Hopes for extra gold on 2nd night of Commonwealth Video games

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April 07, 2018 00:Eleven:08

Kyle Chalmers has clinched two gold medals in a single night after securing Australian bragging rights within the boys’s 4x100m freestyle relay, following up from his 200m freestyle gold.

Chalmers’ double got here on an night that seen Australia propel its Commonwealth Video games medal tally to 14 golds, nine silver and Thirteen bronze — a whopping 18 medals in front of 2nd-positioned England.

Chalmers anchored Australia’s scuttle to edge England and Scotland on the podium in Three:12.Seventy two.

After a leisurely launch up from Cam McEvoy, James Magnussen propelled Australia into the lead which changed into once maintained by Jack Cartwright, sooner than Chalmers iced the steal.

It adopted Chalmers earlier claiming gold within the boys’s 200m freestyle before friend and swimming rival Mack Horton earlier within the night.

In an incredibly stable field, Chalmers edged out compatriot Horton and Scotland’s Duncan Scott and stormed home in an very fair correct bustle to the rest, successful in 1:forty five.fifty six.

« The 200m changed into once awesome. I potentially wasn’t ready for to steal it tonight, » Chalmers acknowledged.

« It changed into once rather a aggressive bustle there. It is doubtless you’ll per chance well per chance presumably even get got obtained three guys, internationally, that swim spacious fleet, after which you may per chance well need obtained Mack [Horton] and additionally Alex [Graham].

« We were all pretty confident with how the [4x100m] bustle panned out. By the time it obtained to me we had that lead and I changed into once ready to get a jubilant bustle which changed into once in actuality fine. »

In a productive night for Australia’s medal tally, Emma McKeon led a amazing one-two-three within the girls’s 100m butterfly for the Commonwealth Video games host.

McKeon (fifty six.78) stormed home to claim gold in Commonwealth file time, before Madeline Groves and Brianna Throssell as Australia swept the podium within the match.

Larkin the backstroke champ as Lewis clinches medley steal

Mitch Larkin lived up to the billing by main an Australian one-two within the boys’s 100m backstroke remaining, edging before compatriot Bradley Woodward to claim gold.

Larkin (fifty three.18) done zero.Seventy seven seconds before Woodward, who beat Canada’s Markus Thormeyer to silver.

« I got here into tonight with the same belief as remaining night, retaining aid within the water and making an strive to take a seat down down back, » Larkin acknowledged.

« I changed into once a runt bit slower than I’d get cherished, the belief changed into once to earn out a runt faster and defend it up, but I had plenty left within the tank. »

In an Australia v Fresh Zealand swimming showdown, Clyde Lewis won the trans-Tasman fight for Australia within the boys’s 4 x 100m person medley.

Lewis held off a mid-bustle press from Kiwi all-rounders Lewis Clareburt and Bradlee Ashby, sooner than Ashby dropped off to be overtaken by Scotland’s surging Szaranek.

The Australian done in 4:Thirteen.12, zero.6 seconds before the Scot.

Leiston Pickett additionally grabbed a bronze medal for Australia earlier within the night within the girls’s 50m breaststroke, ending within the aid of England’s Sarah Vasey and Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson, who tell the Commonwealth Video games file aid in 2014.

Australia’s Timothy Disken took out gold within the boys’s S9 100m freestyle para-match, coming in before England’s Lewis White and fellow Aussie Brenden Hall.

In the girls’s S9 100m backstroke para-match, Australia’s Ellie Cole and Ashleigh McConnell secured silver and bronze respectively within the aid of England’s Alice Tai.

S9 is the classification for para-athletes with extreme weaknesses or amputations within the legs.

The night’s swimming action started with gold and bronze for South Africa as Chad le Clos got here in at 23.37 seconds to grab out the boys’s 50m butterfly gold, before Trinidad and Tobago’s Dylan Carter and fellow South African Ryan Coetzee.

Gold in girls’s weightlifting and biking

Australia’s Tia-Clair Toomey accomplished a unfamiliar double, adding Commonwealth Video games weightlifting gold to her 2017 CrossFit Video games championship.

Toomey, who competed within the weightlifting on the Rio Olympics, won gold within the girls’s fifty eight-kilogram class on the Carrara Sports activities Arena, having dominated the exquisite and jerk to full the competition with the staunch total of 201 kilograms.

Defending champion Stephanie Morton won her 2nd gold medal of the notice biking program on the 2018 Video games after hanging off the girls’s escape remaining on the Anna Meares Velodrome.

Morton, who claimed gold within the crew escape for Australia alongside Kaarle McCulloch on Thursday night, showed why she is one among the elite sprinters on the planet with a exquisite sweep of both races within the rest against Fresh Zealand’s Natasha Hansen.

The two-time world championships silver medallist changed into once examined within the hole bustle, but after main Hansen by a motorbike dimension heading into the rest lap of the 2nd she powered on to put up a jubilant victory.

McCulloch, who misplaced to Morton within the semi-finals, won the bronze.

Morton’s triumph changed into once fleet adopted by fellow Australian Matt Glaetzer’s victory within the boys’s keirin remaining.

Glaetzer is the world escape champion and all his journey changed into once wanted, as he held defend off a fleet-ending Lewis Oliva to steal his 2nd-straight gold within the match by factual zero.035 to the roars of an appreciative home crowd.

He’ll contest his pet match on Saturday.

Gymnastics, biking medals tell off night two’s haul

Australia additionally started stable on the Anna Meares Velodrome, with Rebecca Wiasak claiming silver within the girls’s Three,000m person pursuit.

Wiasak, a world champion within the match in 2015 and 2016, had tell the journey against Katie Archibald for the first half of of the bustle however the Scot remained affected person and waited for the chance to pounce.

Archibald, who tell a Video games file within the qualifying round, assumed a shrimp lead by the two,000-metre stamp and at remaining went on to put up a jubilant victory, Three:26.088 to a couple:27.548.

Australia earlier won the bronze medal within the girls’s Three,000m pursuit with Annette Edmondson narrowly edging out compatriot Ashlee Ankudinoff.

It changed into once Edmondson’s 2nd medal of the Video games, having been a section of Australia’s triumphant girls’s 4,000m crew pursuit quartet on Thursday night.

Australia added yet another bronze to its sequence thanks to the girls’s artistic gymnastics crew, with the host’s strongest efficiency coming within the vault and uneven bars.

Canada took out gold and England silver, as Australia’s Georgia Rose-Brown, Alexandra Eade, Georgia Godwin, Rianna Mizzen and Emily Whitehead combined for 1/Three set.

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April 06, 2018 19:Forty seven:Fifty five