Commonwealth Games live: Australia remains comfortably on top of medal tally in Birmingham, crowds flock to athletics events – صحيفة الصوت

Despite a rolled ankle, Peter Bol has not only won his 800m heat but qualified fastest with a time of 1:47:01.

He’ll be going into the final as a definite favourite for a medal.

Here’s a wrap of his race in more detail:

Gold medallist Nicholas Bennett of Canada was fading late, and Benjamin Hance would’ve swum over the top of him if it was the 210m final, but he ends up with silver.

Jack Ireland gets bronze to start the Australian medal-winning in the pool today.

Their countryman, Liam Schluter, was back in eighth.

Three Englishwomen, three Australians and a Northern Irishwoman dive into a pool…

Jade Lucy, Maddie McTernan and Ruby Storm are representing Australia in this one.

World record holder Bethany Firth is there for Northern Ireland and she gets gold comfortably from England’s Jessica-Jane Applegate.

Louise Fiddes gets bronze for England.

So that’s two finals in a row without medals for Australia.

Good morning Australia — and what a good morning indeed — Rohan Browning is through to the final of the men’s 100m in Birmingham.

He came home second in his semi-final with a time of 10:17 after earlier winning the first heat — and that’s enough to automatically qualify for a shot at a medal.

Fellow Aussie Jake Doran has raced in the second semi — he flew down the track in 10.40 but hasn’t gone quite quick enough to qualify for the final.

Brendon Smith and Se-Bom Lee are representing Australia in this one.

No medals for the Aussies this time, with Scotland’s Duncan Scott touching out Englishman Tom Dean.

Kiwi Lewis Clareburt was third, with Smith and Lee fifth and sixth.

Aussie Charisma Amoe Tarrant, who represented Nauru in 2018, has won a bronze medal in the women’s 87kg+ by just 1 kilogram from Canada’s Emma Friesen.

The Aussie’s snatch lift of 100kg had her sixth head into the clean and jerk, six kg behind Friesen.

So she simply lifted 139kg, seven kilos more than the Canadian, in the clean and jerk to claim the rose gold.

The para women’s pairs team of Cheryl Lindfield and Serena Bonnell couldn’t keep pace with Scotland’s Rosemary Lenton and Pauline Wilson, going down 17-5.

Australia’s latest cycling medal came in the women’s cross-country mountain biking, with Zoe Cuthbert finishing 47 seconds behind England’s Evie Richards at Cannock Chase Forest.

South Africa’s Candice Lill was third.

In the men’s race, Aussies Sam Fox and Daniel McConnell finished sixth and seventh.

Track and field is ramping up today, with the men’s and women’s 100m closing out day two in the main stadium. Here are the medal chances coming up (all times AEST)…

• 4:00am: Men’s high jump (Brandon Starc)
• 5:00am: Women’s 10,000m (Isobel Batt-Doyle)
• 5:05am: Women’s shot put
• 5:45am: Men’s discus F42-44/61-64
• 6:20am: Men’s T37/38 100m (Evan O’Hanlon)
• 6:30am: Men’s 100m (semis from 4:10am)
• 6:45am: Women’s 100m (semis from 4:35am)

It’s the final day of the swimming program, and there are plenty of medals up for grabs this morning, so let’s have a look at what’s coming up (all times AEST)…

• 4:07am: Men’s 200m individual medley (Brendon Smith and Se-Bom Lee)
• 4:14am: Women’s 200m freestyle S14 (Jade Lucy, Maddie McTernan and Ruby Storm)
• 4:22am: Men’s 200m freestyle S14 (Ben Hance, Liam Schluter and Jack Ireland)
• 4:45am: Men’s 50m freestyle (Tom Nowakowski and Grayson Bell)
• 4:51am: Women’s 50m backstroke (Kaylee McKeown, Mollie O’Callaghan and Bronte Job)
• 5:12am: Men’s 1,500m freestyle (Sam Short and Kieren Pollard)
• 5:48am: Women’s 400m freestyle (Ariarne Titmus, Kiah Melverton and Lani Pallister)
• 5:58am: Men’s 4x100m medley relay
• 6:08am: Women’s 4x100m medley relay

It’s the last day of swimming and the Aussies are expecting a strong finish in the pool before attention turns to the track and field.

Join me and Kelsie Iorio as we keep an eye across it all and catch you up on what’s gone down already.