Commonwealth Games 2022 LIVE: Laura Muir storms to 1500m gold after England win women’s hockey title
Follow day 10 at the 2022 Commonwealth Games with 45 gold medals up for grabs
A thrilling penultimate day at Birmingham 2022 has delivered more action to this thoroughly entertaining Commonwealth Games, with 45 gold medals in total set to be dished out by the end of the evening.
Tonight was all about Laura Muir, and the Scotland star produced a brilliant kick to win gold in the women’s 1500m final, adding to her 800m bronze from the previous evening. Later, a wide-open men’s 800m final, was won by Kenya’s Wyclife Kinyamal ahead of Australia’s Peter Bol, with England’s Ben Pattison taking bronze.
Eilish McColgan added to her 10,000m gold with a gutsy silver in the 5,000m and there was further joy as England’s women wrapped up the action at the Alexander Stadium with a dramatic gold in the 4x400m final. It was short lived, however, after the team was disqualified following a lane infringment.
Earlier, home-town hero Matt Hudson-Smith was left disappointed when forced to settle for silver in the men’s 400m, while Victoria Ohuruogu was more upbeat, grabbing a silver in the women’s 400m final. There was drama in the 4x100m relay finals, with England men and Nigeria women prevailing.
In the afternoon, a dramatic men’s cycling road race saw Geraint Thomas fall just short with a late push to break the lead group, leaving New Zealand’s Aaron Gate to sprint clear and win a fourth gold at these Games. And in the result of the day, England pulled off a shock to stun Australia and win Commonwealth gold in the women’s hockey final. Follow all the action throughout the evening below:
Commonwealth Games: Triathlon mixed relay
About 27 seconds in the bank for England’s Dickinson after Coldwell’s leg.
Scotland, Wales and New Zealand now chasing in the swim.
Commonwealth Games: Triathlon mixed relay
Coldwell establishes a 36-second gap to the chasing pack as she begins her run. HUGE.
Commonwealth Games: Triathlon mixed relay
Sam Dickinson waiting for Coldwell as she finishes up her bike, the 2km run is nearing...
Scotland's Beth Potter and Wales’ Olivia Mathias push the pace in the chasing pack. Australia and New Zealand hanging on too.
Commonwealth Games: Triathlon mixed relay
Coldwell out the water, England have a 24-second gap over Australia, who took down New Zealand in the swim.
Commonwealth Games: Triathlon mixed relay
Coldwell into the water for England, New Zealand’s Nicole Van Der Kaay set free by Wilde, the chase is on!
Australia in third.
Commonwealth Games: Triathlon mixed relay underway
Here comes Alex Yee, what a run this it, tremendous leg!
Sophie Coldwell is going to get a big lead, Hayden Wilde is out of sight.
It’s a 17:27 first leg for Yee, immense.
Commonwealth Games: Triathlon mixed relay underway
It’s the triathlon mixed relay and we’re underway at Sutton Park.
South Africa given an early lead thanks to Jamie Riddle, with Alex Yee, fresh from gold in the men’s triathlon is in action in the first leg.
There’s a 300m swim, 5km bike ride and then a 2km run to finish off.
Commonwealth Games: Men’s boxing
Northern Ireland’s Jake Tucker hit the canvas but rallied to triumph in his middleweight contest against Guerney’s Billy le Poullain.
He’ll now fight England’s Lewis Richardson in the quarter-finals after a tight 3-2 win on points.
India thrash Pakistan by eight wickets
India strolled to an eight-wicket win over rivals Pakistan to boost their hopes in Group A of the Commonwealth Games at Edgbaston.
Opener Smriti Mandhana bashed 63 off 42 balls as India made light work of Pakistan’s total of 99 inside 12 overs.
Pakistan struggled with the bat and were all out with the final ball of the innings as rain scuppered any hopes of rhythm and momentum.
India’s Sneh Rana did the damage with the ball, grabbing two wickets for 15 runs from four overs.
Commonwealth Games 2022 - Cycling
A really heartening update on Matt Walls following that horror crash at the velodrome. He was treated by medics for about 40 minutes before being taken away but Team England have stated it’s only precautionary checks that he’s being taken to hospital for.
Great, great news. It seems Walls has escaped more or less unscathed. And reports suggest he didn’t land on any spectators, only his bike did, meaning they didn’t sustain any serious injuries either.
A scary hour or so but as good a resolution as there could have been.
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