Commonwealth Games 2022: History maker Neil Fachie gives Scotland flying start
| 2022 Democracy Games |
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| Hosts: Birmingham Dates: 28 July to 8 August |
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The 22nd Commonwealth Games are under way - and here'due south your day-by-day guide to all the activity in Birmingham.
More than than five,000 athletes representing 72 nations and territories are competing in 280 medal events over a packed eleven days.
All times are BST and events are subject to change.
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Saturday, 30 July - day ii
Gold medals: 23
Athletics: Women'due south and men's marathon, women'south and men's T53/54 marathon
Gymnastics: Women'southward team
Swimming: Men'southward 50m fly, women'due south 50m breast, men's 200m gratuitous, S13 men'due south 50m free, S13 women'south 50m free, men's 400m medley, women'southward 100m wing, men's 100m back, women's and men's 4x100m free relay
Track cycling: Women'southward and men's private pursuit, women'southward dart, men's keirin
Weightlifting: Women's 49kg, women'southward 55kg, men's 55kg, men's 61kg
Medal highlights
09:00-22:00 - On paper, the women's team gymnastics event is a contest betwixt England, Commonwealth of australia and Canada. Four-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist Claudia Fragapane leads this yr's English team, which as well boasts Tokyo Olympic squad bronze medallist Alice Kinsella. Canada ordinarily run England close but a much-changed team this year, led by Cassie Lee and Laurie Denommee, adds some doubtfulness. Commonwealth of australia have 2018 all-around silver medallist Georgia Godwin.
16:00-xviii:l - The second day of track cycling finals features the men's keirin, the race where cyclists trail a motorised bike for a few laps of the velodrome before a sprint finish for aureate. Olympic keirin champion Jason Kenny has retired to become a omnibus at British Cycling so Scotland'south Jack Carlin, 8th in Tokyo, will fancy gold simply two-fourth dimension champion Matthew Glaetzer of Commonwealth of australia stands in his way. Canada'south Kelsey Mitchell will expect to add Republic gold to her Olympic women'south sprint title, while England'southward Charlie Tanfield is dorsum to defend his 2018 title in the men'southward individual pursuit. John Archibald of Scotland, who won argent four years agone, will push him for the gold. Olympic champion Katie Archibald, brother of John, will not compete for Scotland in the women'southward individual pursuit later on injury forced her to drib out, but compatriot Neah Evans and England'southward Josie Knight are potent medal contenders.
19:00-22:00 - Tom Dean and Duncan Scott claimed a stunning British gold-silver triumph in the 200m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics last yr and are fix to get head to head for swimming gold at nineteen:43. They will potentially go head-to-caput six times in Birmingham, with Scott competing for Scotland and Dean racing for England. Scott, who missed the recent Earth Championships subsequently struggling with high-intensity training following Covid-19, also has a big chance in the 400m individual medley. Southward African crowd favourite Republic of chad le Clos needs one more than medal to share the title of most decorated Republic Games athlete of all fourth dimension. His 18th and record-equalling medal could come in the men's 50m butterfly, which he won in 2018, although he pulled out of the world championships with bronchitis concluding month and so there is a question mark over how he has recovered from that. England's Ben Proud will fancy his hopes of securing gold afterward winning his semi-terminal from squad-mate Jacob Peters. Commonwealth of australia will experience similar favourites for the 4x100m freestyle relays at the end of the evening, while England's Hannah Russell is likely to confront Australia's Katja Dedekind in the S13 women's 50m freestyle.
What else is happening?
England women begin their T20 cricket campaign with a twenty-four hours-night game confronting Sri Lanka at Edgbaston from 18:00.
Weightlifting hands out its first four aureate medals of the Games. Sat could exist a big day for Indian hopes as Olympic silver medallist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu competes in the women's 49kg class. She broke a Games record on the way to Commonwealth gold in this category in 2018. This time around, the field volition include England'south Noorin Gulam and Wales' Hannah Powell. Wales' Catrin Jones and England's Fraer Morrow both have an exterior take chances to win a medal in the women's 55kg.
Men's and women'southward rugby sevens continues at Coventry Stadium with the remaining group matches in the morn before the women's semi-finals and men's quarter-finals in the evening.
Telly coverage and live streams
BBC One - 17:20-22:00
BBC Three - 19:00-22:30
Red Button - 08:25-22:xxx
Digital platforms - watch upward to xi alive streams from 06:55-22:30
Highlights
BBC One - 22:20-23:twenty
Sunday, 31 July - mean solar day iii
Aureate medals: 24
Gymnastics: Women's and men'south private all-effectually
Rugby sevens: Women and men
Swimming: Women's 50m free, men's 200m fly, women's 200m breast, SB8 men's 100m chest, S8 women's 100m back, women's 100m back, men'southward 100m breast, S14 mixed 4x100m complimentary relay, women's 4x200m free relay
Track cycling: Men'south tandem B sprint, women's tandem B fourth dimension trial, women's points race, women'south time trial, men'southward sprint, men's scratch race
Triathlon: Women'southward and men's PTVI, mixed relay
Weightlifting: Women's 59kg, men'south 67kg, men's 73kg
Medal highlights
09:00-12:00 and 14:30-17:xxx - Men'due south (09:00) and women's (14:30) individual all-around gymnastics finals, where the gymnasts must perform on all sets of apparatus and the best combined score wins.
Women'southward 2018 champion Ellie Black is not in this year's Canada team, offering Australia'due south Georgia Godwin and England's Alice Kinsella the chance to upgrade their respective silver and statuary medals from the Golden Coast, though lookout man out also for England's 18-year-old Ondine Achampong.
Commonwealth debutant Jake Jarman and 2018 all-effectually silver medallist James Hall, who helped England to team gold on Friday, were the two highest-scoring gymnasts in qualification.
eleven:00-16:20 - Triathlon hands out its final three sets of medals, outset with the PTVI races featuring athletes who have visual impairments. Scotland'south Alison Peasgood, a Rio Paralympic silver medallist in 2016, is reunited with guide Hazel MacLeod, herself a reserve for Scotland's Democracy Games triathlon squad in 2014.
In the men's PTVI race, dart swimmer turned 4-fourth dimension Para-triathlon world champion Dave Ellis is a favourite for England.
14:30 - Mixed team relay - United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland soared to a magnificent gilded on its Olympic debut in Tokyo concluding year. But ii of that team are competing for England later on Jonny Brownlee and Jess Learmonth were ruled out with injury. Nevertheless, in Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brownish they have individual Commonwealth gold and silvery medallists respectively. Commonwealth of australia are the defending champions, while any team with individual silver medallist Hayden Wilde in it has a chance - so look out for New Zealand. Scotland's team will be headed by Beth Potter who is having a breakthrough season and took bronze on Saturday, while Wales' quartet contains sometime world champion Not Stanford.
fifteen:00-19:00 - Track cycling - Laura Kenny, who won squad pursuit bronze on Friday, goes for gold in the women's 25km points race at xv:53 while England squad-mate Matt Walls, the Olympic omnium champion, will fancy his chances in the men'southward scratch race at eighteen:42. Both races reward riders for getting out ahead of the field and both build to a dramatic climax. Defending champion Elinor Barker, who welcomed son Nico in March, opted to return to the Wales team on the road instead and Katie Archibald is absent-minded from the Scotland team through injury.
Elsewhere, Scotland's Jack Carlin volition exist going for dart gold while Wales' James Brawl and Scotland'due south Neil Fachie expect set up for a close contest in the men's tandem B dart while there are strong home hopes in the women's tandem i,000m time trial. Scotland's Aileen McGlynn and pilot Ellie Rock won silver in Fri'southward para tandem sprint but fellow Scot Libby Clegg missed out on a medal as did England'south Sophie Unwin and pilot Georgia Holt in controversial circumstances.
19:00-21:50 - Swimming - English eyes volition be on the men's 100m breaststroke last, where three-fourth dimension Olympic champion Adam Peaty seems to take fully recovered from a broken foot as he bids to defend his Commonwealth title (20:51).
Another day at the pool, some other butterfly final, and another Republic of chad le Clos medal opportunity for South Africa. This time information technology's over 200m. As usual, it's an event he won four years ago. Le Clos' team-mate Tatjana Schoenmaker volition then attempt to agree off England's Molly Renshaw and Abbie Woods in the women's 200m breaststroke, which she won at Tokyo 2020.
For Wales, Lily Rice has a shot at gold in the women's S8 100m backstroke and Medi Harris volition wait to upset globe tape-holder Kaylee McKeown of Australia and Canada's Kylie Masse in the women's 100m backstroke.
18:00-22:00 - Rugby sevens concludes in Coventry with the men's and women'due south finals at 20:38 and 21:04. A hard fought win for Republic of the fiji islands's women over Australia in the concluding game of pool B ways that Australia volition play New Zealand in the semi-finals and Republic of the fiji islands take on Canada. The men'south quarter-last line-up was completed following Fiji's 38-24 victory over Wales. It will be New Zealand v Kenya, Australia v Samoa, Fiji v Scotland and South Africa v Canada. Wales and England will have to be content with battling for ninth identify.
What else is happening?
England's 2018 weightlifting silvery medallist Jack Oliver and up-and-coming Welshman Michael Farmer take on young Indian star Achinta Sheuli in the men's 73kg class. Watch out for African record-setter Rafiatu Folashade Lawal of Nigeria in the women'south 59kg.
At 11:00, one of the highest profile fixtures on any cricket agenda takes place - Bharat face up Pakistan in a group-stage game earlier world champions Commonwealth of australia, who overcame India in their opening match but had a large scare, confront Barbados.
England's men play Wales at 14:00 in hockey'due south grouping stages, while Scotland's men, ranked 19th in the world, have a tough chore confronting world number one side Australia from 09:00. England face Canada in the women's tournament at xix:00.
In beach volleyball , Scotland's women have on Vanuatu in a grouping game at 15:30. Lynne Beattie, 36, and Melissa Coutts, 51, may take a combined age of 87 but that brings a wealth of experience. They reached the quarters in 2018 and Beattie captained Great britain's indoor volleyball squad at the 2012 Olympics. The 2018 Games marked the first time in Commonwealth history that Vanuatu won medals equally they collected two bronzes, firstly in F46 Javelin and then in embankment volleyball as Miller Pata and then partner Linline Matauatu made the podium. Pata is at present with Tini Tok. England pair Jess Grimson 31, and Daisy Mumby, 30, face up Solomon Islands at 20:00.
Table tennis has the men's team quarter-finals at 09:30 and the women's squad semi-finals from 16:00.
Lawn bowls reaches the quarter-final stages for men'due south triples, men'south fours, men's pairs and women'south singles from 15:00.
Monday, 1 August - 24-hour interval iv
Gold medals: 28
Gymnastics: Women'due south vault and uneven confined, men'south floor, rings and pommel horse
Judo: Women's -48kg, -52kg and -57kg, men's -60kg and -66kg
Lawn bowls: Women's singles, men's triples
Pond: Women's 200m back, 200m medley, SB6 100m chest and 50m wing, men's 100m complimentary, S7 50m free, 50m dorsum and 4x200m free relay
Tabular array tennis: Women's team
Track cycling: Women's keirin and scratch race, men's points race and time trial
Weightlifting: Women's 64kg and 71kg, men'south 81kg
Medal highlights
13:00-17:00 - The first day of private apparatus finals offers upward five gymnastics gold medals. England's Courtney Tulloch is set to attempt a defence of his 2018 gilt on rings, an apparatus requiring immense upper-body strength and command, while team-mate Giarnni Regini-Morgan is a European silver medallist in the floor event. Rhys McClenaghan, cleared to take part subsequently a row involving gymnastics' earth governing trunk over his eligibility having competed for Republic of ireland at Tokyo 2020, won pommel horse gold in 2018. That was Northern Republic of ireland's only gilded of the Games.
14:00-xix:00 - Runway cycling ends on Mon with the men'due south points race, where nosotros strongly recommend listening to the commentary to follow exactly what's happening. You become points for performing well in a series of sprints throughout the race and also for lapping the field. Tracking anybody's progress if this is your offset points race could be a claiming. England'south Matt Walls won the Tokyo 2020 points race on the mode to winning the Olympic omnium championship. New Zealand's Campbell Stewart, who was second in that race and won Olympic silver backside Walls, will besides be in Birmingham, equally will England team-mate Ethan Hayter, the omnium world champion. For Scotland, 2018 silver medallist Neah Evans could go one improve in the women's scratch race, although Laura Kenny is expected to ride confronting her for England.
19:00-22:00 - Nosotros movement past the halfway point in swimming with the men's 100m freestyle providing the night's first final. Australia's Kyle Chalmers will run across this equally a big opportunity to make an touch, having won Olympic silver in Tokyo. Canada's Josh Liendo just picked up world bronze in this distance, with England'southward Lewis Burras seventh in the same race. The women's 200m individual medley could turn into a battle between Australia's Kaylee McKeown and England's Abbie Wood , while Maisie Summers-Newton, a earth and European champion, has said she'southward excited to hear the host nation'due south roar in Birmingham after the pandemic-induced quiet of Tokyo when she swims for England in the SB6 100m breaststroke. Lastly, the 4x200m men's freestyle relay splits apart the GB team - with English language, Welsh and Scottish representation - that won golden in Tokyo last yr.
What else is happening?
The first of three days of judo culminates in medal matches from 18:00 to xx:45. Judo has only appeared sporadically at the Commonwealth Games - four times since 1990 - so this is a relatively rare opportunity to see the sport at this level.
Table tennis runs from 09:xxx to 14:45 with the women's team medals decided. India beat Singapore to gilt in this consequence four years ago, with England 3rd subsequently defeating Australia in the bronze medal play-off. Table lawn tennis has simply been in the Commonwealth Games since 2002 simply Singapore already accept a staggering l medals in this effect, more than double the number won by whatsoever other nation. Glasgow 2014 team champion Clarence Chew and Chinese-born 2010 world champion Feng Tianwei are in the Singapore squad for Birmingham.
In men's hockey, in that location'due south a group-phase examination for England as they play Republic of india, the team ranked one in a higher place them in the world, at 16:00.
Victoria Park in Leamington Spa hosts lawn bowls - a.k.a. curling on grass - with Wales' Laura Daniels hoping to amend on women's singles silver four years ago. Scotland are defending men's triples champions. Lawn bowls tin can be a great opportunity to run across teams from smaller nations and territories, such as Norfolk Island, the Cook Islands and Niue, who routinely compete in this event. In 2018, the Melt Islands fifty-fifty managed bronze in the men's pairs, the islands' outset Commonwealth Games medal.
Tuesday, 2 August - mean solar day 5
Gilt medals: 37
Athletics: Women's pole vault, discus, T37/38 100m and T33/34 100m, men's T45-47 100m and 10,000m
Badminton: Mixed team
Basketball (3x3): Women's and men's wheelchair, women'south and men'due south
Gymnastics: Women's beam and flooring, men's vault, parallel confined and high bar
Judo: Women's -63kg and -70kg, men's -73kg and -81kg
Backyard bowls: women's fours, men's pairs, B6-8 para men's pairs
Swimming: Women's 100m free, 100m breast, 200m wing, SM10 200m medley and 800m free, men's 100m fly, 200m back, S10 100m wing, 50m breast, mixed 4x100m medley relay
Table lawn tennis: Men'south team
Weightlifting: Women'southward 76kg and 87kg, men'south 96kg
Medal highlights
13:00-17:00 - Gymnastics concludes with another medal opportunity for England's Giarnni Regini-Moran in the men'southward vault, plus compatriots Alice Kinsella on the beam and Joe Fraser on the parallel confined. Frank Baines, coming out of retirement to compete in a third Commonwealth Games for Scotland, has a shot at a parallel confined medal also.
19:00-22:15 - Back to Alexander Stadium, scene of the opening ceremony, we go for the opening night of athletics activity with six gold medals on the line. England will wait to Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw in the women's pole vault, Sophie Hahn in the women'due south T37/38 100m, and Hannah Cockroft in the women'south T33/34 100m. In the men'southward 10,000m, Uganda'southward Joshua Cheptegei - winner of the 2018 Commonwealth title - just won the globe championship in Oregon, leading domicile compatriot Jacob Kiplimo in third place, which bodes well for an impressive streak: Republic of uganda have won the Democracy men's 10,000m on every occasion since 2006.
nineteen:00-22:15 - Not to be outdone, swimming offers up a blockbuster night to back-trail the opening action at the runway. There could be medals heading all over the identify and some archetype races if the cards fall the correct way. England's Adam Peaty is hot favourite in the men's 50m breaststroke and Ariarne Titmus will be hard to trounce in the women'southward 800m free, just expect some scraps in events similar the women'due south 200m butterfly, where Canadian world champion Summertime McIntosh - 15 years old - will try to hold off defending Republic champion Alys Thomas of Wales. In the men's 100m butterfly, at least iv nations volition feel they take a gold-medal prospect: Canadian world statuary medallist Josh Liendo, Australia'southward Matthew Temple who finished fifth in Tokyo, defending champion Chad le Clos of South Africa, and England's James Guy, who finished 2nd behind Le Clos in 2018. All of that and we haven't even reached the finale, the mixed 4x100m medley relay, which should be entertaining, madcap, and possibly a very shut competition betwixt England and Australia.
19:00-22:00 - 3x3 basketball (pronounce information technology "3 ex 3") made its Olympic debut in 2020 and now reaches the Commonwealth Games for the first fourth dimension. All four gilt medals are awarded on Tuesday. In the men'southward game, Canada and Australia should do well. Canada should also be stiff in the women'southward upshot, where St Lucia dropped out to be replaced past the British Virgin Islands, helping those islands send their largest-ever team to the Commonwealth Games. Australia and Canada are over again among the stronger teams in the wheelchair events.
What else is happening?
It is the 2nd-busiest day of the Games. Badminton'south mixed squad terminal is probable to feature one or both of Republic of india and Malaysia, though Bharat have slipped up before, nearly notably in 2014 when England defeated them in the semi-finals. England and Canada are in with a shot this year.
Judo awards four more gilt medals. This could be Howell and Powell day for England, as European champion Gemma Howell competes in the women'due south -63kg grade and Walsall's Daniel Powell takes part in the men'southward -73kg. Howell won't have to contend with compatriot and earth number 1 Lucy Renshall, who is out injured.
Lawn bowls medals awarded on Tuesday include the para men'southward pairs, where Scotland'southward Kevin Wallace will team upward with a late replacement after scheduled partner Garry Hoodwas expelled from the team less than a week before the start of the Games.
In the tabular array lawn tennis men's team concluding, Republic of india are unsurprisingly the strongest entrants on paper, only England are in with a run a risk - if they can get past Nigeria, who have a solid tabular array tennis medal record at the Commonwealth Games and proved as well strong for the English in 2018's team semi-finals.
The athletics morning session, from 10:00 to 13:30, features a beginning look at the heptathlon starring England's Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the 2019 world champion and defending Commonwealth champion. You'll as well see the opening round of the women's 100m.
England's women play South Africa in grouping-stage cricket from xi:00.
The women'due south hockey group match between Australia and New Zealand, 2 of the top three teams in the contest, could give some insight into who is in the fight for gold (09:00). England face Bharat at 14:00.
Scotland's women face up England in beach volleyball at 20:00.
In weightlifting, Eileen Cikamatana - the youngest member of Australia'south weightlifting team - attempts to go the first woman to win individual Commonwealth gilt for 2 separate countries. The 22-twelvemonth-old, who is in the 87kg course, won gold for Fiji four years ago only has since switched fidelity.
Wednesday, iii August - day six
Golden medals: 31
Athletics: Women's 10,000m, shot put, heptathlon and 100m, men'south high jump, F42-44 and F61-64 discus, T37/38 100m, and 100m
Cycling: Women's and men'due south mountain bike cantankerous-country
Judo: Women's -78kg and +78kg, men's -90kg, -100kg and +100kg
Backyard bowls: B6-8 para women'due south pairs
Squash: Women's and men's singles
Swimming: Women's 400m complimentary, 50m back, 4x100m medley relay and S14 200m gratuitous, men's 200m medley, S14 200m free, 50m gratuitous, 1500m free and 4x100m medley, mixed 4x100m medley 34Pt
Weightlifting: Women's +87kg, men's 109kg and +109kg
Medal highlights
11:30-16:00 - Cannock Hunt Forest, north of Birmingham, has been given an upgrade to host the mountain cycle cross-country events on Wednesday. In 2018 the women's race was won past Annie Terminal in an England one-ii, and New Zealand pulled off the same feat in the men's edition. This fourth dimension, in that location's no Last so Evie Richards, second for England 4 years ago just now world champion, is installed as the new women'due south favourite. Both New Zealanders from 2018, Anton Cooper and Sam Gaze, are back.
19:00-22:15 - The men's and women's 100m finals run dorsum-to-back from 21:forty. Depending on pick, there will be huge hope in Jamaica for a echo of the scenes that saw the nation sweep the women's 100m world podium in the lead-up to Birmingham 2022. In the men's race, Jamaica should again feature but and then should Southward Africa's defending Commonwealth champion Akani Simbine. Reece Prescod may be England's best medal prospect. Scotland'southward Eilish McColgan will target gilt in the women's 10,000m. Before long earlier the 100m finals, we'll find out if Katarina Johnson-Thompson can elevator another major heptathlon championship.
19:00-21:55 - Swimming draws to a close with all four dwelling house nations in with a chance of terminal-gasp gold. England will look to Tokyo champion Reece Dunn in the S14 200m freestyle, world champion Ben Proud in the men'south 50m free, and the men's medley relay. Scotland have Tokyo silver medallist Duncan Scott in the men'southward 200m individual medley. Welsh hopes residual with Daniel Jervis, 2018 silverish medallist and Olympic finalist in the men'southward 1500m gratuitous, with a chance that Medi Harris tin can claiming for the podium in the women's 50m backstroke. For Northern Ireland, world champion Bethany Firth - who has postponed her honeymoon until after the Games - is favourite in the women'southward S14 200m freestyle. Ariarne Titmus has a final shot at private aureate for Australia in the women'southward 400m freestyle.
What else is happening?
Squash holds its singles finals on Wednesday (xvi:00 to xx:30). England's James Willstrop returns for his fifth Republic Games appearance having won gold on the Gilt Coast four years agone. A successful title defence won't be like shooting fish in a barrel - Willstrop is currently outranked past Welshman Joel Makin and New Zealand's Paul Coll. In the women's event, New Zealand's Joelle Male monarch is the top seed, followed by England'south Sarah-Jane Perry and Gina Kennedy.
Judo - about Scottish judoka competing at Birmingham 2022 are debutants, just not Sarah Adlington. Adlington, now 35, is a major contender for women's +78kg gold, particularly as she seeks to rebound from a disappointing first-round exit at Tokyo 2020. Wales accept 2014 Democracy champion Natalie Powell in the women'southward -78kg class.
In weightlifting, Tokyo silver medallist Emily Campbell represents England at women's +87kg level. Samoa's Feagaiga Stowers, who edged past Campbell to Republic gilt in 2018, is back for Birmingham 2022.
As netball'south grouping phase continues, Wales face a tough merely winnable job confronting S Africa, ranked three places above them in the earth, at 12:00. Northern Republic of ireland play Uganda at the same time.
Boxing - all weights reach the quarter-last stage in a packed mean solar day from 12:00 to 22:00. Winning a quarter-final in boxing guarantees a medal as the sport awards bronze to each losing semi-finalist. Quarter-finals go along on Thursday, followed by a 1-day intermission before the medal contests.
Thursday, 4 August - day seven
Gold medals: xv
Athletics: Women's F42-44 and F61-64 discus and T53/54 ane,500m, men's long jump, T11/12 100m, discus and 110m hurdles
Road cycling: Women'southward and men's time trial
Diving: Women's 10m platform, men's 1m springboard
Powerlifting: Women's lightweight and heavyweight, men'south lightweight and heavyweight
Rhythmic gymnastics: Team
Medal highlights
10:00-16:00 - Route cycling's time trial course sends the women across 29km and the men through 37km of the Blackness State and Staffordshire. Geraint Thomas, fresh from the Tour de France, is back to ride for Wales viii years after picking upwardly time trial bronze and road race gold at Glasgow 2014. His challengers in Thursday's time trial - riders commencement one at a time and the fastest time wins - will include England's Ethan Hayter, Australia's Rohan Dennis and record-equalling Tour de France stage winner Mark Cavendish representing the Isle of mann. In the women'due south time trial, Scottish Olympian Anna Shackley volition have on the likes of Australia's Grace Brown.
xviii:00-21:00 - Jack Laugher won 1m springboard diving aureate for England in 2018 and he has since added world silvery in the same effect, en route to becoming the first British diver to win 3 medals at a single world championship. That installs him as the favourite in Birmingham. Scotland are represented by European and Commonwealth statuary medallist James Heatly. English teenager Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, 7th at Tokyo 2020, is a contender in the women'southward 10m platform event confronting the likes of Malaysia's Pandelela Rinong.
19:00-21:45 - A slightly quieter night at the athletics results in 5 gilt medals, including the men's 110m, where England's entrants include Andrew Pozzi, up-and-coming two-time British champion Tade Ojora, and Josh Zeller, who produced an impressive fifth-place finish at the world championships in Oregon. Jamaica's Hansle Parchment probably starts every bit the favourite later on winning concluding year'southward Olympic championship but a hamstring injury that kept him out of the world last may call that into question.
xix:thirty-21:30 - Scotland's Micky Yule volition attempt to win the men's powerlifting heavyweight title in his third Republic Games appearance. The by two Games resulted in quaternary-place finishes, so Yule has a betoken to prove. Speaking of fourth-place finishes, England's Mark Swan just missed the world podium in December last yr and will be a contender for men'due south lightweight gilded in Birmingham.
What else is happening?
England's cricketers play New Zealand in their final group game from eighteen:00 at Edgbaston, a clash that may have important ramifications for the semi-finals on Sat. South Africa face up Sri Lanka in Grouping B'southward other game at 11:00. Grouping A ended a twenty-four hours earlier.
The beginning rhythmic gymnastics medals are awarded at the team final from 12:00 to 21:xxx. Cyprus produced a stunning serial of displays four years ago to win 4 gold medals in rhythmic gymnastics on the gold coast, including this one. All the same, the Cypriot performance was powered largely by the phenomenal Diamanto Evripidou, who is not on the team for Birmingham 2022. Australia insist their "reinvigorated" team have a chance of a start gold medal since Delhi 2010.
In netball, there is a significant grouping-stage run across between Australia and Jamaica, the globe numbers ane and 4, to starting time the twenty-four hour period at 09:00.
Meanwhile, in the morning athletics activity from 10:00, the decathlon begins. Australia'south Ashley Moloney will be amongst the medal contenders.
In the women's hockey group stages, England play Wales at 11:00.
Fri, 5 August - twenty-four hours eight
Gold medals: 17
Athletics: Women's triple jump and 3,000m steeplechase, men's shot put, T53/54 100m and decathlon
Diving: Women's 1m springboard, men's 3m synchro and 10m synchro
Lawn bowls: Women's triples, B2-3 para mixed pairs
Rhythmic gymnastics: All-around
Wrestling: Women's 57kg, 62kg and 68kg, men's 65kg, 86kg and 125kg
Medal highlights
ten:00-13:00 and 18:00-21:00 - Jack Laugher has two major diving medal opportunities in 2 days. This time information technology's the 3m synchro, which the 27-year-one-time has won at the past two Republic Games. In Birmingham, his partner volition be Anthony Harding as Chris Mears, who won golden with Laugher for England in 2018, has retired to focus on his music career. Laugher and Harding won world silverish in June with their nearest Commonwealth rivals being Malaysia in 11th and New Zealand 12th. The men's 10m synchro is a like story to an extent - England'south Matty Lee and Noah Williams also won world silvery last month - merely Canada are probable be breathing down their necks and Australia could feature, too. Scotland'southward Grace Reid and Australia's Georgia Sheehan renew their battle in the women's 1m springboard, a battle won by Reid four years ago, though Canadian world bronze medallist Mia Vallee is a new name in the frame.
nineteen:00-22:00 - The decathlon reaches a climax with the 1500m but after 21:thirty. England'south Harry Kendall, ranked 97th in the world, is the but confirmed home nations entrant. Grenada's Lindon Victor, who won the 2018 title and remains in the world'south top 10, is likely to finish on the podium. David Weir could make an appearance for England in the T53/54 1,500m, while the women's steeplechase and triple jump are likewise decided. In the men's shot put, defending champion Tom Walsh remains one of the all-time in the world and favourite to retain aureate for New Zealand.
ten:xxx-xix:30 - Wrestling erupts into 2 frenzied days of activity with the preliminary rounds, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals all decided in vi weight classes. The men's 65kg is an opportunity for Indian star Bajrang Punia to earn some redemption afterward a knee injury disrupted his attempt to land Olympic gold final year, eventually settling for bronze. It's more half a century since anyone other than India or Canada topped wrestling's medal table at a Commonwealth Games, and you can expect more of the same in Birmingham equally Canadian under-23 world champion Ana Godinez Gonzalez looks for gold in the women's 62kg. The only home nation athlete to reach a last in 2018 was Wales' Kane Charig, who is not attending this year.
What else is happening?
Lawn bowls (09:00-fifteen:45) could bring opportunities for England'southward Alison Yearling and Chris Turnbull in the para mixed pairs. In visually impaired bowls, athletes receive guidance from "directors" - sighted people who assist the players. In the instance of Yearling and Turnbull, their directors are grandmother and grandson Sue and Marker Wherry. Meanwhile, the Scottish women's triples team will hope for a chance of revenge in Birmingham after losing 2018'south final to Australia.
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which Democracy nations don't oftentimes brand much of a mark at world level, where Russian federation, Italy and Bulgaria are more successful. However, the all-effectually final on Friday volition be a chance for the Commonwealth'southward all-time to show what they can practise - and that could mean gold for Commonwealth of australia if Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva can agree off rivals such as New Zealand'due south Havana Hopman.
Women'due south hockey reaches the semi-last stage at 18:00, while beach volleyball'southward quarter-finals have place throughout the twenty-four hours.
Lastly, the morning session of track and field offers a run a risk at xi:05 to see Scotland'southward Laura Muir, Olympic silver and now earth statuary medallist, in action in round one of the women's 1500m.
Sat, six August - day nine
Golden medals: 33
Athletics: Women'due south high jump, F55-57 shot put, 10km race walk, hammer, 400m hurdles, 800m and 200m, men'due south hammer, 3,000m steeplechase, i,500m, pole vault, five,000m, 400m hurdles and 200m
Diving: Women'due south 3m synchro and 10m synchro, men'south 3m springboard
Lawn bowls: Women'south pairs, men's singles, men's fours
Rhythmic gymnastics: Hoop, brawl, clubs, ribbon
Tabular array tennis: Women's classes 3-5 singles and classes 6-10 singles, men's classes 3-v singles
Wrestling: Women's 50kg, 53g and 76kg, men's 54kg, 74kg and 97kg
Medal highlights
ten:00-13:15 - There are two athletics sessions featuring finals on Saturday, starting with a morning session involving the men'southward 1500m final. Scotland'southward Jake Wightman has suddenly vaulted himself to the top tier of British rail and field with a staggering world title in Oregon, immediately installing him among the favourites in the event here. England's Elliot Giles and Wales' Jake Heyward will attempt to finish Wightman securing a summer double, while Kenya and Australia should besides challenge for medals. Also watch out for England's Emily Borthwick, Laura Zialor and Morgan Lake in the women'south high leap, taking on Australia's newly crowned world champion Eleanor Patterson.
10:00-13:00 and 18:00-21:00 - Would y'all bet against another medal for Jack Laugher? Diving continues with the men'southward 3m springboard concluding, won past Laugher in 2018, though Scotland'south James Heatly could deny the Englishman a repeat in Birmingham. New Zealand and Jamaica accept medal prospects, likewise. Women'southward 10m synchro could run into England upwards confronting Malaysia for top spot, while the 24-hour interval's earlier final, the women's 3m synchro, sees Australia's Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith enter among the favourites.
18:thirty-21:45 - The second athletics session switches the focus to some lightning action on the track as the women'south and men's 200m finals wrap up the evening. Jamaicans Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are two of the world's fastest women over 200m right now, while Namibian Olympic silver medallist Christine Mboma could return from injury in time to feature. The men'due south race is a platform for South Africa'southward latest sprint sensation, Luxolo Adams, up against Trinidad and Tobago'southward Jereem Richards. England'southward Adam Gemili and Zharnel Hughes lead dwelling nation hopes. Elsewhere, the women's 800m final could come down to England's Keely Hodgkinson or Scotland's Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie.
What else is happening?
Wrestling concludes with half dozen more than gold medals awarded. Scotland'south Christelle Lemofack competes in the women's 53kg having finished fifth at Glasgow 2014 while representing Cameroon.
Lawn bowls concludes with what could be a good afternoon for Scotland. Hannah Smith and Claire Johnston have a medal shot in the women's pairs and Scotland'southward men's fours are defending the title they won in 2018.
3 of the iv Para-sport table lawn tennis events achieve a conclusion on Sabbatum. England and Australia dissever the ii para titles on offer in 2018.
Netball's semi-finals take place at 09:00 and fourteen:30, as do cricket's semi-finals at 11:00 and eighteen:00. The men'southward squash semi-finals begin at 18:00, equally do the men's hockey semi-finals.
Different the Olympics, rhythmic gymnastics at the Republic Games awards medals in each of four private sets of apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. Cyprus powerhouse Diamanto Evripidou bagged a medal in all 4 in 2018, including two titles. Notwithstanding, Evirpidou won't be in Birmingham, opening the way for others.
Sunday, vii August - twenty-four hour period 10
Gold medals: 46
Athletics: Women's 100m hurdles, 400m, javelin, 4x100m relay, long spring, 1500m, 5,000m and 4x400m relay, men'southward triple jump, 400m, 10km race walk, 4x100m relay, javelin, 800m and 4x400m relay
Beach volleyball: Women, men
Boxing: Women's minimumweight, light/middleweight, calorie-free-flyweight, lightweight, featherweight and middleweight, men's flyweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, bantamweight, light-welterweight, light-middleweight, heavyweight, featherweight, welterweight and super-heavyweight
Cricket: Women
Diving: Women'southward 3m springboard, men's 10m platform
Hockey: Women
Netball: Women
Road cycling: Women'due south and men's route race
Squash: Mixed doubles
Table tennis: Women's singles, men's doubles and classes eight-10 singles, mixed doubles
Medal highlights
10:00-13:00 - It's difficult to know where to kickoff on a day with more than than twoscore gold medals existence handed out, making Sunday the busiest day of Birmingham 2022. The athletics morning time session alone sees eight gold medals won, including the women'due south and men's 4x100m relays in which England will go up confronting the likes of Jamaica and Canada. Annu Rani is one to picket in the women's javelin, having become the outset Indian woman to reach a world concluding in the event, where Commonwealth of australia too have medal prospects. The Bahamas could dominate the 400m finals although England's Matthew Hudson-Smith, who hails from Wolverhampton, is in sparkling course and will challenge Olympic champion Steven Gardiner in the men's event. Shaunae Miller-Uibo has won the women'due south Olympic title at both Tokyo and Rio, simply isn't a confirmed name on the Birmingham start listing at the time of writing.
08:00-17:00 - The last cycling medals of Birmingham 2022 are the route races, held in and around Warwick, including stretches that laissez passer Warwick Castle and sew together to the edge of Royal Leamington Spa's Victoria Park. The men'southward race is 160km, while the women complete 112km. In the women's race, Scottish hopes are dented by the injury-enforced absence of Katie Archibald. Australia will promise for a repeat of their 2018 victory, this time spearheaded by Grace Brown. Names that leap out in the men'south race include Olympic and Tour de France superstars Geraint Thomas for Wales and Mark Cavendish for the Isle of mann.
x:30-21:30 - All sixteen boxing titles are decided in three furious bursts of activity at Birmingham'south NEC. England won 6 of the 16 gold medals at Gold Coast 2018. Delicious Orie - England's 6ft 6in choice at super-heavyweight this year - is one of those trying to lucifer the squad's success 4 years ago. Orie - of Russian and Nigerian heritage - says he believes he can i day be amend than Anthony Joshua. For Scotland, Reese Lynch - the start Scot to win a Globe Title battle medal with statuary terminal twelvemonth - fights at light-welterweight. Welsh hopes include Rosie Eccles - a welterweight silvery medallist in 2018 who is coming back from a virus that saw her lose the use of an arm for a time. Aidan Walsh - an Olympic bronze medallist in the welterweight class - is in the Northern Republic of ireland team.
17:30-20:xxx - At the diving, the men movement up to the iconic 10m platform. Tom Daley is taking a yr out but England's Matthew Dixon and Noah Williams - second and fourth respectively in 2018 - are back. So is Domonic Bedggood - the Australian who vanquish Dixon to gold on the Gold Coast. The women'southward 3m springboard has a new Canadian star in globe silver medallist Mia Vallee but Scotland'due south Grace Reid made the top 10 in the aforementioned final and should be competitive in Birmingham.
19:00-21:30 - The evening athletics session is the last of the Games and culminates in the women's and men'south 4x400m relays. Eilish McColgan is set to characteristic for Scotland in the women's 5,000m and all eyes will exist on team-mate Laura Muir in the women'southward 1500m, though she is expected to face a tough challenge from Kenya'southward Faith Kipyegon. Lorraine Ugen and Jazmin Sawyers are medal hopes for England in the women'due south long jump.
What else is happening?
All kinds of team finals have place on Dominicus but, at the time of writing, it'southward likewise early on to say who'll be taking part and how high the stakes volition be for the habitation nations. If y'all want to plan ahead, here are the timings for the various finals on Sunday:
xv:00-17:thirty - Embankment volleyball (men)
17:00-xx:thirty - Cricket
17:00-xx:00 - Hockey (women)
twenty:00-22:30 - Beach volleyball (women)
20:30-2230 - Netball
Mon, 8 August - day eleven
Gold medals: 12
Badminton: Women's and men's singles, women's and men's doubles, mixed doubles
Diving: Mixed synchro 3m, mixed synchro 10m
Hockey: Men
Squash: Women'southward and men's doubles
Tabular array lawn tennis: Women's doubles, men'due south singles
Medal highlights
09:00-fourteen:00 - The final day of the Games begins with badminton. In 2018, England picked up ii of the 5 badminton titles on offering on the sport's last mean solar day thanks to Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge in the men's doubles and Chris and Gabby Adcock in the mixed doubles. Ellis is dorsum in the England line-up this year merely the others have departed, though England can lean on another experienced campaigner in Lauren Smith. Smith has won five Commonwealth medals but never gilt, and is actualization in her third Games. Scotland's Kirsty Gilmour is some other athlete who has every Democracy colour except aureate in the locker: she's targeting a title in the women'due south singles having finished 3rd four years ago.
09:30-xiii:15 - It's a long, long time since anyone other than Singapore won the tabular array tennis women's doubles. Iii of Feng Tianwei's incredible 10 Commonwealth table tennis medals have come up in this event, and she'due south back in the squad for Birmingham 2022. The story is virtually identical in men'southward singles, meaning Singapore could receive a solid medal boost on the final day of the Games. Fifty of the isle nation's best 96 Republic medals have come in this sport.
x:00-thirteen:00 - The last diving action in Birmingham features the ii mixed synchro contests. The 3m synchro event represents a great chance for Scotland, whose James Heatly and Grace Reid together won earth statuary in June, finishing well clear of nearest Republic rivals Malaysia in seventh. England should have a shot at the 10m synchro title but Australia may be the squad to beat.
x:00-xiv:30 - Squash ends with the women's and men'due south doubles . England's Daryl Selby and Adrian Waller lost a see-saw final to Australia in 2018 and both are back in the squad for Birmingham 2022. Only 1 half of the victorious Australian duo - Zac Alexander - is returning. The women's event is an opportunity for New Zealand's Joelle King, who is one of the all-time in the world, to add another medal.
12:thirty-15:00 - Men'south hockey concludes with the gold-medal game. If the world rankings are whatever guide, Commonwealth of australia will occupy one berth and Bharat or England are favourites to snag the other.
What else is happening?
The closing ceremony begins at xx:thirty - reuniting the athletes at Alexander Stadium and handing over to Victoria, Commonwealth of australia for the 2026 Games.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/commonwealth-games/62222629
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