That’ll do from me. Sean Ingle has filed his report on a momentous evening at Scotstoun Stadium …

Kurtis Marschall breaks the Commonwealth record! The man from Adelaide signs off the men’s pole vault – and athletics at these Games – in style with a clearance of 5.85m at the second attempt.

It’s a third Commonwealth gold in a row for Marschall too after wins in 2018 and 2022. Silver for Kyle Rademeyer of South Africa and bronze for Owen Heard of England.

Men’s pole vault: The moustachioed Marschall looks like he’s enjoying being the centre of attention. The organisers get on with the remaining medal ceremonies anyway while we wait for his second jump. There is going to be a lot of Advance Australia Fair being sung.

Scotstoun Stadium lets off more blue and white fireworks and smoke because, well, why not. Presumably they didn’t have any green and gold. Calvert (7th) and Reekie (10th) weren’t close to the medals. Stafford, who made that attack, held on well for fourth.

Australia’s medallists head out on a victory lap. What a Games they’ve had.

That’s all from the track events, but how did the pole vault finish?

Women’s one mile: Lucia Stafford of Canada makes a break for it down the back straight and we’re off. Hull is just biding her time as they hit the bell.

Women’s one mile: With two laps to go, Reekie and Calvert still lead a pedestrian race. Nobody is making a move yet.

Women’s one mile: And they’re off. The Scottish duo of Reekie and Calvert go out in front.

Men’s pole vault: More failed 5.80m attempts from Heard and Rademeyer. Marschall may not have long to wait to be confirmed as the winner.

Let’s go running first.

Women’s one mile: The athletes are coming out for the final track event of these Games. Australia’s Jessica Hull is the woman to beat. Glasgow have Scotland’s Jemma Reekie and Sarah Calvert to cheer for.

Men’s pole vault: Heard and Rademeyer fail in their first attempts at 5.80m. Marschall can feel a bit smug as he watches on.

Mixed 4x400m relay: Australia have been disqualified for a lane infringement – they finished 7th anyway.

Men’s 4x100m relay: Yes, this happened a while ago but Canada have been reinstated in silver, presumably after an appeal. That means Nigeria drop to bronze and Ghana out of the medals. South Africa remain disqualified.

Men’s pole vault: Marschall goes clear at 5.80m at the first attempt and he makes it look easy. The Australian cleared 5.90m to beat Mondo Duplantis in Stockholm in June. And, well, you don’t really do that unless you’re very good.

Men’s pole vault: It’s storming contest in the infield with a three-way fight for gold between Australia’s Kurtis Marschall, South Africa’s Kyle Rademeyer and England’s Owen Heard – they’ve all cleared at 5.70m and are guaranteed a medal.

It’s a real shame for Australia. Mia Gross ran an excellent second leg and handed over to Tom Reynolds in first place. They finished all the way down in 7th. Jemma Pollard looked to be struggling with an injury on the final leg before tripping on the home straight.

Kenya were 4th, Scotland 5th and India 6th. Zambia did not finish.

Mixed 4x400m relay: The top three after the first two legs …

1. Australia
2. England
3. Nigeria

Next up – the mixed 4x400m relay final. England, Nigeria, Jamaica, Kenya, Australia and Scotland are among those vying for a first Commonwealth title in this event.

Two men, two women – the men head off on the first leg, the women will bring it home. They’ll start in their lanes but it will be a free-for-all after the first leg.

Scotland have their golden moment of these Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, delivered by their poster boy. Kerr looked like he was boxed in during the second lap but he came on to the outside of Myers and Cheruiyot at the bell and set off down the back straight, propelled by huge home support. He didn’t look back after that.

There were white and blue fireworks/smoke at Scotstoun Stadium to top it all off. I’m glad they got to use those.

Men’s one mile: Lots more pushing on the penultimate lap. Wales’ Jake Heyward is in a very decent position. Cheruiyot takes the lead heading for the bell, Myers is on his shoulder …

Men’s one mile: The big names let Tshepiso Masalela lead from the front on the first lap. Brian Komen is on his shoulder but Wightman and Kerr are there too. There are some elbows flying about.

It’s the men’s mile next! Josh Kerr, Jake Wightman and Cameron Myers will fight this out but the field is so strong. Timothy Cheruiyot is here too.

Kerr broke the world record in London last month. Will we get another one? This should be tasty.

Men’s 800m: They’re off again on the track. England have a good chance of some medals here with Alex Botterill, coached by Steve Cram, and Ben Pattison. There are three Australians in this final.

Here’s Sean Ingle to get you in the mood for the men’s one mile, coming up shortly.

On Saturday night the men’s mile should provide another contest for the ages, with Scotland’s Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman facing Australia’s new superstar Cameron Myers.

Everyone knows about Kerr. Since the 28-year-old ran an astonishing 3:42.66 to break the world mile record, there have been profiles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and he has become joint favourite with Jude Bellingham to win the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year.

Plenty of non-athletics fans will also be aware of Wightman, given that he won the world 1500m title in Eugene in 2022 while his dad, Geoff, was commentating in the stadium, and followed it up with a world silver in Tokyo in September 2025.

And while the 20-year-old Myers might be a new name to some, everyone in track and field is in awe of his talent. “I got beaten by him in 2024 in Australia,” says Wightman. “And I was like, ‘man, he’s going to be good.’ But he just kept getting better every year. He’s the future of the sport.”

Women’s long jump: England’s Jazmin Sawyers (6.93m) still leads with one jump remaining. Nigeria’s Ruth Usoro (6.87m) and Australia’s Brooke Buschkuehl (6.80m) are trying to stop her.

Australia’s Mackenzie Little wins the women’s javelin

Tori Moorby of New Zealand cannot improve on her best throw of 60.04m, leaving Little to a victory throw of her own. She wins with a season’s best of 61.88m. Irene Jepkemboi of Kenya takes bronze on 57.85m.

Women’s javelin: We’re at the business end of this competition as Australia’s Lianna Davidson has to settle for fourth after her sixth throw. Irene Jepkemboi of Kenya already has bronze and can’t improve on that in her final throw. It’s between New Zealand and Australia for gold.

Women’s 4x100m relay: Success Eduan had a good anchor leg for England but she had little chance of a medal by that point. More disappointment for the defending champions here too. Nigeria are disqualified, bumping Scotland up to 6th.

Women’s 4x100m relay: England, Nigeria, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica are all in the hunt for gold here. Unless Australia can cause another upset – or what about Scotland?

Women’s long jump: England’s Jazmin Sawyers goes into provisional gold with a massive jump of 6.93m – that’s her personal best outdoors.

Scratch that. Canada have bene disqualified for a lane infringement on their first baton change between Aaron Brown and Jerome Blake. South Africa have also been disqualified.

So Nigeria move up to silver, Ghana up to bronze, England up to 4th.

What a turn-up. Defending champions England finished down in 6th behind South Africa in 5th. Jamaica and Kenya were 7th and 8th.

Australia’s change-overs were outstanding – they went so early and the baton handling was perfect. Josh Azzopardi was roared down the back straight by Kennedy and Calab Law ran a great bend on leg three.

Athletics: It’s the 4x100m relays next and the men are up first. England are unchanged from the heats and are between Jamaica and Canada in lane 3. The 100m silver medallist Lachlan Kennedy leads Australia out in the outside lane. Nigeria are the team to watch in lane 5.

Men’s 5000m: Kemboi just could not hold on to bronze on the final straight as Singh and Robinson pushed hard for a medal. Nicholas Griggs, the 21-year-old athlete from Northern Ireland, will be pleased with his 6th-place finish.

Men’s 5000m: Leony Pusua of the Solomon Islands becomes the first athlete to suffer the ignominy of being lapped and is swallowed up by the main group that is led by Kenya’s Cornelius Kemboi. Robinson is on his shoulder with four laps to go.

Men’s 5000m: Uganda’s Dan Kibet picks up the pace around halfway but the field is still largely bunched up behind him. Mo Ahmed of Canada and Robinson are tucked in behind Kibet.

Athletics: The men’s 5000m final is up next and it’s a big field. There are 25 athletes across a staggered start. Ky Robinson of Australia has already won by 10,000m at these Games. Muhammad Akhtar of Pakistan does the Mo-bot as the camera goes past and wins some popularity points with me.

“It’s been the strangest week,” Mel Woods says on TNT Sports. “I’ve had to really push my emotions down. It’s just been wild and it will take me a wee moment to reflect on how great a week it’s been and how special it’s been.

People follow my journey from what happened with my accident and where I’ve got to with racing. But the racing kind of feels far away for them. I’m in India, I’m in Paris … being here in Glasgow today, it really feels like everyone has been part of it. I feel like I’ve been able to celebrate how far I’ve come with everyone. That’s really great.

More glory for Mel Woods and she embraces her mum in the crowd. The 31-year-old PE teacher was knocked off her bike in 2018 and was paralysed from the waist down. She recovered from her injuries in hospital in Glasgow and was inspired by watching the Paralympics. She has dominated wheelchair racing at these Games.

Para athletics: It’s the women’s T54 400m up first and the Glasgow crowd are eager for a second Mel Woods gold of the week – she won the 1500m – in a rerun – yesterday. Mauritius’s Noemi Alphonse is the fastest in the field.

Boxing: Thomas looks fresher – and with good reason. His first round was stopped after his opponent was disqualified for a headbutt. His semi-final opponent pulled out before the fight. Narender goes for a some big shots but his guard drops too often in round three.

It’s gold for Thomas and England by unanimous decision. India have to console themselves with the seven golds they have already won today.

Boxing: The final bout of the evening is the men’s 90+kg final between India’s Narender Narender and England’s Damar Thomas. A tired-looking Narender suffers a bit in the second round and Thomas lands a combination just before the bell. The Englishman is leading on four of the five judges’ cards.

Athletics: Jazmin Sawyers, the co-captain of the England team, has got a decent chance of a medal in the women’s long jump. There is a very strong following wind in Glasgow tonight, as demonstrated by Ruth Usoro’s very impressive opening jump of 6.87m. Sawyers’ first attempt is 6.46m after she left her left foot behind in the pit on landing. Not literally.

The final session of the athletics is upon us. Here’s what’s coming up at Scotstoun Stadium this evening. All times BST

7.05pm – Men’s pole vault final
7.10pm – Women’s long jump final
7.28pm – Women’s 400m T54 final
7.35pm – Women’s javelin final
7.45pm – Men’s 5000m final
8.15pm – Men’s 4x100m relay final
8.26pm – Women’s 4x100m relay final
8.45pm – Men’s 800m final
8.55pm – Men’s one mile final
9.20pm – Mixed 4x400m relay final
9.45pm – Women’s one mile final

Hosts Scotland will be hoping for golds from Melanie Woods in the women’s 400m T54 and Josh Kerr or Jake Wightman in the men’s mile.

Henry Hobbs says “it was so sketchy at the end, so many elbows”. He was surprised the crash didn’t happen earlier in the race. “It was a dogfight.”

Malaysia’s New Joe Lau has been stretchered away and will be taken to hospital. The rest of the riders have walked away from the incident, which is a bit of a miracle. There were some very nasty falls.

Cycling: Matthew Bostock makes a move for the Isle of Man. England’s Henry Hobbs is in a 10-strong group half a lap ahead of the peloton with 10 laps to go.

Cycling: Scotland, Wales, Australia and New Zealand all have a rider in the breakaway group at the halfway stage. They are about a bend ahead of the main peloton.

Cycling: 10 laps down, 30 to go in the scratch race. It’s tricky to keep track of who’s where, so why not have a peruse of today’s best pictures from Glasgow while I work it out …

Cycling: The final event in the velodrome today is the men’s scratch race. It’s 10km long and whoever crosses the line first wins gold. Sounds simple but it looks chaotic – there are 20 riders going round at once. England’s Ethan Vernon and Henry Hobbs are contenders, as are Mark Stewart of Scotland and Thomas Cornish of Australia.

Boxing: India’s streak in the boxing finals is over as Lovlina Borgohain goes down on points to Emma-Sue Greentree of Australia in the women’s 75kg title decider … but Sachin Sachin picks up their fourth gold of the afternoon with victory in the men’s 60kg over Namibia’s Tryagain Morning Ndevelo (named after the lesson his mother instilled in him growing up).

Thanks John. Neil Fachie is just picking up his seventh Commonwealth gold medal after his victory in the men’s tandem sprint alongside Aaron Paul. The Flower of Scotland rings around the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome again. There are just two more events to come there – the men’s sprint finals and the men’s 10km scratch race.

That’s it from me. Billy Munday is back to take you through a big evening of athletics.

Judo: England have a bronze: Jemima Yeats-Brown in the women’s -70kg, beating New Zealand’s Moira de Villiers. She also won Commonwealth bronze in 2022 and all the way back in 2014.

Wales are up in the top 10 in the medal table: see the full standings here:

Cycling: England’s Sophie Capewell, a gold medal winner at the Paris Olympics, is the penultimate rider on the track … but she can’t get close to Finucane’s time and goes into third.

Cycling: Finucane takes to the track and blitzes past Marcks’s time by 0.322sec – a Commonwealth Games record. She’s in gold medal position with just two riders to come.

Cycling: In the women’s 1,000m time trial, Australia’s Claudia Marcks leads with seven riders still to compete, including Wales’s Emma Finucane.

Boxing: Choudhary does enough to hold off her opponent, so it’s yet another gold for India in the ring – that is their fifth gold in the women’s boxing. They’ve taken the top prize in the 51kg, 54kg, 57kg, 60kg and now 70kg, which is a remarkable effort.

Boxing: After two rounds Reid is behind on all five judges’ scorecards, so has a mountain to climb in the last. A few boos come from the crowd who reckon this contest is much closer than that.

Boxing: It’s another India v England battle for gold in the ring at the SEC Hall. England’s Chantelle Reid is taking on Arundhati Choudhary in the women’s 70kg.

Cycling: Apparently the Prince and Princess of Wales are known as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay when they’re in Scotland so … well, now you know.

Cycling: Back to the velodrome and women’s 1,000m time-trial, where TNT’s presenter has just mentioned the “King of Scotland” (referring to Neil Fachie) “being watched by the King of England” (referring to, er, the Prince of Wales, who is in the stands).

Judo: Meanwhile, at the SEC Hall there’s gold for England’s Ethan Nairne in the men’s -73kg judo. And gold for Canada’s Laurence Biron in the women’s -63kg. And more gold for India in the ring, Priya Priya this time in the women’s 60kg.

Cycling: That was a remarkable race, proper sporting drama for the home fans. Fachie, a gold medal winner all the way back at London 2012, is 42 now but clearly still has enough in his legs to fend off his younger rivals.

Boxing: The more experienced Sakshi remains in control in round two, using her superior reach.

Boxing: England’s Ruby White faces India’s Sakshi Sakshi for gold in the women’s 51kg. The 19-year-old White comes off second-best in the opening round, 5-0 on the judges’ scorecards.

Cycling: With 25 laps to go Wales’s Anna Morris and Jessica Roberts are the top two in the women’s 25km points race.

Hello all. There’s plenty of action in the velodrome and in the ring to come over the next couple of hours. And if you prefer your two-wheeled action on the road, then Luke McLaughlin is helming our Tour de France Femmes liveblog here:

John Ashdown is back to see you through the next couple of hours.

Cycling: The women’s 25km points race is under way. There are 100 laps, lots of different sprints to earn points and an overall leaderboard. The rider with the most points wins gold.

The winner of each sprint gets 4pts, second gets 3pts, third 2pts and fourth 1pt. Riders will get help from their compatriots.

Wales’ Anna Morris is perhaps the woman to beat here – she gets on the board with a point in the first sprint after 10 laps.

Cycling: Leigh Hoffman wins the all-Australian battle in the semi-finals of the men’s sprint, breezing through to the final after overpowering Tayte Ryan in the second heat to win 2-0.

Hoffman, the captain of Australia’s victorious team sprint squad, will have to wait to find out his opponent in the final later on after England’s Harry Ledingham-Horn holds firm against Trinidad and Tobago’s Nicholas Paul to level their semi up at 1-1.

Cycling: The Glasgow crowd is silenced as Neil Fachie, Scotland’s most decorated Commonwealth Games athlete, and Aaron Paul are denied gold in the men’s tandem by Wales’ James Ball and Matt Rotherham, who hold on during the final lap of their second heat. They’ll need a decider.

Bronze goes to Australia’s Kane Perris and his pilot Luke Zaccaria after they cruised to a 2-0 victory over Malaysia’s Mohd Khairul Hazwan Wahab and Muhammad Nabil Wafiq Zamri.

Cycling: Emma Foy of New Zealand wins gold in the women’s tandem 1000m time trial! Lizzi Jordan could not even break into the medals in that final heat, leaving Australia’s Jess Gallagher with silver and England’s Sophie Unwin with bronze.

Cycling: Sophie Unwin is hanging on to a medal now with Australia’s Jess Gallagher and New Zealand’s Emma Foy going faster. Only England’s Lizzi Jordan remains.

Cycling: England’s Sophie Unwin and her pilot Anna Whitworth-Hay go into provisional gold of the women’s tandem 1000m time trial – and by some distance. She is 6.5sec out in front with three riders to go. Malaysia hold the other two medal spots for now.

One of the more bizarre stories from these Glasgow Games, from Sean Ingle …

Cycling: It’s the men’s sprint semi-finals next and an all-Australian one to start with. Tayte Ryan and Leigh Hoffman keep it slow over the first lap, brows furrowed. Hoffman moves up on the bend and Ryan takes the bait. Hoffman reels him in on the final lap to take a 1-0 lead. Best of three for this, too.

The Prince and Princess of Wales make their way to their seats with their children before the second semi-final. They might be cheering on England’s Harry Ledingham-Horn, led up to the line by coach Jason Kenny. Trinidad and Tobago’s Nicholas Paul, silver in this event in 2022, shows his speed and pips Ledingham-Horn on the line to take the lead.

Cycling: There’s a bit of chest-thumping from Wales pilot Matt Rotherham on the line. Aaron Paul of Scotland gives him a wry smile. Paul and Neil Fachie head off behind the Welsh pair but they zoom past with a lap and a half to go. 1-0 Scotland – it’s best of three heats.

Cycling: We’re straight into the tandem sprint finals. Riders and their pilot are on the same bike, facing off against another pair over three laps. First to cross the line wins. Australia’s pair take the first heat of the bronze ride-off against Malaysia.

Well, that was fun. Time to head over to the velodrome now, with the afternoon session of the cycling about to get under way in style.

Neil Fachie of Scotland – a six-time Commonwealth champion – goes in the first run of the men’s tandem final with his pilot Aaron Pope. They take on James Ball of Wales and his pilot Matthew Rotherham.

Over the next four hours there are six golds up for grabs, culminating in the men’s sprint finals. Other highlights include the women’s kilo, women’s points race and men’s scratch race.

Tomorrow’s netball finals

• For gold: New Zealand v Jamaica (1pm BST/10pm AEST)

• For bronze: England v Australia (9am/6pm AEST)

“We love pressure. Pressure is a privilege,” says Jamaica’s Latanya Wilson. “We knew that Australia is a team that is going to come physical. We knew what their gameplan was because most of us play against them in Australia. And we said, every ball that we got we are going to cherish … and we did a job.”

“There’s still so much to play for,” says a deflated and disappointed Liz Watson of Australia. “There’s still a bronze medal to win. I’m sure the girls will be motivated for a win tomorrow. We’ll go again.”

“We thought that we had to go to war to win this game,” Jamaica’s Shamera Sterling-Humphrey tells TNT Sports. “It’s a big game for big players. Whenever we come to the UK they are always cheering on Jamaica.”

Bedlam! The Sunshine Girls cannot quite believe what they’ve just achieved. They have become the first team in history to stop Australia reaching a Commonwealth Games final.

Jamaica will go for gold in tomorrow’s final against New Zealand. England await Australia in the bronze final.

Netball: Beckford extends Jamaica’s lead to four points – they substitutes can barely contain themselves on the sidelines. Prince William applauds from the crowd after Beckford converts again. The Uganda team are going bonkers in the stands too.

Australia 43-46 Jamaica, 4th quarter, 2min to go

Netball: Australia have never failed to reach a Commonwealth final. Shanice Beckford is keeping her cool as Jamaica’s goal shooter, but she’s upstaged by a sensational goal by Australia’s Cara Koenan from almost off the court.

Wild celebrations as Jamaica force another turnover! Aiken hits the rim on her first attempt but makes no mistake on the second. It’s a three-point gap.

Australia 41-44 Jamaica, 4th quarter, 5min to go

Netball: Kiera Austin and Romelda Aiken are making no mistake for Australia and Jamaica under the goalpost. Some lapse play from Australia gifts Jamaica a turnover – can they capitalise? Yes, Aiken converts for a two-point lead.

Australia 38-40 Jamaica, 4th quarter, 9min to go

Hello everybody. I’ll be keeping a close eye on the netball for the next little while. New Zealand are already through to tomorrow’s final after beating England 61-54 this morning.

Jamaica are looking to reach their second Commonwealth final in a row, having lost out to today’s opponents Australia four years ago.

It is Australia 35-35 Jamaica heading into the final quarter at the Hydro – we’re set for a grandstand finish.

That’s it from the boxing arena, and that’s it from me for now. Billy Munday is your host for the afternoon.

Netball Midway through the third quarter at the Hydro and Jamaica are also doing enough to maintain their lead. It’s 30-28 in their semi-final against Australia.

Boxing A quiet second round but Okoh stays in control. He takes it 4-1 with the judges.

Boxing The 23-year-old Okoh gets the nod from all five judges after the first round. “Go and do it again!” says his coach in the corner before the second.

Boxing The final fight of the afternoon is for gold in the men’s 90kg class. It’s Wales’s Connor Williams against England’s Isaac Okoh, a former sparring partner of Anthony Joshua.

Netball Australia have closed the gap at the halfway mark of their semi-final but they still trail Jamaica 23-21.

Netball Midway through the second quarter and Jamaica are still on top. The margin is still three – it’s 19-16 now.

Boxing Holley-Sotomi dominates the last but has he done enough?

Boxing McConnell takes the second round 4-1, putting the Northern Irishman in pole position for gold.

Netball Australia have been in every Commonwealth Games netball final since it was introduced in 1998 – winning four golds and three silvers in those seven competitions. But they are under a bit of pressure in their semi-final – Jamaica lead 13-10 at the end of the first quarter.

Boxing Back at the SEC Centre it’s Wales’s Orlando Holley-Sotomi against Northern Ireland’s Jon McConnell in the men’s 70kg final. McConnell edges the first round on the judges’ scorecards, 3-2.

Netball Very even in the opening stages at the Hydro. Jamaica have edged ahead 7-6 in the middle of the first quarter.

Netball The second semi-final of the netball is set to kick off, with Australia taking on Jamaica. This was the final in 2022, with Australia coming out on top.

Boxing The 24-year-old Mughalzai was born in Russia before moving to Leicester and then Hillingdon in west London, where he trained with the 2008 Olympic champions James DeGale. He takes the second round 5-0 to move to the verge of gold.

Boxing Mughalzai wins the opening round on all five judges’ scorecard in this welterweight battle. The English fighter looks to be in total control.

Boxing Hello all. First up it’s over to the SEC Centre for the men’s 65kg gold medal match between England’s Patris Mughalzai and Australia’s Jacob Cassar.

With that, it’s time for me to hand over to John Ashdown. Ta-ra!

Athletics The men’s shot put F57 final has been won by Soman Rana of India, whose throw of 13.40m on his second attempt was good enough.

Boxing Gold for Australia’s Jye Dixon, who has beaten India’s Jadumani Singh Mandengbam in the men’s 55kg final.

Read Priya Bharadia on the Mop Man

The 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow have already provided plenty of highlights. But fans across the world have been dazzled by one particular breakout star: the “mop man”.

When a cleaner came out at half-time during a netball match to wipe down the court before the restart, everything appeared normal. But as the cleaner swept, and the first bars of Queen’s I Want to Break Free rang out in the venue, he went from sweeping to a standing split.

A full dance routine set to the 1984 hit then followed, much to the surprise and delight of the audience at the OVO Hydro. The crowd watched him do the worm, splits and front handsprings. He has since entertained crowds during breaks in play at a number of other events and clips of his performances have gone viral online.

The women’s 400m final is imminent. Scotland’s Nicole Yeargin is in lane one; the strong favourite, Dejanea Oakley of Jamaica, is in lane four.

This page will change a lot today

Boxing: women’s 65kg final Sacha Hickey takes gold for England after a majestic performance in the final against Kaci Rock.

Netball report: New Zealand 61-54 England

England’s hopes of regaining their Commonwealth Games’ netball title are over after a 61-54 defeat to New Zealand that was far more comprehensive than the scoreline suggests.

The Roses, who famously won gold in the Gold Coast in 2018, at least have the consolation of the bronze medal match on Sunday morning, but they were second best throughout.

Boxing Next up, the women’s 65kg between Kaci Rock (Northern Ireland) and Sacha Hickey (England). They’re a minute into the first round.

Boxing Jaismine Jaismine beats Michaela Walsh by unanimous decision to win another gold for India. She was just too good for an excellent opponent, and Walsh warmly congratulates Jaismine after the decision is confirmed.

Women’s 10,000m race walk Gold, silver and bronze for Australia, with Jemima Montag finishing ahead of Elizabeth McMillen and Rebecca Henderson.

Jaismine has taken the second round on all five cards, so she’s two ahead on three of the cards going into the last round.

Boxing: women’s 57kg final The defending champion, Michaela Walsh of Northern Ireland, is up against the brilliant Indian Jaismine Jaismine. A tight first round was scored 3-2 in Jaismine’s favour.

Boxing No surprise in the women’s 54kg final, with the mighty Preeti Preeti winning India’s first gold of the day. Spoiler: it’s not the last.

Preeti dominated Canada’s Scarlett Savannah Delgado throughout a 5-0 points victory.

A boxer has made history for ⁠Tuvalu by winning the tiny Pacific island nation’s first Commonwealth ⁠Games medal without winning a single fight.

Twenty-year-old Tarona Taafaki, ⁠one of five entrants in the women’s 75kg category, received a bye to the semi-finals where she lost on an unanimous points decision to India’s Lovlina Borgohain on Friday. At Commonwealth Games, all boxers eliminated in the semis receive bronze medals.

“I’m very proud and very glad to be able to represent my country on this big stage,” said Taafaki, one of only eight athletes and paraathletes from her country in Glasgow. “Probably 95% of the audience don’t know where my country is, so I feel very privileged to represent Tuvalu.”

They call it the Miracle Mile: the race still regarded as the greatest in Commonwealth Games history. And 72 years later in Glasgow, it finally has a worthy successor.

Rewind to 1954. In May Sir Roger Bannister had become the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Six weeks later, the Australian John Landy lowered his mark by more than a second. Then came their epic clash in Vancouver.

“I felt it was a piece of unfinished business to be able to reproduce the performance of my sub-four-minute mile in a race,” Bannister later said. “However, at the half-mile … he was 15 yards ahead and I thought either he’s going to break a world record in 3min 56sec or he’s going to have to slow.”

Somehow Bannister dragged himself back into it by the bell, yet Landy was still leading as they turned into the home straight. But there was to be a dramatic late twist.

Because the roar of the crowd was so great, Landy was unable to hear his pursuer, so he looked over his left shoulder. At which point Bannister attacked and flew past his great rival on his right shoulder before storming to gold in 3:58.8.

On Saturday night the men’s mile should provide another contest for the ages, with Scotland’s Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman facing Australia’s new superstar Cameron Myers.

Teenage race walker Isaac Beacroft hit the accelerator on a dramatic final lap in the 10,000m then had to hit it again, celebrating Commonwealth Games gold 20 metres before the finish despite his Kenyan rival Stephen Kihu lurking just a few steps behind.

The result was the Australian highlight on a mixed day at Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow, as Sarah Billings claimed her country’s first 800m women’s bronze in 36 years, even as track and field stars Nina Kennedy, Torrie Lewis and Lachie Kennedy were left disappointed.

Beacroft, the under-20 world record holder, stormed away from Kihu with 300m to go to secure gold. “Probably the last 15 laps, I was just waiting for Kihu to go, but he never did, so I sat in, and eventually had to go,” he told Channel Seven. “I went hard, about 95%, and then I knew he was going to come with me, but then I had another gear in there to really make it over.”

He secured the breakthrough win, but not without fraying the nerves of his father and coach David. “He’s having a panic,” Beacroft told Channel Seven with a smile. “He thought I was going to get chased down, and started celebrating too early. Rubbish.”

Boxing The first hands will be thrown just after 11am in women’s 54kg final between Scarlett Savannah Delgado and Preeti Preeti. That’s the first of 14 finals day on the last day of boxing at this year’s Games.

More from day eight in Glasgow

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:

• Men’s 1500m T54 (10.20am local time)

• Women’s 10k race walk (10.30am)

• Men’s discus (11.50am)

• Men’s 400m (12pm)

• Women’s 400m (12.20pm)

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.