Another successful day for New Zealand at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, with gold medals to weightlifter David Liti and para-cyclist Emma Foy.<\/p>\n
Both had to overcome the odds for victory, with Liti trailling his Indian rival by 10kg after the snatch and need a personal best 223kg clean and jerk to overcome the deficit. He had two attempts available, but he needed only one.<\/p>\n
Foy and pilot Jessie Hodges fell behind Australia in the best-of-three sprint format 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 his attempt at a shot put hattrick, after winning at Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022, pipped in the penultimate round by Nigerian Chukwuebuka Enekwechi.<\/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 within minutes to an Australian rival.<\/p>\n
Another big day of medal prospects in store tonight, with our women’s pole vaulters in action and more track cycling.<\/p>\n
Recap the live action here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another successful day for New Zealand at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, with gold medals to weightlifter David Liti…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-552105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552105","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=552105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}