Glasgow Commonwealth Games
Swimmers Lewis Clareburt and Erika Fairweather will take New Zealand’s first shot at medals at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games overnight.
Clareburt, who captured three gold medals at Birmingham four years ago, will contest 200m individual medley heats tonight, with the final scheduled for Friday morning (NZT).
He won bronze in this event in 2022 and it will be an ideal tune-up for his favoured events later in the programme.
Fairweather will be among the medal favourites in the 400m freestyle, where she is one of just seven women in history to break four minutes.
Elsewhere, our 3×3 basketballers, gymnasts and boxers begin their competition, while lawn bowlers are back in action, after their early start on Thursday.
Here’s the NZ schedule for day two of the Games:
Friday, 24 July
Men’s singles – Shannon McIlroy v Northern Ireland 7.30pm
Para mixed pairs B2-B3 – Kerrin Wheeler/Colin Wheeler & Sonya Woodrow/Kimberly Carraher v England 11.45pm
Men’s pool – NZ v Australia 9pm
Men’s team final & individual qualifying – William Fu-Allen, Alex Ishtok, Misha Koudinov & Daniel Stoddart 9pm
Women’s 400m freestyle heats – Caitlin Deans, Eve Thomas, Erika Fairweather 9.30pm
Men’s 200m IM heats – Lewis Clareburt 9.55pm
Women’s 50m butterfly heats – Zoe Pederson 10.37pm
Saturday, 25 July
Men’s welterweight 65kg R32 – Connor Campbell 12.15am
Men’s pool – NZ v Guyana 1.30am, v Nigeria 6am
Women’s pairs – Katelyn Inch & Selina Goddard v Botswana 3.25am
Para mixed pairs B2-B3 – Kerrin Wheeler/Colin Wheeler & Sonya Woodrow/Kimberly Carraher v Scotland 7.40am
Men’s team final & individual qualifying – William Fu-Allen, Alex Ishtok, Misha Koudinov & Daniel Stoddart 4.30am
Women’s 400m freestyle final – Caitlin Deans, Eve Thomas, Erika Fairweather 6.07am
Men’s 200m IM final – Lewis Clareburt 6.16am
Women’s 50m butterfly SF- Zoe Pederson7.08am