Commonwealth Games 2022: diving golds, wrestling and athletics on day eight – live!

Key events

Athletics: Laura Muir is out on the track now in her 1500m heat.

Lawn bowls: England eventually closed out an 18-14 win in the women’s pairs quarter-final.

England’s Sophie Tolchard.
England’s Sophie Tolchard. Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

Diving: Next up will be the men’s synchronised 3m springboard final.

Diving: The qualifying for the women’s 1m springboard is complete.

Mia Vallee of Canada will dive last in this evening’s final, having scored 292.20, while Yasmin Harper of England qualifies second-best with 274.60. Esther Qin (Australia) was third-best, scoring 266.95.

Scotland’s Grace Reid qualifies fifth, with 259.10, Amy Rollinson (237.50) was sixth.

The final is scheduled to begin at 6.05pm UK time.

Mia Vallee of Canada.
Mia Vallee of Canada. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Kenya win the 9th-placed playoff against Ghana in the women’s hockey!

It may “only” be for ninth place, but that meant the world to Kenya, who equalised with three minutes left, and go on to defeat Ghana in sudden death in the shootout!

Flavia Mutiva of Kenya celebrates with teammates after scoring a late equaliser against Ghana.
Flavia Mutiva of Kenya celebrates with teammates after scoring a late equaliser against Ghana. Photograph: Alex Davidson/Getty Images

Women’s netball: In the playoff for 11th and 12th places, Trinidad and Tobago have defeated Barbados 63-31.

Scotland v Northern Ireland are up next, playing off for ninth place, from 11.30am.

Women’s hockey: Ghana and Kenya are drawing 2-2 in the fourth quarter of the match that will determine who gets the wooden spoon, by finishing 10th, and who comes 9th overall. Wales v South Africa is coming up at 11.15am UK time and they will battle for seventh spot.

Coming up this evening, England meet New Zealand in the first semi-final (6pm UK time) before Australia v India at 8.15pm UK.

It’s now full-time in that Ghana v Kenya match, at 2-2, and it’s going into a shootout after Kenya equalised with three minutes left! The dreaded penalty competition, as Barry Davies would have had it.

Hockey, table tennis and para table tennis and diving are also ongoing at the moment, if the live schedule on the official website is to be believed.

In the women’s pairs bowling, England increased their lead to five points momentarily, but India have just struck back with three simultaneous shots, and all of a sudden it’s 14-12.

Preamble

Good morning all and welcome to day eight. What’s occurring today?

There is diving, there is wrestling, and there is athletics, to name but a few. Right now on Her Majesty’s BBC1, it’s lawn bowls, with England (Sophie Tolchard and Amy Pharaoh) leading India (Lovely Choubey and Nayanmoni Saikia) 13-9 after 13 ends in the women’s pairs quarter-final.

Let’s do this …

source: theguardian.com