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Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham Update – Day 5

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3 August 2022

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Birmingham Update – Day 5

Australia has cracked the ton, surpassing 100 medals at Birmingham. Day 5’s events saw 11 gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze added to the tally, bringing the total to 106 medals.

In gymnastics, Victorian Kate McDonald has performed a stunning beam routine to take the gold. She finished on 13.466, ahead of our Birmingham breakout star Georgia Godwin (13.433) who adds another silver to her Games collection. Godwin has had a stellar Games, walking away with two golds and three silver medals.

Tyson Bull, who was a late inclusion due to an injury to Jesse Moore, has claimed silver in the men’s horizontal bar. Mitchell Morgans finished fourth in that event and fifth in the men’s parallel bars final.
Emily Whitehead picked up a bronze in the women’s floor routine, while James Bacueti captured bronze in the vault, with Samuel Dick coming in fifth.

One gold and three bronze medals on Day 5 set the judokas up to be our most successful judo team at any Commonwealth Games (currently sitting on seven medals – two golds and five bronze). This is only the second time Australia has won multiple judo golds. Aoife Coughlan celebrated her win in the women’s 70kg class, while Jake Bensted (men’s 73kg class), Katharina Haecker (women’s 63kg) and Uros Nikolic (men’s 81 kg) have all snagged a bronze.

Weightlifter Eileen Cikamatana has become the first woman to win Commonwealth Games gold medals for two different countries, lifting gold for Australia overnight in the women’s 87kg, after her victory for Fiji in the 90kg division at the Gold Coast in 2018. Eileen managed a 110kg snatch and a 145kg clean and jerk, setting two Games records. Ridge Barredo finished fifth in his event with a 136kg snatch and 180kg clean and jerk, while Queenslander Ebony Gorincu finished sixth (93kg snatch and 113kg clean and jerk).

There were medals across the board and in every colour for our four 3×3 basketball teams. The men’s wheelchair 3×3 team won the gold medal in a thrilling final, beating Canada 11-9. The women’s 3×3 wheelchair team have a silver after going down 5-14 to Canada, and the men’s 3×3 team came agonisingly short, with silver after a one-point loss in overtime to England (16-17). The women’s team defeated New Zealand 15-13 to win a bronze.

Another brilliant night in the pool has given Australia six more gold medals. The Aussies had two clean sweeps of the podium: first in the 100m freestyle with 18-year-old Mollie O’Callaghan’s gold, holding off Shayna Jack and Emma McKeon for silver and bronze. It was then 1-2-3 and a new Games record in the 800m freestyle for Ariarne Titmus (8:13.59), Kiah Melverton and Lani Pallister.

In the men’s 100m butterfly S10, Col Pearse won gold, with Alex Saffy claiming silver and William Martin coming in fourth.

Eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Dekkers stormed home to win the 200m butterfly, with Brianna Throssell in third place.

Jasmine Greenwood won the women’s 200m individual medley SM10, Keira Stephens captured bronze and Lakeisha Patterson finished fifth.

The 4 x 100m mixed medley relay produced another golden finish for the Aussie team of Kaylee McKeown, Matt Temple, Zac Stubblety-Cook and Emma McKeown.

Matt Temple took silver in the 100m butterfly, with Cody Simpson fifth home. Silvers for Bradley Woodward (200m backstroke) and Samuel Williamson (50m breaststroke) and bronze for Chelsea Hodges (100m breaststroke).

Alexander Stadium opened its doors with Aussies in action everywhere you looked in the track and field events.

High-flyer Nina Kennedy has picked up gold in the women’s pole vault, clearing a height of 4.6m.

Jaydon Page sprinted to silver in the men’s T45-47 100m final, while Rhiannon Clarke took the bronze in the women’s T37-38 100m.

A mighty throw of 56.85m saw Taryn Gollshewsky finish fourth in the women’s discus final. Ky Robinson finished sixth in the 10,000m final with a personal best time of 27:44.33.

Coming fifth in the women’s T33-34 100m final, Sarah Clifton-Bligh’s time of 22.71 set a Games record for the T33 class.

Heptathlete Taneille Crase is sitting in third place after the first day of the event that featured 100m hurdles, 200m, high jump and shot put. The heptathlon continues tomorrow with long jump, javelin and the 800m.

Aussie duo Damien Delgado and Chris Flavel took the silver medal in the men’s lawn bowls Para-pairs event won 16-7 by Scotland. Defending champion Aaron “Disco” Wilson has cruised through the first round of the singles, with a 21-9 win over Phillip Jim from the Cook Islands. The women’s triples team of Lynsey Clarke, Natasha van Eldik and Rebecca van Asch scored a 22-11 win over Singapore while the women’s pairs team of Kristina Krstic and Ellen Ryan beat Brunei Darussalam 24-14.

Beach volleyballers Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar continued their perfect winning streak with a 2-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago.

The Hockeyroos have secured their third straight win, with a 1-0 victory over New Zealand, the reigning Commonwealth Games gold medallists.

The Diamonds continue to dominate the netball court, overcoming a threat from Wales in the first quarter to cruise to a 79-33 win. Cara Koenan was unstoppable with 49 goals, and Gretel Bueta scored 26.

Australian light-middleweight boxer Taha Ahmad put up a brave fight but couldn’t stop Mervin St Clair of Mauritius.

Catch all the action on Day 6 of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games from 5.30pm AEST live on 7Plus.

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