Key events
Boxing Gold for Australia’s Jye Dixon, who has beaten India’s Jadumani Singh Mandengbam in the men’s 55kg final.
Read Priya Bharadia on the Mop Man
The 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow have already provided plenty of highlights. But fans across the world have been dazzled by one particular breakout star: the “mop man”.
When a cleaner came out at half-time during a netball match to wipe down the court before the restart, everything appeared normal. But as the cleaner swept, and the first bars of Queen’s I Want to Break Free rang out in the venue, he went from sweeping to a standing split.
A full dance routine set to the 1984 hit then followed, much to the surprise and delight of the audience at the OVO Hydro. The crowd watched him do the worm, splits and front handsprings. He has since entertained crowds during breaks in play at a number of other events and clips of his performances have gone viral online.
Dejanea Oakley wins 400m gold!
Athletics There’s a reason she was the strong favourite: Dejanea Oakley has cruised to victory in the women’s 400m in a time of 50.21.
Sada Williams took silver, Ella Onojuvwevwo the bronze.
The women’s 400m final is imminent. Scotland’s Nicole Yeargin is in lane one; the strong favourite, Dejanea Oakley of Jamaica, is in lane four.
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Samuel Ogazi storms to 400m gold!
Athletics Samuel Ogazi of Nigeria, the fastest man in the world this year, pulls away to win the men’s 400m in a time of 44.25. That’s an emphatic victory – Jereem Richards ran 44.82 to win silver, with Zakithi Nene (45.21) picking up the bronze.
The time wasn’t great by Ogazi’s standards. As if he’ll care!
Boxing: women’s 65kg final Sacha Hickey takes gold for England after a majestic performance in the final against Kaci Rock.
Netball report: New Zealand 61-54 England
England’s hopes of regaining their Commonwealth Games’ netball title are over after a 61-54 defeat to New Zealand that was far more comprehensive than the scoreline suggests.
The Roses, who famously won gold in the Gold Coast in 2018, at least have the consolation of the bronze medal match on Sunday morning, but they were second best throughout.
Boxing Next up, the women’s 65kg between Kaci Rock (Northern Ireland) and Sacha Hickey (England). They’re a minute into the first round.
Jordan Scott wins triple jump gold
Men’s triple jump Jamaica’s Jordan Scott has won with a best jump of 16.72m. The Indian pair of Praveen Chithravel (16.58) and Selva Prabhu Thirumaran (16.52) join him on the podium.
Boxing Jaismine Jaismine beats Michaela Walsh by unanimous decision to win another gold for India. She was just too good for an excellent opponent, and Walsh warmly congratulates Jaismine after the decision is confirmed.
Women’s 10,000m race walk Gold, silver and bronze for Australia, with Jemima Montag finishing ahead of Elizabeth McMillen and Rebecca Henderson.
Jaismine has taken the second round on all five cards, so she’s two ahead on three of the cards going into the last round.
Boxing: women’s 57kg final The defending champion, Michaela Walsh of Northern Ireland, is up against the brilliant Indian Jaismine Jaismine. A tight first round was scored 3-2 in Jaismine’s favour.
Boxing No surprise in the women’s 54kg final, with the mighty Preeti Preeti winning India’s first gold of the day. Spoiler: it’s not the last.
Preeti dominated Canada’s Scarlett Savannah Delgado throughout a 5-0 points victory.
Sean Ingle
A boxer has made history for Tuvalu by winning the tiny Pacific island nation’s first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a single fight.
Twenty-year-old Tarona Taafaki, one of five entrants in the women’s 75kg category, received a bye to the semi-finals where she lost on an unanimous points decision to India’s Lovlina Borgohain on Friday. At Commonwealth Games, all boxers eliminated in the semis receive bronze medals.
“I’m very proud and very glad to be able to represent my country on this big stage,” said Taafaki, one of only eight athletes and paraathletes from her country in Glasgow. “Probably 95% of the audience don’t know where my country is, so I feel very privileged to represent Tuvalu.”
Sean Ingle
They call it the Miracle Mile: the race still regarded as the greatest in Commonwealth Games history. And 72 years later in Glasgow, it finally has a worthy successor.
Rewind to 1954. In May Sir Roger Bannister had become the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Six weeks later, the Australian John Landy lowered his mark by more than a second. Then came their epic clash in Vancouver.
“I felt it was a piece of unfinished business to be able to reproduce the performance of my sub-four-minute mile in a race,” Bannister later said. “However, at the half-mile … he was 15 yards ahead and I thought either he’s going to break a world record in 3min 56sec or he’s going to have to slow.”
Somehow Bannister dragged himself back into it by the bell, yet Landy was still leading as they turned into the home straight. But there was to be a dramatic late twist.
Because the roar of the crowd was so great, Landy was unable to hear his pursuer, so he looked over his left shoulder. At which point Bannister attacked and flew past his great rival on his right shoulder before storming to gold in 3:58.8.
On Saturday night the men’s mile should provide another contest for the ages, with Scotland’s Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman facing Australia’s new superstar Cameron Myers.
Jack Snape
Teenage race walker Isaac Beacroft hit the accelerator on a dramatic final lap in the 10,000m then had to hit it again, celebrating Commonwealth Games gold 20 metres before the finish despite his Kenyan rival Stephen Kihu lurking just a few steps behind.
The result was the Australian highlight on a mixed day at Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow, as Sarah Billings claimed her country’s first 800m women’s bronze in 36 years, even as track and field stars Nina Kennedy, Torrie Lewis and Lachie Kennedy were left disappointed.
Beacroft, the under-20 world record holder, stormed away from Kihu with 300m to go to secure gold. “Probably the last 15 laps, I was just waiting for Kihu to go, but he never did, so I sat in, and eventually had to go,” he told Channel Seven. “I went hard, about 95%, and then I knew he was going to come with me, but then I had another gear in there to really make it over.”
He secured the breakthrough win, but not without fraying the nerves of his father and coach David. “He’s having a panic,” Beacroft told Channel Seven with a smile. “He thought I was going to get chased down, and started celebrating too early. Rubbish.”
Boxing The first hands will be thrown just after 11am in women’s 54kg final between Scarlett Savannah Delgado and Preeti Preeti. That’s the first of 14 finals day on the last day of boxing at this year’s Games.
England’s Nathan Maguire wins gold!
Men’s 1500m T54 final Nathan Maguire powered to victory in the last lap, with Daniel Sidbury (England) taking silver and Sam Rizzo (Australia) the bronze.
Maguire, the husband of the great Hannah Cockroft, is being interviewed with their two-month-old daughter Rosie in his arms.
I was so boxed. And then I felt like Moses – it just parted and I got through. I don’t know how it happened!
There was a little bit of panic. When I heard the bell (for the last lap) I thought, ‘Oh my god, I’m so stuck.’ I dropped them a lot more than I expected!
More from day eight in Glasgow
New Zealand beat England in netball semi-final
The Black Ferns will play Australia or Jamaica in tomorrow’s gold-medal match after beating England 61-54 in the first semi-final at the Hydro.
New Zealand, who took bronze four years ago, are one game away from winning Commonwealth gold for the first time since 2010. This will be their first final since Glasgow 2014, when they lost to… Australia.
Sean Ingle
Day eight at the Games
There are late developers in sport, and then there is the brilliant Georgia Hunter Bell, who continues to defy sporting gravity at the age of 32.
And on Friday night under the Glasgow lights, she gave a tactical masterclass to outwit – and then outpace – the 800m world champion Lilian Odira and complete her set of global medals.
Incredibly it was only two years ago that she made her international debut here in Scotland’s biggest city. Back then she was a part-time runner working in tech. Now, staggeringly, she is one of Britain’s biggest sports stars and the proud owner of Olympic, World, European and now Commonwealth medals.
Netball semi-final New Zealand are just too good for England: they lead 55-44 with 7.38 to play.
The first athletics finals of the day are under way. They are, I think, the men’s shot put T57 and the men’s triple jump.
Then we have these events to follow in the next couple of hours:
Adam Ramsay-Peaty x Donald McRae = a belter of an interview
Netball semi-final England are under the pump against New Zealand in the first of today’s two semi-finals – they trail 46-37 at the end of the third quarter. It’s a long way back from here.
New Zealand took control in the first quarter, after which they led 16-11. The second was all square, 13 apiece, but New Zealand all but doubled their lead by taking the third quarter 17-13.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to live coverage of a bumper day nine at the Commonwealth Games. There are – count ‘em, Stan – 44 gold medals up for grabs in the next 12 hours or so.
The athletics highlights include the men’s 800m, men’s and women’s 400m, men’s and women’s mile, men’s, women’s and mixed 4x100m relay, men’s triple jump, women’s long jump and the women’s javelin.
There was an early start at the Hydro, where a huge netball semi-final between New Zealand and England is well under way. Let’s get straight into that.
