{"id":548497,"date":"2026-07-28T21:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548497\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:45:12","slug":"new-zealands-zoe-hobbs-wins-100m-gold-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548497\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s Zoe Hobbs wins 100m gold in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zoe Hobbs has produced the race of her career to win gold in the women\u2019s 100m in tough conditions at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n

Hobbs charged out of the blocks and fired to set an Oceania and national record in 10.93sec.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0was a brilliant race from the Kiwi who maintained her composure through<\/p>\n

torrential rain and a slippery track to produce the race of her career.<\/p>\n

Hobbs looked stunned after the race and was brought to tears after winning her first pinnacle medal.<\/p>\n

She is the first Kiwi woman to win the 100m, and the victory comes after she finished fifth in the event in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

England\u2019s Amy Hunt won silver in 10.98sec and Australian Torrie Lewis won bronze in 10.99sec.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"Zoe Hobbs (2ndL) on her way to victory in the 100m. Photo: Reuters <\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky Sport, Hobbs said: “I don’t know I can’t even put into words. It’s crazy.<\/p>\n

” I just think about the time I was told I shouldn’t do the 100m because it’s too hard to do, that I should consider doing other events because I’ll never make it as a sprinter in the 100m. And here I am making the Games let alone getting a medal. It’s crazy. It’s actually wild.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Kiwi Lauren Bruce also won silver in the women\u2019s hammer throw with a distance of 69.82m.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0was sweet redemption for the Cantabrian, who failed to podium in<\/p>\n

Birmingham after three no-throws during the qualifying stages.<\/p>\n

Canadian Camryn Rogers set a Games record to win gold with a throw of 74.91m and Australian Lara Roberts won bronze with\u00a068.05m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Hobbs has produced the race of her career to win gold in the women\u2019s 100m in tough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-548497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}