Birmingham Update – Day 6

The Aussies have added 17 medals to their tally, with four gold, six silver and seven bronze on Day 6 in Birmingham.

Our swimmers capped off their dominance in the pool with nine more medals, three each of gold, silver and bronze.

Ariarne Titmus finished her extraordinary Games campaign with gold and a Games record in the 400m freestyle (3:58.06) to take the 200m, 400m and 800m treble.

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Sam Short stormed home to win his first individual gold medal, the 1500m freestyle, in his debut Games. The team of Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, Emma McKeon and Mollie O’Callaghan triumphed in the 4 x 100m medley relay.

In the men’s 4 x 100m medley relay, Bradley Woodward, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Matt Temple and Kyle Chalmers narrowly missed gold by 0.08 seconds, to finish with silver.

Silver medals also went to Ben Hance in the 200m freestyle S14 and Mollie O’Callaghan in the 50m backstroke, while Jack Ireland (200m freestyle S14) and Kiah Melverton (400m freestyle) will bring home bronze.

With 30,000 people in the stands at Alexander Stadium, sprinter Evan O’Hanlon claimed the Australian athletics team’s 200th Commonwealth Games gold medal.

O’Hanlon clocked a Commonwealth Games record and a season-best in winning the men’s T37/T38 100m sprint, while Brandon Starc has leaped to silver in the high jump, clearing 2.25m.

Heptathlete Taneille Crase has finished fifth in one of the most gruelling events at the Games. Crase produced a personal best of 6.23m in the long jump and a time of 2:19:50 in the 800m.

Lining up as one of the fastest men in the world, “The Flying Mullet”, Rohan Browning, ran sixth in the 100m final, just 0.18 seconds behind the winner, Ferdinand Omanyala from Kenya. Browning was the first Aussie to make the men’s 100m final since 2010.

And Isobel Batt-Doyle was eighth across the line in the women’s 10,000m.

Our oldest team member and national treasure, 63-year-old lawn bowler Cheryl Lindfield, has made a remarkable Commonwealth Games debut, winning the silver medal in the Para-pairs B6/B8 with partner Serena Bonnell. They led 2-1 after three ends before Scotland broke away to a 17-5 victory.

Earlier in the day, lawn bowler Aaron Wilson continued to build on his men’s singles title defence as he defeated Kenya’s Cephas Kimwaki Kimani 21-15 to sit atop Group A.

Women’s singles gold medallist Ellen Ryan and her teammate Kristina Krstic had a sensational morning in the pairs with two wins: 21-15 over Wales and a 40-6 demolition of Canada, to ensure their place in the knockout stages of the competition.

In the women’s triples, Lynsey Clarke, Natasha Van Eldik and Rebecca Van Asch started the day with a 29-8 win over the Falkland Islands before a 17-12 loss to South Africa. And in the vision-impaired mixed pairs, Jake Fehlberg and Helen Boardman came from behind to beat South Africa.

In her Games debut, 21-year-old Zoe Cuthbert felt the support from home as she took the silver in the women’s cross-country final (bike). In the men’s event Sam Fox finished sixth, ahead of Daniel McConnell in seventh place, who was competing in his third Games.

The weightlifting arena was the place to be with music and cheers you could hear all over Birmingham. Charisma Amoe-Tarrant embraced the crowd, winning bronze with a 100kg snatch and 139kg clean and jerk. She adds this to her silver in 2018 when she represented Nauru. Jackson Young was fifth in the men’s 109kg, with a 145kg snatch and 202kg clean and jerk. Suamili Nanai finished in sixth position, lifting 160kg in the snatch and 201kg in the clean and jerk.

The judo squad has notched up three more medals to end their successful Games campaign. Harry Cassar, Abigail Paduch and Liam Park won bronze in the men’s 90kg, women’s 78kg and men’s 100kg categories. The judokas leave Birmingham with two gold medals and eight bronze.

The Hockeyroos are yet to concede a goal in Birmingham, defeating Scotland 2-0 in their fourth pool match. Moving into the semi-final, they sit on top of the women’s pool B table. The Kookaburras also remain undefeated in the men’s tournament, with a 3-0 win over South Africa. They will face Pakistan in their final pool match tomorrow.

Boxers Kaye Frances Scott, Caitlin Parker and Callum Peters all had wins in their women’s light middleweight, women’s middleweight, and men’s middleweight categories respectively.

Australia’s mixed doubles badminton teams of Tran Hoang Pham/Angela Yu and Lin Ying Xiang/-Gronya Sommerville are both through to the round of 32 after prevailing over the Falkland Islands teams in two sets. Our women’s doubles teams have also progressed, with Angela Yu/Kaitlyn Ea defeating the Maldives and Wendy Chen/Gronya Sommerville beating Pakistan. And both Lin Ying Xiang and Nathan Tang will compete in the men’s singles in the round of 32.

Our women’s T20 cricket side has finished the pool matches undefeated after a comfortable 44-run victory over Pakistan. An unbeaten partnership of 141 from Tahlia McGrath (78 off 51) and Beth Mooney (70 off 49) settled the Aussie innings before McGrath followed up with the ball, snaring 3-11 from three overs.

Beach volleyballers Chris McHugh and Paul Burnett overcame a stiff challenge from Rwanda to seal top spot on the Pool B table with a 21-16, 21-18 win.

In table tennis, Dillon Chambers and Finn Luu blasted through their round robin matches in the men’s singles, storming into the knock-out stages.

And in squash, both pairings of Zac Alexander and Rachael Grinham and defending Commonwealth Games mixed doubles champions Donna Lobban and Cameron Pilley have progressed to the last 16.

The action continues live on 7Plus tonight from 5.30pm AEST.