Commonwealth Games 2026: England v South Africa netball, athletics, track cycling on day seven – live

Athletics Thea LaFond of Dominica extended her lead in the triple jump with a winning leap of 14.60m. The Jamaican pair of Ackelia Smith (14.04) and Shantae Foreman (13.96) took silver and bronze.

Athletics The men’s shot put has been won by Chukwuebuka Enekwechi of Nigeria. He threw 21.07m to finish just in front of Tom Walsh (21.03m) and Scott Lincoln (20.99m)

England’s Zac Shaw storms to victory in the men’s 100m T12 final, clocking a time of 10.89. That’s the fulfilment of a long-standing dream for Shaw, who took silver four years ago, and he’s full of emotion as he celebrates in the Glasgow evening sun.

Wales have pipped England in a superb women’s team sprint final, setting a new Games record of 46.760. England’s time was 46.901.

Scotland beat Australia in the bronze final.

Blimey. England looked up against it but they finished magnificently to take the title from Australia and set a new Commonwealth Games record of 3:47.092.

More gold for Australia, this time in the C4-C5 4000m individual pursuit. Tara Neyland’s factored time was a remarkable 4.46.614.

The New Zealand pair of Emma Foy and Jessie Hodges (pilot) ease to victory in the third and final race against Australia’s Jessica Gallagher and Jacqueline Mengler-Mohr (pilot). England’s Elizabeth Jordan, piloted by Sylvia Misztal, takes bronze.

Wales take bronze in the women’s 4000m team pursuit – now it’s a battle between Australia and New Zealand for gold. New Zealand are up 1.051sec at the halfway mark but Australia pull off a comeback victory with a Games record of 4:10.658!

Scotland’s Fachie is guaranteed a medal as Nigeria’s Oyindamola Abdullahi Tijani, piloted by Okeyah Bethel, records a time of 1:14.504. Australia’s Kane Perris, piloted by Luke Zaccaria … can’t beat Fachie. Can the Scotsman claim his sixth gold medal at the Commonwealth Games? Wales’ James Ball is here to close this final, piloted by Matthew Rotherham. The Welsh are in front at the 250m mark! They’ve got a lead of half a second at the halfway mark, but they lose their verve afterwards, finishing with a time of 1:00.546 – Fachie and Aaron Pope have gold!

Emily Campbell lifts 148kg at the first attempt! She jumps straight to the top of the scoreboard with a total of 263kg – and two attempts still in the back pocket! She has retained her Commonwealth title in style.

A bit of breaking news in that the Women’s 1500m T54 final is to be re-run tomorrow. It was marred by a controversial crash. It means that Melanie Woods (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿SCO) who claimed gold has to do it all again.

Fiji’s Taniela Rainibogi is going to wear gold: he backs up his dominant display in the snatch with a clean-and-jerk lift of 208kg. That brings him to a total of 378kg, and he finishes four kilos ahead of England’s Cyrille Tchatchet II. Samoa’s Jack Opeloge, making a dash for bronze by trying to lift a monstrous 210kg, has a nasty fall with his second attempt – and doesn’t fare much better with his third. Canada’s Xavier Lusignan takes third.

We go again, with 17 golds on the table today. We’ve got medal events in weightlifting, track cycling and athletics, and we’ll dip our toes in some netball and bowls, too. But we’ll struggle to find a story as extraordinary as this one:

\n Fourteen years ago, Ngake fled the London 2012 Olympic village after finishing sixth in her competition and ended up sleeping rough for a month.\n The reason? She was competing for Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal, and someone in the team had found out that she was a lesbian. And so began a journey that led to Ngake giving up elite sport for more than a decade, deciding to come back in 2023, and then transferring allegiances to Britain a year later.\n

Key events

• 54m agoLaFond takes gold in the triple jump
• 1h agoEnekwechi wins shot put gold!
• 2h agoZac Shaw wins 100m T12 gold!
• 2h agoCycling gold for Wales!
• 3h agoEngland win men's 4000m team pursuit gold!
• 3h agoTara Neyland wins cycling gold!
• 4h agoNew Zealand's Emma Foy wins gold in women's tandem B sprint
• 4h agoAustralia win the women's 4000m team pursuit
• 5h agoScotland's Neil Fachie wins the men's tandem B 1000m time trial
• 6h agoEmily Campbell wins gold in the women's +86kg weightlifting!
• 9h agoWomen’s 1500m T54 final to be restaged
• 10h agoFiji’s Taniela Rainibogi win's men's 110kg weightlifting gold
• 12h agoPreamble

Netball: England 23-24 South Africa England are having a superb second quarter and have reduced the deficit to one. I should have said that, if this does end in a draw, England will go through by virtue of their superior goal difference.

Imogen Allison also seems okay after that injury scare a few minutes ago.

Weightlifting Another plug for Sean Ingle’s excellent piece on Emily Campbell’s gold earlier today.

Netball: England 17-20 South Africa England have closed the gap to three but they’ve lost Imogen Allison to a potential ankle injury.

Netball: England 11-17 South Africa A terrific start for South Africa, who have a handy lead at the end of the first quarter. There isn’t much in it but they’ve been sharper in a few key moments.

Netball: England 4-4 South Africa

It’s all square with just over 10 minutes left in the first quarter.

Olivia Tchine of England attempts to block a pass from Sanmarie Louise Visser of South Africa. Photograph: François Nel/Getty Images

Netball The crunch match between England and South Africa is under way in The Hydro. These are the starting line-ups.

• England Tchine, Pearson, Shaw, Carter, Allison, Williams, Pechova.
• South Africa Chawane, Mathe, Ngubane, Smith, Van den Berg, Van Wyk, Visser.

Athletics: Men’s 800m semi-final The English pair of Alex Botterill and Ben Pattinson have qualified for tomorrow’s final, but Wales’ Justin Davies missed out by nine-hundredths of a second.

LaFond takes gold in the triple jump

Athletics Thea LaFond of Dominica extended her lead in the triple jump with a winning leap of 14.60m. The Jamaican pair of Ackelia Smith (14.04) and Shantae Foreman (13.96) took silver and bronze.

Dominica's Thea LaFond leaps for gold in the triple jump. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

Enekwechi wins shot put gold!

Athletics The men’s shot put has been won by Chukwuebuka Enekwechi of Nigeria. He threw 21.07m to finish just in front of Tom Walsh (21.03m) and Scott Lincoln (20.99m)

Nigeria's Chukwuebuka Enekwechi lets go of his emotions after the shot put final. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

Weightlifting: Men’s +110kg final

New Zealand’s David Liti has won the gold in this one. He lifted 223kg in the clean & jerk to take gold with one attempt to spare.

• Gold David Liti (New Zealand) 389
• Silver Lovepreet Singh (India) 388
• Bronze Andrew Griffiths (England) 356

It’s been a night to remember for Andrew Griffiths, who probably wasn’t fancied for a medal at the start.

Athletics The mighty Adaejah Hodge of the British Virgin Islands has broken the Commonwealth Games record in the 200m semi-finals. She eased to victory in a cracking time of 22.01.

The British champions Success Eduan made it through to tomorrow’s final as one of the fastest runners to finish outside the first two in their individual semi-final.

Netball: England v South Africa (9pm) There’s a huge game coming up in the hydro tonight. England and South Africa meet in what is effectively a quarter-final. The winners will go through in second place in Pool A, with New Zealand waiting in Saturday’s semi-final.

The pool winners Australia beat Northern Ireland 88-27 earlier in the day. They finish with five wins from five and will play Jamaica in the semi-finals.

Weightlifting: Men’s +110kg final Lovepreet Singh of India has stormed past Andrew Griffiths and into the lead after lifting an eye-watering 205kg with his first attempt in the clean & jerk.

India's Lovepreet Singh shifts some serious tin. Photograph: Steve Welsh/PA

Weightlifting: Men’s +110kg final The Englishman Andrew Griffiths his lifted 191kg with his second attempat the clean & jerk, which gives him an overall lead of 20kg as I type.

Athletics Dominica’s Theo LaFond has a huge lead at the halfway mark in the women’s triple jump final. She has jumped 14.59, with Ackelia Smith currently second on 14.00.

The women’s 100m T47 final was won by the Canadian Sheriauna Haase in a time of 12.23.

Zac Shaw wins 100m T12 gold!

England’s Zac Shaw storms to victory in the men’s 100m T12 final, clocking a time of 10.89. That’s the fulfilment of a long-standing dream for Shaw, who took silver four years ago, and he’s full of emotion as he celebrates in the Glasgow evening sun.

Zac Shaw with a message after his 100m T12 triumph. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA

Sean Ingle

By the time Emily Campbell stepped on to the platform for a final time on Thursday, the women’s +86kg weightlifting final had all the fervour of a revivalist meeting.

Everyone was cheering. There were loud shouts and exhortations. And people who didn’t know a snatch from a clean and jerk two hours before had become instant converts. It was the Campbell Effect in action again. But the double Olympic medallist wasn’t finished there.

“Emily is not satisfied with a gold medal,” said the announcer. “She’s not satisfied with a CWG [Commonwealth Games] record. She wants more!” The clean and jerk bar had been set to 160kg. But the army volunteers whose job it is to add more weights had barely moved, when the announcer piped up again. “Stop the clock! 163kg on the bar please loaders. Emily wants a Commonwealth record!”

Athletics The men’s shot put final is just past the halfway point. Tom Walsh of New Zealand leads with 21.03, a nose ahead of England’s Scott Lincoln (20.99).

But you can’t win them all

Another cycling gold for Australia, who have beaten England in the men’s team sprint final.

Weightifting: Men’s +110kg This is the leaderboard at the halfway stage, with the clean & jerk still to come. Samoa’s Sanele Mao – who won gold in 2018 – aimed high in the snatch, starting at 175kg, but failed with all three lifts. That’s a big surprise.

• 176kg Lovepreet Singh (India)
• 166kg David Andrew Liti (New Zealand)
• 165kg Andrew Griffiths (England)
• 145kg Sikoti Manumua Jr (Tonga), James Wales (Wales)

Athletics: Men’s 200m semi-finals Sinesipho Dambile of South Africa stormed to victory in a time of 19.82. Aaron Brown (19.90) also qualified for tomorrow’s final, and Lachlan Kennedy’s time of 20.12 is plenty good enough for him to be one of the two ‘lucky losers’. The other is Prince Phaezel Selepe from the second semi-final.

Athletics: Men’s 200m semi-finals Joshua Paul Amoah (Ghana) and Jevaughn Powell (Jamaica) are the automatic qualifiers from the second semi-final, both timed at 20.24.

Athletics Time for the men’s 200m semi-finals. The first has just been won by Jamaica’s Chris Taylor (20.20), with Nigeria’s Udodi Chudi Onwuzurike (20.22) also qualifying automatically in second. England’s Zharnel Hughes had a tough race and finished sixth.

Cycling Wales have forfeited their men’s bronze final against Trinidad and Tobago. One of their riders – I’m not sure who – was taken ill before the start, and with no reserve available the race has been forfeited. It looked like the medics made the decision that he should not be allowed to start the race.

Cycling gold for Wales!

Wales have pipped England in a superb women’s team sprint final, setting a new Games record of 46.760. England’s time was 46.901.

Scotland beat Australia in the bronze final.

The Welsh team of (l-r) Rhian Edmunds, Lowri Thomas and Emma Finucane on their way to victory over England in the final of the women's team sprint. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Athletics A busy evening of athletics gets under way this instant with the men’s shot put. We also have these finals to come:

• Women’s triple jump
• Women’s 100m T47
• Men’s 100m T12
• Women’s discuss
• Women’s 5000m
• Women’s 100m hurdles

Weightlifting Plenty of grunting in my office at the SEC Armadillo, where the men’s +110kg final is up and running. South Africa’s Christoffel Frederik Reeders has kicked off by lifting 135kg in the snatch; I think I pulled a shoulder muscle just watching him.

The best images from day seven in Glasgow, featuring athletics, track cycling and netball.

England win men's 4000m team pursuit gold!

Blimey. England looked up against it but they finished magnificently to take the title from Australia and set a new Commonwealth Games record of 3:47.092.

Team England take gold! Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Cycling: Men’s 4000m team pursuit The final between Australia and England is pretty much neck and neck at the halfway point. But Maurice Mentum is with Australia.

Tara Neyland wins cycling gold!

More gold for Australia, this time in the C4-C5 4000m individual pursuit. Tara Neyland’s factored time was a remarkable 4.46.614.

Tara Neyland celebrates gold in the women's C4-5 4000m individual pursuit. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

Cycling Australia’s Tara Neyland is on course to beat England’s Morgan Newberry to gold in the C4-C5 4000m individual pursuit, and she’s probably going to break the world record as well.

Thanks Taha, hello again. We’ve got a bumper evening ahead, so let’s crack on.

Time for Rob Smyth to return.

New Zealand's Emma Foy wins gold in women's tandem B sprint

The New Zealand pair of Emma Foy and Jessie Hodges (pilot) ease to victory in the third and final race against Australia’s Jessica Gallagher and Jacqueline Mengler-Mohr (pilot). England’s Elizabeth Jordan, piloted by Sylvia Misztal, takes bronze.

Emma Foy and pilot Jessie Hodges (left) take gold for New Zealand. Photograph: Molly Darlington/Getty Images

Netball: Australia have wrapped up their fifth and final pool match, demolishing Northern Ireland 88-27. They head to the semi-finals with a perfect record.

Para track cycling: A thrilling race between New Zealand’s Emma Foy (pilot: Jessie Hodges) and Australia’s Jessica Gallagher (pilot: Jacqueline Mengler-Mohr) in the women’s tandem B sprint gold final. The New Zealand pair overtake at the last second to win it, taking us to a decider.

Australia win the women's 4000m team pursuit

Wales take bronze in the women’s 4000m team pursuit – now it’s a battle between Australia and New Zealand for gold. New Zealand are up 1.051sec at the halfway mark but Australia pull off a comeback victory with a Games record of 4:10.658!

Team Australia ride to victory during the women's 4000m team pursuit final. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Sophie Edwards, Claudia Marcks, Alyssa Polites, Felicity Wilson-Haffenden, and Georgia Baker of Australia celebrate their victory. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

Para track cycling: Neil Fachie speaks:

double quotation markI didn’t think we were going to win today. So that is extra special. I came out of retirement for this race, got paired up with this man [Aaron Pope] and it has been an absolute privilege and joy riding with him. He is the future of tandem sprinting – I am definitely not.

Para track cycling: Oh dear. There’s a nasty clash of bikes in the women’s tandem B sprint gold final, Australia’s tandem colliding with New Zealand’s.

Scotland's Neil Fachie wins the men's tandem B 1000m time trial

Scotland’s Fachie is guaranteed a medal as Nigeria’s Oyindamola Abdullahi Tijani, piloted by Okeyah Bethel, records a time of 1:14.504. Australia’s Kane Perris, piloted by Luke Zaccaria … can’t beat Fachie. Can the Scotsman claim his sixth gold medal at the Commonwealth Games? Wales’ James Ball is here to close this final, piloted by Matthew Rotherham. The Welsh are in front at the 250m mark! They’ve got a lead of half a second at the halfway mark, but they lose their verve afterwards, finishing with a time of 1:00.546 – Fachie and Aaron Pope have gold!

Neil Fachie and Aaron Pope of Scotland on their way to gold in the men's Tandem B 1000m time trial final. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

Neil Fachie (right) and pilot Aaron Pope of Scotland celebrate their victory with the Saltire. Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP

Para track cycling: We’re into the men’s tandem B 1000m time trial final – with Scotland’s Neil Fachie up, piloted by Aaron Pope. Fachie already has five Commonwealth golds, and he combines with Pope to lead the standings with a time of 1:00.162. There are three pairs still to come.

The snappers are having a great time.

Weightlifting: Emily Campbell isn’t content with just gold in the women’s +86kg – she’s going for records. Campbell lifts an extraordinary 163kg, a Commonwealth best, in the clean-and-jerk, finishing with a total of 278kg. That’s 25 kilos clear of Malaysia’s Siti Aqilah Farhana Draman in silver.

Emily Campbell of England lifts 163kg. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Campbell celebrates breaking the Commonwealth Games record and winning the gold medal. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Taha Hashim

Netball: Hello again, wonderful people. Australia are up against Northern Ireland in their final pool match and, as expected, they’re in control: 17-4 up in the first quarter.

I’m going to hand over to Taha Hashim for a bit, so I’ll sign off with the leaderboard in the weightlifting. As I type, Emily Campbell has lifted 155 with her second attempt to break the Games record.

• 1 Emily Campbell (England) 270 with one attempt remaining
• 2 Siti Aqilah Farhana Draman (Malaysia) 253
• 3 Etta Mae Love (Canada) 250

Emily Campbell wins gold in the women's +86kg weightlifting!

Emily Campbell lifts 148kg at the first attempt! She jumps straight to the top of the scoreboard with a total of 263kg – and two attempts still in the back pocket! She has retained her Commonwealth title in style.

Emily Campbell of England celebrates after her 148kg lift. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Etta Mae Love of Canada lifts 144kg in the clean & jerk, which means she will finish with a total of 250kg. Emily Campbell is yet to have her first attempt as she’s starting at 147kg.

Siti Aqilah Farhana Draman of Malaysia has lifted 140kg with her final attempt, so she finishes with a total of 253kg. She’s top of the scoreboard for now, though there are several moving parts.

Weightlifting +86kg The heavy lifters are getting into their work in the clean & jerk. Tui-Alofa Patolo has lifted 130kg and missed 135kg; Siti Aqilah Farhana Draman has lifted 135kg. Emily Campbell is down for 145kg I think.

Sean Ingle

It turned into Glasgow’s version of Wacky Races. After four crashes, three overturned wheelchairs, three appeals and a disqualification, the women’s T54 1500m final is to be rerun 39 hours after it first took place.

The controversial decision was taken on Thursday after the extraordinary scenes at the Scotstoun track on Wednesday – and despite the medallists doing a lap of honour, posing for photographs together and going to bed thinking they were part of Commonwealth history.

The drama started on the first bend when Canada’s Nandini Sharma cut across Noemi Alphonse of Mauritius, who then flipped spectacularly in the air.

Moments later Australia’s Eliza Ault-Connell, who had also been impeded, was knocked to the floor. The chain reaction then led to Scotland’s Joanna Robertson skidding on one wheel across the Mondo track, while England’s Ellis Kottas crashed into a wall.

While all this was happening, Scotland’s Melanie Woods took gold in a Commonwealth record of 3min 33.39sec. But it turned out the drama was just getting started.

Netball It has finished New Zealand 83-23 Trinidad and Tobago in the Hydro. A predictable result that completes a perfect pool stage for the Silver Ferns: five games, five wins. A semi-final against England or South Africa awaits.

New Zealand romp home against Trinidad and Tobago. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

Weightlifting +86kg The clean & jerk is up and running, or maybe that should be up and lifting. Has lift off? No, that’s an affront to C.P. Scott.

Either way, people are lifting stuff, though none of the favourites/leaders have strained their sinews just yet.

Netball New Zealand lead Trinidad and Tobabo 71-19 with just under 10 minutes of the match remaining. Barring an unimaginable twist, New Zealand’s semi-final opponents on Saturday lunchtime will be either England or South Africa. They meet at 9pm in a de facto quarter-final.

Sean Ingle

Commonwealth Sport chiefs have dismissed Idi Amin’s grandson’s claims of corruption and racism after he was disqualified for a head-butt in the super-heavyweight boxing.

Aziz Abdul lashed out at the decision by the Argentinian referee, Manuel Vilarino, after losing his quarter-final fight to England’s Damar Thomas. It came after he was correctly docked a point for a standing count in the first round, another for repeatedly punching on the break, and then disqualified for a blatant butt.

Abdul, representing Uganda, took a different view. “Of course it’s unfair,” he said. “When you watch the previous fights of England, their boxers play a lot of bullshit. They cannot judge them wrong. I took a light punch and they counted. I landed a heavy punch on him and they deducted my points and warned me.

“I’m a black African, I know,” he added. “It’s God’s plan. I don’t know why the officials are scared about this fight. Why can’t they let this fight continue? All I can say about this is the referee’s decision is not right and I am not happy.”

However Abdul was contradicted on Thursday by Dr Donald Rukare, the president of Commonwealth Sport, who is also from Uganda. “We at Commonwealth Sport believe that every athlete is treated fairly in a non discriminatory manner,” he said. “We are inclusive. I think that was probably something said in the heat of the moment.”