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That was a real nail-biter. England were were 17-11 down after Q1. Some fightback there. And with that I’ll sign off. Thanks for joining and please come back tomorrow for more Games joy and medals.
ShareNetball final score: England 58-54 South Africa
England hold on. The relief is palpable and the emotions raw. The Roses go through to play New Zealand in the semi-final on Saturday.
Updated at 17.41 EDT
Netball: England 56-52 South Africa Down to the final two minutes in the match and it’s slipping away from South Africa now. England are on the verge of the semi-finals. Can they see it home?
Netball: England 54-50 South Africa Five minutes to play in the final quarter and it’s tightened up again.
Netball: England 41-34 South Africa Just under four minutes to play in quarter three.
Netball: England 36-32 South Africa Still a long way to go, over 20 minutes, but this is some fightback from England. Since the start of the second quarter they lead 26-15.
ShareCharlton takes 100m hurdles gold!
Athletics: Women’s 100m hurdles final Devynne Charlton, who won silver in 2022, goes one better this time. She started superbly, led for pretty much the entire race and finished comfortably clear of Megan Simmonds. The defending champion Tobi Amusan had a bad start and never recovered.
Netball: England 32-30 South Africa England have edged in front at the start of the third quarter. I think this might be the first time they’ve been ahead in the match.
ShareDiscus gold for Hall!
Athletics The women’s discus has been won emphatically by Jamaica’s Samantha Hall with a best throw of 61.66m.
Women’s 5000m final Rose Davies won gold ahead of her fellow Australian Jessica Hull; there were just eight-hundredths of a second between them.
Scotland’s Megan Keith took bronze and is high on life as she chats to the TNT Sports team.
Half time: England 28-29 South Africa
England are right back in it after dominating the second quarter at the Hydro. It’s literally too close to call.
Amy Carter of England and Jamie van Wyk of South Africa in action. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PAShare
Updated at 16.49 EDT
Netball: England 23-24 South Africa England are having a superb second quarter and have reduced the deficit to one. I should have said that, if this does end in a draw, England will go through by virtue of their superior goal average.
Imogen Allison also seems okay after that injury scare a few minutes ago.
Updated at 16.48 EDT
Weightlifting Another plug for Sean Ingle’s excellent piece on Emily Campbell’s gold earlier today.
Netball: England 17-20 South Africa England have closed the gap to three but they’ve lost Imogen Allison to a potential ankle injury.
Netball: England 11-17 South Africa A terrific start for South Africa, who have a handy lead at the end of the first quarter. There isn’t much in it but they’ve been sharper in a few key moments.
Netball: England 4-4 South Africa
It’s all square with just over 10 minutes left in the first quarter.
Olivia Tchine of England attempts to block a pass from Sanmarie Louise Visser of South Africa. Photograph: François Nel/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 16.22 EDT
Netball The crunch match between England and South Africa is under way in The Hydro. These are the starting line-ups.
England Tchine, Pearson, Shaw, Carter, Allison, Williams, Pechova.
South Africa Chawane, Mathe, Ngubane, Smith, Van den Berg, Van Wyk, Visser.
Athletics: Men’s 800m semi-final The English pair of Alex Botterill and Ben Pattinson have qualified for tomorrow’s final, but Wales’ Justin Davies missed out by nine-hundredths of a second.
ShareLaFond takes gold in the triple jump
Athletics Thea LaFond of Dominica extended her lead in the triple jump with a winning leap of 14.60m. The Jamaican pair of Ackelia Smith (14.04) and Shantae Foreman (13.96) took silver and bronze.
Dominica’s Thea LaFond leaps for gold in the triple jump. Photograph: Alastair Grant/APShare
Updated at 15.47 EDT
Enekwechi wins shot put gold!
Athletics The men’s shot put has been won by Chukwuebuka Enekwechi of Nigeria. He threw 21.07m to finish just in front of Tom Walsh (21.03m) and Scott Lincoln (20.99m)
Nigeria’s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi lets go of his emotions after the shot put final. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/ReutersShare
Updated at 15.41 EDT
Weightlifting: Men’s +110kg final
New Zealand’s David Liti has won the gold in this one. He lifted 223kg in the clean & jerk to take gold with one attempt to spare.
Gold David Liti (New Zealand) 389
Silver Lovepreet Singh (India) 388
Bronze Andrew Griffiths (England) 356
It’s been a night to remember for Andrew Griffiths, who probably wasn’t fancied for a medal at the start.
Updated at 15.41 EDT
Athletics The mighty Adaejah Hodge of the British Virgin Islands has broken the Commonwealth Games record in the 200m semi-finals. She eased to victory in a cracking time of 22.01.
The British champions Success Eduan made it through to tomorrow’s final as one of the fastest runners to finish outside the first two in their individual semi-final.
Updated at 15.24 EDT
Netball: England v South Africa (9pm) There’s a huge game coming up in the hydro tonight. England and South Africa meet in what is effectively a quarter-final. The winners will go through in second place in Pool A, with New Zealand waiting in Saturday’s semi-final.
The pool winners Australia beat Northern Ireland 88-27 earlier in the day. They finish with five wins from five and will play Jamaica in the semi-finals.
Weightlifting: Men’s +110kg final Lovepreet Singh of India has stormed past Andrew Griffiths and into the lead after lifting an eye-watering 205kg with his first attempt in the clean & jerk.
India’s Lovepreet Singh shifts some serious tin. Photograph: Steve Welsh/PAShare
Updated at 15.38 EDT
Weightlifting: Men’s +110kg final The Englishman Andrew Griffiths his lifted 191kg with his second attempat the clean & jerk, which gives him an overall lead of 20kg as I type.
Athletics Dominica’s Theo LaFond has a huge lead at the halfway mark in the women’s triple jump final. She has jumped 14.59, with Ackelia Smith currently second on 14.00.
Updated at 15.40 EDT
The women’s 100m T47 final was won by the Canadian Sheriauna Haase in a time of 12.23.
ShareZac Shaw wins 100m T12 gold!
England’s Zac Shaw storms to victory in the men’s 100m T12 final, clocking a time of 10.89. That’s the fulfilment of a long-standing dream for Shaw, who took silver four years ago, and he’s full of emotion as he celebrates in the Glasgow evening sun.
Zac Shaw with a message after his 100m T12 triumph. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PAShare
Updated at 15.34 EDT
Sean Ingle
By the time Emily Campbell stepped on to the platform for a final time on Thursday, the women’s +86kg weightlifting final had all the fervour of a revivalist meeting.
Everyone was cheering. There were loud shouts and exhortations. And people who didn’t know a snatch from a clean and jerk two hours before had become instant converts. It was the Campbell Effect in action again. But the double Olympic medallist wasn’t finished there.
“Emily is not satisfied with a gold medal,” said the announcer. “She’s not satisfied with a CWG [Commonwealth Games] record. She wants more!” The clean and jerk bar had been set to 160kg. But the army volunteers whose job it is to add more weights had barely moved, when the announcer piped up again. “Stop the clock! 163kg on the bar please loaders. Emily wants a Commonwealth record!”
Athletics The men’s shot put final is just past the halfway point. Tom Walsh of New Zealand leads with 21.03, a nose ahead of England’s Scott Lincoln (20.99).
But you can’t win them all
Updated at 14.39 EDT
Another cycling gold for Australia, who have beaten England in the men’s team sprint final.
Weightifting: Men’s +110kg This is the leaderboard at the halfway stage, with the clean & jerk still to come. Samoa’s Sanele Mao – who won gold in 2018 – aimed high in the snatch, starting at 175kg, but failed with all three lifts. That’s a big surprise.
176kg Lovepreet Singh (India)
166kg David Andrew Liti (New Zealand)
165kg Andrew Griffiths (England)
145kg Sikoti Manumua Jr (Tonga), James Wales (Wales)
Athletics: Men’s 200m semi-finals Sinesipho Dambile of South Africa stormed to victory in a time of 19.82. Aaron Brown (19.90) also qualified for tomorrow’s final, and Lachlan Kennedy’s time of 20.12 is plenty good enough for him to be one of the two ‘lucky losers’. The other is Prince Phaezel Selepe from the second semi-final.
Athletics: Men’s 200m semi-finals Joshua Paul Amoah (Ghana) and Jevaughn Powell (Jamaica) are the automatic qualifiers from the second semi-final, both timed at 20.24.
Athletics Time for the men’s 200m semi-finals. The first has just been won by Jamaica’s Chris Taylor (20.20), with Nigeria’s Udodi Chudi Onwuzurike (20.22) also qualifying automatically in second. England’s Zharnel Hughes had a tough race and finished sixth.
Updated at 14.25 EDT
Cycling Wales have forfeited their men’s bronze final against Trinidad and Tobago. One of their riders – I’m not sure who – was taken ill before the start, and with no reserve available the race has been forfeited. It looked like the medics made the decision that he should not be allowed to start the race.
ShareCycling gold for Wales!
Wales have pipped England in a superb women’s team sprint final, setting a new Games record of 46.760. England’s time was 46.901.
Scotland beat Australia in the bronze final.
The Welsh team of (l-r) Rhian Edmunds, Lowri Thomas and Emma Finucane on their way to victory over England in the final of the women’s team sprint. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The GuardianShare
Updated at 14.40 EDT