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The twenty second Commonwealth Video games are below manner – and this is your day-by-day information to all of the motion in Birmingham.
Greater than 5,000 athletes representing 72 nations and territories are competing in 280 medal occasions over a packed 11 days.
All occasions are BST and occasions are topic to vary.
Sunday, 31 July – day three
Gold medals: 24
Gymnastics: Girls’s and males’s particular person all-around
Rugby sevens: Ladies and men
Swimming: Girls’s 50m free, males’s 200m fly, girls’s 200m breast, SB8 males’s 100m breast, S8 girls’s 100m again, girls’s 100m again, males’s 100m breast, S14 blended 4x100m free relay, girls’s 4x200m free relay
Observe biking: Males’s tandem B dash, girls’s tandem B time trial, girls’s factors race, girls’s time trial, males’s dash, males’s scratch race
Triathlon: Girls’s and males’s PTVI, blended relay
Weightlifting: Girls’s 59kg, males’s 67kg, males’s 73kg
Medal highlights
09:00-12:00 and 14:30-17:30 – Gymnastics – males’s (09:00) and girls’s (14:30) particular person all-around finals, the place the gymnasts should carry out on all units of equipment and the very best mixed rating wins.
Girls’s 2018 champion Ellie Black will not be on this yr’s Canada crew, providing Australia’s Georgia Godwin and England’s Alice Kinsella the prospect to improve their respective silver and bronze medals from the Gold Coast, although be careful additionally for England’s 18-year-old Ondine Achampong.
Commonwealth debutant Jake Jarman and 2018 all-around silver medallist James Corridor, who helped England to crew gold on Friday, had been the 2 highest-scoring gymnasts in qualification.
11:00-16:20 – Triathlon fingers out its last three units of medals, starting with the PTVI races that includes athletes who’ve visible impairments. Scotland’s Alison Peasgood, a Rio Paralympic silver medallist in 2016, is reunited with information Hazel MacLeod, herself a reserve for Scotland’s Commonwealth Video games triathlon crew in 2014.
Within the males’s PTVI race, dash swimmer turned four-time Para-triathlon world champion Dave Ellis is a favorite for England.
14:30 – Combined crew relay – Nice Britain soared to an impressive gold on its Olympic debut in Tokyo final yr. Solely two of that crew are competing for England after Jonny Brownlee and Jess Learmonth had been dominated out with harm. Nevertheless, in Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown they’ve particular person Commonwealth gold and silver medallists respectively. Australia are the defending champions, whereas any crew with particular person silver medallist Hayden Wilde in it has an opportunity – so look out for New Zealand. Scotland’s crew might be headed by Beth Potter who’s having a breakthrough season and took bronze on Friday, whereas Wales’ quartet incorporates former world champion Non Stanford.
15:00-19:00 – Observe biking – Laura Kenny, who received crew pursuit bronze on Friday, goes for gold within the girls’s 25km factors race at 15:53 whereas England team-mate Matt Partitions, the Olympic omnium champion, will fancy his probabilities within the males’s scratch race at 18:42. Each races reward riders for getting out forward of the sphere and each construct to a dramatic climax. Defending champion Elinor Barker, who welcomed son Nico in March, opted to return to the Wales crew on the street as an alternative and Katie Archibald is absent from the Scotland crew by way of harm.
Elsewhere, Scotland’s Jack Carlin might be going for dash gold whereas Wales’ James Ball and Scotland’s Neil Fachie look set for an in depth contest within the males’s tandem B dash whereas there are robust residence hopes within the girls’s tandem 1,000m time trial. Scotland’s Aileen McGlynn and pilot Ellie Stone received silver in Friday’s Para tandem dash however fellow Scot Libby Clegg missed out on a medal as did England’s Sophie Unwin and pilot Georgia Holt in controversial circumstances.
19:00-21:50 – Swimming – English eyes might be on the boys’s 100m breaststroke last, the place three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty appears to have absolutely recovered from a damaged foot as he bids to defend his Commonwealth title (20:51).
One other day on the pool, one other butterfly last, and one other Chad le Clos medal alternative for South Africa. This time it is over 200m. It is one other occasion he received 4 years in the past. Le Clos’ team-mate Tatjana Schoenmaker will then attempt to maintain off England’s Molly Renshaw and Abbie Wooden within the girls’s 200m breaststroke, which she received at Tokyo 2020.
For Wales, Lily Rice has a shot at gold within the girls’s S8 100m backstroke and Medi Harris will look to upset world record-holder Kaylee McKeown of Australia and Canada’s Kylie Masse within the girls’s 100m backstroke.
18:00-22:00 – Rugby sevens concludes in Coventry with the males’s and girls’s finals at 20:38 and 21:04. Fiji face Australia within the girls’s last. Within the males’s occasion, Fiji play New Zealand within the first semi-final (12:42) earlier than Australia tackle South Africa (13:04)
What else is going on?
England’s 2018 weightlifting silver medallist Jack Oliver and up-and-coming Welshman Michael Farmer tackle younger Indian star Achinta Sheuli within the males’s 73kg class. Be careful for African record-setter Rafiatu Folashade Lawal of Nigeria within the girls’s 59kg.
At 11:00, one of many highest profile fixtures on any cricket calendar takes place – India face Pakistan in a group-stage sport earlier than world champions Australia, who overcame India of their opening match however had a giant scare, face Barbados.
England’s males play Wales at 14:00 in hockey’s group levels, whereas Scotland’s males, ranked nineteenth on the planet, have a troublesome activity in opposition to world primary facet Australia from 09:00. England face Canada within the girls’s match at 19:00.
In seashore volleyball, Scotland’s girls tackle Vanuatu in a gaggle sport at 15:30. Lynne Beattie, 36, and Melissa Coutts, 51, have a mixed age of 87 however that brings a wealth of expertise. They reached the quarters in 2018 and Beattie captained Nice Britain’s indoor volleyball crew on the 2012 Olympics. The 2018 Video games marked the primary time in Commonwealth historical past that Vanuatu received medals as they collected two bronzes, firstly in F46 javelin after which in seashore volleyball as Miller Pata after which associate Linline Matauatu made the rostrum. Pata is now with Tini Tok. England pair Jess Grimson 31, and Daisy Mumby, 30, face Solomon Islands at 20:00.
Desk tennis has the boys’s crew quarter-finals at 09:30 and Wales are within the girls’s crew semi-finals from 16:00 after beating England within the final eight on Saturday.
Garden bowls reaches the quarter-final levels for males’s triples, males’s fours, males’s pairs and ladies’s singles from 15:00.
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Highlights
BBC One – 22:30-23:30
Monday, 1 August – day 4
Gold medals: 28
Gymnastics: Girls’s vault and uneven bars, males’s ground, rings and pommel horse
Judo: Girls’s -48kg, -52kg and -57kg, males’s -60kg and -66kg
Garden bowls: Girls’s singles, males’s triples
Swimming: Girls’s 200m again, 200m medley, SB6 100m breast and 50m fly, males’s 100m free, S7 50m free, 50m again and 4x200m free relay
Desk tennis: Girls’s crew
Observe biking: Girls’s keirin and scratch race, males’s factors race and time trial
Weightlifting: Girls’s 64kg and 71kg, males’s 81kg
Medal highlights
13:00-17:00 – The primary day of particular person equipment finals gives up 5 gymnastics gold medals. England’s Courtney Tulloch is ready to try a defence of his 2018 gold on rings, an equipment requiring immense upper-body energy and management, whereas team-mate Giarnni Regini-Morgan is a European silver medallist within the ground occasion. Rhys McClenaghan, cleared to participate after a row involving gymnastics’ world governing physique over his eligibility having competed for Eire at Tokyo 2020, received pommel horse gold in 2018. That was Northern Eire’s solely gold of the Video games.
14:00-19:00 – Observe biking ends on Monday with the boys’s factors race, the place we strongly advocate listening to the commentary to observe precisely what’s occurring. You get factors for performing effectively in a sequence of sprints all through the race and likewise for lapping the sphere. Monitoring everybody’s progress if that is your first factors race may very well be a problem. England’s Matt Partitions received the Tokyo 2020 factors race on the way in which to successful the Olympic omnium title. New Zealand’s Campbell Stewart, who was second in that race and received Olympic silver behind Partitions, may even be in Birmingham, as will England team-mate Ethan Hayter, the omnium world champion. For Scotland, 2018 silver medallist Neah Evans may go one higher within the girls’s scratch race, though Laura Kenny is predicted to journey in opposition to her for England.
19:00-22:00 – We transfer previous the midway level in swimming with the boys’s 100m freestyle offering the evening’s first last. Australia’s Kyle Chalmers will see this as a giant alternative to make an influence, having received Olympic silver in Tokyo. Canada’s Josh Liendo simply picked up world bronze on this distance, with England’s Lewis Burras seventh in the identical race. The ladies’s 200m particular person medley may flip right into a battle between Australia’s Kaylee McKeown and England’s Abbie Wooden, whereas Maisie Summers-Newton, a world and European champion, has mentioned she’s excited to listen to the host nation’s roar in Birmingham after the pandemic-induced quiet of Tokyo when she swims for England within the SB6 100m breaststroke. Lastly, the 4x200m males’s freestyle relay splits aside the GB crew – with English, Welsh and Scottish illustration – that received gold in Tokyo final yr.
What else is going on?
The primary of three days of judo culminates in medal matches from 18:00 to twenty:45. Judo has solely appeared sporadically on the Commonwealth Video games – 4 occasions since 1990 – so this can be a comparatively uncommon alternative to see the game at this stage.
Desk tennis runs from 09:30 to 14:45 with the girls’s crew medals determined. India beat Singapore to gold on this occasion 4 years in the past, with England third after defeating Australia within the bronze medal play-off. Desk tennis has solely been within the Commonwealth Video games since 2002 however Singapore have already got a staggering 50 medals on this occasion, greater than double the quantity received by another nation.
In males’s hockey, there is a group-stage take a look at for England as they play India, the crew ranked one above them on the planet, at 16:00.
Victoria Park in Leamington Spa hosts garden bowls – a.ok.a. curling on grass – with Wales’ Laura Daniels hoping to enhance on girls’s singles silver 4 years in the past. Scotland are defending males’s triples champions. Garden bowls could be a nice alternative to see groups from smaller nations and territories, comparable to Norfolk Island, the Cook dinner Islands and Niue, who routinely compete on this occasion. In 2018, the Cook dinner Islands even managed bronze within the males’s pairs, the islands’ first Commonwealth Video games medal.
Tuesday, 2 August – day 5
Gold medals: 37
Athletics: Girls’s pole vault, discus, T37/38 100m and T33/34 100m, males’s T45-47 100m and 10,000m
Badminton: Combined crew
Basketball (3×3): Girls’s and males’s wheelchair, girls’s and males’s
Gymnastics: Girls’s beam and ground, males’s vault, parallel bars and excessive bar
Judo: Girls’s -63kg and -70kg, males’s -73kg and -81kg
Garden bowls: girls’s fours, males’s pairs, B6-8 para males’s pairs
Swimming: Girls’s 100m free, 100m breast, 200m fly, SM10 200m medley and 800m free, males’s 100m fly, 200m again, S10 100m fly, 50m breast, blended 4x100m medley relay
Desk tennis: Males’s crew
Weightlifting: Girls’s 76kg and 87kg, males’s 96kg
Medal highlights
13:00-17:00 – Gymnastics concludes with one other medal alternative for England’s Giarnni Regini-Moran within the males’s vault, plus compatriots Alice Kinsella on the beam and Joe Fraser on the parallel bars. Frank Baines, popping out of retirement to compete in a 3rd Commonwealth Video games for Scotland, has a shot at a parallel bars medal too.
19:00-22:15 – Again to Alexander Stadium, scene of the opening ceremony, we go for the opening evening of athletics motion with six gold medals on the road. England will look to Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw within the girls’s pole vault, Sophie Hahn within the girls’s T37/38 100m, and Hannah Cockroft within the girls’s T33/34 100m. Within the males’s 10,000m, Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei – winner of the 2018 Commonwealth title – simply received the world title in Oregon, main residence compatriot Jacob Kiplimo in third place, which bodes effectively for a formidable streak: Uganda have received the Commonwealth males’s 10,000m whenever since 2006.
19:00-22:15 – To not be outdone, swimming gives up a blockbuster evening to accompany the opening motion on the observe. There may very well be medals heading far and wide and a few traditional races if the playing cards fall the proper manner. England’s Adam Peaty is scorching favorite within the males’s 50m breaststroke and Ariarne Titmus might be exhausting to beat within the girls’s 800m free, however anticipate some scraps in occasions like the ladies’s 200m butterfly, the place Canadian world champion Summer time McIntosh – 15 years previous – will attempt to maintain off defending Commonwealth champion Alys Thomas of Wales. Within the males’s 100m butterfly, a minimum of 4 nations will really feel they’ve a gold-medal prospect: Canadian world bronze medallist Josh Liendo, Australia’s Matthew Temple who completed fifth in Tokyo, defending champion Chad le Clos of South Africa, and England’s James Man, who completed second behind Le Clos in 2018. All of that and we’ve not even reached the finale, the blended 4x100m medley relay, which must be entertaining, madcap, and presumably a really shut contest between England and Australia.
19:00-22:00 – 3×3 basketball (pronounce it “three ex three”) made its Olympic debut in 2020 and now reaches the Commonwealth Video games for the primary time. All 4 gold medals are awarded on Tuesday. Within the males’s sport, Canada and Australia ought to do effectively. Canada also needs to be robust within the girls’s occasion, the place St Lucia dropped out to get replaced by the British Virgin Islands, serving to these islands ship their largest-ever crew to the Commonwealth Video games. Australia and Canada are once more among the many stronger groups within the wheelchair occasions.
What else is going on?
It’s the second-busiest day of the Video games. Badminton’s blended crew last is more likely to function one or each of India and Malaysia, although India have slipped up earlier than, most notably in 2014 when England defeated them within the semi-finals. England and Canada are in with a shot this yr.
Judo awards 4 extra gold medals. This may very well be Howell and Powell day for England, as European champion Gemma Howell competes within the girls’s -63kg class and Walsall’s Daniel Powell takes half within the males’s -73kg. Howell will not need to take care of compatriot and world primary Lucy Renshall, who’s out injured.
Garden bowls medals awarded on Tuesday embrace the para males’s pairs, the place Scotland’s Kevin Wallace will crew up with a late substitute after scheduled associate Garry Hoodwas expelled from the crew lower than every week earlier than the beginning of the Video games.
Within the desk tennis males’s crew last, India are unsurprisingly the strongest entrants on paper, however England are in with an opportunity – if they will get previous Nigeria, who’ve a strong desk tennis medal document on the Commonwealth Video games and proved too robust for the English in 2018’s crew semi-finals.
The athletics morning session, from 10:00 to 13:30, includes a first take a look at the heptathlon starring England’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the 2019 world champion and defending Commonwealth champion. You will additionally see the opening spherical of the ladies’s 100m.
England’s girls play South Africa in group-stage cricket from 11:00.
The girls’s hockey group match between Australia and New Zealand, two of the highest three groups within the contest, may give some perception into who’s within the battle for gold (09:00). England face India at 14:00.
Scotland’s girls face England in seashore volleyball at 20:00.
In weightlifting, Eileen Cikamatana – the youngest member of Australia’s weightlifting crew – makes an attempt to turn out to be the primary lady to win particular person Commonwealth gold for 2 separate international locations. The 22-year-old, who’s within the 87kg class, received gold for Fiji 4 years in the past however has since switched allegiance.
Wednesday, 3 August – day six
Gold medals: 31
Athletics: Girls’s 10,000m, shot put, heptathlon and 100m, males’s excessive bounce, F42-44 and F61-64 discus, T37/38 100m, and 100m
Biking: Girls’s and males’s mountain bike cross-country
Judo: Girls’s -78kg and +78kg, males’s -90kg, -100kg and +100kg
Garden bowls: B6-8 para girls’s pairs
Squash: Girls’s and males’s singles
Swimming: Girls’s 400m free, 50m again, 4x100m medley relay and S14 200m free, males’s 200m medley, S14 200m free, 50m free, 1500m free and 4x100m medley, blended 4x100m medley 34Pt
Weightlifting: Girls’s +87kg, males’s 109kg and +109kg
Medal highlights
11:30-16:00 – Cannock Chase Forest, north of Birmingham, has been given an improve to host the mountain bike cross-country occasions on Wednesday. In 2018 the ladies’s race was received by Annie Final in an England one-two, and New Zealand pulled off the identical feat within the males’s version. This time, there is no Final so Evie Richards, second for England 4 years in the past however now world champion, is put in as the brand new girls’s favorite. Each New Zealanders from 2018, Anton Cooper and Sam Gaze, are again.
19:00-22:15 – The males’s and ladies’s 100m finals run back-to-back from 21:40. Relying on choice, there might be enormous hope in Jamaica for a repeat of the scenes that noticed the nation sweep the ladies’s 100m world podium within the lead-up to Birmingham 2022. Within the males’s race, Jamaica ought to once more function however so ought to South Africa’s defending Commonwealth champion Akani Simbine. Reece Prescod could also be England’s finest medal prospect. Scotland’s Eilish McColgan will goal gold within the girls’s 10,000m. Shortly earlier than the 100m finals, we’ll discover out if Katarina Johnson-Thompson can carry one other main heptathlon title.
19:00-21:55 – Swimming attracts to an in depth with all 4 residence nations in with an opportunity of last-gasp gold. England will look to Tokyo champion Reece Dunn within the S14 200m freestyle, world champion Ben Proud within the males’s 50m free, and the males’s medley relay. Scotland have Tokyo silver medallist Duncan Scott within the males’s 200m particular person medley. Welsh hopes relaxation with Daniel Jervis, 2018 silver medallist and Olympic finalist within the males’s 1500m free, with an opportunity that Medi Harris can problem for the rostrum within the girls’s 50m backstroke. For Northern Eire, world champion Bethany Firth – who has postponed her honeymoon till after the Video games – is favorite within the girls’s S14 200m freestyle. Ariarne Titmus has a last shot at particular person gold for Australia within the girls’s 400m freestyle.
What else is going on?
Squash holds its singles finals on Wednesday (16:00 to twenty:30). England’s James Willstrop returns for his fifth Commonwealth Video games look having received gold on the Gold Coast 4 years in the past. A profitable title defence will not be simple – Willstrop is at present outranked by Welshman Joel Makin and New Zealand’s Paul Coll. Within the girls’s occasion, New Zealand’s Joelle King is the highest seed, adopted by England’s Sarah-Jane Perry and Gina Kennedy.
Judo – most Scottish judoka competing at Birmingham 2022 are debutants, however not Sarah Adlington. Adlington, now 35, is a significant contender for girls’s +78kg gold, notably as she seeks to rebound from a disappointing first-round exit at Tokyo 2020. Wales have 2014 Commonwealth champion Natalie Powell within the girls’s -78kg class.
In weightlifting, Tokyo silver medallist Emily Campbell represents England at girls’s +87kg stage. Samoa’s Feagaiga Stowers, who edged previous Campbell to Commonwealth gold in 2018, is again for Birmingham 2022.
As netball’s group stage continues, Wales face a troublesome however winnable activity in opposition to South Africa, ranked three locations above them on the planet, at 12:00. Northern Eire play Uganda on the similar time.
Boxing – all weights attain the quarter-final stage in a packed day from 12:00 to 22:00. Successful a quarter-final in boxing ensures a medal as the game awards bronze to every dropping semi-finalist. Quarter-finals proceed on Thursday, adopted by a one-day break earlier than the medal contests.
Thursday, 4 August – day seven
Gold medals: 15
Athletics: Girls’s F42-44 and F61-64 discus and T53/54 1,500m, males’s lengthy bounce, T11/12 100m, discus and 110m hurdles
Street biking: Girls’s and males’s time trial
Diving: Girls’s 10m platform, males’s 1m springboard
Powerlifting: Girls’s light-weight and heavyweight, males’s light-weight and heavyweight
Rhythmic gymnastics: Crew
Medal highlights
10:00-16:00 – Street biking’s time trial course sends the ladies throughout 29km and the boys by way of 37km of the Black Nation and Staffordshire. Geraint Thomas, contemporary from the Tour de France, is again to journey for Wales eight years after selecting up time trial bronze and street race gold at Glasgow 2014. His challengers in Thursday’s time trial – riders begin one after the other and the quickest time wins – will embrace England’s Ethan Hayter, Australia’s Rohan Dennis and record-equalling Tour de France stage winner Mark Cavendish representing the Isle of Man. Within the girls’s time trial, Scottish Olympian Anna Shackley will tackle the likes of Australia’s Grace Brown.
18:00-21:00 – Jack Laugher received 1m springboard diving gold for England in 2018 and he has since added world silver in the identical occasion, en path to turning into the primary British diver to win three medals at a single world championship. That installs him because the favorite in Birmingham. Scotland are represented by European and Commonwealth bronze medallist James Heatly. English teenager Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, seventh at Tokyo 2020, is a contender within the girls’s 10m platform occasion in opposition to the likes of Malaysia’s Pandelela Rinong.
19:00-21:45 – A barely quieter evening on the athletics ends in 5 gold medals, together with the boys’s 110m, the place England’s entrants embrace Andrew Pozzi, up-and-coming two-time British champion Tade Ojora, and Josh Zeller, who produced a formidable fifth-place end on the world championships in Oregon. Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment most likely begins because the favorite after successful final yr’s Olympic title however a hamstring harm that saved him out of the world last could name that into query.
19:30-21:30 – Scotland’s Micky Xmas will try to win the males’s powerlifting heavyweight title in his third Commonwealth Video games look. The previous two Video games resulted in fourth-place finishes, so Xmas has a degree to show. Talking of fourth-place finishes, England’s Mark Swan simply missed the world podium in December final yr and might be a contender for males’s light-weight gold in Birmingham.
What else is going on?
England’s cricketers play New Zealand of their last group sport from 18:00 at Edgbaston, a conflict which will have necessary ramifications for the semi-finals on Saturday. South Africa face Sri Lanka in Group B’s different sport at 11:00. Group A concluded a day earlier.
The first rhythmic gymnastics medals are awarded on the crew last from 12:00 to 21:30. Cyprus produced a surprising sequence of shows 4 years in the past to win 4 gold medals in rhythmic gymnastics on the gold coast, together with this one. Nevertheless, the Cypriot efficiency was powered largely by the outstanding Diamanto Evripidou, who will not be on the crew for Birmingham 2022. Australia insist their “reinvigorated” crew have an opportunity of a primary gold medal since Delhi 2010.
In netball, there’s a important group-stage encounter between Australia and Jamaica, the world numbers one and 4, to begin the day at 09:00.
In the meantime, within the morning athletics motion from 10:00, the decathlon begins. Australia’s Ashley Moloney might be among the many medal contenders.
Within the girls’s hockey group levels, England play Wales at 11:00.
Friday, 5 August – day eight
Gold medals: 17
Athletics: Girls’s triple bounce and three,000m steeplechase, males’s shot put, T53/54 100m and decathlon
Diving: Girls’s 1m springboard, males’s 3m synchro and 10m synchro
Garden bowls: Girls’s triples, B2-3 para blended pairs
Rhythmic gymnastics: All-around
Wrestling: Girls’s 57kg, 62kg and 68kg, males’s 65kg, 86kg and 125kg
Medal highlights
10:00-13:00 and 18:00-21:00 – Jack Laugher has two main diving medal alternatives in two days. This time it is the 3m synchro, which the 27-year-old has received on the previous two Commonwealth Video games. In Birmingham, his associate might be Anthony Harding as Chris Mears, who received gold with Laugher for England in 2018, has retired to concentrate on his music profession. Laugher and Harding received world silver in June with their nearest Commonwealth rivals being Malaysia in eleventh and New Zealand twelfth. The males’s 10m synchro is an analogous story to an extent – England’s Matty Lee and Noah Williams additionally received world silver final month – however Canada are possible be respiratory down their necks and Australia may function, too. Scotland’s Grace Reid and Australia’s Georgia Sheehan renew their battle within the girls’s 1m springboard, a battle received by Reid 4 years in the past, although Canadian world bronze medallist Mia Vallee is a brand new identify within the body.
19:00-22:00 – The decathlon reaches a climax with the 1500m simply after 21:30. England’s Harry Kendall, ranked 97th on the planet, is the one confirmed residence nations entrant. Grenada’s Lindon Victor, who received the 2018 title and stays on the planet’s prime 10, is more likely to end on the rostrum. David Weir may make an look for England within the T53/54 1,500m, whereas the ladies’s steeplechase and triple bounce are additionally determined. Within the males’s shot put, defending champion Tom Walsh stays probably the greatest on the planet and favorite to retain gold for New Zealand.
10:30-19:30 – Wrestling erupts into two frenzied days of exercise with the preliminary rounds, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals all determined in six weight courses. The boys’s 65kg is a chance for Indian star Bajrang Punia to earn some redemption after a knee harm disrupted his try to land Olympic gold final yr, finally settling for bronze. It is greater than half a century since anybody apart from India or Canada topped wrestling’s medal desk at a Commonwealth Video games, and you may anticipate extra of the identical in Birmingham as Canadian under-23 world champion Ana Godinez Gonzalez appears to be like for gold within the girls’s 62kg. The one residence nation athlete to achieve a last in 2018 was Wales’ Kane Charig, who will not be attending this yr.
What else is going on?
Garden bowls (09:00-15:45) may convey alternatives for England’s Alison Yearling and Chris Turnbull within the para blended pairs. In visually impaired bowls, athletes obtain steerage from “administrators” – sighted individuals who help the gamers. Within the case of Yearling and Turnbull, their administrators are grandmother and grandson Sue and Mark Wherry. In the meantime, the Scottish girls’s triples crew will hope for an opportunity of revenge in Birmingham after dropping 2018’s last to Australia.
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport wherein Commonwealth nations do not usually make a lot of a mark at world stage, the place Russia, Italy and Bulgaria are extra profitable. Nevertheless, the all-around last on Friday might be an opportunity for the Commonwealth’s finest to point out what they will do – and that might imply gold for Australia if Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva can maintain off rivals comparable to New Zealand’s Havana Hopman.
Girls’s hockey reaches the semi-final stage at 18:00, whereas seashore volleyball’s quarter-finals happen all through the day.
Lastly, the morning session of observe and subject gives an opportunity at 11:05 to see Scotland’s Laura Muir, Olympic silver and now world bronze medallist, in motion in spherical one of many girls’s 1500m.
Saturday, 6 August – day 9
Gold medals: 33
Athletics: Girls’s excessive bounce, F55-57 shot put, 10km race stroll, hammer, 400m hurdles, 800m and 200m, males’s hammer, 3,000m steeplechase, 1,500m, pole vault, 5,000m, 400m hurdles and 200m
Diving: Girls’s 3m synchro and 10m synchro, males’s 3m springboard
Garden bowls: Girls’s pairs, males’s singles, males’s fours
Rhythmic gymnastics: Hoop, ball, golf equipment, ribbon
Desk tennis: Girls’s courses 3-5 singles and courses 6-10 singles, males’s courses 3-5 singles
Wrestling: Girls’s 50kg, 53g and 76kg, males’s 54kg, 74kg and 97kg
Medal highlights
10:00-13:15 – There are two athletics classes that includes finals on Saturday, beginning with a morning session involving the boys’s 1500m last. Scotland’s Jake Wightman has all of the sudden vaulted himself to the highest tier of British observe and subject with a staggering world title in Oregon, instantly putting in him among the many favourites within the occasion right here. England’s Elliot Giles and Wales’ Jake Heyward will attempt to cease Wightman securing a summer season double, whereas Kenya and Australia also needs to problem for medals. Additionally be careful for England’s Emily Borthwick, Laura Zialor and Morgan Lake within the girls’s excessive bounce, taking over Australia’s newly topped world champion Eleanor Patterson.
10:00-13:00 and 18:00-21:00 – Would you wager in opposition to one other medal for Jack Laugher? Diving continues with the males’s 3m springboard last, received by Laugher in 2018, although Scotland’s James Heatly may deny the Englishman a repeat in Birmingham. New Zealand and Jamaica have medal prospects, too. Girls’s 10m synchro may see England up in opposition to Malaysia for prime spot, whereas the day’s earlier last, the girls’s 3m synchro, sees Australia’s Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith enter among the many favourites.
18:30-21:45 – The second athletics session switches the main target to some lightning motion on the observe because the girls’s and males’s 200m finals wrap up the night. Jamaicans Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are two of the world’s quickest girls over 200m proper now, whereas Namibian Olympic silver medallist Christine Mboma may return from harm in time to function. The boys’s race is a platform for South Africa’s newest dash sensation, Luxolo Adams, up in opposition to Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards. England’s Adam Gemili and Zharnel Hughes lead residence nation hopes. Elsewhere, the girls’s 800m last may come all the way down to England’s Keely Hodgkinson or Scotland’s Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie.
What else is going on?
Wrestling concludes with six extra gold medals awarded. Scotland’s Christelle Lemofack competes within the girls’s 53kg having completed fifth at Glasgow 2014 whereas representing Cameroon.
Garden bowls concludes with what may very well be an excellent afternoon for Scotland. Hannah Smith and Claire Johnston have a medal shot within the girls’s pairs and Scotland’s males’s fours are defending the title they received in 2018.
Three of the 4 Para-sport desk tennis occasions attain a conclusion on Saturday. England and Australia break up the 2 para titles on provide in 2018.
Netball’s semi-finals happen at 09:00 and 14:30, as do cricket’s semi-finals at 11:00 and 18:00. The males’s squash semi-finals start at 18:00, as do the males’s hockey semi-finals.
In contrast to the Olympics, rhythmic gymnastics on the Commonwealth Video games awards medals in every of 4 particular person units of equipment: hoop, ball, golf equipment and ribbon. Cyprus powerhouse Diamanto Evripidou bagged a medal in all 4 in 2018, together with two titles. Nevertheless, Evirpidou will not be in Birmingham, opening the way in which for others.
Sunday, 7 August – day 10
Gold medals: 46
Athletics: Girls’s 100m hurdles, 400m, javelin, 4x100m relay, lengthy bounce, 1500m, 5,000m and 4x400m relay, males’s triple bounce, 400m, 10km race stroll, 4x100m relay, javelin, 800m and 4x400m relay
Seaside volleyball: Girls, males
Boxing: Girls’s minimumweight, gentle/middleweight, light-flyweight, light-weight, featherweight and middleweight, males’s flyweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, bantamweight, light-welterweight, light-middleweight, heavyweight, featherweight, welterweight and super-heavyweight
Cricket: Girls
Diving: Girls’s 3m springboard, males’s 10m platform
Hockey: Girls
Netball: Girls
Street biking: Girls’s and males’s street race
Squash: Combined doubles
Desk tennis: Girls’s singles, males’s doubles and courses 8-10 singles, blended doubles
Medal highlights
10:00-13:00 – It is exhausting to know the place to begin on a day with greater than 40 gold medals being handed out, making Sunday the busiest day of Birmingham 2022. The athletics morning session alone sees eight gold medals received, together with the girls’s and males’s 4x100m relays wherein England will go up in opposition to the likes of Jamaica and Canada. Annu Rani is one to look at within the girls’s javelin, having turn out to be the primary Indian lady to achieve a world last within the occasion, the place Australia even have medal prospects. The Bahamas may dominate the 400m finals though England’s Matthew Hudson-Smith, who hails from Wolverhampton, is in glowing type and can problem Olympic champion Steven Gardiner within the males’s occasion. Shaunae Miller-Uibo has received the ladies’s Olympic title at each Tokyo and Rio, however is not a confirmed identify on the Birmingham begin record on the time of writing.
08:00-17:00 – The final biking medals of Birmingham 2022 are the street races, held in and round Warwick, together with stretches that move Warwick Citadel and run as much as the sting of Royal Leamington Spa’s Victoria Park. The boys’s race is 160km, whereas the ladies full 112km. Within the girls’s race, Scottish hopes are dented by the injury-enforced absence of Katie Archibald. Australia will hope for a repeat of their 2018 victory, this time spearheaded by Grace Brown. Names that leap out within the males’s race embrace Olympic and Tour de France superstars Geraint Thomas for Wales and Mark Cavendish for the Isle of Man.
10:30-21:30 – All 16 boxing titles are determined in three livid bursts of exercise at Birmingham’s NEC. England received six of the 16 gold medals at Gold Coast 2018. Scrumptious Orie – England’s 6ft 6in alternative at super-heavyweight this yr – is a type of making an attempt to match the crew’s success 4 years in the past. Orie – of Russian and Nigerian heritage – says he believes he can sooner or later be higher than Anthony Joshua. For Scotland, Reese Lynch – the primary Scot to win a World Championship boxing medal with bronze final yr – fights at light-welterweight. Welsh hopes embrace Rosie Eccles – a welterweight silver medallist in 2018 who’s getting back from a virus that noticed her lose the usage of an arm for a time. Aidan Walsh – an Olympic bronze medallist within the welterweight class – is within the Northern Eire crew.
17:30-20:30 – On the diving, the boys transfer as much as the long-lasting 10m platform. Tom Daley is taking a yr out however England’s Matthew Dixon and Noah Williams – second and fourth respectively in 2018 – are again. So is Domonic Bedggood – the Australian who beat Dixon to gold on the Gold Coast. The girls’s 3m springboard has a brand new Canadian star in world silver medallist Mia Vallee however Scotland’s Grace Reid made the highest 10 in the identical last and must be aggressive in Birmingham.
19:00-21:30 – The night athletics session is the final of the Video games and culminates within the girls’s and males’s 4x400m relays. Eilish McColgan is ready to function for Scotland within the girls’s 5,000m and all eyes might be on team-mate Laura Muir within the girls’s 1500m, although she is predicted to face a troublesome problem from Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon. Lorraine Ugen and Jazmin Sawyers are medal hopes for England within the girls’s lengthy bounce.
What else is going on?
All types of crew finals happen on Sunday however, on the time of writing, it is too early to say who’ll be collaborating and the way excessive the stakes might be for the house nations. If you wish to plan forward, listed here are the timings for the assorted finals on Sunday:
15:00-17:30 – Seaside volleyball (males)
17:00-20:30 – Cricket
17:00-20:00 – Hockey (girls)
20:00-22:30 – Seaside volleyball (girls)
20:30-2230 – Netball
Monday, 8 August – day 11
Gold medals: 12
Badminton: Girls’s and males’s singles, girls’s and males’s doubles, blended doubles
Diving: Combined synchro 3m, blended synchro 10m
Hockey: Males
Squash: Girls’s and males’s doubles
Desk tennis: Girls’s doubles, males’s singles
Medal highlights
09:00-14:00 – The ultimate day of the Video games begins with badminton. In 2018, England picked up two of the 5 badminton titles on provide on the game’s final day because of Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge within the males’s doubles and Chris and Gabby Adcock within the blended doubles. Ellis is again within the England line-up this yr however the others have departed, although England can lean on one other skilled campaigner in Lauren Smith. Smith has received 5 Commonwealth medals however by no means gold, and is showing in her third Video games. Scotland’s Kirsty Gilmour is one other athlete who has each Commonwealth color besides gold within the locker: she’s concentrating on a title within the girls’s singles having completed third 4 years in the past.
09:30-13:15 – It is a lengthy, very long time since anybody apart from Singapore received the desk tennis girls’s doubles. Three of Feng Tianwei’s unimaginable 10 Commonwealth desk tennis medals have come on this occasion, and he or she’s again within the squad for Birmingham 2022. The story is nearly similar in males’s singles, that means Singapore may obtain a strong medal enhance on the ultimate day of the Video games. Fifty of the island nation’s all-time 96 Commonwealth medals have come on this sport.
10:00-13:00 – The final diving motion in Birmingham options the 2 blended synchro contests. The 3m synchro occasion represents an ideal probability for Scotland, whose James Heatly and Grace Reid collectively received world bronze in June, ending effectively away from nearest Commonwealth rivals Malaysia in seventh. England ought to have a shot on the 10m synchro title however Australia often is the crew to beat.
10:00-14:30 – Squash ends with the girls’s and males’s doubles. England’s Daryl Selby and Adrian Waller misplaced a see-saw last to Australia in 2018 and each are again within the squad for Birmingham 2022. Just one half of the victorious Australian duo – Zac Alexander – is returning. The ladies’s occasion is a chance for New Zealand’s Joelle King, who is among the finest on the planet, so as to add one other medal.
12:30-15:00 – Males’s hockey concludes with the gold-medal sport. If the world rankings are any information, Australia will occupy one berth and India or England are favourites to snag the opposite.
What else is going on?
The closing ceremony begins at 20:30 – reuniting the athletes at Alexander Stadium and handing over to Victoria, Australia for the 2026 Video games.
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