New Zealand pole vaulter Eliza McCartney has won gold at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, with team-mate Imogen Ayris clinching bronze.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old held off defending games champion Nina Kennedy, of Australia.<\/p>\n
This would be McCartney’s first gold at the games, alongside the silver she won on the Gold Coast in 2018.<\/p>\n
Para-cyclist Devon Briggs had also won a gold medal for New Zealand, and set a new Commonwealth Games record in the process.<\/p>\n
Briggs has taken first place in the 1km C1-3 time trial final in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
Earlier cyclist Ellese Andrews’ was taken out of the medal race in the individual sprint.<\/p>\n
The Olympic champion was beaten in consecutive races in a best-of-three quarter final against Welsh rider Emma Finucane.<\/p>\n
Andrews was also part of the New Zealand sprint team that was bundled out during qualifying on Friday.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Petch and Olivia King both were unable to get past the round-of-16 stage in their respective sprints.<\/p>\n
On the endurance side, Bryony Botha was given a second life in the 4000m individual pursuit following the disqualification of two Australian riders but was beaten by Scotland’s Erin Boothman.<\/p>\n
Botha initially failed to qualify, placing fifth, as did team-mate Emily Shearman, who finished eighth.<\/p>\n
However, officials said Australian Felicity Wilson-Haffenden, who originally finished fourth, broke protocols due to strapping on her shoulder that “altered her morphology”.<\/p>\n
Fellow Australian rider Sophie Edwards was also disqualified due to a non-compliant helmet.<\/p>\n
On the men’s side, Marshall Erwood, Daniel Morton and Tom Sexton all failed to qualify for the next stage of the individual pursuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand pole vaulter Eliza McCartney has won gold at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, with team-mate Imogen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-553581","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\/553581","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=553581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}