That’s all from us on day one at the Commonwealth Games. Check out the updated medal table and best photos here …

Here is the full story from Yara El-Shaboury in Glasgow on Gabriel Langton’s awful fall in the gymnastics team event final …

Swimming: 4x100m freestyle relay final standings

Men
Gold: Australia 3:09.49 (GR)
Silver: England +2.20sec
Bronze: South Africa +4.50sec

Women
Gold: Australia 3:31.40
Silver: England +4.26sec
Bronze: South Africa +7.27sec

Gymnastics men’s team final standings

Gold: Canada 241.400pts
Silver: England 238.250
Bronze: Australia 325.640
Fourth: Scotland 234.300

Gymnastics: Scotland’s Reuben Ward goes full Enzo Fernández (the celebration, not the red card), cupping his ears to the crowd after a slightly shaky dismount on the high bars. England have dropped to silver, after Canada get the points they require for gold after William Emard’s floor routine.

Gymnastics: Cameron Lynn’s high bar routine is outstanding, scores 13.500 and Scotland are really pushing Australia hard for bronze. Hamish Carter goes next, dismounts with a twist or two and sticks the landing without even a stumble. The crowd responds to his fist-pumping and the pressure is really on Australia now. Canada look imperious on their way to gold.

Para powerlifting: Nigeria continue their dominance in this sport by winning their third gold of the day thanks to Riluwan Idris. England’s Matthew Harding came in second after both failed on their final lifts. India’s Jhandu Kumar won bronze from Group B.

Gymnastics: England, Cyprus and Wales have finished their sixth rotations, with their points totals finishing in that order. The England team get into a huddle, with coaches giving them perhaps an update on their teammate Gabriel Langton, who has been taken to receive medical treatment after falling on his neck on the high bar.

Leaders Canada will go on the floor, while Scotland have the high bar and Australia the pommel.

Para swimming: In fact, Fernando Lu has been disqualified for “alternating lane movement”, with Canada’s Jack Gill taking bronze instead.

Para swimming: Australia’s Alex Saffy wins the S10 men’s 100m butterfly, upgrading the silver medal he won at Birmingham 2022. Canada’s Fernando Lu just faded away on the back 50m and had to hang on for bronze behind Australia’s Col Pearse.

Gymnastics: Gabriel Langton has been stretchered away and the men’s team final will continue. His England teammate Luke Whitehouse has the very difficult task of doing the high bar straight after Langton had fallen off it so seriously. Whitehouse can’t quite keep his footing on the landing and looks very downcast as he walks away. Suddenly, this is all a bit secondary, especially for the England athletes.

Swimming: Meanwhile, Adam Ramsay-Peaty is pushed all the way in his 100m breaststroke semi-final by 18-year-old Filip Nowacki of Jersey. Both are safely through to tomorrow’s final, but that was very interesting indeed. England’s Greg Butler finishes third.

Gymnastics: The competition has been paused while Langton continues to receive treatment. Medical staff of the England and Scotland teams are involved. The TV pictures have obviously cut away for privacy reasons.

Gymnastics: Felix Dolci steadies Canada nerves with a huge routine on the high bar, sticking the landing perfectly. It’s the best high bar score of the night with 14.250 and Canada still lead the overall standings going into the final rotation …

1. Canada 201.850pts – floor to go
2. England 200.200 – high bar
3. Australia 195.750 – pommel horse
4. Scotland 194.750 – high bar
5. Cyprus 192.450 – pommel horse
6. Wales 189.700 – floor

Bronze is still up for grabs for Scotland.

Gymnastics: A nervy moment for leaders Canada in the men’s team final after the vastly experienced Rene Cournoyer comes off the high bar and comes down on the mat with a thud. It’s a score of 11.550 – not great. They might start looking over their shoulders now. England are pushing them.

Boxing: Scotland’s Leo Church is through to the last 16 of the men’s 65kg after beating Nauru’s Vi-J Tebouwa. England’s Patris Mughalzai is also safely through.

Swimming: South Africa are dominating in the pool at the moment. Ruard van Renen, Pieter Coetzee and Erin Gallagher make it three wins in a row in sprint semi-finals. Jessica Thompson can only finish third in the second women’s 50m butterfly semi-final behind Alex Perkins (Aus) and Hazel Ouwehand (NZ).

Adam Ramsay-Peaty is coming up in the second men’s 100m breaststroke semi-final, but does he have a young challenger? Jersey’s Filip Nowacki is a junior European champion and races in the lane alongside him.

Gymnastics: England have got the bit between their teeth now as they chase down Canada at the top of the men’s team event standings. Alexander Yolshin-Cash, 20, roars a ‘Let’s go!’ after dismounting from the parallels bars. He gives a sheepish wave to the camera as his score of 14.100 pops up – it’s the best of the night on that apparatus.

Women’s 200m backstroke final standings

Gold: Jenna Forrester (Australia) 2:08.17
Silver: Katie Shanahan (Scotland) 2:08.54
Bronze: Hannah Fredericks (Australia) 2:09.02
Fourth: Holly McGill (Scotland) 2:09.16

Swimming: Katie Shanahan and Holly McGill are the home hopes going into the women’s 200m backstroke final. Jenna Forrester of Australia only won bronze in the 400m freestyle about 45 minutes ago.

Gymnastics: These are the standings with two rotations of the men’s team final left to go …

1. Canada 162.550pts
2. England 159.400
3. Australia 157.300
4. Cyprus 156.050
5. Scotland 155.100
6. Wales 151.900

Swimming: The Flower of Scotland is played for the first time at these Commonwealth Games as Duncan Scott receives his 200m individual medley gold medal by the pool. Lewis Clareburt (NZ) and Tom Dean (Eng) collect silver and bronze.

Gymnastics: An update from the men’s team final, with the six remaining nations in the fourth rotation of six. Canada were the leaders at halfway with 122.200pts, followed by Australia, Cyprus and England, who have it all to do to defend their title. Luke Whitehouse posts a very good 14.150 on the vault for England.

Para powerlifting: There’s more Nigerian success as Folashade Oluwafemiayo (gold – and a world record of 172kg) and Rita Ferdinand (silver) make it a one-two in the women’s heavyweight event. Australia’s Hani Watson wins bronze while England’s Louise Sugden and Doaa Shayea are fourth and fifth.

Cast your eyes over the best pics from day one of the Commonwealth Games with our eye-catching gallery …

Men’s 200m individual medley final standings

Gold: Duncan Scott (Scotland) 1:56.38
Silver: Lewis Clareburt (New Zealand) 1:57.77
Bronze: Tom Dean (England) 1:57.22
Fourth: William Petric (Australia) 1:57.87

Swimming: It’s a big one now – the men’s 200m individual medley final. Duncan Scott and Tom Dean lead a star-studded field who are all within 0.8sec of each other for times.

After Evan Jones gets a good cheer, his compatriot Scott gets an even bigger one from their home crowd. Dean and Max Litchfield lead the English competition. William Petric of Australia is the fastest qualifier.

Swimming: The first event of the evening in the pool is the women’s 400m freestyle final. Pure endurance. There are three Australians and three from New Zealand in the field, plus one each from Canada and Singapore. There is no Ariarne Titmus (she retired last year) or Summer McIntosh, so gold is very much up for grabs here.

Australia’s Lani Pallister and New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather are the favourites.

Boxing: It’s disappointment for Scotland’s Aaron Cullen, who loses by unanimous decision to India’s Jadumani Singh Mandengbam in the men’s 55kg round of 32.

Para powerlifting: Scotland’s Hope Gordon, though, is thrilled with her successful three lifts in Group B of the women’s heavyweight final, 82kg, 86kg, 90kg. It won’t get her a medal but she won’t mind.

England’s Doaa Shayea opens up Group A with a successful lift of 104kg. She spoke before these Games about breaking through cultural stereotypes …

I really hope that by seeing someone like myself it opens doors for younger women and girls who are also Muslim, who don’t need to fear being strong and can be empowered by it.

Within society, seeing women being strong, it has a bit of a backlash, especially when you’re in a male-dominated sport, but even more so when you’re from a Muslim community, so I’m having to break through cultural stereotypes.

You can’t be what you can’t see and growing up I couldn’t see someone like me, so I’ve had to become that representation and to be that for other young girls and women is an honour.

Gymnastics: Here goes home favourite Reuben Ward on the pommel horse. His Scotland teammates are already cheering their heads off and punching the air in the background as Ward starts his dismount. It’s a big score of 14.550.

James Hardy wore a pink ribbon into the arena earlier for his mum, who is back home in Australia after a breast cancer diagnosis earlier this year. He flies down the vault runway and sticks the landing to score 13.775 – it’s top of the standings for qualification for the individual final. Mum’ll be proud.

“I actually flipped a coin to decide whether I was going to box or switch to taekwondo,” admits Kings-Wheatley in her TV interview.

It was the same for me – taekwondo or live-blogging. Looks like it worked out for both of us.

Boxing: England’s Lucy Kings-Wheatley is in action against Petronella Nokenoke of Papua New Guinea in the women’s 60kg division. Kings-Wheatley, who lost her dad at the end of last year, has said she believes she can win gold in Glasgow. The 23-year-old switched from kick-boxing to boxing five years ago.

Kings-Wheatley is on the front foot from the off, dominating the first round of the last-16 match. Nokenoke comes out swinging in round two after switching to south paw but any momentum she gained is gone after the fight is stopped for an issue with her head guard. Kings-Wheatley lands a couple of right-handers before the bell.

After another comfortable final round, Kings-Wheatley eases through to the quarter-finals, where she will face Josefien Betist of Sierra Leone.

Gymnastics: Jordan Carroll of Canada is very happy with his pommel horse routine, hi-fives all around for him after a score of 14.550. That brings an end to the first of six rotations.

England (40.450) lead Canada, Australia, Scotland, Cyprus and Wales – in that order. India’s earlier total of 208.550 is the benchmark.

Gymnastics: Scotland’s Reuben Ward whips up the home crowd as he finishes his floor routine with a score of 13.150. Hamish Carter just about recovers his footing on his final landing and does some more cheerleading off the back of his score of 12.800.

England, Wales, Australia, Canada and Cyprus make up the rest of the third and final subdivision in the men’s team final.

Thanks Taha. We’ve got an action-packed end to the first day of these Games. There are medals up for grabs in the pool, on the gymnastics apparatus and on the powerlifting bench.

The swimming evening session gets under way in just over an hour.

Billy Munday is back to see this thing through.

Artistic gymnastics: England’s gymnasts take on the floor exercise with their first rotation … and the star of the show is Luke Whitehouse, a three-time European champion on this apparatus. He records a score of 14.4, putting him at the top of the qualification standings.

3x3 basketball: It’s been a tidy start for the hosts in the men’s event – Scotland are top of their pool after wins against Guyana and Cayman Islands. They’re up against Australia in the evening.

Yara reports on Mark Swan’s victory, the first gold medal of the Games.

Artistic gymnastics: Twenty minutes to go before the start of the final session of the men’s team final, with England gunning for their fourth consecutive Commonwealth gold in this event.

Mark Swan speaks to TNT about securing gold, having won silver in Birmingham and at the Paris Olympics. He explains how he wasn’t expecting gold after failing to make his third lift.

“I never paid attention to anybody that was before me so it was a big shock. I thought maybe a bronze medal but it was actually our performance director that was like: ‘Mark, you’ve won gold.’ I was looking around like: ‘Are you sure – you’re not winding me up?’”

Para powerlifting: That’s two medals for England after the first two medal events, with Olivia Broome (bronze) joining Mark Swan (gold).

Para powerlifting: Esther Nworgu, having broken the Commonwealth record with her first lift, screams before going for her second. And she’s lifted 123kg to record 119 points! Her compatriot Esther Oyema brushes aside her earlier no lift and delivers at a whopping 125kg. With her body weight at 50.3kg, that takes her to 115.5 points and second place. It could be a Nigeria one-two in the women’s lightweight final.

Para powerlifting: Thanks, Billy. We’re still focused on the women’s lightweight final with the medals incoming … bad news for Nigeria’s Esther Oyema and India’s Suman Devi, both recording no lifts. England’s Olivia Broome lifted 115kg with her first go, now she’s trying 119kg – and she delivers! Broome’s on course for silver.

Taha Hashim has returned and he’ll see you through the next couple of hours.

Para powerlifting: England’s Lottie McGuinness takes a bow to the Yorkshire-flag-waving crowd (she’s from Harrogate) after she completes her first lift of 105kg in Group A. Her teammate Olivia Broome follows with a controlled lift of 115kg.

The two Esthers from Nigeria, Nworgu and Oyema, have ambitious starting weights and will be the main challengers for gold. Nworgu lets out a scream as she leans back for her first lift … and breaks the Commonwealth record with ease – 118kg. Good luck, everyone else.

Para powerlifting: An inspiring story in Group B of the women’s lightweight competition. Natasha Price, now 45, woke up on Boxing Day in 2008 blind in her right eye. “Within approximately a week or so, I’d gone completely blind in both eyes. Within a month of that I was paralysed from the waist down,” she said. The Australian was told she had a rare disease affecting her spinal cord and optic nerve and might have as little as five years to live. “I spent approximately 10 years bed-bound,” she said, before getting her life back on track.

After being involved as a volunteer at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, she decided she wanted to become an athlete. She is also now a keynote speaker and founder of InvincAble, a social impact organisation empowering people and redefining how the world sees disability.

Price is all smiles as she successfully lifts 63kg and 66kg before falling short on 68kg. She finishes 5th in Group B at her first Commonwealth Games.

“I’m super happy just to be out here,” says Rhys McClenaghan on TNT Sports.

The floor was a nice bonus – I haven’t been on floor since 2018. The energy is great here in Glasgow. It would’ve been nice to come home with two medals but it won’t be a floor final for me here.

My pommel horse was far from perfect – there are people from all over the world who can beat that. That was the best score I got all year. It done the job but we build from here.

Will he watch the rest of the competition later?

Maybe. I’m not sure. I don’t like to watch too much gymnastics when I’m out here. I’ll probably be watching my routine back more than anybody else’s. Slow-motion, frame by frame, stop and zoom it in.

Gymnastics: Rhys McClenaghan’s floor routine includes a couple of stumbles at the end. His hopes of qualifying for the floor final are in the balance a bit – a score of 12.350 puts him into 5th place in the standings. The 2024 Olympic pommel horse champion wanted to compete in another event final at these Games.

His Northern Irish teammate Eamon Montgomery, 5th in the floor final in 2022, ends with a double-twist, double-back somersault and lands it. He posts a score of 13.000 and goes 4th.

3x3 Basketball: New Zealand’s men have stormed to a 21-3 victory over Guyana in Pool A, bouncing back from their opening defeat to Australia this morning. New Zealand’s basketball team are known as the Tall Blacks, which is just fantastic.

Canada, Australia and England had a stranglehold over 3x3 basketball at the 2022 Games – all four events, including the wheelchair categories, ended with those three nations in the medals.

More competitions under way are the bowls – England face Tonga in the women’s pairs – and the women’s lightweight para powerlifting – England’s Olivia Broome goes in Group A later.

The sixth and final rotation of the second subdivision of the men’s gymnastics team final is also in progress. Northern Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan is due to compete on the floor.

3x3 basketball: The afternoon session is under way with Australia’s women making it two from two today with a 21-13 win against Jamaica – the 2022 bronze medallists also beat Kenya 21-5 in Pool A this morning.

England’s national anthem, Jerusalem, plays as Mark Swan stands on top of the podium with the first gold medal of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, handed to him by the Duke of Edinburgh. All three medallists receive a plush unicorn toy as well, of course.

Scotland’s Finlay Davidson did well to finish 5th from Group B.

Men’s lightweight para powerlifting: Final standings

Gold: Mark Swan (England) 153.9pts (222kg top lift)
Silver: Roland Ezeruike (Nigeria) 153.9 (185kg)
Bronze: Bonnie Bunyau Gustin (Malaysia) 153.5 (220kg)
4th: Ashok (India) 143.8 (200kg)

Para powerlifting: Nigeria’s Ezeruike’s arms go all wobbly as he attempts and fails at 190kg – his gold medal hopes are over. India’s Ashok also falls short with his final lift. It’s between England’s Swan and Malaysia’s Gustin for the first gold of the Games. Swan is going to attempt to equal the world record …

Para powerlifting: Bonnie Bunyau Gustin of Malaysia, who is the defending Commonwealth champion and world record holder, lifts 220kg to move into silver medal position on points.

England’s Mark Swan, who won silver in 2022, goes into provisional gold with an extraordinary lift of 222kg – grand piano levels of weight!

Para powerlifting: Those points scores take into account the weight lifted and how much the athletes weigh themselves. Nigeria’s Roland Ezuruike leads the way after the first round after his lift of 178kg – he weighs around 20kg less than Swan and Gustin.

Thanks Taha. Scotland’s Finlay Davidson set the benchmark in Group B of the men’s lightweight para powerlifting with a score of 141.4pts, with a best lift of 166kg.

He’s out of medal contention now after the start of Group A. Malaysia’s Bonnie Bunyau Gustin has just lifted 210kg on his first go – that’s more than the average adult gorilla. England’s Mark Swan goes bigger with a 112kg first lift. Each athlete gets three lifts and a total points score.

My first shift is over – it’s time to hand over to Billy Munday. He’ll be following the para powerlifting, where we’re going to see the first medals of these Games.

A nice read by Yara from earlier in the week:

While there are signs that an international sporting event is imminent – lamppost banners, purple merchandise and the occasional volunteer – the loudest soundtrack comes from the relentless hum of construction machinery.

Para powerlifting: Quite something to see Cameroon’s Belinga Manga lifting 145kg at the age of 56 in the men’s lightweight event.

3x3 basketball: Scotland and Guyana are in action in the men’s comp … and it takes quite a bit of time for the first bucket, nearly a minute. Here are the rules if you’re new to this thing: the first side to 21 points takes the win. If no side gets to 21 after 10 minutes, it goes to the ones in the lead. There are 12 seconds on the shot clock as the game moves at pace on a half court.

Artistic gymnastics: Rhys McClenaghan, the defending Olympic pommel horse champion, is up. But where does that achievement sit when you’ve also won Dancing With the Stars? He underwent shoulder surgery last year but he whizzes away on the horse with no bother whatsoever. And he goes to the top of the leaderboard with a score of 14.5.

Swimming: ‘COMPETITION DELAYED’: up it flashes on the telly, the detached lane line causing bother. Must be very annoying for the swimmers who were just about to get going in their 100m breaststroke heat.

Swimming: Adam Ramsay-Peaty, with four Commonwealth golds to his name – his first collected at Glasgow 2014 – is up in the men’s 100m breaststroke heats. We’ve got a delay to the action though – a lane line has detached, forcing a swimmer to jump in and help the officials.

Para powerlifting: I’d like to see some prizes soon: the first medal event of the Games is in para powerlifting, with the men’s lightweight final starting at 1.10pm BST.

Boxing: England’s Lauren Mackie, in the women’s 54kg, punches through to the round of 16 with a unanimous victory against Kenya’s Amina Faki. DJ Khaled’s All I Do Is Win blasts around the ring.

This story has caught the eye, courtesy of Reuters:

Australian swimmers competing at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will earn up to ⁠A$50,000 ($35,000) for individual gold medals won in world record times under an incentive scheme funded by Gina Rinehart, the nation’s ⁠richest person.

Swimmers in individual ⁠events will ​earn A$20,000 for gold, A$15,000 for silver and A$10,000 for bronze, while relay swimmers will earn between A$2,500 and A$5,000 ⁠for finishing on the medal podium.

Swimmers clocking a world record will earn an A$30,000 bonus.

With Australia the most dominant swimming power by far ⁠in the Commonwealth, plenty of the team’s top athletes will be expected to cash ​in at Glasgow.

“These bonuses are a ‌way of Australia saying ‌thank you and showing the appreciation our athletes deserve for bringing our country such ‌a sense of pride and achievement,” mining billionaire Rinehart said in a Swimming WA statement on Friday.

“There is something very uplifting about seeing an Australian athlete stand on the podium while our flag is raised. Such exciting times make Australians proud and deserve to be celebrated.” Reuters

Swimming: Scott wins his heat with a time of 1:58.81, edging out his compatriots Evan Jones and Matthew Ward. Jones – who claimed two bronze relay medals in 2022 – will join Scott in the final.

Swimming: The focus is on Scotland’s Duncan Scott in the men’s 200m individual medley heats. He’s got eight Olympic medals, 13 in the Commonwealth Games – including three golds. And now he’s got the chance to thrive at home.

Swimming: Goggles on – they’ve entered the pool. First up is the women’s 400m freestyle heats. Ariarne Titmus – the Australian great who retired last year – claimed gold four years ago in the final.

3x3 basketball: It’s an Australian show at the moment. They’re dominant against Kenya in the women’s event, winning 21-5. Australia claimed bronze back in 2022.

3x3 basketball: Australia finished as runners-up in the men’s 3x3 basketball four years ago – they’ve just kicked off their 2026 run with a 21-15 win against New Zealand.

Artistic gymnastics: We’re underway in the men’s artistic gymnastics, with a team medal up for grabs today.

As Yara El-Shaboury points out, Rhys McClenaghan – who’ll feature in the afternoon – is one to watch.

Artistic gymnastics may feature for only five days, but it boasts one of the strongest fields of the Games. The reigning Olympic champion, Rhys McClenaghan, headlines the competition as the Northern Irishman hopes to reclaim the pommel horse title he won in 2018 after taking silver in Birmingham four years ago. He returns from injury alongside a host of established names, including Australia’s Georgia Godwin and Canada’s four-time Olympian Ellie Black, both also making welcome comebacks after injury. Scotland’s young squad, led by Reuben Ward, will hope home support can inspire an upset.

Here’s how the opening ceremony went down (KT Tunstall is class).