Commonwealth Games 2022 LIVE: Laura Muir storms to 1500m gold after England win women’s hockey title

HALF-TIME: England 5-0 Ghana

A great first half for England’s women in their group game against Ghana, with four goals from penalty corners and Holly Hunt netting a rebound from open play.

GOLD for Bryony Botha in the women’s 3000m individual pursuit at the velodrome as she sets a new Commonwealth Games record in a time of 3:18.456.

She nearly caught her opponent Maeve Plouffe in the final and recorded a comfortable win by 8.66 seconds. Australia’s Plouffe settles for silver.

Chalk up a BRONZE medal for Team Scotland and it’s come in the women’s 3000m individual pursuit. Neah Evans was taking on Sarah Roy of Australia and Evans was in control of the race from the off.

She eventually crossed the line in 3:25.050, over three seconds ahead of Roy. Evans was unlucky to miss out on a place in the gold medal race when she broke the Commonwealth Games record in qualifying, only to see it surpassed by two other riders but she leaves with a medal round her neck.

That gold medal race is taking place now as Bryony Botha of New Zealand squares off with Maeve Plouffe of Australia in an all-Antipodean battle.

England 3-0 Ghana

England’s women are in control on the hockey pitches against Ghana as they lead 3-0 in the second quarter.

All three goals have come from penalty corners with Grace Balsdon converting two and Hannah Martin turning home one.

The first heats of the women’s sprint semi-finals have just taken place and Canada’s Kelsey Mitchell got the better of Emma Finucane of Wales, while Ellesse Andrews of New Zealand just edged England’s Sophie Capewell.

Those semi-finals are best of three, so Capewell and Finucane still in the hunt but it’s an uphill battle for them to make the gold medal race.

The first round of the men’s keirin is complete. From a home nations perspective, Hamish Turbull (ENG) and Jack Carlin (SCO) reach the second round directly, while Joe Truman (ENG), Hayden Norris (ENG) and Alistair Fielding (SCO) are into the repechage.

Australia’s two-time Commonwealth keirin champion Matt Glaetzer also safely made it through directly from his heat, with the top two in each race qualifying for the second round.

There will be 23 gold medals handed out at the Commonwealth Games today and six have been awarded so far. Here’s a reminder of those.

Weightlifting

Men’s 55kg - Aniq Kasdan (Malaysia)

Men’s 61kg - Aznil Bidin (Malaysia)

Athletics - marathon

Men’s - Victor Kiplangat (Uganda)

Men’s wheelchair - Johnboy Smith (England)

Women’s - Jessica Stenson (Australia)

Women’s wheelchair- Madison de Rozario (Australia)

England 1-0 Ghana

Over on the hockey pitches, England’s women have just got underway against Ghana and Grace Balsdon has found the net in the first quarter.

In the hockey already completed today, Australia’s women beat Kenya 8-0, while Wales’s men downed Canada 5-1 and South Africa drew 2-2 with Pakistan - also in the men’s competition.

We’re turning our attention to the track cycling at the Lee Valley velodrome. The medal session is just getting underway, although we’re starting with the men’s keirin first round.

The medal races this afternoon will be the women’s 3000m individual pursuit (4.30pm), men’s 4000m individual pursuit (5.26pm), women’s sprint (5.51pm) and men’s keirin (6.27pm). Stay tuned

Adam Peaty shook off a few nerves on his return from injury to top the timesheet in the men’s 100 metres breaststroke heats and cruise into Saturday night’s semi-finals.

Peaty missed last month’s World Championship after fracturing a bone in his foot in a freak training accident in May, but he showed no persisting issues in his first outing at the Commonwealth Games.

He clocked 59.92 seconds – the only swimmer to breach the one-minute barrier – to win his heat and is well poised to claim a hat-trick of titles in his favoured event after prevailing in 2014 and 2018.