{"id":837462,"date":"2026-07-31T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837462\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:01:10","slug":"foy-wins-gold-in-para-cycling-nz-other-medals-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837462\/","title":{"rendered":"Foy wins gold in para cycling, NZ other medals too"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Emma<\/p>\n

Emma Foy (right) and Jessie Hodges after winning gold in the para cycling<\/p>\n

Para cyclist Emma Foy and pilot Jessie Hodges also gained a gold medal at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games but only after plenty of drama. <\/p>\n

The pair fell behind Australia in the best-of-three sprint format in the tandem B spring at the velodrome, and were then involved in a crash with their rivals at the start of the second race.<\/p>\n

After medical checks and track inspection, the Kiwis won the re-race and then commanded the deciding race for gold.<\/p>\n

Shot putter Tom Walsh narrowly missed a winning hattrick.<\/p>\n

He took victory at Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022, but was beaten in the penultimate round by Nigerian Chukwuebuka Enekwechi.<\/p>\n

Walsh threw 21.08m with his final attempt to sit in front, after leading from the first round, however couldn’t improve on his 21.03m effort to start the competition.<\/p>\n

Nigerian Chukwuebuka Enekwechi won the gold with 21.07m.<\/p>\n

The women’s team pursuit took silver behind Australia, while para-cyclist Nicole Murray and the men’s pursuiters and para sprinter Anna Grimaldi all took bronze.<\/p>\n

Murray briefly held the world record for the newly introduced 4000m individual pursuit for her C5 classification, but lost it to an Australian rival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma Foy (right) and Jessie Hodges after winning gold in the para cycling Para cyclist Emma Foy and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-837462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}