Sport: The swimming’s wrapped up, but our Australian track-and-field stars & cycling champions are just getting started in Glasgow.
Jessica Hull is looking to lead the charge as she starts favourite in the women’s 5000m event, while the likes of Peter Bol and Lachie Kennedy will also be on the track for Day 7 action.
Stay across all the news and developments below from late afternoon (WA time)!
Key Events
And that’s a wrap!
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We’ll see you tonight ahead of a mammoth day of action on day eight, including Nina Kennedy’s quest for yet another gold in the women’s pole vault final.
MEDAL TALLY
Australia claimed another eight medals, including four golds, overnight to bring our tally to a whopping 110 medals with plenty more action to come.
We’re now claimed 51 goals, 24 silvers and 35 bronze medals
Every Australian medal from day seven:
Rose Davies (gold, women’s 5000m)
Jessica Hull (silver, women’s 5000m)
Australia (gold, women’s 4000m team pursuit)
Australia (silver, men’s 4000m team pursuit)
Tara Neyland (gold, C4-C5 4000m individual pursuit)
Australia (gold, men’s team sprint)
Jessica Gallagher (silver, women’s tandem B sprint)
Kane Perris, piloted by Luke Zaccaria (bronze, men’s tandem B 1000m)
Netball final four
It’s down to four nations in the netball with the semi-finals on the horizon.
Undefeated reigning champions Australia will face Jamacia on Saturday from 4pm AWST before New Zealand take on England for a chance to reach the final.
The medal matches will be live on Seven from Saturday, with the bronze medal match from 4pm before the gold medal match at 8pm AWST.
Jess Hull speaks
Jess Hull has opened up on Australia’s one-two finish in the 5,000m, admitting it was “very tricky racing a countrywoman with 150m to go”.
“It’s pretty special to have another Aussie out there with me but to be battling home for the gold against an Aussie was a bit of a mind flip,” she told Seven.
“I’m pretty proud of that, and I’m so proud of rose, that double is incredible.
“I ran this morning (in the one mile heats) but thinking she ran a 10k three days ago, came back and just wanted it so much tonight, it’s really impressive.
And it’s been fun. We’ve been on a lot of teams together. I’ve seen a lot of growth from Rose. And to see her leave as a two-time Commonwealth champion here is a huge testament to what she’s putting over the last four years.”
A feat not seen in half a century
It’s been 52 years since two Australian women have pulled off a one-two finish in a track event at the Commonwealth Games.
Rose Davies claimed gold ahead of compatriot Jess Hull in the 5,000m in a thrilling finish on Friday morning AWST.
It’s the first time Australian women have claimed first and second since the legendary sprint duo of Raelene Boyle and Denise Wood (nee Robertson) in 1974.
Boyle claimed gold in the women’s 200m in Christchurch ahead of Wood.
“That’s actually incredible,” Hull said. “I think Rose and I are in great comparny and to be the two to have done it next to those two is incredible.”
Davies ran a time of 14:44.53 to narrowly edge out Hull (14:45.01) and create history, becoming the first woman in Commonwealth Games history to complete the grueling 5000m and 10,000m double.
Jenneke 5th in 100m hurdles
Her fourth Commonwealth final and she starts well but can’t match the pace of the leaders.
“It sucks I would have loved to have come away with a medal there, but these girls are so fast.”
Davies speaks
“It was just pure grit in the end,” she says.
“I thought I might be in trouble with Hull sitting on my shoulder and just gave it everything I had.
“This week hasn’t sunk in yet, but I’ll definitely celebrate tonight.”
DAVIES SECURES 10,000 5,000 double!
History made as she becomes the first female athlete to secure that double at the Commonwealth Games ahead of Jess Hull.
They were both miles ahead of the field and it looked like Hull was going to run over the top, but Davies found another gear to hold her off.
It’s 1-2 for Australia and what a magnificent race! Australia have not had a 1-2 finish on track since 1974.
Davies crossed the line in 14:44.53, just ahead of Hull in 14:45.01.
Lindon Hall came home seventh.
“You see a lot of good things in your life, and that’s up there with them all,” Bruce McAvaney surmises.
Aussies in the mix at the halfway stage
Hull and Davies sit in fourth and fifth while Hall is in the mid-pack.
Still a long way to go.
We’re up in the 5000m final
Three Australians up, including 10,000m winner Rose Davies and 1500m Olympic silver medallist Jess Hull.
World cross country champion Linden Hall will also line-up in a strong field.
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