Commonwealth Games 2026: Scotland’s Josh Kerr storms to gold in men’s mile final – live

England’s Owen Heard fails on his final attempt at 5.80m – which would have been a major PB – but treats the crowd to a backflip on the mat anyway. A nice way to celebrate an excellent bronze.

South Africa’s Kyle Rademeyer can only hop on to the mat on his final attempt and that confirms his silver.

Just for the hell of it, Marschall goes for a Commonwealth Games record of 5.85m – the bar wobbles agonisingly after he goes over … but falls to the ground.

Stafford grimaces as she heads down the back straight. Hull and Caldwell ease past her on the final bend and it’s Caldwell who kicks hardest! Hull can’t catch her and has to settle for silver, with Claudia Hollingsworth coming in with bronze to make it an Australia one-two-three.

It’s an astonishing final leg from Jamaica’s Dajanea Oakley as she storms through the field from fourth all the way to gold!

Lina Nielsen of England kicks hard to come past Nigeria’s Ella Onojuvwevwo on the home straight.

Josh Kerr speaks to TNT Sports …

On the gold medal:

\n It means everything. This was the championships of my season. World indoors, going to London and everything … this was the one we had circled on the calendar. Didn’t put my performance together in the way I wanted in 2022 – I think a British crowd deserved more from me. I owed them that for sure.\n

On the race tactics …

\n I think when you’re running that slow, your job is just not to waste energy. I did that very well. I knew an opportunity would open up. Jake was on my outside and he’s such a great closer, so I knew the door would open when it was time.\n I had a lot of energy where I could put a gap on them last 200, so I was like: you know what, I’ll just go early. I think we saved everyone some stress.\n

On following up his world record …

\n London was a big stress, pushing my body to the absolute extreme limit. Coming in and doing a championship race is a nice clean of palette – using your brain instead of your body. It’s how I love to race, so it’s nice to do that.\n

On winning at a home Games …

\n This is absolutely incredible. To do it in front of a Scottish crowd, where I learned how to race – I came here week after week growing up as a kid. We’re very fortunate in Scotland to ahve great faciltiies – to have a home Games like this, hopefully we can continue that, the depth of the athletes coming through.\n

Kerr hits the front on the back straight and the Glasgow crowd go mad! Wightman tries to go with him but nobody can catch him! Kerr streaks away down the home straight and wins the mile by a mile! He even has time to ask the crowd for some more noise before crossing the line.

Myers takes silver and Cheruiyot bronze. Heyward finishes in a superb fourth and Wightman drops to sixth.

A shock result! Kenya’s Wycliffe Kinyamal, the defending champion, led for most of the race until Anderson took charge on the final bend and powered home on the straight. Anderson does the Usain Bolt finger point celebration. That’s nice.

Luke Boyes of Australia came through for silver while England’s Pattison and Botterill gave themselves too much to do. Botterill tried to edge past Kinyamal on the inside approaching the line but, without getting all VAR, he probably initiated the contact himself. Kinyamal holds on for bronze.

Nigeria’s Ruth Usoro cannot improve on her opening jump of 6.87m and Sawyers drops to her knees in a fit of giggles! She doesn’t need to do a final jump because her best of 6.93m has earned her a first Commonwealth title! The 32-year-old sets off in celebration – what a reward after so many injury problems. It’s bronze for Australia’s Brooke Buschkuehl on 6.80m.

Ashanti Moore brings the baton home for Jamaica! She was pushed all the way down the home straight by Canada’s Audrey Leduc. Trinidad and Tobago take bronze ahead of Australia, England, Nigeria and Scotland.

Wow! From the outside lane! Lachlan Kennedy’s first leg kickstarted their race and Rohan Browning held on against Canada’s Andre de Grasse on the final leg! Nigeria pip Ghana to bronze by one-hundredth of a second.

Robinson takes the lead with around 600m to go. Ahmed tries to move to the front of the leading group of eight athletes. When the main attack comes, it is from Kipsang, who charges clear down the back straight and puts an unassailable distance between him and the rest, jumping for joy over the finishing line.

Robinson comes back for silver after the shock of Kipsang’s breakaway, with India’s Gulveer Singh winning bronze.

Woods does the double! After winning the 1500m yesterday, the Scot streaks away on the final straight to the delight of the Glasgow crowd. Like in the 1500m Alphonse won silver for Mauritius, while Jess Lewis takes bronze for Bermuda.

The final two laps of the 10km race are thrown into chaos as almost half the 20-strong field are strewn across the track after a heavy pile-up coming out of the third-to-last bend.

The 19-year-old Hobbs stays calm and crosses the line in front of Thomas Cornish of Australia and Ethan Vernon of England.

Cycling: It’s a proper ding-dong battle in the second heat of the gold final as Hoffman is pushed right up to the barriers during the second lap by Nicholas Paul. Both riders put their foot down at the bell and Hoffman zips past on the final straight.

It’s gold for Australia, silver for Trinidad and Tobago and bronze for Australia too after Tayte Ryan sews up that playoff against England’s Harry Ledingham -Horn.

After picking up bronze four years ago, England’s Petersen-Pollard is victorious in the women’s 70kg category, defeating Australia’s Aoife Coughlan by ippon in the final.

“I’m chuffed with that,” says Petersen-Pollard. “After Birmingham I wasn’t as happy as I could be with bronze. Oh, it’s just such a nice feeling.”

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: 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.

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.

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.

It’s all over – Australia 45-46 Jamaica! The roof comes off the Hydro! It’s one of the biggest upsets in netball history!

Australia launch a late comeback but Sophie Dwyer fails on her final shot at goal! The buzzer goes and Jamaica’s substitutes and coaches pour on to the court.

Jamaica reach just their second Commonwealth final and exact revenge on Australia, who beat them to gold four years ago.

Boxing Okoh keeps Williams at arm’s length and does more than enough to secure the gold. That’s England’s 21st of the Games – they’re second in the medal table but well behind Australia who have a dominant 59.

Athletics Australia have hoovered up the final two golds of the afternoon at the Scotstoun Stadium. Matthew Denny took gold in the men’s discus, with Jamaica’s Fedrick Dacres in silver and England’s Lawrence Okoye picking up bronze. And in the women’s T38 200m Australia’s Rhiannon Clarke beat double Olympic champion (and 100m winner earlier in the week) Sophie Hahn to gold.

Boxing It’s a split decision and Jon McConnell comes out on the winning side of it. That’s Northern Ireland’s second gold of these Games, following Kate O’Connor in the women’s heptathlon.

Boxing Cassar can’t make up the difference in the last, so Patris Mughalzai takes Commonwealth Games gold, England’s 20th gold of these Games.

Athletics There’s a reason she was the strong favourite: Dejanea Oakley has cruised to victory in the women’s 400m in a time of 50.21.

Sada Williams took silver, Ella Onojuvwevwo the bronze.

Athletics Samuel Ogazi of Nigeria, the fastest man in the world this year, pulls away to win the men’s 400m in a time of 44.25. That’s an emphatic victory – Jereem Richards ran 44.82 to win silver, with Zakithi Nene (45.21) picking up the bronze.

The time wasn’t great by Ogazi’s standards. As if he’ll care!

Men’s triple jump Jamaica’s Jordan Scott has won with a best jump of 16.72m. The Indian pair of Praveen Chithravel (16.58) and Selva Prabhu Thirumaran (16.52) join him on the podium.

Men’s 1500m T54 final Nathan Maguire powered to victory in the last lap, with Daniel Sidbury (England) taking silver and Sam Rizzo (Australia) the bronze.

Maguire, the husband of the great Hannah Cockroft, is being interviewed with their two-month-old daughter Rosie in his arms.

\n I was so boxed. And then I felt like Moses – it just parted and I got through. I don’t know how it happened!\n There was a little bit of panic. When I heard the bell (for the last lap) I thought, ‘Oh my god, I’m so stuck.’ I dropped them a lot more than I expected!\n

The Black Ferns will play Australia or Jamaica in tomorrow’s gold-medal match after beating England 61-54 in the first semi-final at the Hydro.

New Zealand, who took bronze four years ago, are one game away from winning Commonwealth gold for the first time since 2010. This will be their first final since Glasgow 2014, when they lost to… Australia.

Hello and welcome to live coverage of a bumper day nine at the Commonwealth Games. There are – count ‘em, Stan – 44 gold medals up for grabs in the next 12 hours or so.

The athletics highlights include the men’s 800m, men’s and women’s 400m, men’s and women’s mile, men’s, women’s and mixed 4x100m relay, men’s triple jump, women’s long jump and the women’s javelin.

There was an early start at the Hydro, where a huge netball semi-final between New Zealand and England is well under way. Let’s get straight into that.

Key events

• 4m agoAustralia’s Kurtis Marschall wins gold in men’s pole vault
• 10m agoAbbey Caldwell wins gold in Australia clean sweep in women's mile!
• 36m agoJamaica win gold in 4x400m mixed relay!
• 44m agoKerr: 'I think we saved everyone some stress'
• 1h agoScotland's Josh Kerr wins gold in men's one mile!
• 1h agoJamaica's Navasky Anderson wins gold in men's 800m final
• 1h agoEngland's Jazmin Sawyers wins women's long jump!
• 2h agoJamaica win women's 4x100m relay!
• 2h agoAustralia win gold in men's 4x100m relay!
• 2h agoKenya's Matthew Kipsang wins gold in men's 5000m
• 3h agoScotland's Melanie Woods wins women's T54 400m!
• 3h agoEngland's Henry Hobbs wins men's scratch race after massive pile-up
• 4h agoAustralia's Leigh Hoffman wins gold in men's sprint
• 4h agoEngland's Kelly Petersen-Pollard wins gold in women's 70kg judo
• 4h agoGold for Emma Finucane in women's 1,000m time trial
• 5h agoNeil Fachie takes gold!
• 5h agoGold for India in women's 51kg
• 6h agoGold and silver for Wales in the women's 25km points race
• 8h agoJamaica stun Australia to reach netball final!
• 8h agoGold for England's Isaac Okoh
• 8h agoMore golds for Australia
• 9h agoGold for McConnell and Northern Ireland
• 9h agoGold for Mughalzai
• 10h agoDejanea Oakley wins 400m gold!
• 10h agoSamuel Ogazi storms to 400m gold!
• 10h agoJordan Scott wins triple jump gold
• 11h agoEngland's Nathan Maguire wins gold!
• 12h agoNew Zealand beat England in netball semi-final
• 12h agoPreamble

Men’s pole vault: The moustachioed Marschall looks like he’s enjoying being the centre of attention. The organisers get on with the remaining medal ceremonies anyway while we wait for his second jump.

Australia’s Kurtis Marschall wins gold in men’s pole vault

England’s Owen Heard fails on his final attempt at 5.80m – which would have been a major PB – but treats the crowd to a backflip on the mat anyway. A nice way to celebrate an excellent bronze.

South Africa’s Kyle Rademeyer can only hop on to the mat on his final attempt and that confirms his silver.

Just for the hell of it, Marschall goes for a Commonwealth Games record of 5.85m – the bar wobbles agonisingly after he goes over … but falls to the ground.

Scotstoun Stadium lets off more blue and white fireworks and smoke because, well, why not. Presumably they didn’t have any green and gold. Calvert (7th) and Reekie (10th) weren’t close to the medals. Stafford, who made that attack, held on well for fourth.

Australia’s medallists head out on a victory lap. What a Games they’ve had.

That’s all from the track events, but how did the pole vault finish?

Abbey Caldwell wins gold in Australia clean sweep in women's mile!

Stafford grimaces as she heads down the back straight. Hull and Caldwell ease past her on the final bend and it’s Caldwell who kicks hardest! Hull can’t catch her and has to settle for silver, with Claudia Hollingsworth coming in with bronze to make it an Australia one-two-three.

Caldwell celebrates after winning the Women's One Mile Final. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Women’s one mile: Lucia Stafford of Canada makes a break for it down the back straight and we’re off. Hull is just biding her time as they hit the bell.

Women’s one mile: With two laps to go, Reekie and Calvert still lead a pedestrian race. Nobody is making a move yet.

Women’s one mile: And they’re off. The Scottish duo of Reekie and Calvert go out in front.

Men’s pole vault: More failed 5.80m attempts from Heard and Rademeyer. Marschall may not have long to wait to be confirmed as the winner.

Let’s go running first.

Women’s one mile: The athletes are coming out for the final track event of these Games. Australia’s Jessica Hull is the woman to beat. Glasgow have Scotland’s Jemma Reekie and Sarah Calvert to cheer for.

The athletes before the Women's One Mile Final. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

Men’s pole vault: Heard and Rademeyer fail in their first attempts at 5.80m. Marschall can feel a bit smug as he watches on.

Mixed 4x400m relay: Australia have been disqualified for a lane infringement – they finished 7th anyway.

Men’s 4x100m relay: Yes, this happened a while ago but Canada have been reinstated in silver, presumably after an appeal. That means Nigeria drop to bronze and Ghana out of the medals. South Africa remain disqualified.

Men’s pole vault: Marschall goes clear at 5.80m at the first attempt and he makes it look easy. The Australian cleared 5.90m to beat Mondo Duplantis in Stockholm in June. And, well, you don’t really do that unless you’re very good.

Men’s pole vault: It’s storming contest in the infield with a three-way fight for gold between Australia’s Kurtis Marschall, South Africa’s Kyle Rademeyer and England’s Owen Heard – they’ve all cleared at 5.70m and are guaranteed a medal.

It’s a real shame for Australia. Mia Gross ran an excellent second leg and handed over to Tom Reynolds in first place. They finished all the way down in 7th. Jemma Pollard looked to be struggling with an injury on the final leg before tripping on the home straight.

Kenya were 4th, Scotland 5th and India 6th. Zambia did not finish.

Jamaica win gold in 4x400m mixed relay!

It’s an astonishing final leg from Jamaica’s Dajanea Oakley as she storms through the field from fourth all the way to gold!

Lina Nielsen of England kicks hard to come past Nigeria’s Ella Onojuvwevwo on the home straight.

Mixed 4x400m relay: The top three after the first two legs …

1. Australia 2. England 3. Nigeria

Next up – the mixed 4x400m relay final. England, Nigeria, Jamaica, Kenya, Australia and Scotland are among those vying for a first Commonwealth title in this event.

Two men, two women – the men head off on the first leg, the women will bring it home. They’ll start in their lanes but it will be a free-for-all after the first leg.

Kerr: 'I think we saved everyone some stress'

Josh Kerr speaks to TNT Sports …

On the gold medal:

double quotation markIt means everything. This was the championships of my season. World indoors, going to London and everything … this was the one we had circled on the calendar. Didn’t put my performance together in the way I wanted in 2022 – I think a British crowd deserved more from me. I owed them that for sure.

On the race tactics …

double quotation markI think when you’re running that slow, your job is just not to waste energy. I did that very well. I knew an opportunity would open up. Jake was on my outside and he’s such a great closer, so I knew the door would open when it was time. I had a lot of energy where I could put a gap on them last 200, so I was like: you know what, I’ll just go early. I think we saved everyone some stress.

On following up his world record …

double quotation markLondon was a big stress, pushing my body to the absolute extreme limit. Coming in and doing a championship race is a nice clean of palette – using your brain instead of your body. It’s how I love to race, so it’s nice to do that.

On winning at a home Games …

double quotation markThis is absolutely incredible. To do it in front of a Scottish crowd, where I learned how to race – I came here week after week growing up as a kid. We’re very fortunate in Scotland to ahve great faciltiies – to have a home Games like this, hopefully we can continue that, the depth of the athletes coming through.

Scotland have their golden moment of these Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, delivered by their poster boy. Kerr looked like he was boxed in during the second lap but he came on to the outside of Myers and Cheruiyot at the bell and set off down the back straight, propelled by huge home support. He didn’t look back after that.

There were white and blue fireworks/smoke at Scotstoun Stadium to top it all off. I’m glad they got to use those.

Scotland's Josh Kerr wins gold in men's one mile!

Kerr hits the front on the back straight and the Glasgow crowd go mad! Wightman tries to go with him but nobody can catch him! Kerr streaks away down the home straight and wins the mile by a mile! He even has time to ask the crowd for some more noise before crossing the line.

Myers takes silver and Cheruiyot bronze. Heyward finishes in a superb fourth and Wightman drops to sixth.

Kerr wins gold. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Kerr celebrates with fans Photograph: The Guardian

Men’s one mile: Lots more pushing on the penultimate lap. Wales’ Jake Heyward is in a very decent position. Cheruiyot takes the lead heading for the bell, Myers is on his shoulder …

Men’s one mile: The big names let Tshepiso Masalela lead from the front on the first lap. Brian Komen is on his shoulder but Wightman and Kerr are there too. There are some elbows flying about.

It’s the men’s mile next! Josh Kerr, Jake Wightman and Cameron Myers will fight this out but the field is so strong. Timothy Cheruiyot is here too.

Kerr broke the world record in London last month. Will we get another one? This should be tasty.

Jamaica's Navasky Anderson wins gold in men's 800m final

A shock result! Kenya’s Wycliffe Kinyamal, the defending champion, led for most of the race until Anderson took charge on the final bend and powered home on the straight. Anderson does the Usain Bolt finger point celebration. That’s nice.

Luke Boyes of Australia came through for silver while England’s Pattison and Botterill gave themselves too much to do. Botterill tried to edge past Kinyamal on the inside approaching the line but, without getting all VAR, he probably initiated the contact himself. Kinyamal holds on for bronze.

Anderson celebrates after winning the Men's 800m Final. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters

Men’s 800m: They’re off again on the track. England have a good chance of some medals here with Alex Botterill, coached by Steve Cram, and Ben Pattison. There are three Australians in this final.

England's Jazmin Sawyers wins women's long jump!

Nigeria’s Ruth Usoro cannot improve on her opening jump of 6.87m and Sawyers drops to her knees in a fit of giggles! She doesn’t need to do a final jump because her best of 6.93m has earned her a first Commonwealth title! The 32-year-old sets off in celebration – what a reward after so many injury problems. It’s bronze for Australia’s Brooke Buschkuehl on 6.80m.

Here’s Sean Ingle to get you in the mood for the men’s one mile, coming up shortly.

double quotation markOn Saturday night the men’s mile should provide another contest for the ages, with Scotland’s Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman facing Australia’s new superstar Cameron Myers. Everyone knows about Kerr. Since the 28-year-old ran an astonishing 3:42.66 to break the world mile record, there have been profiles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and he has become joint favourite with Jude Bellingham to win the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year. Plenty of non-athletics fans will also be aware of Wightman, given that he won the world 1500m title in Eugene in 2022 while his dad, Geoff, was commentating in the stadium, and followed it up with a world silver in Tokyo in September 2025. And while the 20-year-old Myers might be a new name to some, everyone in track and field is in awe of his talent. “I got beaten by him in 2024 in Australia,” says Wightman. “And I was like, ‘man, he’s going to be good.’ But he just kept getting better every year. He’s the future of the sport.”

Women’s long jump: England’s Jazmin Sawyers (6.93m) still leads with one jump remaining. Nigeria’s Ruth Usoro (6.87m) and Australia’s Brooke Buschkuehl (6.80m) are trying to stop her.

Australia’s Mackenzie Little wins the women’s javelin

Tori Moorby of New Zealand cannot improve on her best throw of 60.04m, leaving Little to a victory throw of her own. She wins with a season’s best of 61.88m. Irene Jepkemboi of Kenya takes bronze on 57.85m.

Women’s javelin: We’re at the business end of this competition as Australia’s Lianna Davidson has to settle for fourth after her sixth throw. Irene Jepkemboi of Kenya already has bronze and can’t improve on that in her final throw. It’s between New Zealand and Australia for gold.

Women’s 4x100m relay: Success Eduan had a good anchor leg for England but she had little chance of a medal by that point. More disappointment for the defending champions here too. Nigeria are disqualified, bumping Scotland up to 6th.

Jamaica win women's 4x100m relay!

Ashanti Moore brings the baton home for Jamaica! She was pushed all the way down the home straight by Canada’s Audrey Leduc. Trinidad and Tobago take bronze ahead of Australia, England, Nigeria and Scotland.

Moore ocrosses the finish line for gold. Photograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images

Women’s 4x100m relay: England, Nigeria, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica are all in the hunt for gold here. Unless Australia can cause another upset – or what about Scotland?

Women’s long jump: England’s Jazmin Sawyers goes into provisional gold with a massive jump of 6.93m – that’s her personal best outdoors.

Sawyers of England din the Long Jump final. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA

Scratch that. Canada have bene disqualified for a lane infringement on their first baton change between Aaron Brown and Jerome Blake. South Africa have also been disqualified.

So Nigeria move up to silver, Ghana up to bronze, England up to 4th.