’s the lads’s 200m butterfly heats, and England’s Edward Mildred – who received three relay medals on the 2022 Games – wins the primary with a time of 1:57.99. What can Scotland’s Duncan Scott supply within the second? Fresh off successful the 200m particular person medley, he edges previous India’s Sajan Prakash to triumph with a time of 1:58.29.

Athletics: A primary glimpse of the monitor at these Games. It’s, nicely, not a stunning day in Glasgow. We’re taking within the males’s 100m, and the third warmth belongs to Wales’ Jeremiah Azu, bustling to a time of 10.10. He received 60m gold on the world indoor championships final 12 months.

Weightlifting: Over within the males’s 71kg remaining, it’s Nigeria’s Edidiong Umofia who has taken management of the snatch part, lifting 147kg. England’s Jonathan Chin is competing in that remaining – he’s additionally a full-time physician who balances 50 to 70-hour weeks together with his coaching.

Here we go once more, with 27 gold medals to be received right now. It’s the beginning of athletics and para athletics at these Games, and there’ll be loads of deal with the pool with the 50m males’s breaststroke remaining as Adam Ramsay-Peaty tries to execute his “battle plan”. The very first thing we’ll flip to is the lads’s weightlifting, with medals up for grabs within the 71kg occasion. There’s a lot to get caught into, and I’ll want all the assistance I can get – drop me a line together with your ideas, hopes, desires, needs, no matter you fancy.