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Key events
Gymnastics: As expected, Luke Whitehouse (🏴 ENG) scores well – his 14.566 is more than a point ahead of his nearest rival and more than he posted in qualifying – and with four men yet to go, it feels like we might just be watching the battle for silver and bronze here now.
Gymnastics: Ooooooft. Reuben Ward (🏴 SCO) has had to see the funny side as he ended up face-planting on his final move on the floor.
As it stands James Hardy (🇦🇺 AUS) and Felix Dolci (🇨🇦 CAN) are in gold and silver position, but Luke Whitehouse (🏴 ENG) is strong favourite and on the floor right now.
Gymnastics: A bit of a lull in the live action this hour – everybody needs lunch, I guess – so the focus is on Glasgow International Arena, where the Men’s Floor Exercise Final is taking place.
Athletics: The women’s T37/38 100m first round has started, and England’s Sophie Hahn has won the first heat. In the women’s 100m, Imani Lansiquot (🏴 ENG) is among the 17 qualifiers in her first outing after a couple of injury-ravaged years. In an interview after her heat she said that athletes seldom talk about the mental health impact of long-term injury, and was clearly overjoyed to be back competing.
Very much not overjoyed is Australian sprint star Rohan Browning. Eight runners in the men’s 100m qualify automatically for the latter stages without having to run a heat, based on times earlier this year. Browning said it was clearly “not fair” and “extremely weird”. He narrowly made the cut to appear in the semi-finals tonight.
Boxing: Nicholas Devlin (🏴 SCO), Owain Harris-Allan (🏴 WAL), Treasure Moremi (🇧🇼 BOT) and Sachin Siwach (🇮🇳 IND) have all punched their way through the round of 16 in the men’s 60kg prelims, the latter at the expense of England’s William Hewitt, despite a points deduction.
In other athletics-but-not-Commonwealth-Games-news: Olympic triathlon champion Cassandre Beaugrand (🇫🇷 FRA) will not take part in next month’s European championships in Birmingham. Beaugrand’s agent Julien Galland told AFP that while the “desire was very strong”, there had not been enough time to prepare for the event, which is scheduled for August 10-16.
PA is carrying some quotes from England’s Gabriel Langton, who said he feared for his gymnastics future after his fall on the opening day.
The 19-year-old, who sustained head and neck injuries after slipping off the high bar, said:
I knew that I could talk still, I could move a lot of things but I was just hoping that I could do gym again really. With other injuries like a leg injury, it’s not nice but you know most of the time that those things will heal. I suppose neck injuries are to be taken seriously, so I was just hoping that it wasn’t anything too bad. When I got the scans back, it was a big relief. My thought process switched quite quickly to being ‘I should be back in the gym quite soon.’
Athletics: My colleague Taha Hashim earlier suggested that people have mentally prepared the pose they would strike for the cameras while waiting to run a major 100m race. Personally? I’d just be holding my tummy in. Not a problem for professional athletes.
The women have just started the heats for the 100m. Mabel Akande (🏴 ENG) and Leah Bertrand (🇹🇹 TTO) have won the first two. That doesn’t actually guarantee they progress. It is going to be the fastest 17 athletes by absolute time, not place, that go through, so this is more of a personal time trial against the clock than a “heat”.
Martin Belam
Hi, good afternoon (or evening or morning). This is my first stint on the Glasgow 2026 live blog, although I was nearly down to do the opening ceremony. Let me tell you, if I had been on the live blog when there was an unexpected cameo by seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy, the rest of the evening would mostly have consisted of me typing ‘jsjkdjdgsgjs!!jdkhkhsk’ like an over-excited social media producer for a football team who just scored a last minute winner. Here are some behind the scenes clips of McCoy’s cameo for your pleasure.
It’s time for Martin Belam to steer things for the next couple of hours.
Athletics: England’s Sam Bennett has made it to the final of the men’s 110m hurdles on his Commonwealth Games debut, having put together the best time in the heats: 13.20 (wind +2.1). Bennett claimed gold at the UK Championships in June with a time of 13.41.
Swimming: The men’s 100m freestyle heats are in full flow, with the 16 fastest swimmers progressing to the semi-finals. Australia’s Kyle Chalmers took gold in this event four years ago and he’s up in the last heat, against Scotland’s Jensen Norris and Stefan Krawiec. Chalmers is fourth at the halfway mark … but is victorious with 49.06.
Edidiong Umoafia wins men's 71kg weightlifting gold!
Nigeria’s Edidiong Umoafia claims the first gold medal of the day, finishing with a score of 319 after lifting 147kg in the snatch and 172kg in the clean and jerk. England’s Jonathan Chin has to settle for fourth.
Athletics: Do you, like myself, imagine what poses you’d strike for the camera before your 100m heat? No, just me? OK. After nine heats in the men’s 100m, the fastest time belongs to Ghana’s Benjamin Azamati with 10.00. Two more heats to go.
A few stories from Sunday:
Swimming: It’s the men’s 200m butterfly heats, and England’s Edward Mildred – who won three relay medals at the 2022 Games – wins the first with a time of 1:57.99. What can Scotland’s Duncan Scott offer in the second? Fresh off winning the 200m individual medley, he edges past India’s Sajan Prakash to triumph with a time of 1:58.29.
Athletics: A first glimpse of the track at these Games. It’s, well, not a gorgeous day in Glasgow. We’re taking in the men’s 100m, and the third heat belongs to Wales’ Jeremiah Azu, bustling to a time of 10.10. He won 60m gold at the world indoor championships last year.
Weightlifting: Over in the men’s 71kg final, it’s Nigeria’s Edidiong Umofia who has taken control of the snatch section, lifting 147kg. England’s Jonathan Chin is competing in that final – he’s also a full-time doctor who balances 50 to 70-hour weeks with his training.
Preamble
Here we go again, with 27 gold medals to be won today. It’s the start of athletics and para athletics at these Games, and there’ll be plenty of focus on the pool with the 50m men’s breaststroke final as Adam Ramsay-Peaty tries to execute his “battle plan”. The first thing we’ll turn to is the men’s weightlifting, with medals up for grabs in the 71kg event. There’s plenty to get stuck into, and I’ll need all the help I can get – drop me a line with your thoughts, hopes, dreams, wishes, whatever you fancy.
