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Sydnee Andrews wins gold in the +78kg women’s competition at Glasgow 2026 PHOTO: THENZTEAM<\/p>\n
New Zealand has beaten its target on the medal table at the end of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
The Kiwi team were sixth overall on the medal table with Australia and England predictably the top two followed by Canada.<\/p>\n
India and then the hosts, Scotland both had 39 medals in total for fourth and fifth.<\/p>\n
High Performance Sport NZ had predicted 35 medals. The team finished with 36 after a surge on the final day thanks to gold for the Silver Ferns and gold in Judo (+78kg – Women) for Sydnee Andrews.<\/p>\n
Ellesse Andrews in the Keirin cycling took away a silver while there were two other silver medals for Lawn Bowls Para-Sport Teri Blackbourn & Julie O’Connell Pairs – Women and Lawn Bowls Para-Sport Mark Noble & Kurt Smit Pairs – Men<\/p>\n
Bronze medals went to Devon Briggs to go with his gold earlier, this time in the para-cycling (Individual Pursuit Para-Sport C1-3 – Men), George Jackson in the cycling track points race, Kody Andrews in Judo (+100kg – Men)<\/p>\n
NZ MEDAL COUNT – 10 GOLD 14 SILVER 12 BRONZE<\/p>\n
Gold – Lewis Clareburt (200m butterfly & 400m IM), Zoe Hobbs (100 metres), Emma Foy & Jessie Hodges (para tandem B sprint & kilo time trial), David Liti (+110kg weightlifting), Eliza McCartney (pole vault), Devon Briggs (para C3 kilo time trial), Silver Ferns (netball), Sydney Andrews (+78kg judo)<\/p>\n
Silver – Erika Fairweather (400m freestyle, 1500m freestyle & 800m freestyle), Clareburt (200m IM), Josh Willmer (100 breaststroke SB9), Cam McTaggart (88kg weightlifting), Lauren Bruce (hammer throw), women’s 4000m team pursuit, Tom Walsh (shot put), Sami Donnelly (cycling scratch race), Tori Moorby (javelin), Ellesse Andrews (keirin), Teri Blackbourn & Julie O’Connell (para pairs bowls), Mark Noble & Kurt Smith (para pairs bowls)<\/p>\n
Bronze – Fairweather (200m freestyle), Hazel Ouwehand (50m butterfly), women’s 4x200m freestyle relay, women’s 3×3 basketball, Nicole Murray (4000m individual pursuit para cycling), men’s 4000m team pursuit, Anna Grimaldi (para 100 metres), Ellesse Andrews (kilo time trial), Imogen Ayris (pole vault), Kody Andrews (+100kg judo), Devon Briggs (para C3 individual pursuit), George Jackson (points race cycling)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydnee Andrews wins gold in the +78kg women’s competition at Glasgow 2026 PHOTO: THENZTEAM New Zealand has beaten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-556533","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\/556533","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=556533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}