England at the Commonwealth Games

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England cyclist Matthew Robertson broke the Commonwealth Games record for a second time to earn gold in the men's C1-C3 3,000m individual pursuit.

Robertson, 27, had already taken the Games record in the morning qualification session, only for Scotland's Fin Graham to break it and set up an intriguing gold-medal match.

In the afternoon racing, Robertson set another record of three minutes and 22.597 seconds to put the pressure on his training partner.

Graham went out hard to try and beat the new record but his energy sapped and Robertson claimed the gold medal.

"That was probably the hardest end to a bike race I've ever watched," said Robertson.

"It was so close. I knew roughly what times Fin could do because we train together all the time, and I knew I'd done a good ride, even without looking at the clock, just from how it felt. It was really nerve-wracking watching him."

Meanwhile, Matthew Bostock won the Isle of Man's first gold medal since 2006 as he held off Australia's Oliver Bleddyn to win the men's 40km points race.

And Joe Truman took silver in the men's 1,000m time trial behind winner Leigh Hoffman of Australia.

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England team-mate Kadeena Cox, 35, had to settle for silver in the women's C4-C5 1,000m time trial.

Australia's Tara Neyland bettered her own world record time by a full second to claim gold in one minute 09:667 seconds.

However, it is a first Commonwealth medal for Cox, who has missed two Games because of injuries.

"I'm really proud of myself to go out there and execute what was only my second kilo, and it was so close," Cox said.

"We've got the World Championship in three months time so I'll go do what I didn't do today and then it's onto LA. LA is going to be a really big one for me, I'll probably retire there.

"I'm just hoping to go back and do the job. Be the Kadeena that I started off as."

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England's Emma Reid showed her resilience to win Commonwealth judo gold in the women's -78kg category, beating Australia's Maria Swan with a cross arm lock.

Reid, 31, retained the title she won in Birmingham four years ago, recovering from conceding an early score and a shido penalty, as she produced an ippon by firmly holding down Swan's arm.

Speaking to Team England, she said: "I knew I could do it. I'm just really relieved and really, really happy. I just had to hold out and be patient.

"The first one, it was just the experience and I was so happy I got gold. This one felt a lot different and a lot of pressure. Team England has been really good in the judo and I'm glad to be a part of that," she added.

After missing out on the 2022 Games with a spinal injury, her England team-mate Max Gregory took silver on his Commonwealth debut after being pushed down by Canada's Kyle Reyes in the men's -100kg final.

"There have been many other injuries along the way - a whole list full of them - but as long as I can keep competing then I'm happy," said Gregory. "Every time I've got injured, I've always returned better."

An early yuko was the difference as England's Shelley Ludford lost out to Zanet Michaelidou of Cyprus in their -78kg bronze-medal contest.

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England bowler Katherine Rednall won the women's singles final to secure her first Commonwealth Games gold medal.

The seven-time world indoor champion, who took the bronze medal at the 2018 Games, won a tight first set 8-6 against Guernsey's Ali Merrien.

Rednall, 30, then took an early lead in the second set and stretched her advantage to 8-3 to secure the win.

Following Sam Tolchard's victory on Tuesday, it marks the first time that both the men's and women's singles titles have been won by an England athlete at the same Games.

"It's been an absolute blast on the greens and I've really enjoyed it," said Rednall. "I don't think I've smiled so much [as I did on the podium].

"This is the pinnacle for us in bowls. It's everyone's dream to get a Commonwealth medal because it's as high as you can go.

"It's been brilliant, we've been able to bring so many medals home in the bowls for Team England."

Meanwhile, England men's pair Nick Brett and Jamie Walker took Northern Ireland to a tie-breaker after coming back from 4-2 down in the second set, but the quality of their opponents shone through as they had to settle for a silver.

A tie-break also decided the men's pairs B6-B8 bronze-medal match but this time England came out victorious.

The momentum had swung Scotland's way after a dominant 9-1 win in the second set but England duo Joe Peplow and Kieran Rollings regained their composure to clinch the medal with a 1-0 win in the tie-break.

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England cyclist Joseph Truman won silver in a record-breaking men's 1,000m time trial at the Commonwealth Games.

Truman put in a solid ride throughout but he couldn't beat the speed of Australian Leigh Hoffman, who broke the Commonwealth Games record with a stunning time of 58.530 seconds.

England team-mate Harry Ledingham-Horn, who had topped the standings after 11 riders with a time of 1:00.039, was pushed out of the medals to fourth.

He was beaten to the bronze by just over 40 seconds by Australian Tayte Ryan, who also beat the Englishman to the third-placed medal in the men's sprint.

Meanwhile, Hamish Turnbull got off to a quick start, clocking the third quickest opening 250m with a time of 18.637, but his speed began to drop off to leave him down in eighth.

Another Commonwealth Games record was broken earlier in the session after England's Matthew Robertson put in a time of 3:25.655 in the men's C1-C3 3000m individual pursuit qualification.

However, his record did not last long as Scotland's Fin Graham put in a blistering ride of 3:22.921.

The two will face off for the gold medal in the afternoon session at approximately 15:27 BST.

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport Journalist in Glasgow

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England finished with four boxing gold medals after super heavyweight Damar Thomas added to wins by Sacha Hickey, Patris Mughalzai and Isaac Okoh earlier on Saturday.

It meant England finished second in the boxing medal table behind India, who won seven golds.

They had already equaled their record medal haul of 10 for a Commonwealth Games, but missed out on the seven golds needed to make this their most successful games.

Dimeji Shittu, Chantelle Reid and Ruby White lost their finals.

Thomas signed off the event by confidently beating Narender Berwal in the final fight of the competition.

“It feels great,“ he said. “Words can't explain it.”

Hickey beat Northern Ireland's Kaci Rock and then explained how she got into boxing by playing on an Nintendo Wii in her parents' living room.

"I felt I was in control of the fight," she said.

"I sparred with Kaci a few weeks ago and she is an amazing person, advocate for women in sport and someone I look up to."

Mughalzai, who was born in Russia but learned to box in London after moving to the UK as a toddler, beat Australia's Jacob Cassar.

"As soon as draw came out, I saw I had it hard. I think I have boxed all of the best kids here," said Mughalzai.

"Skills pay the bills."

Essex's Okoh, who like Hickey and Mughalzai won by unanimous decision, came through a tough tussle with Welshman Connor Williams and said he has "two eyes" fixed on winning an Olympic title in Los Angeles in 2028.

"It is the dream of all amateur boxers to win an Olympic medal," he said.

"We are the right route to getting there. I feel I am more than capable of doing it."

White, 19, who only progressed onto the senior Great Britain programme in May, came into the final on an eight-year unbeaten run stretching back to when she was 11 years old.

She was well beaten by a bigger, more experienced opponent in India’s Sakshi Chaudhary, however.

And though Reid is more experienced at 28, she was also comfortably beaten by India’s Arundhati Choudhary.

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England will have the chance to add two more gold medals to their haul on the final day of the bowls competition at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Sunday.

The men's pairs team of Nick Brett and Jamie Walker comfortably came through their semi-final 2-0 against Canada to set up a meeting with Northern Ireland's Adam McKeown and Gary Kelly.

In the women's singles, Katherine Rednall from Suffolk was taken to a tie-break by Shae Wilson of Norfolk Island before winning a nailbiting final end.

Rednall, the daughter of former England international John, will face Ali Merrien of Guernsey at the SEC Centre.

"The Commonwealth Games is the pinnacle for us as bowlers," said Rednall. "To represent my country, pull on the England shirt is fantastic and I am so happy to bring back a medal for Team England."

England's para men's pairs B6-B8 team of Joe Peplow and Kieran Rollings are still in medal contention as, despite losing their semi-final, they can pick up a bronze if they beat Scotland in the third and fourth place play-off.

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Teenager Henry Hobbs avoided involvement in a serious crash on the penultimate lap to sprint to victory in the men's 10km scratch race at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

The 19-year-old had already claimed a gold as part of the men's 4000m pursuit team earlier in the week before following that up with a bronze medal in the elimination race on Friday.

Hobbs, whose brother Noah is a professional cyclist, edged out Australia's Thomas Cornish and England team-mate Ethan Vernon to make it three medals from his games debut.

A crash just before the start of the final lap threatened to disrupt the race with a number of riders requiring medical attention and the remaining athletes having to avoid the debris.

"I didn't feel too good in the morning so I thought if it was a sprint it would be great for me as it only needed one effort," Hobbs told TNT Sports.

"I'm surprised a crash didn't happen earlier because it was so fast - you always have to think you can win but I wasn't one hundred per cent confident."

Elsewhere in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome on Saturday, England's Sophie Unwin claimed a bronze medal in the women's tandem B final with pilot Anna Whitworth-Hay having only started riding a tandem six weeks previously.

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England's Nathan Maguire won the T54 1500m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to retain the title he won four years ago in Birmingham.

The 29-year-old, a Paralympic silver medallist, found space on the inside of the track and pushed hard to break away from the field, finishing in a time of three minutes 17.65 seconds.

England team-mate Daniel Sidbury took silver behind him, just as he did in 2022, with Australia's Sam Rizzo taking bronze.

"I've retained the title, which is really special," said Maguire. "That was a great race.

"The Aussies played a blinder. The way they worked together, they boxed me in and had me completely stuck. With about 500 or 400 metres to go, I was panicking. Then when Danny [Sidbury] made a move around the outside, it opened everything up.

"The Red Sea parted and I went straight through the middle. It was a really special race. World medals are obviously special, but these two Commonwealth golds rank right up there."

Maguire's gold medal is England's fifth in athletics at the Games so far, following victories for Georgia Hunter Bell, Thomas Young, Sophie Hahn and Zac Shaw.

Later on Saturday, Hahn took silver in the T38 200m, beaten by Australian gold medallist Rhiannon Clarke.

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England's teenage cyclist Henry Hobbs claimed his first senior individual medal by winning Commonwealth Games bronze in the men's elimination race - just one day after a dramatic gold in the 4,000m team pursuit.

Fresh from the exploits of Thursday evening, the 19-year-old from Essex enjoyed yet more success in his first appearance at a major competition.

Hobbs managed to hold off New Zealand's Thomas Sexton to finish third behind Scottish silver medallist Mark Stewart and Australian winner Blake Agnoletto.

His compatriot Harry Ledingham-Horn also picked up his first senior individual medal with bronze in the men's keirin.

The 22-year-old from Stoke-on-Trent finished 0.243 seconds behind Malaysian winner Mohd Azizulhasni Awang and 0.134 off silver medallist Leigh Hoffman of Australia.

In the women's 4,000m individual pursuit, Josie Knight, 29, had to settle for silver after finishing 6.141 seconds behind Wales' Anna Morris.

Knight had set a Commonwealth Games record time of four minutes 25.719 seconds in the semi-final but that was blown out of the water by Morris, who won in 4:24.272.

Her English team-mate Sophie Capewell also won silver in the women's sprint, finishing second to Wales star Emma Finucane.

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England's Acelya Toprak overcame India's Yamini Mourya in the women's -57kg judo final to win the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.

In an exhausting bout that went to golden score and lasted almost seven minutes, Toprak eventually forced Mourya into a third shido to claim victory.

The 28-year-old had won silver in 2022 but managed to go one better this time around in Glasgow.

"My last Commonwealth Games went exactly the same way. In the final it was two shidos each, we were into four-and-a-half minutes of extra time and I made that one misstep, over-stretched and got caught," Toprak told BBC Sport.

"So I'm very happy that this time I didn't do that, because that's shattering, that hurts.

"All you're thinking about is get up and go again, get up and go again, and then after I was like 'I like a golden score in the finals, don't I?'

"You're exhausted, someone's trying to throw you on your head for eight minutes and you've just got to get up and go again."

It was an excellent night for England's judo athletes with all five who were in medal contention winning their matches.

Lele Nairne, who was beaten by Toprak in the women's -57kg semi-final, won bronze by ippon with an emphatic throw to the mat to defeat Ghanaian 17-year-old Frema Agyei within just 28 seconds.

"I love throwing people like that," Nairne, 28, said after her victory.

"I love it. It's a bittersweet symphony. Birmingham [2022] was tragic, I lost to a good friend in the bronze medal match, so I wanted to redeem myself.

"I wanted a medal, I wanted a gold, but just to get a medal, I'm absolutely over the moon."

Tatum Keen - Nairne's training partner at Bradley Stoke Judo Club in Bristol - also won bronze in the women's -52kg category.

And in the men's judo, 20-year-old Charlie Ayre and Michael Fryer, 26, claimed bronze in their respective -60kg and -66kg events.