Commonwealth Games 2026: athletics, cycling and netball on day eight – live
Key events
🏅 Melanie Woods (Scotland) wins replay of women’s T54 1500m
Athletics: Melanie Woods leads from the start, with Noemi Alphonse and Eliza Ault-Connell following in her slipstream in a breakaway group. The Australian falls behind with 600m to go, with Alphonse sticking behind Woods as they go past the bell. Alphonse launches an attack on the final bend but Woods sees it off and crosses the line in a Games record – just like she did on Wednesday.
Athletics: Up next is the rerun of the women’s T54 1500m, with Scotland’s Melanie Woods trying to repeat her win in the controversial original race on Wednesday.
The race goes ahead without Canada’s Nandini Sharma, who was disqualified after a pile-up on the first bend. Sharma cut across Mauritius’s Noemi Alphonse and was disqualified after the race. Appeals were lodged and the race will now be replayed …
Athletics: Action on the track has started with the heats of the 110m hurdles in the decathlon. Canada’s Damian Warner has extended his lead at the top of the overall standings with the best time of all 16 athletes (14.04sec). A good time from England’s Sammy Ball (14.61sec) keeps him in third place with four events to go.
Overall standings (top five)
1. Damian Warner (Canada) – 5322pts
2. Tejaswin Shankar (India) – 5261
3. Sammy Ball (England) – 5146
4. Jami Schlueter (Nigeria) – 5099
5. Lindon Victor (Grenada) – 4941
Netball: Northern Ireland are on course to finish 11th in the netball final classification – they lead 65-28 in the fourth quarter against Trinidad and Tobago in that placing final. Places 5th-12th will be decided today, with the semi-finals tomorrow and the final on Sunday.
Tomorrow
Semi-finals: New Zealand v England (9am), Australia v Jamaica (1pm)
Sunday
Bronze final (9am)
Gold final (1pm)
Preamble
Hello and welcome to day eight of the Commonwealth Games. It’s all coming to a head in Glasgow with a raft of medal events and finals across all sports – the highlights being the women’s 800m and both 200m finals in the athletics, the sprint events and men’s Keirin in the cycling, and semi-finals and finals in boxing and judo. The medal ceremonies will be coming thick and fast.
At the morning session at Scotstoun Stadium we have the continuation of the decathlon, plus some relays and the rerun of the women’s 1500m T54 final. In the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome we’ll pedal through a few rounds of sprint qualifying and the start of the individual pursuit. There are also more bowls (there’s always bowls) and netball placing finals.
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