Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix has pledged to come back even stronger next season, after winning three Commonwealth Games medals — including double gold — at Birmingham 2022.
The 17-year-old, who made the British team at the last Olympics but largely went under the radar, rounded off the final day of competition yesterday with gold in the 10metre mixed synchronized platform diving competition alongside Noah Williams.
It added to a gold in the individual event as well as silver in the women’s synchro event to mark her out as a potential star for the next Olympics in Paris.
Spendolini-Sirieix will compete at the upcoming European Championships before drawing a close to an impressive season.
Following her Birmingham heroics, she said: “Now we have got the Europeans, so I will focus on that. After that, I will take a break, have a summer holiday and come back even stronger.”
The Team England athlete was again cheered on from the stands by her father, Fred Sirieix, the star of television series First Dates.
Her medal haul will only ramp up expectation, but she said: “I’m not going to put pressure on myself.
“Whether there is external pressure or not, the internal pressure is the one which makes you crumble. But I’m very excited for the next two years.
Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix won three medals at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham
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“I’m learning about dealing with the pressure in competition. If I can keep the internal pressure under control, that’s good. I’m still learning and I’m going to make mistakes.
“This has given me a lot of confidence but success in competition comes from training hard and working hard.”
The closing ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has officially begun after 11 days of history-making sporting moments.
It comes after the Kookaburras won their seventh consecutive Commonwealth Games gold in the men’s hockey final, beating India 7-0 to give Australia its 67th and final gold of the Games.
Follow the closing ceremony live, see our athletes’ personal reflections of the Games and share your top moments from Birmingham 2022 by hitting the blue “leave a comment” button below.
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By Kelsie Iorio
Our athletes: Clay Mason Stephens
Clay’s unwaveringly positive attitude (and incredible cork hat) really stood out to me these Games.
He said after his all-around final that despite missing out on a medal, he “enjoyed (it) regardless of the result because I chose to do so.” Something we can all take with us!
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By Kelsie Iorio
The athletes enter Alexander Stadium
Diver and Birmingham gold medalist Melissa Wu carried the Australian flag for us—this is her fifth Commonwealth Games.
Lots of athletes on Team Australia and from other nations have already gone home, so the closing ceremony is a little more casual. But it looks like they’re having fun.
By Jon Healey
Kashmir?
Sooooo, we have some more industrial workers doing some ‘Look down, look down’ type pushing and pulling of a very big metal structure. Looks like some sort of Mount Midoriyama.
But they’re playing Kashmir by Led Zeppelin, so all I can think of is this scene from Ocean’s 12.
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Ohhhhhhhhh, it’s a worker shortage. They couldn’t lift it by themselves, and then a huge influx of immigrant families have arrived to help them lift the big horizontal metal thing into a big vertical metal thing.
It lights up with the word “TOGETHER”, pointing to Birmingham’s famed multicultural diaspora.
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By Kelsie Iorio
Our athletes: Kaye Scott 🥈
Referees stopped the 38-year-old’s gold medal bout in the light middleweight boxing division, putting a quick end to her hopes for gold.
But her Birmingham silver is still one-up on her Gold Coast bronze since 2018, and as she says herself: “Silver isn’t too bad.”
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By Jon Healey
Come On Eileen kicks us off
After a recreation of Birmingham rebuilding and industrializing after World War II, Dexys Midnight Runners are out there doing their banger while dancers… work on an Amazon production line?
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Now they’re on the beers?! Lord Bezos won’t approve of that.
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By Kelsie Iorio
Our athletes: Tinka Easton 🥇
Tinka won Australia’s first gold medal in judo in two decades on her Commonwealth Games debut in Birmingham.
She says herself there are still big things coming — so it sounds like this won’t be the last we see of her.
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By Kelsie Iorio
Our athletes: Cedric Dubler 🥉
Cedric made headlines in Tokyo for his selfless drive that helped Ash Moloney to a bronze medal—well, this time, he’s got one of his own.
He stood alongside teammate and silver medalist Daniel Golubovic on the podium and says he’s “hungry for more”… or will, be after a nap. I’d be going for a lie-down after that too, mate.
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By Kelsie Iorio
Your thoughts on the Games:
Hey Jon 🙂 Hey Kelsie 🙂 I can’t recall a Comm games more awesome to watch than 2022.
-Natty
It’s been a good one, hey?
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By Jon Healey
Our athletes: Emma McKeon 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥉
What more can be said about this woman?
The swimming may feel like a lifetime ago, but six gold medals, one silver and one bronze in Birmingham is a pretty timeless achievement.
It adds to her haul from Glasgow 2014 and Gold Coast 2018, giving her TWENTY Commonwealth Games medals. The most of any athlete in history.
And let’s not forget she’s also Australia’s most decorated Olympian, with five golds and 11 medals overall. to freak.
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By Kelsie Iorio
Our athletes: Isabella Vincent
One of the babies of the Australian team and still in high school, Birmingham was Izzy’s first Commonwealth Games — but likely won’t be her last.
She says it’s been “an honor to rep the green and gold”and we hope to see this SA-based Para-swimmer again in Victoria in 2026!
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By Kelsie Iorio
Your thoughts on the Games:
Well donate all Australian athletes. I am so proud of you all. Each of you have given your all for our wonderful country.
-Lesley
We’re with you, Lesley!
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By Kelsie Iorio
One final look at the medal tally
It ended up pretty close — but Australia retains its place at the top of the tally with an incredible 67 gold, 57 silver and 54 bronze.
By Jon Healey
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🥈 Table tennis: Australia falls short in women’s doubles final
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Jian Fang Lay and Minhyung Jee were beaten 3-0 by Singapore pair Tianwei Feng and Jian Zeng.
Singapore started how they intended to go on, winning the first game 11-1. The last two were more contested, but both ended 11-8 in the favor of the Singaporeans.
Jee and Lay won bronze in the women’s team event last week as part of a six-medal haul for our table tennis team.
By Jon Healey
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🥈🥉 Diving: Silver and bronze in mixed events
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last night Shixin Li and Maddison Keeney picked up silver in the mixed 3m springboard synchronized event.
They finished just 1.98 points behind winners Scotland, as both Aussie divers picked up their third medals of this Games.
climbing higher, Cassiel Rousseau and Emily Boyd added bronze in the synchro off the tall tower.
It’s Boyd’s first medal in Birmingham, while Rousseau added to his 10m gold and men’s 10m synchro bronze.
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By Jon Healey
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🥇 Hockey: Kookaburras maintain Commonwealth dominance against India
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SEVEN!
The Australian men’s hockey team have won Commonwealth Games gold seven straight times.
This time they did it with a thumping 7-0 win (how fitting) over India.
Jacob Anderson and Nathan Ephraums scored doubles, usual suspects Flynn Ogilvie and Blake Govers got on the board too, as well as Tom Wickham.
It’s Australia’s 67th and final gold medal in Birmingham.
By Jon Healey
It’s almost over, fam
Hello and welcome to this, our final blog of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
We’ve got a couple of medals to wrap up before the closing ceremony, and we’ll also bring you some athletes’ reflections on the 2022 Games.
Leave a comment and have a chat with us using that button up there!
When the family of a Commonwealth Games debutant realized they couldn’t make it to Birmingham, they brought Birmingham to them.
Mackay’s Claire Colwill only joined the Hockeyroos this year after years of representing Mackay and Queensland.
Through every major tournament, her 92-year-old granny has been there cheering from the sidelines.
But the long travel and the lingering threat of COVID meant Jill Loughnan stayed home on the Sunshine Coast, where her family has set up their own Games Village to cheer on Australia.
“Through Claire’s hockey career, my mum and I have been able to travel with her as she’s played for Queensland and that’s been a really special time for us,” Colwill’s mother, Sara, said.
Claire Colwill with her granny Jill Loughnan and mother Sara at her Hockeyroos debut.(Supplied: Sara Colwill)
“We were lucky to be there to see her debut for Australia in New Zealand.
“One of the things [Granny] has always enjoyed about coming on hockey trips is the company and being part of it.”
Sara said the family had been watching the Games live and the replays from the comfort of her mum’s living room.
“I’m sure there’ll be lots of cups of tea and Devonshire teas and all things British to create the Birmingham theme.”
‘I’ve got two goals in life’
Claire Colwill represented Mackay, Capricornia and Queensland as a junior.(Supplied: Sara Colwill)
From a young age, Claire knew she wanted to be an Australian hockey player.
“When she was about nine, we were on the grass fields learning to hit and she came up to me and said very clearly, ‘Mum, I’ve two goals in life — I’m going to be a Hockeyroo and I’m going to run against Usain Bolt’,” Sara said.
She said her 20-year-old daughter had always been very focused; the second-year university student is balancing international sport with her studies de ella.
“She’s had to do one of her exams online from the Netherlands while she was away just before the World Cup started.
“She’s just set up a really good timetable and mapped it all out… so she knows exactly what she’s got to do.”
Claire Colwill (centre front) claimed her first World Cup medal in May when the Hockeyroos took bronze.(Twitter: HockeyRoos)
Speaking to the ABC when she was first named in the Hockeyroos squad, Colwill said it was a dream come true.
“It’s something you dream of as a kid, and every training session, it builds towards this moment,” she said.
“Starting back in school hockey in Mackay… it all adds up to where I am today.”
Proud family of supporters
Colwill’s brother Tim has traveled from Ipswich to Birmingham.(Supplied: Sara Colwill)
While most of Colwill’s family will be at the proxy Games village on the Sunshine Coast, her older brother, Tim, is in Birmingham cheering from the sidelines.
Sara said her two children were close growing up and continued to have a strong bond.
“They might not say that, but they are,” she laughed.
“He’s actually got a T-shirt made up with a photo of Claire in her hockey uniform on the front, and on the back it’s got ‘Colwill #1 supporter’.
“Number one is also actually Claire’s playing number.”
While Birmingham was the first major tournament Sara and her mum would not be watching Claire from the sidelines for, she said she doubted that it would make her daughter nervous.
“She’s always been really independent and the group is so supportive. It’s just one big family.
“I think she’s just loving every minute of it and just wouldn’t want to be anywhere else… she just seems to be thriving.”
Colwill and the Hockeyroos will play for gold tonight after defeating India in a penalty shootout in the semi-finals.
Until the Games Jill Loughnan has been on the sidelines to watch her granddaughter.(Supplied: Sara Colwill)
After a shocking upset loss to India in the quarter-finals at the Olympics last year, the Hockeyroos have a chance for revenge as they face off again for a spot in the Birmingham final.
Follow all the action from day eight in Birmingham with our live blog.
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By Jon Healey
Hockey: Still 1-0 to Hockeyros through three quarters
Things are seriously tense at the University of Birmingham Hockey & Squash Centre.
Just one goal in the first quarter is all that separates Australia and India in this semi-final.
England awaits. Who will it be?
By Simon Smale
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Athletics: Steve Solomon makes the 400m final!
Get the spikes back out Steve! You’re running in the end on Sunday!
Great stuff for the Aussie, who qualifies in the last spot, but just 0.03 of a second, and will race in the final!
By Simon Smale
Athletics: Solomon still alive…
Steve Solomon told Channel 7 that he was happy to wrap his season up after that semi-final run.
He might still be in with a chance of sneaking into the final though, so he may want to reassess…
None of the non-automatic qualifiers managed to beat his 46.30 in that race, so there is still hope for the likable Aussie…
Jonathan Jones of Bahamas got the win in that second semi.
There’s one semi final to go…
By Simon Smale
Athletics: Steve Solomon will have to wait and see in the 400m
Solomon (right) tied up in the final 100. (Getty Images)
Steve Solomon has just finished in fourth place in his 400m semi final…
It looked like he really struggled in the home straight, far from fluid as the race really heated up having exited the final bend in a second.
From there though, he went backwards.
He has told Channel 7 that he just didn’t have the running in his legs after a rough six months of injuries and has resigned himself to not racing in Sunday’s final.
I ran to 46.30, which will unlikely be good enough to see him qualify, I’d think.
By Jon Healey
Hockey: Australia gets out of jail to keep lead at half-time
The Hockeyroos have lost their referral pretty dubiously.
Kaitlin Nobbs challenged a penalty corner ruling, and it looked for all money like she’d done so successfully, but the third umpire found a way to confirm it.
All this while Shanea Tonkin was serving time in the penalty box on a green card.
The penalty corner didn’t come off for India, and Australia kept its 1-0 lead at the break despite being pinned in their own quarter of the field for most of the period.
India had five penalty corners in the first half, but couldn’t capitalize, while the Hockeyroos’ sole goal came from the field via Rebecca Greiner.
By Simon Smale
Squash: The Battle of the Lobbans
We have a winner in the battle of the Lobbans…
And it’s Donna Lobban who gets bragging rights with her partner Cameron Pilley!
The Aussie pair (and defending champions) came from behind to beat Scotland’s pairing of Greg Lobban and Lisa Aitkin 3-0.
They won the final game 11-8 to complete the turnaround.
Donna told the Commonwealth Games media team that if Greg won he’d have to make dinner for a month…
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Does that mean dinners are on her for the foreseeable?
Perhaps after the Comm Games are over – Donna and Cameron have worked to do and a medal to win for Australia.
By Simon Smale
Athletics: Decathlon to go down to the wire
Lindon Victor has re-taken the lead in the decathlon after a superb javelin throw.
He leads The Gap’s Cedric Dubler by 161 points heading into the 1500m.
Daniel Golubovic is third, just four points behind Dubler after throwing a season’s best of 58.26m in the javelin.
Alec Diamond is fifth.
It’s ever so close and the 1500 will be a belter when it takes place at 6:30am AEST.
By Jon Healey
Hockey: Australia on the board in opening quarter of women’s semi-final
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Looking for redemption for the quarter-final loss at last year’s Olympics, the Hockeyroos have struck first in the semi against India.
Rebecca Greiner did the damage from the field.
By Simon Smale
Key Event
Athletics: Australia will have one runner in the 200m final
Gutting news for Jacinta Beecher, who misses out on a spot in the 200m final by 0.12.
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Ella Connolly is the slowest of the qualifiers to make it through and actually ran 0.01 seconds slower than Jacinta Beecher.
But, because the qualification is done on placings in the semi finals (top two qualify automatically, plus the two fastest non-qualifiers) then Beecher misses out.
The favorite Elaine Thompson-Herah qualified fastest.
By Simon Smale
Athletics: Ella Connolly qualifies for the 200m final!
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Oh my goodness that was so, so close!
did Ella Connolly get second there?
AND IT IS! By 0.01 of a second!
This is what 0.01 seconds looks like (Commonwealth Games)
At the moment, Jacinta Beecher is there too, by just 0.02 seconds…
But there’s one semi to go…
By Simon Smale
Squash: Battle of the Lobbans
Quick update from the University Squash Center and the wife has leveled things up at one game each after she and Cameron Pilley took the second 8 – 11.
It’s coming down to decide…
By Jon Healey
Hockey: Hockeyroos semi-final against India underground
This is for a spot in the final against England.
By Simon Smale
Athletics: 200m semi-finals
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Jacinta Beecher has gone in the first semi final of the women’s 200m and I don’t think she’s done enough to get through, sadly.
Beecher came home in fourth spot with a time of 23.40, a fair way off her PB of 22.70 but she was running into a serious headwind of +1.9.
Like I said, I don’t think that will be enough to get one of the two fastest qualifying spots, but we’ll wait and see.
By Jon Healey
Key Event
🤕 Athletics: Nicola Olyslagers is out of the women’s high jump final
Australian Olympic silver medalist Nicola Olyslagers has had to withdraw from tonight’s high jump final with a calf injury.
She said it was “disappointing and devastating not to be able to compete.”
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“What was thought to be a tight calf after my qualifying round turned out to be a torn muscle in my jumping leg,” she said.
“Of all the emotions and shock I could feel in the moment, I still have peace. Winning bronze at the Commonwealth Games four years ago allowed my professional career as a high jumper to begin, it was a competition that changed the trajectory of my life .
“My prayer is that someone else’s dream comes alive tomorrow as I cheer them on from the sidelines. Let’s go cheer Eleanor on as she jumps for Australia so well out there.”
She is of course referring to world champion Eleanor Pattersonwho will be jumping in the final from 7:17pm AEST.
By Simon Smale
Squash: The Battle of the Lobbans
Remember the story of the husband and wife who are going up against each other in the mixed doubles quarter finals?
Well, they’re in action right now and first blood has gone to the husband Greg (of Team Scotland).
He and his partner Lisa Aitkin took the first game 11 – 9 against his life partner Donna and her cousin, Cameron Pillley.
This might read like a script from Bold and the Beautiful, but it’s not (although let’s not put it past them to get something in on it soon).
By Jon Healey
Key Event
🥉 Diving: Third medal in the pool this morning
Domonic Bedggood and Cassiel Rousseau finish third behind England’s Matty Lee and Noah Williams, and Canadian pair Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray.
Lee won Olympic gold with Tom Daley last year, but this is his first Commonwealth Games medal.
Bedggood, meanwhile, has claimed his fifth Commonwealth medal and third bronze. He has gold in this event from Glasgow 2014, and won 10m platform gold in 2018, when he also won bronze in 3m and 10m synchro.
By Jon Healey
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🥉 Athletics: Sam Carter third in men’s T53/54 1,500m
Can Sam Carter and Jake Lappin emulate the efforts of Madison de Rozario and Angie Ballard from yesterday?
Not remove.
Sam Carter wins bronze in a superb race, led out hard by Canada’s Josh Cassidy, then Danny Sidbury of England made his move around the halfway mark, blowing Cassidy away.
Carter closed the gap, but brought him Englishman Nathan Maguire, who powered past Carter’s outside shoulder, then passed teammate Sidbury on the final straight to win gold.
Jake Lapin was fourth, five seconds behind Carter
By Jon Healey
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Diving: Aussies in the hunt in men’s 10m synchro
Domonic Bedggood and Cassiel Rousseau are in the bronze medal spot with two dives left.
England’s Matthew Lee and Noah Williams, and Canadian pair Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray just look streets ahead.
They’ll duke it out for gold, while the Aussies try to hold off the other English pair of Ben Cutmore and Kyle Kothari.
By Simon Smale
Athletics: 400m semi-finals
England’s Victoria Ohuruogu has qualified fastest for the women’s 400m final after running a 51-flat in the first semi final.
She’ll be joined by compatriot Ama Pipi and Jodie Williams, but they’ll be hard up to beat World Championship bronze medalist Sada Williams, who looked very comfortable in cruising to victory in the second semi in a time of 51.59.
By Simon Smale
Hockey: England awaits in the final
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England have just beaten New Zealand 2-0 in a penalty shoot out after a tight and tense 0-0 draw at the University Hockey Centre.
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That means the hosts are in the final, where they await the winner of the second semi final between the Hockeyros and India.
That match is due to start at 5:15am AEST, so about half an hour or so.
It is the middle of the European winter, and sprinter Evan O’Hanlon is shoveling snow off a track in the Czech Republic, where he lives, so he can train in -8C weather.
Key points:
Evan O’Hanlon won his second straight T37/38 100m Commonwealth Games gold
Brandon Starc won silver as he tried to defend his 2018 high jump title
Rohan Browning missed the men’s 100m podium by 0.06 of a second
The Australian four-time Paralympian has no coach by his side, his long-time mentor Iryna Dvoskina coaches him by correspondence.
But he just keeps on running – he does not know how to stop.
“I guess one way to explain it is I’m a problem gambler, and I like coming out here and gambling two years of funding on 11 seconds of running,” he said after winning the men’s T37/38 100m at the Commonwealth Games.
O’Hanlon’s career could have ended two years ago after he broke his foot badly.
Not only did he define his doctor’s expectations to run again, he also embarked on a new mission to represent Australia at this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics in bobsled.
While he just missed out on qualification for the two-man event, he was determined to come back to the Commonwealth Games, and his persistence has been vindicated.
“It’s really nice, mostly because I could do it in front of my four-year-old daughter and my two-year-old son, Ursula and Alfred,” he said.
“All my other medals they were probably a bit too young for, and in Tokyo they didn’t get to come over because of COVID. So I’ve hung on long enough they’ve been able to come and watch, and that’s pretty special.”
The five-time Paralympic champion wants to keep running and maybe give bobsled another shot too — but he has to be realistic.
“I know if I was right training at the same level I was before London and Rio, I feel like I could win gold again in Paris,” he said.
“But I’ve got to be able to look after my family as well. I’m on the top level of [funding] support in Australia and I moved to the Czech Republic [with Czech wife Zuzana] so that I can afford to keep running.
“I can’t afford to do it if I’m living in Australia on that funding.”
O’Hanlon said his wife would have the final say over whether he continues in one or both sports, but you get the sense he is not done just yet.
Starc pushes through pain barrier for silver
Brandon Starc was happy to finish with silver, behind the gold medalist from New Zealand, Hamish Kerr.(Getty: David Ramos)
Every step Brandon Starc took in the men’s high jump final was agony.
He is still recovering from a bruised heel that forced him to withdraw from the recent world championships.
And while he had to produce more jumps than he would have liked in the end, he was relieved to get a reward.
Starc and New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr both cleared 2.25m on their first attempts, but neither could get past 2.28m, so Kerr won on countback.
“That was probably the toughest comp I’ve ever had,” Starc said.
“Throughout that comp, besides maybe the first jump, I was feeling every bit of that bruised heel. [I] was taking my shoe off trying to get some sort of relief.
“But really, I just had to kind of grit my teeth and jump through it.
“I could have either just rolled over and gave up or pushed through it and tried to do something.”
It was a satisfying medal for the defending champion, and he soaked up the silver with his nine-month-old son Oliver, carrying him all around Alexander Stadium for a lap of honour.
Browning misses 100m podium
Rohan Browning (left) was just 0.18 seconds behind the winner, Ferdinand Omanyala.(AP: Alastair Grant)
Rohan Browning was sixth in the men’s 100m final, finishing just 0.06 of a second off third spot.
The African champion, Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala, won in 10.02 seconds.
Browning almost did not even make it to Birmingham.
After underperforming at the world championships a few weeks ago, I have considered withdrawing from the rest of the season to return home and get back to training.
“A month ago, there’s no way I saw myself in this final, so I try to take each win,” he said after the race.
“But once you’re here, you just want to be on that podium. That’s what it’s all about.”
Browning has been on a journey to refine his technique and improve his start since his breakthrough performance in winning his heat at last year’s Tokyo Olympics.
And while he conceded he was not where he wanted to be, he was optimistic the results would soon come.
“I’m glad I decided to persist. I just think one of the lessons I’ve learned is persistence is so much more important than patience, you just gotta keep trying things and keep at it. And eventually the tide will turn,” he said.
Jamaica’s Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah lived up to the hype and won the women’s 100m.
Fantastic finish in 10,000m
One of the most spine-tingling moments of night six came in the finale to the women’s 10,000m.
After half an hour of racing, it turned into a sprint finish between Scotland’s Eilish McColgan and Kenya’s Irine Chepet Cheptai.
On the final lap, the fans stood up and channeled all their energy towards the Scot, furiously screaming, urging her to find something extra.
And she pulled it off on the home stretch.
“I knew the Kenyans were super strong and would put in bursts. But you can see in that last 100 that I wanted gold. It is an absolute dream. It is so special to have it here in the UK,” she said.
It is the third Commonwealth Games gold in the event for the McColgan family — Eilish’s mum Liz won the event in 1986 and 1990, and now coaches her daughter.
“She ran the race the way I knew she was capable of,” Liz said.
“It has been a long time coming and I know all the hard work she does. It is great that it all came together.”
Emma McKeon joins Kyle Chalmers, Kaylee McKeown, Matt Levy and the men’s 4x200m relay team as gold medalist on day four of the Commonwealth Games.
She led an Australian 1-2 in the 50m butterfly with Holly Barratt, and qualified fastest for the 100m freestyle final, alongside Shayna Jack and Mollie O’Callaghan.
Earlier, Kyle Chalmers won gold in the men’s 100m freestyle, saying all the outside noise made it “hard to enjoy the moment”.
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By Jon Healey
3×3 basketball: Aussies to play for bronze
A little earlier, Australia’s women’s 3×3 basketball team lost their semi-final against England 21-15.
That means Australia will face off against New Zealand, who lost to Canada in their semi, for the bronze.
That game is at 1.30am AEST tomorrow.
By Kelsie Iorio
Table tennis: Things we love to see
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That wraps up the swimming program for this morning
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To recap, five gold and two silver medals
Kaylee McKeown picked up one of each, with gold in the 200m backstroke and silver in the 200m individual medley less than an hour later.
Kyle Chalmer started the morning with gold in the 100m freestyle, while Emma McKeon continued her golden Games by winning the 50m butterfly final just ahead of teammate Holly Barratt.
We also saw Matt Levy win gold in the 50m freestyle S7 to cap off his remarkable career, and then the men’s 4x200m freestyle team brought it home in a romp.
By Kelsie Iorio
Hockey: Australia up 4-1 over New Zealand just before half-time
It’s still only the second quarter but Australia’s dominant performance is continuing in this pool match against the Kiwis.
Jake Whitton,Jacob Anderson and Blake Govers have put points on the board so far. We’ll keep you updated.
By Kelsie Iorio
Boxing: Billy McAllister out after fight called early
This is… quite gross.
Billy McAllister was progressing well in his match against Jerone Ennis but a nasty hit has opened up basically his entire eyebrow and ended the fight early.
It means the Jamaican takes the win.
They keep showing close-ups of it. I feel ill now.
There’s a photo of it coming up.
Fair warning.
If you keep scrolling…
…you’re gonna see it.
OKAY?
OKAY.
Yucky.(Getty)
By Jon Healey
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🥇 Swimming: Australia wins the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay final with a Games record
Elijah Winnington, Flynn Southam, Zac Incerti and Mack Horton hit the water for the Aussie team.
The second leg from 17-year-old Southam was particularly impressive, seeing off a big challenge from South African great Chad le Clos and giving Incerti a body-length lead over Wales as he started the penultimate leg.
He turned that into an almost four-second lead over England by the time he handed over to Horton for the anchor and he powered home in a Commonwealth Games record time of 7:04.96.
English anchor swimmer Tom Dean got out of the pool before the final swimmer from Gibraltar had finished, but the English will keep their silver medal. Wales got bronze.
By Jon Healey
Swimming: Three Australians reach women’s 100m breaststroke final
Chelsea Hodges, Jenna Strauch and Abbey Harkin will all swim in the final tomorrow, but they’ll have a massive job to track down South African duo Lara van Niekerk and Tatjana Schoenmaker, who qualified fastest.
By Kelsie Iorio
Key Event
🥉 Judo: Bronze for both Katz brothers
Joshua and Nathan Katz have both won bronze in the 60kg and 66kg judo divisions respectively.
Josh defeated Simon Zulu of Zambia and Nathan got the win over India’s Jasleen Singh Saini in their bronze medal matches to lock in a podium finish for all three of our judo athletes today.
Fun fact: Team Australia has three lots of siblings on the team this Commonwealth Games! The Katz brothers, Madison and Teagan Levi in the rugby sevens and badminton players Angela and Jack Yu.
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By Kelsie Iorio
Weightlifting: Kiana Rose Elliott just misses out on medal
Kiana Rose Elliott has finished fourth in the women’s 71kg weightlifting final, falling short of a medal by just eight kilos.
England’s Sarah Davis has won gold with a total of 229kg, alexis ashworth of Canada got silver with 214kg and Indian Harkinder Kaur‘s 212kg secured her the bronze.
Kiana Rose finished with a total of 204kg — a 94kg snatch and 110kg clean and herk.
By Jon Healey
Key Event
🥇 Swimming: Emma McKeon wins another gold, Holly Barratt ties for silver in 50m butterfly
Emma McKeon wins her fourth gold medal of these Games, touching the wall in 25.90, which was 0.15 of a second ahead of compatriot Holly Barrattwho will share the silver medal podium with South Africa’s Erin Gallagher.
Hopefully they have two medals and don’t have to share that too, like some sort of Sisterhood of the Traveling P(end)ants.
Alex Perkins was fifth.
By Jon Healey
Swimming: No medals for Australia in the men’s 50m backstroke
Ben Armbruster and Bradley Woodward pushed all the way, but couldn’t rein in the top three, with Andrew Jeffcoat winning for New Zealand, with South Africa’s Pieter Coetze winning silver and Javier Acevedo of Canada touching 0.11 of a second ahead of Woodward for bronze.
By Kelsie Iorio
Beach volleyball: Another win on the board for Australia
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Chris McHugh and Paul Burnett‘s winning streak continues in the beach volleyball pool match stage with another straight-sets victory, this time over South Africa.
Fellow Aussies Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar will also be looking to make it two from two in their second match — they face Trinidad and Tobago next.
You can catch that match from 11:30pm AEST tonight.
By Kelsie Iorio
Boxing: Charlie Senior loses on decision
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charlie senior‘s Birmingham journey has come to an end after losing on points to Canada’s Keoma-Ali Al-Ahmadieh in the featherweight division.
The scorecard is so close but it just didn’t fall the way of the Aussie today.
We’ve got another Australian up in the ring in the next half an hour or so — Billy McAllister in the light heavyweight division, up against Jamaica’s Jerone Ennis.
By Jon Healey
Swimming: Izzy Vincent and Ella Jones in the women’s 100m breaststroke SB6 final
Maisie Summers-Newton of England bossed the field in that one, winning gold by 10.57 seconds.
Izzy Vincent and Ella Jones were fifth and sixth.
By Jon Healey
Key Event
🥇 Swimming: Matt Levy successfully defends his 50m freestyle S7 title
Matt Levy had a slow start as he often does, but reeled in Christian Sadie of South Africa, and ends his glittering career in style.
So that’s nine gold medals at Paralympics, world championships and Commonwealth Games for this legend of the sport.
Seventeen-year-old Joel Mundie was sixth.
By Kelsie Iorio
Key Event
🥇 Gymnastics: Another gold and a silver for Georgia Godwin
What a Games Georgia’s having!!
After snagging gold in the individual all-around final and silver in the team final, she’s added another gold on vault and to silver on uneven bars to her haul.
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Teammates Emily Whitehead and kate mcdonald finished eighth and seventh on vault and one bars respectively.
In the men’s apparatus finals, Clay Mason Stephens you have finished seventh on floor and Jesse Moore came sixth on pommel.
The artistic gymnastics isn’t quite done yet. We still have James Bacuetti in the final vault, Tyson Bull and Mitchell Morgan on parallel bars, Godwin and McDonald on beam, Moore and Morgans on horizontal bar and Whitehead and Romi Brown on floor. Tune in tonight!
By Jon Healey
Key Event
🥈 Swimming: Kaylee McKeown wins silver in 200m individual medley final
Kaylee McKeown had to rush away after picking up her 200m backstroke gold to prepare for this one.
Canadian 15-year-old Summer McIntosh wins the gold, adding to her 400m IM title.
was trailing after the butterfly and backstroke legs, but actually made up ground in the breaststroke to lead heading into the final 50 meters.
But then the freestyle pedigree of McIntosh came to the fore and she overran the Aussie to come home first in 2:08.70, not quite a second ahead of McKeown.
England’s Abbie Wood was third, with Aussies Abbey Harkin and Ella Ramsay fifth and eighth respectively.
By Kelsie Iorio
Key Event
🥈 Weightlifting: Silver for Sarah Maureen Cochrane in women’s 64kg final
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Huge result for Sarah Maureen Cochrane.
The 32-year-old finished with a total of 216kg — a couple of kilos off her total PB but enough to claim the silver.
She ended on a 100kg snatch and 116kg clean and jerk.
canada’s Maude Charron won gold with a staggering 231 total — 101kg snatch and 130kg clean and jerk. Islamiyat Adebukola Yusuf of Nigeria took the bronze.
Fun fact: Sarah is a certified practicing speech pathologist. What a legend.
By Jon Healey
Swimming: Cody Simpson, Matt Temple reach 100m butterfly final
This is the event Kyle Chalmers pulled out of so he could focus on the 100m freestyle final.
Temple stormed home in his semi in 51.52 and goes into the final as the fastest qualifier.
Cody Simpson finished third in the second semi (fifth fastest qualifier) so they’ll both be in the final.
Seven-time Comm Games gold medalist Chad le Clos looks the man to beat, although Temple qualified slightly faster.
By Kelsie Iorio
Key Event
🥇 Lawn bowls: Gold for Ellen Ryan in the women’s singles!
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A fantastic result for the 25-year-old!
She’s defeated Guernsey’s Lucy Beere 17 – 21 at Victoria Park to add another gold to Australia’s tally.
As the youngest member of the lawn bowls team, this is Ellen’s first Commonwealth Games — and what a way to debut.
We’ll see her again in the women’s pairs competition, which kicks off this afternoon (our time).
