Key events
That’s it from me. Billy Munday is back to take you through a big evening of athletics.
Judo: England have a bronze: Jemima Yeats-Brown in the women’s -70kg, beating New Zealand’s Moira de Villiers. She also won Commonwealth bronze in 2022 and all the way back in 2014.
Wales are up in the top 10 in the medal table: see the full standings here:
Gold for Emma Finucane in women’s 1,000m time trial
Cycling: Last up is New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews, another Olympic champion. But she can only manage third, so it’s gold for the Welsh athlete, her third of these Games.
Cycling: England’s Sophie Capewell, a gold medal winner at the Paris Olympics, is the penultimate rider on the track … but she can’t get close to Finucane’s time and goes into third.
Cycling: Finucane takes to the track and blitzes past Marcks’s time by 0.322sec – a Commonwealth Games record. She’s in gold medal position with just two riders to come.
Cycling: In the women’s 1,000m time trial, Australia’s Claudia Marcks leads with seven riders still to compete, including Wales’s Emma Finucane.
Boxing: Choudhary does enough to hold off her opponent, so it’s yet another gold for India in the ring – that is their fifth gold in the women’s boxing. They’ve taken the top prize in the 51kg, 54kg, 57kg, 60kg and now 70kg, which is a remarkable effort.
Boxing: After two rounds Reid is behind on all five judges’ scorecards, so has a mountain to climb in the last. A few boos come from the crowd who reckon this contest is much closer than that.
Boxing: It’s another India v England battle for gold in the ring at the SEC Hall. England’s Chantelle Reid is taking on Arundhati Choudhary in the women’s 70kg.
Cycling: Apparently the Prince and Princess of Wales are known as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay when they’re in Scotland so … well, now you know.
Cycling: Back to the velodrome and women’s 1,000m time-trial, where TNT’s presenter has just mentioned the “King of Scotland” (referring to Neil Fachie) “being watched by the King of England” (referring to, er, the Prince of Wales, who is in the stands).
Judo: Meanwhile, at the SEC Hall there’s gold for England’s Ethan Nairne in the men’s -73kg judo. And gold for Canada’s Laurence Biron in the women’s -63kg. And more gold for India in the ring, Priya Priya this time in the women’s 60kg.
Cycling: That was a remarkable race, proper sporting drama for the home fans. Fachie, a gold medal winner all the way back at London 2012, is 42 now but clearly still has enough in his legs to fend off his younger rivals.
Neil Fachie takes gold!
Cycling: Already the proud owner of six Commonwealth golds, Scotland’s Neil Fachie has another! The men’s tandem final went down to a decider … which initially ended in a collision, the Scottish pair thumping to the velodrome track. A restart was awarded and this time the riders stay upright, with Scotland holding off their Welsh opponents to take the gold.
Gold for India in women’s 51kg
Boxing: A frustrated White goes on the attack but it’s not enough to turn the contest. Sakshi takes the gold, White a tearful silver. It’s a third women’s boxing gold for India in these Games, and they could add several more in the next hour or two.
Boxing: The more experienced Sakshi remains in control in round two, using her superior reach.
Boxing: England’s Ruby White faces India’s Sakshi Sakshi for gold in the women’s 51kg. The 19-year-old White comes off second-best in the opening round, 5-0 on the judges’ scorecards.
Gold and silver for Wales in the women’s 25km points race
Cycling: Anna Morris wins gold after a dominant display, Jess Roberts hangs on for the silver, with Australia’s Georgia Baker in third. It’s Morris second gold of the Games and Waless fourth in the velodrome.
Cycling: With 25 laps to go Wales’s Anna Morris and Jessica Roberts are the top two in the women’s 25km points race.
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Cycling: The women’s 25km points race is under way. There are 100 laps, lots of different sprints to earn points and an overall leaderboard. The rider with the most points wins gold.
The winner of each sprint gets 4pts, second gets 3pts, third 2pts and fourth 1pt. Riders will get help from their compatriots.
Wales’ Anna Morris is perhaps the woman to beat here – she gets on the board with a point in the first sprint after 10 laps.
Cycling: Leigh Hoffman wins the all-Australian battle in the semi-finals of the men’s sprint, breezing through to the final after overpowering Tayte Ryan in the second heat to win 2-0.
Hoffman, the captain of Australia’s victorious team sprint squad, will have to wait to find out his opponent in the final later on after England’s Harry Ledingham-Horn holds firm against Trinidad and Tobago’s Nicholas Paul to level their semi up at 1-1.
Cycling: The Glasgow crowd is silenced as Neil Fachie, Scotland’s most decorated Commonwealth Games athlete, and Aaron Paul are denied gold in the men’s tandem by Wales’ James Ball and Matt Rotherham, who hold on during the final lap of their second heat. They’ll need a decider.
Bronze goes to Australia’s Kane Perris and his pilot Luke Zaccaria after they cruised to a 2-0 victory over Malaysia’s Mohd Khairul Hazwan Wahab and Muhammad Nabil Wafiq Zamri.
Cycling: Emma Foy of New Zealand wins gold in the women’s tandem 1000m time trial! Lizzi Jordan could not even break into the medals in that final heat, leaving Australia’s Jess Gallagher with silver and England’s Sophie Unwin with bronze.
Cycling: Sophie Unwin is hanging on to a medal now with Australia’s Jess Gallagher and New Zealand’s Emma Foy going faster. Only England’s Lizzi Jordan remains.
Cycling: England’s Sophie Unwin and her pilot Anna Whitworth-Hay go into provisional gold of the women’s tandem 1000m time trial – and by some distance. She is 6.5sec out in front with three riders to go. Malaysia hold the other two medal spots for now.
One of the more bizarre stories from these Glasgow Games, from Sean Ingle …
Cycling: It’s the men’s sprint semi-finals next and an all-Australian one to start with. Tayte Ryan and Leigh Hoffman keep it slow over the first lap, brows furrowed. Hoffman moves up on the bend and Ryan takes the bait. Hoffman reels him in on the final lap to take a 1-0 lead. Best of three for this, too.
The Prince and Princess of Wales make their way to their seats with their children before the second semi-final. They might be cheering on England’s Harry Ledingham-Horn, led up to the line by coach Jason Kenny. Trinidad and Tobago’s Nicholas Paul, silver in this event in 2022, shows his speed and pips Ledingham-Horn on the line to take the lead.
Cycling: There’s a bit of chest-thumping from Wales pilot Matt Rotherham on the line. Aaron Paul of Scotland gives him a wry smile. Paul and Neil Fachie head off behind the Welsh pair but they zoom past with a lap and a half to go. 1-0 Scotland – it’s best of three heats.
Cycling: We’re straight into the tandem sprint finals. Riders and their pilot are on the same bike, facing off against another pair over three laps. First to cross the line wins. Australia’s pair take the first heat of the bronze ride-off against Malaysia.
Well, that was fun. Time to head over to the velodrome now, with the afternoon session of the cycling about to get under way in style.
Neil Fachie of Scotland – a six-time Commonwealth champion – goes in the first run of the men’s tandem final with his pilot Aaron Pope. They take on James Ball of Wales and his pilot Matthew Rotherham.
Over the next four hours there are six golds up for grabs, culminating in the men’s sprint finals. Other highlights include the women’s kilo, women’s points race and men’s scratch race.
