Key events
So that, folks, is that as far as sporting action is concerned for these Commonwealth Games.
The Closing Ceremony will take place at 9pm and I’ll be back for that.
Between then and now we’ll keep the blog rolling with stories, updates and other bits (so do write in if you fancy).
What was your highlight? Who was your athlete of the Games?
Enjoy the break. Catch you in a few hours.
“It means the world to me, my family and everyone back home,” says a beaming Bostock.
He says that his first cycling memory was watching Cavendish 20 years ago.
How cool is that!?
Matthew Bostock wins gold for Isle of Man
He’s just the fourth athlete from his little island to claim gold in the Commonwealth Games!
20 years since Mark Cavendish, what a race from Bostock!
It went down to the final lap, the final half lap, the final 100m. Oh the drama!
Bostock finishes with 83 points, adding two to his tally from the final sprint.
Oliver Bleddyn from Australia holds on to second with 80 points. New Zealand’s George Jackson leapfrogs Scotland’s Mark Stewart and his countryman, Thomas Sexton, from fifth to third at the death.
Double points on offer at the finish line. So it’s all on here.
Another sprint. Bleddyn cuts the lead with 10 laps to go.
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 81
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 76
Stewart 🏴 – 55
Sexton 🇳🇿 – 53
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Perrett 🏴 – 50
Bostock on course with history.
The Isle of Man’s last Commonwealth Games cycling gold came 20 years ago, when Mark Cavendish won the men’s scratch race at Melbourne 2006. Before that, Peter Buckley won the road race in 1966.
Bostock adds to his tally with 19 laps to go.
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 78
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 71
Stewart 🏴 – 55
Sexton 🇳🇿 – 53
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Another five for Stewart who moves into the podium.
29 laps to go.
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 75
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 69
Stewart 🏴 – 55
Sexton 🇳🇿 – 53
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Perrett 🏴 – 50
Interesting now how some riders are getting help from their countrymen.
Bostock from Swift, Bleddyn from, Agnoletto, etc.
Another sprint lap down with Stewart bagging five points.
38 to go.
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 72
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 69
Sexton 🇦🇺 – 53
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Stewart 🏴 – 50
Perrett 🏴 – 50
Big changes with Matthew Bostock from the Isle of Man the big mover.
With 60 laps to go, here’s how it looks:
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 72
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 69
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Perrett 🏴 – 50
Sexton 🇳🇿 – 49
Stewart 🏴 – 45
80 laps to go.
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 51
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 49
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 49
Perrett 🏴 – 27
Agnoletto 🇦🇺 – 26
Big cheers as Scotland’s Logan Maclean registers his first points (3) of the race from the most recent sprint lap.
Gold for Cyprus as Giannis Antoniou wins the men’s +100kg judo.
In a tight bout, he beat Australia’s Kayhan Ozcicek-Takagi.
That means it’s just this 40km Men’s 40km Points Race left in the Games.
100 laps to go in the Men’s 40km Points Race Final.
With 11 sprints to go, here’s who is leading:
Jackson 🇳🇿 – 31
Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 29
Bostock 🇮🇲 – 29
Perrett 🏴 – 27
Sexton 🇦🇺 – 24
120 laps to go.
George Jackson 🇳🇿 – 30
Oliver Bleddyn 🇦🇺 – 27
William Perret wales 🏴 (and a few others) – 24
Now for the final cycling event of these Games.
It’s the Men’s 40km Points Race Final.
160 laps with points on offer every lap.
Four riders score points for finishing in the top four places.
At the end of the race, the rider with the most points wins.
Switched to the judo now where Scotland’s Gregor Miller goes down in the bronze medal bout in the men’s +100kg judo.
That trinket will go to New Zelaand’s Kody Andrews.
The other bronze (there are two awarded in judo_ went to Tonga’s Paula Monta.
Just the final coming up before judo comes to a close at the Games.
That’ll be between Australia’s Kayhan Ozcicek-Takagi and Giannis Antoniou from Cyprus.
And that is the first world record broken on the track this Commonwealth Games.
Quite a flex that she Neyland broke her own record.
Aren’t athletes amazing?
Tara Neyland wins gold in stunning final push
Agony for England’s Kadeena Cox who was praying right til the final seconds.
Neyland also broke her own world record with the final ride of the competition, clocking 1min 08.761sec to beat Cox by 1.182sec.
It’s the Women’s C4-C5 1000m TT Final at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
This is cycling’s purest race against the clock: each rider starts alone and has four laps, or one kilometre, to post the fastest time. The C classifications are for athletes who compete on standard bicycles with physical impairments affecting their limbs, coordination or muscle power; C4 and C5 are the two least impaired categories. Because the classes are combined here, times are adjusted using a factoring system to produce the final standings.
England’s Kadeena Cox is the lead with 1min 09.943sec, taking more than three and a half seconds off Erin Normoyle’s previous benchmark. It’s a nervy wait as only Tara Neyland from Australia – the world record holder – is yet to ride.
Sydnee Andrews adds another notch to Australia’s gold medal tally.
She beat Richelle Anita Soppi Mbella from Cameroon in the women’s 78+ kg judo final.
To reiterate, no man or woman has achieved what Wales’ Emma Finucane has just done.
Four sprint races. Four gold medals.
Emma Finucane makes history with a fourth gold!
Every single sprint race she entered she won!
Unreal. That surely makes her the athlete of these Games. The Welsh rider is the Queen of the Commonwealth!
New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews takes silver with Kristina Clonan from Australia rounding out the podium.
The motorised bike is gone and Finucane makes a move and is up to first for the final lap!
History beckons.
Wales’s Emma Finucane has already swept every sprint event she has entered in Glasgow and now stands on the brink of becoming the first sprinter, male or female, to win four gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games. One last blast around the boards in the keirin final could complete an unprecedented clean sweep.
Over to the Women’s Keirin final.
Was scrolling through socials to find inspiration for some more quirk and was reminded of this from five years ago:
Well, we had something similar in Glasgow.
Australia’s Kyle Chalmers and Ben Armbruster could not be separated in the men’s 50m butterfly final. Both touched in a Games-record 22.73sec, so both received gold; Cameron McEvoy completed an all-Australian podium.
Feast your eyes on these snaps:
It’s the women’s keirin second round.
The what?
The riders begin behind a motorised pacer, which steadily lifts the speed while they fight for position but cannot pass it. When the pacer leaves the track, three laps remain and the race becomes an all-out sprint, with slipstreaming, timing and avoiding being boxed in every bit as important as raw power.
Three riders from two heats have qualified for the women’s finals.
Two from Wales – Emma Finucane and Lowri Thomas – two Australians – Alessia McCaig and Kristina Clonan – Katy Marchant from England and New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews who topped her heat.
How about another quirky yarn?
The oldest of Glasgow 2026’s 4,000 volunteers is 96-year-old Moira Cross. That leaves an extraordinary 80-year gap between her and the youngest volunteer, who is 16; the youngest competing athlete was Uganda’s 14-year-old para swimmer Condoleeza Nyamisanga Nakazibwe.
England win gold with Matthew Robertson on the track
Fin Graham from Scotland exploded out of the blocks but couldn’t keep his pace up.
So it’s gold for England’s Matthew Roberston after breaking the Commonwealth Games record in the Men’s C1-C3 3000m Individual Pursuit.
Devon Briggs took home the bronze medal in the men’s C1-C3 3000m Individual Pursuit after beating Gordan Allan.
A win for the Kiwis over the Aussies as 3:26.682 beats 3:31.060.
Meanwhile, England’s Matthew Robertson has just broken a Commonwealth Games record in the gold medal race! A staggering time of 3:33.597!
Scotland’s Fin Graham will have to make history if he wants to stand on top of the podium.
Emma Reid wins gold for England in women’s 78kg judo
Unbelievable scenes!
With seconds left on the clock and staring at a 1-0 deficit, Emma Reid got into a dominant position and forced a submission against the favourite, Australia’s Maria Swan.
Wow! What a finish.
It’s the Men’s C1-C3 3000m Individual Pursuit Finals.
This is Para track cycling’s version of a three-kilometre chase. Two riders start on opposite sides of the velodrome and race 12 laps against the clock. The first rider across the line wins, unless one catches the other, which ends the contest immediately.
The C means the athletes ride standard bicycles, with adaptations where required. The classifications run from C1 to C5, with C1 indicating the greatest level of physical impairment. This event combines riders from C1, C2 and C3, with a calculation used to account for the different classifications when performances are ranked.
Scotland’s Finlay Graham, who recorded 3min 22.921sec in qualifying, faces England’s Matthew Robertson for the title. Australia’ds Gordon Allan is up against Devon Briggs for bronze.
England’s Emma Reid is 0-1 down in the women’s 78kg judo final.
She’s facing Australia’s Maria Swan.
Alyssa Polites wins gold in women’s eliminator
It’s an Australian one-two with Georgia Baker taking silver.
Utter dominance from the Aussies who dominated from start to finish.
Canada’s Maggie Coles-Lyster takes bronze after crashing yesterday.
That was fun. Would love to see other sports adopt a similar method of eliminating participants as the action unfolds.
England are out! Madelaine Leech is a goner.
So it’s two Australians v the one Canadian.
Oh no! Maggie Coles-Lyster runs out of steam so she gets bronze.
It’ll be a straight shootout between the two Austrealians, Georgia Baker and Alyssa Polites.
New Zealand are done. Ally Maree Wollaston is out.
Just four left. Two Aussies, one Canadian and one from England.
Squeaky bum time as just six riders are left.
That’ll be five. Wales’ Anna Morris is out by a whisker.
Scotland are done. Erin Boothman is out.
