Commonwealth Games day 10: New Zealand win netball gold; track cycling and more – live

Key events

• 21s ago

  Emma Finucane makes history with a fourth gold!

• 40m ago

  England win gold with Matthew Robertson on the track

• 54m ago

  Emma Reid wins gold for England in women's 78kg judo

• 1h ago

  Alyssa Polites wins gold in women's eliminator

• 2h ago

  New Zealand win gold in netball

• 2h ago

  England’s Katherine Rednall wins gold in bowls

• 4h ago

  Leigh Hoffman wins cycling gold

• 5h ago

  76-year-old Hoskins wins gold!

• 6h ago

  McKeown and Kelly win bowls gold!

• 6h ago

  Australia beat England to netball bronze

• 6h ago

  Day nine at the Games

• 6h ago

  Preamble

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.

Carys Lloyd of Wales is out.

She finishes in 8th.

Two Aussies, one each for Wales, Canada, England, New Zealand and Scotland left.

An Aussie goes. So does a Kiwi!

Eight riders remain.

A reminder how this works.

The last rider at the back of the pack at specific intervals (usually every lap or every two laps) is removed until only two riders remain to sprint for the win.

Wales lose their first of three riders as Jessica Roberts is out.

Another English rider is out.

Abigail Miller leaves in 13th place.

Three Ausies, three Kiwis and three Welsh riders remain.

Make that two Kiwis as Prudence Fowler makes way.

Just 10 riders left.

Another Scot bites the dust

Kate Richardson departs. Just one Scot, Erin Boothman, remains.

It’s not great for the Home Nations as Northern Ireland’s Erin Creighton is booted out.

England’s Sophie Lewis is out.

So too is Canada’s Alexandra Volstad.

Scotland’s Neah Evans is the sixth rider out.

South Africa’s S’annara Grove is the first cyclist eliminated.

Just two laps for her.

This is such a brutal sport.

Esther Won from Northern Ireland joins her. From 22 riders we have 19.

Over to the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome where a bunch of track cycling events will take place.

First up is the Women’s elimination race.

Winning any medal is always the result of hard graft. Exvept when it isn’t.

Tuvalu’s Tarona Taafaki won her country’s first Commonwealth Games medal despite not winning a bout. The 20-year-old received a bye into the five-woman 75kg semi-finals and was guaranteed bronze before losing to Lovlina Borgohain. “Probably 95% of the audience don’t know where my country is,” she said.

I’ve done some digging to find some of the quirkier stories from these Games.

To kick things off, this has got to be the quirkiest.

There have been some hastily assembled relay teams over the years, but St Helena’s men may take the prize. The four runners live across three islands separated by 3,200km and had never met before arriving in Glasgow.

They finished seventh in their men’s 4x100m heat in 44.56 sec, so did not reach the final.

It’s never too late to achieve greatness.

Don’t take my word for it. Read on and be inspired.

Those two gold medals were the 27th and 9th for England and New Zealand respectively.

Australia lead the way with 68 golds and a total of 163 medals.

England are in second with a tally of 106. Hosts Scotland have 38, 13 of them gold.

England’s captain, Fran Williams, gets emotional speaking to TNT after her team’s bronze medal match defeat.

She says she’s so “proud to represent England”.

I believe her.

Fair play to the Jamaicans.

They were well beaten but they are dancing alongside their opponents and sharing loads of hugs.

Hope this doesn’t sound too twee, but you really love to see that in sports.

New Zealand win gold in netball

They’re dancing and jumping and hollering!

Good on the Kiwis. They were top drawer and deserve their first CG gold in 16 years!

The Kiwi reserves are revved up. They’re ready to storm the court…

Less than a minute to go. New Zealand 56-47 Jamaica.

3.15 left in the Netball.

New Zealand have this in the bag. 56-44 up on Jamaica.

England’s Katherine Rednall wins gold in bowls

Victory over Guernsey’s Ali Merrien. They’ll be singing and dancing in Ipswich!

Heffernen has the ball pinging around between Kiwi hands, setting up a goal.

Jamaica answer back straight away but they’re nine adrift with 7.52 left.

Both teams notch a goal. That’ll do for the Silver Ferns. 49-40 up with now less than nine minutes to go.

Champion teams seem to have higher gears and these Kiwis are about to become champions having found theirs.

48-38 with less than 10 to go. That’s a goal a minute needed for the Sunshine Girls if they want to create history.

Aiken-George gets one. Nine needed now.

Ekenasio is dominating the semi-circle.

That’s another goal for her. Jamaica answer back soon after but the Silver Ferns lead 46-38 with just over 11 minutes left.

Top start from the Kiwis. They look so composed, moving the ball at pace.

44-36. Three points in a flash. Is that the game?

Alrighty, final 15 minutes left of the netball.

Thanks The Jamaicans were dancing during the interval. They’ll want to start well to close this 41-36 deficit.

The bowls women’s single gold medal match is underway.

England’s Katherine Rendall won the first set against Ali Merrien from Guernsey 8-6.

She’s 4-2 up in the second.

NZ miss a free throw after a Jamaican foul but they head into the final quarter 41-36 up.

Jamaica rushing things in possession and handing it away cheaply.

They pull one back to reduce the gap to four though.

Five point gap for the first time in 30 minutes.

NZ seemed to flick a switch and suddenly there’s daylight.