Mid Wales

Image source, Team Wales

Welsh judoka Lola Hodson narrowly missed out on bronze in the women's -52kg competition.

Hodson was beaten by England's Tatum Keen as their bout went to golden score.

Hodson was aiming to secure Wales' first judo medal of the Games but three Shido penalties for the 20-year-old meant Keen took the bronze instead.

She came through the repechage after defeat by top seed Evelyn Beaton in the quarter-finals.

Defeat meant Hodson finished equal fifth.

Image source, Team Wales

Defending champion Rosie Eccles will have to settle for a bronze medal after a split-decision defeat against Arundhati Choudhary in front of a partisan crowd at the SEC arena in Glasgow.

There was no love lost between both boxers with tempers reaching boiling point at times during the bout.

Eccles, who was the Team Wales flagbearer at the opening ceremony, lost the first round having been given a standing count after she was caught by an overhand right from her opponent.

India's Choudhary also claimed the second, leaving Eccles with everything to do in the final round.

The Caldicot fighter threw everything she had left in the final round, scoring a knockdown, but unable to find a stoppage.

The 30-year-old was emotional, hugging coach Colin Jones and leaving the ring in tears.

Having left the GB set up in March, Olympian Eccles promised "one last dance" representing Wales at the Commonwealth Games this summer.

She was determined to complete her "trilogy", adding to her silver medal won in 2018 and the gold in Birmingham four years ago.

Eccles has done as she set out to do, but will feel disappointed not to have fought for a gold medal.

The Olympian was one of four Welsh boxers in semi-final action on Friday, with Orlando Holley-Sotomi, Connor Williams and Owain Harris-Allan fighting later.

Image source, Team Wales

Wales cycling duo Emma Finucane and Anna Morris will go for track gold at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome tonight after impressing in the morning session.

Finucane was part of the team sprint trio alongside Rhian Edmunds and Lowri Thomas that won gold on the opening night of the cycling, while Morris secured a bronze in the team pursuit alongside Jess Roberts, Megan Barker and Ciara Oliva.

Finucane has qualified for the sprint semi-finals where she will face fellow Welsh rider Edmunds.

Finucane set a new Commonwealth Games record of 10.322 seconds in sprint individual qualification and eased through the last 16.

This set up a quarter-final against reigning Commonwealth and Olympic champion Ellesse Andrews and Finucane beat the New Zealander comfortably in two races to achieve semi-final qualification.

Edmunds followed Finucane into the final four by beating Scotland's Lauren Bell, while Thomas bowed out at the last 16 stage.

Morris, who is the individual pursuit double world champion, will race for gold.

Morris qualified second fastest in a time of 4:25.817, just behind England's Josie Knight, with the two Great Britain team-mates going head-to-head in the final at 16:40. Morris beat Knight in the world final in 2025.

Oliva was sixth fastest in a new five-second personal best, while Roberts was 10th.

Morris also has a chance of a medal in the women's 10km scratch race alongside Barker and Carys Lloyd which starts at 17:56.

Rhys Britton and William Salter finished 10th and 13th respectively in the men’s individual pursuit qualification.

Image source, Team Wales

Wales have a chance for a bronze medal in Judo after Lola Hodson won her women's -52kg repechage.

Hodson, who was seeded eighth, announced herself immediately this morning, taking just 19 seconds to win her first round match as she forced a submission from opponent Priscillia Monthouel.

In the quarter-final she came up against top-seeded Canadian Evelyn Beaton, who won with two Waza-ari in quick succession.

Fighters who lose at the last-eight stage are given a second chance to fight in a repechage, with the winners entering a final to win one of two bronze medals.

The Tonteg judoka beat India's Shradda Kabudal Chopade by a yuko in a tight match, setting up a bronze medal opportunity against England's Tatum Keen, who lost her semi-final.

"It wasn't always guaranteed, so to have actually fought through and got to it, I'm very pleased," the 20-year-old said.

"There's still a fight to go, it's just about enjoying being in the medal match and just doing my judo and just trying to do my best to get the medal."

There was disappointment for Josh Bell in the men's -66kg category after he lost to home hope Aiden Moffat in the round of 16.

Bell had won his opening contest by ippon against Kenya's Felix Okoko, but had foreseen a tough match against the Scot.

"I knew straight away, looking at the draw, that it would be me and Moffat at one point," he said.

"He's one of the best in the country. We've sparred a lot, and I always knew it would be tough."

Scotland got the better of Wales again as Pembrokeshire's Ashleigh Barnikel lost by ippon to Summer Shaw in her first -48kg women's match.

Barnikel, who lost her repechage against another Scot in Eva Ewing, is proud of the progress she's made since her debut in 2022.

"I think personally I'm a different person standing here today," she said.

"It was just small margins. The scores both opponents got on me were marginal. I'm not a million miles away from the level."

Image source, Team Wales

Wales have finished in a disappointing 10th place at the Commonwealth Games after losing 63-53 to Tonga in their ranking play-off, two places lower than four years ago.

The Welsh Feathers ended their 2022 Birmingham campaign eighth and will leave Glasgow after another frustrating result in a campaign that produced one win and five defeats, having only beaten Trinidad and Tobago in the group stage.

The Welsh Feathers started brightly against Tonga, with captain Bethan Dyke feeding goal shooter Georgia Rowe well in attack to lead 10-14 at the quarter-time break.

Tonga rallied in the second, forcing Wales into errors from which they capitalised to bring the scores back level at 29–29 after 30 minutes.

The pressure on Wales continued as Tonga took control, netting 19 goals for the second quarter in a row and stretching their lead to 10 at three-quarter time.

Tonga goal keeper Otolose Fainga'anuku was given a two-minute suspension after a dangerous contact on Dyke in the final quarter.

But Wales could not overturn the deficit after leaving themselves with too much to do.

It was the last game for head coach Emily Handyside, as she will step down from her role as planned at the conclusion of the Commonwealth Games.

Wales captain Bethan Dyke said: "We were really fired up this morning we knew what we needed to do.

"We started pretty well, but just that third quarter again, just got away from us and we just gave ourselves too much to do in the last quarter."

Image source, Team Wales

Wales' Amy Williams continued her impressive women's bowls singles campaign with a 2-0 victory over Caroline Whitehead.

She has not lost a set in any of her four group games so far but her place in the semi-finals is not yet assured.

Williams faces Emma Saroji, also unbeaten, in a winner-takes-all match for a chance to contend for a medal.

Meanwhile, Welsh hopes of defending the men's pairs title have disappeared after losing 2-0 to Malaysia.

Double gold medalist Daniel Salmon and Ross Owen have lost two of their four matches with just one left to play and now cannot catch pool leaders Malaysia for the semi-final place.