England at the Commonwealth Games

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There was a silver double for England's sprint teams at the Commonwealth Games on the opening day of competition at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.

Katy Marchant, Rhianna Parris-Smith and Sophie Capewell were edged out by Wales in the women's final, allowing an early advantage to slip as Wales roared back to win by 0.141 seconds in a new Games record of 46.760secs.

Hamish Turnbull, Harry Ledingham-Horn and Joe Truman also had to settle for silver after being beaten by Australia by 0.577secs across the three-lap race, the winners finishing in 42.455secs.

Morgan Newberry enjoyed mixed emotions in the C4/C5 4,000m individual pursuit.

Having set a new C5 world record in qualification for the final, the 27-year-old saw the mark broken by New Zealand's Nicole Murray in the bronze medal race.

Newberry then stormed to another new world record in the gold final, posting a time of five mins 5.764secs, only for her factored time to be beaten by Australian Tara Neyland who claimed gold, just outside her own C4 record.

Lizzi Jordan and pilot Sylvie Misztal secured bronze in the tandem B sprint, winning the first two races of a best-of-three series against team-mate Sophie Unwin and her pilot Anna Whitworth-Hay.

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England swimmer James Guy said he can "still push the young guys" after clinching a silver medal in the men's 200m freestyle final at the Commonwealth Games.

The 30-year-old finished joint second with his Welsh training partner Matt Richards, 23, with a time of 1:45.72.

Guy was just 0.50 seconds behind Australian 22-year-old gold medallist Kai Taylor who produced a remarkable performance to win from lane one.

"I saw at the halfway mark [Kai Taylor] was out in front. In those situations you want to stick to your plan. Fair play, he got his hand on the wall first," Guy told TNT Sports.

"I'm really happy with that. My freestyle has been really off for five or six years and to be be individually on the podium... the last time I did that in freestyle was 2014.

"I'm still pushing those young guys."

Guy's silver was his second medal of this year's Commonwealth Games and the 15th of his career, while he has also won six medals at the Olympic Games, three of which are gold.

He was one of seven English swimmers to win a medal on Wednesday evening, with Oliver Morgan, 23, also claiming silver in the men's 100m backstroke, finishing second only to South African powerhouse Pieter Coetze, who set a Commonwealth Games record time of 51.77.

Bruce Dee, 19, picked up bronze in the men's S7 50m freestyle before the men's 4x100m medley relay team won silver in the final swimming race of the competition.

Oliver Morgan, Adam Ramsay-Peaty, Edward Mildred and Jacob Mills fought off South Africa to finish second behind defending champions Australia.

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England enjoyed double gold in the 3x3 basketball as the men's team retained their Commonwealth Games title from four years ago.

They defeated Australia 19-17 in Glasgow in a repeat of the 2022 final, with Scotland taking bronze.

England also secured a gold medal in the women's wheelchair 3x3 with an 18-10 win over Scotland, upgrading from the bronze they won four years ago in Birmingham.

In the men's wheelchair final England took the silver medal after a 19-13 defeat by Australia, with Scotland losing out to Canada in the bronze medal match.

There was another gold for Australia in the women's final in the final 3x3 event of the Games as they got the better of Uganda with a convincing 21-11 victory.

The men's team, made up of Evan Walshe, Jamell Anderson, Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye and Ashley Hamilton got the better of New Zealand in the semi-final to reach the final against an Australia side out for revenge after their 2022 defeat.

It was a tight and closely-fought contest throughout with neither side more than three points ahead until the closing stages when Anderson, who was part of the 2022 gold medal-winning team, and Lautier-Ogunleye pushed England into an 18-14 lead that proved too much for Australia to pull back.

Lautier-Ogunleye top-scored for England in the final with seven points and the win was a special moment for Hamilton who was making his Commonwealth Games debut at the age of 37 after missing the 2018 and 2022 events.

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The England wheelchair women's team of Charlotte Moore, Lucy Robinson, Joy Haizelden and Jade Atkin enjoyed a comfortable 18-10 semi-final win over Canada to make it into the final against host nation Scotland.

They repeated the same scoreline to secure the gold medal to improve on their third-placed finish in Birmingham four years ago when Moore, Haizelden and Atkin were also in the side.

However the wheelchair men's side lost out 19-13 to Australia who retained their title.

Oscar Knight top-scored for England with six points, Thomas Harvey scored four, with the other points coming from Peter Cusack (two) and James Hazell (one).

England's women, semi-finalists in 2022, were beaten on Tuesday by Jamaica to end their hopes of glory as Australia powered their way to the gold medal.

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England's Jade O'Dowda came up just short in her pursuit of Commonwealth Games gold as she took heptathlon silver in Glasgow.

The 26-year-old from Sheffield was a bronze medallist at the Birmingham Games in 2022 but needed to beat Northern Ireland's Kate O'Connor by 18 seconds in the final event, the 800m, to deny her the gold.

In the end, she crossed the line 2.28 seconds back, though clocked a season's best over the distance.

"It's my second senior medal and my biggest achievement so it's up there," said O'Dowda.

"I came here wanting to get at least a silver medal, I felt as though until yesterday [Tuesday] I was pushing Kate. I think I'm very happy."

O'Dowda's team-mate Ellen Barbour just missed out on the bronze, finishing fourth behind Tori West of Australia.

Elise Thorner secured a surprise silver medal in the women's 3,000m steeplechase and recorded a personal best time of 9:05.45 in the process as she came in just under four seconds behind Kenya's world champion, Faith Cherotich.

Ellis Kottas won a silver for England in the women's T54 1500m final with Scotland's Melanie Woods claiming the gold with a Commonwealth Games record time.

There was also a bronze medal for Kevin Santos in the men's T47 100m as he posted a season's best time but could not prevent an Indian one-two for gold and silver.

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England's Madias Ngake won silver in the women's 86kg weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

The 34-year-old, who won a bronze medal when competing for Cameroon at the London 2012 Olympics, was making her debut for England and led the competition after the snatch section with a Commonwealth Games record lift of 111kg.

The Nottingham-based athlete then put in an effort of 128kg in the clean and jerk to take her total to 239kg, only for Australia's Eileen Cikamatana to come up with a 140kg lift to go with her previous 108kg and win the gold.

Canada's Rose Beaudoin (230kg) won the bronze medal.

"I really enjoyed myself, it wasn't my best performance but I'm okay with that," Ngake told TNT Sports.

"I was looking for a gold medal, maybe a 134 or 135 (kg in the clean and jerk).

"This ranks second behind my Olympic bronze medal."

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Isabella Brown clinched the silver medal for England in the women's 77kg weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games.

The 21-year-old from Ashford, Surrey, recovered from a slow start, in which she failed in her first two 97kg snatch attempts, to progress to the clean and jerk on her third and final lift of the first discipline.

Brown, who trains and goes to university in Nottingham, was fourth and outside the medal places going into the clean and jerk.

But she increased successfully on each attempt from 124kg to a personal best and Commonwealth Games weight class record of 132kg.

She lifted the heaviest weight on the clean and jerk by 2kg, but Samoa's gold medallist Seine Stowers already held a 10kg advantage from the snatch, meaning Brown finished 8kg behind with 239kg overall.

After winning her first senior medal at the 2025 European Championships when she took home bronze in the same category, Brown went one better in Glasgow, finishing 5kg clear of Wales' Laura Hughes in third.

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England's boxing team enjoyed a successful day five of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as six fighters won their quarter-final contests.

Lauren Mackie (54kg), Lucy Kings-Wheatley (60kg), Sacha Hickey (65kg) and Mary Kate Smith (75kg) all won their fights to make it into the women's semi-finals.

In the men's 65kg Patris Mughalzai beat Uganda's Nuhu Batte 3-0 and Isaac Okoh was victorious in the 90kg, with the only England boxer to lose their quarter-final on Tuesday being Ellis Trowbridge, who was defeated by Ghana's Amadu Mohammed in the 55kg weight category.

The quarter-finals continue on Wednesday when England's Elise Glynn, Chantelle Reid, Dimeji Shittu and Damar Thomas will also aim to secure a semi-final spot.

The semi-finals will be held on Friday, with the finals on Saturday.

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Self-funded England swimmer Imogen Clark won bronze in the women's 50m breaststroke at the Commonwealth Games.

The 27-year-old won a silver medal in Birmingham four years ago but had not won another international medal since European bronze in Rome in 2022.

She tied for bronze in Glasgow with Canada's Sophie Angus, with both touching the wall in 30.86 seconds as South Africa's Lara van Niekerk won gold and Sienna Toohey of Australia took silver.

"There's so much sacrifice that goes into it," Clark told BBC Sport.

"I'm an unfunded athlete, I work a full-time job alongside [swimming] and to stay at this level while living a normal life is so tough.

"It's paid off because you get up all those early mornings, you go to work and to get that medal and stand up there in front of my family means everything."

Meanwhile, 16-year-old Amalie Smith earned her second medal of the Games with bronze in the women's 200m individual medley, while Lauren Cox made the podium with her third-place finish in the women's 50m backstroke.

Smith also won silver in the 400m individual medley on Monday.

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David Mullarkey finished third in the men's 10,000m to win the Isle of Man's first medal of the 2026 Commonwealth Games.

The Manx athlete secured the bronze in a time of 27:50.28 as he finished behind second-placed Gulveer Singh of India and winner Ky Robinson of Australia.

Mullarkey's bronze is the Isle of Man's first medal success since 2018 on the Gold Coast after they did not make the podium four years ago in Birmingham.

The 26-year-old has another chance for a medal when he competes in the 5,000m on Saturday.