Commonwealth Games 2026: New Zealand beat England in netball semis; athletics and cycling updates – live
Key events
England’s Nathan Maguire wins gold!
Men’s 1500m T54 final Nathan Maguire powered to victory in the last lap, with Daniel Sidbury (England) taking silver and Sam Rizzo (Australia) the bronze.
Maguire, the husband of the great Hannah Cockroft, is being interviewed with their two-month-old daughter Rosie in his arms.
I was so boxed. And then I felt like Moses – it just parted and I got through. I don’t know how it happened!
There was a little bit of panic. When I heard the bell (for the last lap) I thought, ‘Oh my god, I’m so stuck.’ I dropped them a lot more than I expected!
More from day eight in Glasgow
New Zealand beat England in netball semi-final
The Black Ferns will play Australia or Jamaica in tomorrow’s gold-medal match after beating England 61-54 in the first semi-final at the Hydro.
New Zealand, who took bronze four years ago, are one game away from winning Commonwealth gold for the first time since 2010. This will be their first final since Glasgow 2014, when they lost to… Australia.
Sean Ingle
Day eight at the Games
There are late developers in sport, and then there is the brilliant Georgia Hunter Bell, who continues to defy sporting gravity at the age of 32.
And on Friday night under the Glasgow lights, she gave a tactical masterclass to outwit – and then outpace – the 800m world champion Lilian Odira and complete her set of global medals.
Incredibly it was only two years ago that she made her international debut here in Scotland’s biggest city. Back then she was a part-time runner working in tech. Now, staggeringly, she is one of Britain’s biggest sports stars and the proud owner of Olympic, World, European and now Commonwealth medals.
Netball semi-final New Zealand are just too good for England: they lead 55-44 with 7.38 to play.
The first athletics finals of the day are under way. They are, I think, the men’s shot put T57 and the men’s triple jump.
Then we have these events to follow in the next couple of hours:
Adam Ramsay-Peaty x Donald McRae = a belter of an interview
Netball semi-final England are under the pump against New Zealand in the first of today’s two semi-finals – they trail 46-37 at the end of the third quarter. It’s a long way back from here.
New Zealand took control in the first quarter, after which they led 16-11. The second was all square, 13 apiece, but New Zealand all but doubled their lead by taking the third quarter 17-13.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to live coverage of a bumper day nine at the Commonwealth Games. There are – count ‘em, Stan – 44 gold medals up for grabs in the next 12 hours or so.
The athletics highlights include the men’s 800m, men’s and women’s 400m, men’s and women’s mile, men’s, women’s and mixed 4x100m relay, men’s triple jump, women’s long jump and the women’s javelin.
There was an early start at the Hydro, where a huge netball semi-final between New Zealand and England is well under way. Let’s get straight into that.
