Australia has finished the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham at the top of the standings and 10 gold medals ahead of second-placed England.
The green and gold team won 67 gold, 57 silver and 54 bronze medals during the competition.
The Kookaburras beat India in the final of the men’s hockey to secure Australia’s last gold medal of the Games.
You can check out how theaction unfolded in our Commonwealth Games closing ceremony blog, or have a look at the medal winners and the top 10 medal standings by country below:
Final day medal winners:
Gold:
The Kookaburras beat India in the men’s hockey
Silver:
Jian Fang Lay and Minhyung Jee claimed silver in the table tennis
Shixin Li and Maddison Keeney, diving, mixed 3m synchronized springboard
Bronze:
Cassiel Rousseau and Emily Boyd, diving, mixed synchronized 10m platform
The Commonwealth Games closing ceremony gave us a bright, bold, and banging Brummie farewell, and an uplifting handover to Victoria 2026.
So with the Games now officially over, we’ve picked out some of our favorite moments from the 11 absorbing days of competition.
Oliver Hoare stuns hot field to win 1,500m
From an Australian perspective, when it comes to a pure sporting spectacle against a world-class field, Oliver Hoare’s win in the men’s 1,500 meters is at the top.
Oliver Hoare won in breathtaking fashion.(Getty Images: David Ramos)
Hoare was racing against the current world champion as well as the reigning Olympic bronze and silver medalists.
It was perhaps the strongest field of any athletics event at the Games.
And not only did Hoare win it, he did it in the most breathtaking fashion.
Coming fourth around the bend, he started gaining ground in that final stretch, with those watching thinking, ‘He’s going to get bronze, he’s going to get silver … OH MY GOSH, HE’S WON IT!’
He lunged to the line as Kenya’s Abel Kipsang stumbled, and cemented his place in Australia’s middle-distance running folklore.
Packed crowds create brilliant atmosphere, especially for local athletes
When the members of the ABC Sport team turned up to Birmingham a few days before the Games began, we were a little worried.
The people we spoke to seemed almost oblivious that the Games were about to start, and there was an air of indifference around the town.
But once the opening ceremony rolled around, it was like a flick was switched, and Brummies turned out in force and in full voice.
It didn’t matter what the venue was — whether it was the 30,000 seat Alexander Stadium, or one of the small halls at the National Exhibition Center — the energy generated by the staunchly pro-England/Home Nations fans was invigorating.
There are a few events that stood out.
The 3×3 basketball men’s Ashes gold medal contest between England and Australia was out of control.
When Birmingham’s own Myles Hesson sunk the Australians in overtime, there was a mind-blowing explosion of noise that shook the small venue to its core.
Similarly, the women’s 10,000m final was something special to watch.
Scotland’s Eilish McColgan and Kenya’s Irine Cheptai were engaged in a tight battle, but as they embarked on the final lap, the crowd seemed to transfer their strength to McColgan and you could see the power of their voices pushing her to the line first.
Eilish McColgan and Irine Cheptai gave it everything in a thrilling final lap of the women’s 10,000m final.(Getty Images: Al Bello)
The best part was she added to her own family’s legacy. Her mum de ella, and coach, Liz McColgan (nee Nuttall) won the same event twice.
And Emily Campbell came into these Games with the weight of England on her shoulders.
She was the co-flag-bearer and was under immense pressure as the first female British weightlifter to get a medal at an Olympics — her silver in Tokyo last year.
She dealt with the occasion beautifully and was repaid by the jubilant home fans.
Micky Yule’s full-circle moment creates high emotion
It was one of the most extraordinary stories to come out of the Games.
Scotland’s Micky Yule lost both his legs when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan while serving in the Royal Engineers 12 years ago.
He came to Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital in a coma and spent the early weeks of his recovery here.
Nothing was going to stop Micky Yule from winning a medal in the men’s heavyweight division.(Getty Images: Al Bello)
The para powerlifter returned to the city full of raw passion, power and emotion, and claimed a bronze medal that meant the absolute world to him.
His six-year-old daughter Tilly was there. She joined him on the podium after the medal ceremony, and there were tears all around (including from this reporter) as he exemplified the truly transformative power of sport.
The thrill of being there
Gold is great. And sure, as Australians we especially love it come the Commonwealth Games, but there is something particularly striking about those athletes that are ecstatic to receive minor medals, or even just be there at all.
Diver Sam Fricker and wrestler Jayden Lawrence were among the Australian athletes absolutely overjoyed with their bronze medals.
Australia’s Jayden Lawrence (right) defeated South Africa’s Edward Lessing to claim bronze in the men’s freestyle wrestling 86kg.(Getty Images: Tom Dulat)
And England’s Liam Murray was the happiest non-medallist we encountered at the Games.
The para powerlifter lapped up every second of his experience at his home Games, egging the crowd on, who obliged with booming chants of “LIAM, LIAM” throughout his lifts in the men’s heavyweight final.
“When I had my [spinal cord] injury five years ago, I thought my life was over and now I’ve just experienced the best day of my life,” he told us after his fifth placing.
“So for anyone out there who’s struggling and going through hard times, there’s better times ahead.”
Australian record-breakers
It’s only fair to finish on the Australian athletes who set new standards at the Commonwealth Games with astonishing achievements.
Swimmer Emma McKeon won six gold medals to take her overall tally to 14 — the most won by any Australian.
And she now has the most medals of any Commonwealth Games athlete with 20.
Georgia Godwin was a breakout star in the artistic gymnastics with golds in the individual all-round event and vault, and silvers in the team final, uneven bars, and beam.
Madi de Rozario became Australia’s most successful Commonwealth Games para-athlete with four gold medals.
While the marathon had a disappointingly small field due to a number of issues, she still had to overcome one of the toughest courses of her career to win that event. Then she backed it up on the track in a 1,500m race that did n’t go to plan to add to her growing legacy of her.
And the team sports provided some priceless moments, from Australia’s women winning the inaugural T20 cricket gold, to the Diamonds avenging their pool defeat to Jamaica in the decider, and the Kookaburras winning a phenomenal seventh-straight men’s hockey gold.
Birmingham has set the standard, giving Victoria plenty to live up to in four years’ time.
Australia has become the first country to rack up 1,000 Commonwealth Games gold medals on the second last day of competition in Birmingham.
Day 10 saw some impressive team victories, including the Australian Women’s Cricket Team’s win over India and The Diamonds’ close win over Jamaica in the netball.
The victories by green and gold athletes means Australia maintains its lead at the top of the standings by 11 gold medals.
You can check out how theaction unfolded in our Commonwealth Games blog, or have a look at the medal winners and the top 10 medal standings by country below:
Day 10 medal standings:
Gold:
The Diamonds, netball
The Australian Women’s Cricket Team
Maddison Keeney, diving, 3m springboard
Kelsey-Lee Barber, athletics, javelin
Chris McHugh and Paul Burnett, beach volleyball
Georgia Baker, cycling, women’s road race
Cassiel Rousseau, diving, 10m platform
Silver:
Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Arcacho del Solar, beach volley ball
World champion Kelsey-Lee Barber has delivered when it mattered most, claiming the Commonwealth Games gold medal in the women’s javelin with her final throw.
Key points:
Barber won gold with her final attempt of 64.43m
Little was second with a personal best of 64.27m
Barber won her second world championship last month
Australian teammate Mackenzie Little had led the competition into the sixth and final round after producing a personal best of 64.27 meters with her fifth effort.
But Barber — who was struck down by COVID-19 on the eve of the Commonwealth Games — showed cool nerves to unleash the winning throw of 64.43m with her final attempt.
Little took the silver medal only a fortnight after she finished fifth behind Barber at the world championships in Eugene.
She had set what was a personal best of 64.03m with her first attempt in the Birmingham final.
Mackenzie Little set a new PB with a throw of 64.27 meters.(Getty Images: David Ramos)
Barber’s win in Eugene was her second world championship, while she was a bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olympics.
The 30-year-old now has the full set of Commonwealth Games medals, having won bronze in 2014 and silver in 2018.
The bronze in Birmingham went to India’s Annu Rani with 60.00m.
In other events, Australia’s Declan Tingay was overtaken by Canadian veteran Evan Dunfee in the final lap of the men’s 10,000m walk and had to settle for silver.
Dunfee clocked a winning time of 38 minutes and 36.37 seconds ahead of Tingay in 38:42.33.
Australian Michelle Jenneke produced another fast time but it provided only good enough for fifth in a red-hot 100m hurdles final.
World record holder Tobi Amusan from Nigeria blew the field away with a winning time of 12.30, smashing the 16-year-old Games record of 12.65 in the process.
Jenneke’s fellow Australian Celeste Mucci was seventh in 13.03.
Muzala Samukonga (44.66) won Zambia’s first gold medal of the Birmingham Games, storming home over the top of local hope Matthew Hudson-Smith (44.81) in the men’s 400m final.
Australian Steve Solomon was seventh in 46.22, ending another injury-blighted season.
Hamish Kerr makes history with high jump gold. Video/Sky Sport
All you need to know from yet another successful day at the Commonwealth Games for New Zealand athletes as they claimed historic gold medals.
king of the mountains
Ben Oliver (L) and Sam Gaze celebrate yet another one-two finish for New Zealand in Commonwealth Games mountain biking. Photo / Photosport
Day six began with a bang for New Zealand as Sam Gaze made it back-to-back Commonwealth Games golds in the men’s mountain bike event after a dominant display that also produced silver for fellow Kiwi rider Ben Oliver.
Gaze was in commanding form on Thursday, finishing 31 seconds ahead of Oliver to make it three straight Games that New Zealand has completed a one-two, after Anton Cooper pipped Gaze in Glasgow and before that outcome was acrimoniously reversed on the Gold Coast.
The race was denied the chance of reigniting Gaze and highly-ranked Cooper’s heated rivalry after the latter withdrew from the event due to Covid-19. That left Oliver the opportunity to make his way up the field and he did so well, improving from his fourth place on the Gold Coast in 2018.
Check out or full report from the circuit here.
Paul Coll rallies to new height
Paul Coll with the gold medal he’s been dreaming of all week long. Photo / Photosport
Coll has capped off a huge few years at the top level of men’s squash by winning gold in a tough five-set battle with Wales’ Joel Makin.
After winning silver four years ago on the Gold Coast, Coll briefly ascended to No 1 in the world earlier this year and in 2021 became the first Kiwi man to win the prestigious British Open title, while defending that crown again in April.
History was made again today as Coll became the first Kiwi man to win a gold medal in squash at a Commonwealth Games.
Earlier in the day, Joelle King blew a 2-0 lead in her bronze medal playoff to lose in five sets to world No 6 and hometown favorite Sarah Jane Perry.
Check out Albie Redmore’s full report from the court here.
White men can jump
Hamish Kerr is building an impressive resume amongst the world’s best high jumpers. Photo / Photosport
Christchurch’s Hamish Kerr became the first Kiwi man to win a Commonwealth Games high jump medal, claiming a shiny new gold for his cupboard.
Kerr ended up in a head-to-head battle with Australian Brandon Starc, the 2018 gold medal winner and younger brother of cricketer Mitchell Starc.
Both cleared 2.25m and failed at 2.28m, but Starch had earlier failures at lower heights whereas Kerr had been clear.
Kerr joins Tania Murray (nee Dixon) and Tracy Phillips, who claimed gold and bronze respectively in the women’s event at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.
Maddi Wesche was a cool customer on the Commonwealth Games days. Photo/Getty
Kerr’s medal was one of two in athletics for the day, with shot putter Maddi Wesche taking out bronze with a throw of 18.84m, a touch shorter than her throw of 18.98m in the final of the Tokyo Olympics. Canada’s Sarah Mitton won gold with a throw of 19.03m.
In the women’s 100m final, Kiwi sprinter Zoe Hobbs finished sixth with a time of 11.19s. She would’ve needed to better her personal best of 11.08 to challenge for the podium.
Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica took out gold with a time of 10.95, with St Lucian Julien Alfred second in 11.01 and England’s Daryll Neita third in 11.07.
Check out our full report from the athletics here.
Liti salvages silver from tough day
David Liti poses with his silver medal besides coach Tina Ball. Photo / Photosport
Popular Kiwi weightlifter David Liti fell short of a second straight Commonwealth Games gold medal but still came away with a silver on a day when he couldn’t find his best form.
Liti set a new Games record in 2018 with a combined weight of 403kg and lifted a total of 417kg at last year’s Olympics. However, he could only muster a total of 394kg on Thursday, leaving the door open for Pakistan’s Nooh Dastgir Butt to claim the gold with a total of 405kg.
The loss to Butt has sparked a desire for revenge in Liti, who says he’s now looking forward to a repeat match up at the world championships.
“He did really good to keep himself ahead, and next time I face off with him it’ll definitely be a good one,” Liti said. “If he comes to worlds, I’ll show him what’s up.”
Check out our full report from the weightlifting here.
Three medal haul for Judo team
Kody Andrews was a proud silver medalist on Thursday. Photo / Photosport
It was a superb day for the New Zealand judo team with Kody Andrews leading a three medal haul with silver in the men’s 100kg event after being pinned by Canada’s Marc Deschenes early in the gold medal bout to lose by Ippon.
Moira De Villiers claimed bronze in the women’s -78kg after defeating Ayuk Otay Arrey Sophina of Cameroon by Ippon with 28 seconds left. It’s her second medal from her after winning silver in Glasgow eight years ago. She defeated fellow Kiwi Hayley Mackey in the quarter-finals, one of her her students at the judo club she runs with her husband Jason Koster in Christchurch. She was then beaten by England’s Emma Reid in the semifinals who went onto win gold.
The bronze bout was a close thing but de Villiers kept her calm and got the win just at the end.
“[It’s] super special. It wasn’t what I wanted but I’m still glad I was able to represent New Zealand and get another medal. I just knew she would gas after a minute I just had to keep going and be a little bit of a dogfight. I’m ruthless on the ground so I knew I was going to get it,” she told Sky Sport.
Gisborne’s Sydnee Andrews also claimed bronze with the 19-year-old promising gold in four years’ time after defeating Sarah Hawkes of Northern Ireland in their women’s +78kg bronze bout.
Clareburt bags a bronze
Lewis Clareburt has added a bronze to his medal collection. Photo / Photosport
Lewis Clareburt’s quest for a third gold medal fell just short as he picked up a bronze to end his campaign.
The Kiwi finished third in the 200m individual medley final with Scotland’s Duncan Scott taking the gold ahead of Tom Dean of England.
18-year-old Erika Fairweather qualified fastest for the 400m freestyle final but couldn’t match world record holder Ariarne Titmus and young Canadian star Summer McIntosh in the final.
Fairweather battled Aussie Kiah Melverton for bronze, just missing out on the medals by 0.60 seconds in a time of 4:03.84. Fellow Kiwi Eve Thomas was seventh in 4:09.73.
To view a full list of every result by every Kiwi athlete and team, check out our full schedule and results.
Medals today:
Gold – Paul Coll – Men’s squash Gold – Hamish Kerr – Men’s high jump Gold – Sam Gaze – Men’s mountain bike Silver – Ben Oliver – Men’s mountain bike Silver – Kody Andrews – Judo – Men’s 100kg+ Silver – David Liti – Weightlifting – Men’s +109kg Bronze – Sydnee Andrews – Judo – Women’s 78kg+ Bronze – Moira Koster – Judo – Women’s 78kg Bronze – Lewis Clareburt – Swimming – Men’s 200 IM Bronze – Maddi Wesche – Athletics – Women’s shot put
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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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
By Jon Healey
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
Key Event
🥇 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
Getty: Al Bello
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).
Olympic champion Jess Fox has bolstered her medal haul, winning gold and silver on the final day of racing at the canoe slalom world championships in Germany.
Key points:
Fox edged out Great Britain’s Kimberley Woods and Andorra’s Monica Doria Vilarrubla
The Australian world champion came second in the women’s canoe final earlier in the day
Extreme canoe slalom will premiere as an Olympic event at Paris 2024
The record-breaking Australian successfully defended her world title in the extreme slalom event after coming second in the women’s canoe earlier in the day.
Fox edged Great Britain’s Kimberley Woods while Andorra’s Monica Doria Vilarrubla claimed the bronze medal.
Extreme canoe slalom will premiere as an Olympic event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and with back to back world titles, Fox is firming as the favourite.
The Olympic C1 champion was pipped in that event for less than one second by German Andrea Herzog while Great Britain’s Mallory Franklin rounded out the podium.
Jess Fox’s two Sunday medals took her world championships medal tally to three, after winning silver in the women’s kayak on Saturday.(Getty Images: Thomas Lohnes)
Those three paddlers were the medal winners at the Tokyo Olympics, although Fox then beat Franklin for gold.
The performances brought her overall world championships medal tally to three after already winning silver in the women’s kayak on Saturday.
“It’s been an amazing weekend here in Augsburg,” Fox said.
“I can’t quite believe I managed to pull that off in extreme and to back up the world title. I’m so pleased to come away with three medals.
“For the kayak and the canoe, it was always going to be really tough to beat the Germans on their home course and I wanted to give it the best shot I could.
“I’m really pleased with the way I raced.”
Fox was joined in the C1 final by her younger sister Noemie Fox, who finished a strong eighth.
In July, the 25-year-old won silver in the extreme slalom at the International Canoe Federation (ICF) World Cup in Poland.
Noemie Fox — Jess’ younger sister — finished eighth in the C1 final.(Getty Images: Thomas Lohnes)
Tasmanian Kate Eckhardt narrowly missed the final in 13th place in her first ever world championships women’s canoe semi-final.
Tim Anderson completed Australia’s representation, placing eighth in the men’s extreme kayaking event.
With one gold and two silver medals Australia placed fourth on the overall medal rankings.
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