Artistic Gymnastics – Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men’s Individual All-Around Final – Coomera Indoor Sports Centre – Gold Coast, Australia – April 7, 2018. Nile Wilson of England competes on the pommel horse. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
April 7, 2018
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – Highlights on day three of the Commonwealth Games on Saturday (times in GMT):
0540 ENGLAND’S GUY WITHDRAWS FROM 200M BUTTERFLY FINAL
England’s James Guy has withdrawn from the men’s 200m butterfly final later on Saturday, with British media reporting that the 22-year-old is being treated for dehydration.
Guy, who won the bronze medal in the 400m freestyle final on Thursday, is expected to be fit for the rest of his events.
0510 UGANDA WOMEN REGISTER HISTORIC FIRST VICTORY
The Ugandan national women’s netball team, who are appearing at the Games for the first time, registered their first ever win after beating Malawi 54-52 in the pool stages.
The African team, nicknamed the She Cranes, lost their opening game to New Zealand on Thursday.
0500 AUSTRALIA’S TRACK CYCLING SPRINT FAVORITE GLAETZER ELIMINATED IN MAJOR SHOCK
Australia’s Matthew Glaetzer, favorite to win the men’s sprint gold, crashed out of the knockout rounds at the Anna Meares Velodrome after making a tactical blunder when racing Malaysia’s Muhammad Sahrom.
Glaetzer, who won the men’s keirin gold on Friday, said he tried to get through the last-16 round with minimum effort against Sahrom, the slowest of 16 qualifiers, and had paid the price.
0419 AUSTRALIA WIN MIXED-TEAM TRIATHLON RELAY
The hosts’ team of Gillian Backhouse, Matthew Hauser, Ashleigh Gentle and Jacob Birtwhistle charged to the gold medal in the mixed-team triathlon relay.
The England team, consisting of brothers Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee, Vicky Holland and Jessica Learmonth, took the early lead but the latter fell behind in the running stage to allow Australia’s Gentle to take the lead.
England settled for the silver medal while the New Zealand quartet finished third.
0330 MILEY PULLS OUT OF BREASTSTROKE FINAL
Scotland’s Hannah Miley has pulled out of the women’s 200 meter breaststroke final to focus her efforts on the 4x200m freestyle relay instead.
The 28-year-old won the silver medal at the 400m individual medley on Thursday.
0230 SIVALINGAM WINS WEIGHTLIFTING GOLD
Sathish Kumar Sivalingam became the third Indian to win a weightlifting gold medal at this year’s Games after the 25-year-old held aloft a combined total of 317kg to triumph at the men’s 77kg final.
England’s Jack Oliver won the silver medal and Australian Francois Etoundi grabbed the bronze.
0155 ENGLAND’S WILSON WINS MEN’S ALL-AROUND GOLD
England gymnast Nile Wilson wins the men’s all-around individual title with a total score of 84.950. Compatriot James Hall was second on 83.975, with Cypriot Marios Georgiou taking the bronze.
The 22-year-old Rio Olympics horizontal bar bronze medalist utilized his favorite apparatus to give himself some breathing distance, scoring 15.100 points to Hall’s 14.100.
2340 COMPETITION BEGINS
Table tennis, hockey, swimming and the mixed-team triathlon are among the sports on the schedule on day three of the Games with Australia looking to add to their 14 gold medals at the top of the table. England, on nine, are in second.
(Compiled by Greg Stutchbury in Gold Coast and Aditi Prakash in Bengaluru; Editing by Ian Ransom/John O’Brien/Sudipto Ganguly)
