Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\nAussie flag bearer Kennedy had one miss at 4.65m and three unsuccessful attempts at 4.70m.<\/p>\n
Whereas McCartney cleared 4.65m along with the three misses at 4.70m.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m disappointed. I wanted to win, and I didn\u2019t, and that\u2019s OK, you know,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m superhuman most of the time, but I\u2019m also human a lot of the time. I make mistakes, and that\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
NCA. GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. July 31st 2026. Day 8. Commonwealth Games. Athletics at Scotstoun Stadium, Glasgow. Womens pole vault. Nina Kennedy looks to the heavens after missing her 3rd attempt and winning silver on count back . Picture: Michael KleinSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
In the men\u2019s 200m, South Africa\u2019s Sinesipho Dambile (19.96) dominated in first ahead of Nigeria\u2019s Udodi Onwuzurike (20.09) and Jamaica\u2019s Christopher Taylor (20.11).<\/p>\n
Kennedy (20.41), who ran in late one, started hot but faded.<\/p>\n
As for the women\u2019s 200m, British Virgin Islands\u2019 Adaejah Hodge (22.07) won ahead of Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s Shaniqua Bascombe (22.35) and Jamaica\u2019s Alana Reid (22.56).<\/p>\n
Lewis ran 22.88 from lane seven.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Aussie Isaac Beacroft took out the gold medal in the men\u2019s 10,000 km race walk.<\/p>\n
Beacroft, 19, won gold with a time of 38:45.51, beating out Kenya\u2019s Stephen Ndangiri Kihu (38:46.57) in a tense final lap.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew he\u2019d be there waiting for me to kick because he was taunting me the entire race, telling me to go around and lead it,\u201d Beacroft said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just saying, \u2018in your dreams, champ, this is not happening today\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew he\u2019d come back around me and then as soon as he did I thought I\u2019d really drop the hammer and see if I could break him, and I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – JULY 31: Gold medallist Isaac Beacroft of Team Australia celebrates after victory in the Men’s 10,000 Metres Race Walk Final during the Athletics on day eight of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games at Scotstoun Stadium on July 31, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Francois Nel\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Beacroft, who was a member of the GWS Giants\u2019 junior academy until the age of 16, later described it as a \u201cfriendly\u201d rivalry with the Kenyan, even if it felt more fiery at times.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s Evan Dunfee claimed bronze in the race of five.<\/p>\n
In the track cycling, the Aussies racked up three gold medals in a successful day at the velodrome after double disqualification drama.<\/p>\n
Georgia Baker (women\u2019s 10km scratch race), Oliver Bleddyn (men\u2019s 4000m) and Blake Agnoletto (men\u2019s elimination race final) all won gold.<\/p>\n
Australia claim 12 gold medals in day 6 | 02:10<\/p>\n
It came after Aussie cyclists Felicity Wilson-Haffenden and Sophie Edwards were disqualified in the track cycling women\u2019s individual pursuit due to equipment violations.<\/p>\n
Wilson-Haffenden was disqualified due to taping of her shoulder that resulted in \u201cmorphological change,\u201d while the call on Edwards came due to excessive padding of her helmet.<\/p>\n
Two hours after the qualification, AusCycling released a statement expressing disappointment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are extremely disappointed by the commissaires\u2019 decision to disqualify Felicity Wilson-Haffenden and Sophie Edwards from the track cycling women\u2019s individual pursuit today in Glasgow,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis morning, Felicity was seen by the medical team after experiencing discomfort in her shoulders, of which she experiences routine discomfort. The medical team applied strapping tape to her shoulders to alleviate this discomfort.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Felicity\u2019s qualifying heat, in which she recorded a time that qualified her for the bronze medal final, the commissaires concluded that the taping of her shoulder constituted a \u201cmorphological change\u201d, although they did not articulate the reasons for their conclusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeparately, Sophie Edwards was disqualified after commissaires ruled that the amount of padding in her helmet was excessive.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo issues were raised with the team\u2019s equipment or clothing after inspection by officials in yesterday\u2019s women\u2019s team pursuit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are extremely disappointing outcomes for both of our athletes and our full support is with them as the competition continues.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other results, Sarah Billings claimed Bronze in the women\u2019s 800m and became the first Aussie to win a medal in the event at the Commonwealth Games since 1990.<\/p>\n
Billings came in third behind England\u2019s Georgia Hunter Bell (1:59.51) in first and Kenya\u2019s Lilian Odira (2:00.58) in second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aussie pole vault star Nina Kennedy lost her Commonwealth Games title to New Zealand\u2019s Eliza McCartney in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,85],"class_list":["post-836673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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