{"id":556278,"date":"2026-08-02T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556278\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:10:09","slug":"silver-ferns-put-sunshine-girls-in-shade-to-win-netball-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556278\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Ferns put Sunshine Girls in shade to win Netball gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">New Zealand won their first Commonwealth Games Netball gold medal in 16 years after resisting a spirited second-half fightback from Jamaica at The Hydro on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Competing against the Sunshine Girls and the majority of the packed crowd, the Silver Ferns produced a masterclass of Netball control, leading from the first attack and not once falling behind in the match.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand opened up a five-goal gap in the first quarter before Jamaica\u2019s towering goal shooter, Romelda Aiken, struck twice in the final seconds for 16-13.<\/p>\n<p>The teams then went goal-for-goal in the second to cap a tight first half of Netball in which only one intercept was made.<\/p>\n<p>The Hydro crowd briefly sensed another upset when Jamaica pulled level in the third, but New Zealand restored the five-goal advantage before the penultimate hooter and cut loose in the final quarter, taking the match 56-48.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand began the match as favourites but the Silver Ferns knew nothing but their best would do against the world No.4-ranked team, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgow2026.com\/news\/4551719\/jamaica-stun-world-no-1-australia-to-make-netball-final\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">edged defending champions Australia<\/a> in their semi-final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaica have been standout performers in the Netball competition, beating every team they faced apart from their fellow finalists. But even the Sunshine Girls &#8211; and their 185-goal shooter, Aiken &#8211; did not have the strength to stop a third Commonwealth Games title &#8211; and a first since 2010 &#8211; heading to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>GNS ph\/lm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand won their first Commonwealth Games Netball gold medal in 16 years after resisting a spirited second-half&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,7364],"class_list":["post-556278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556278","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=556278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}