Commonwealth Games round-up
Ian Thorpe maintained his quest for seven Commonwealth golds, easing through his 200m freestyle heat as the fastest qualifier, while England's Sarah Price shattered the Games 100m backstroke record.
Swimming:
British swimmers kept their medal hopes alive in the pool today, breaking records in the heats, while Ian Thorpe maintained his quest for seven Commonwealth golds, easing through his 200m freestyle heat as the fastest qualifier.
The 'Thorpedo' will not be the sole object of interest for the home crowd today, with England's Jamie Slater, Scotland's David Carry and Wales's David Davies also qualifying for this evening's final (20:30) along with Guernsey pair Jonathon Le Noury and Ben Lowndes.
Meanwhile England's Sarah Price shattered the Games 100m backstroke record with a time of one minute 1.16 seconds in her heat to carve 0.90secs off the previous best - set moments earlier by Canada's Dyana Calub - and reach this evening's semi-final.
Price will be joined by team-mates Joanna Fargus and Katy Sexton, while Wales will be represented by Bethan Coole. Natalie Bree flying the flag for Jersey.
England's 200m medal heroes Karen Legg and Karen Pickering are in the hunt for more success after reaching the semis of the 100m freestyle alongside team-mate Melanie Marshall. Scotland's Alison Sheppard set the second quickest time of the heats while Wales' Catrin Davies and Northern Ireland's Julie Douglas also made progress.
Scottish duo Cameron Black and Todd Cooper qualified for the semi-finals of the 50m butterfly, as did English duo Mark Foster and James Hickman.
England will have a trio of swimmers in the semi-finals of the 100m breaststroke too after Darren Mew, Adam Whitehead and James Gibson all made progress. Northern Ireland have two representatives following good swims from Andrew Bree and Michael Williamson while Ian Edmond is the sole Scot.
Men's table tennis
Owen Griffiths needed less than 10 minutes to wrap up victory in his opening group match of the men's singles.
The 18-year-old from Wales demolished Tuvalu's Teokila Maleko 11-4 11-6 11-3 but Scotland's Niall Cameron is unlikely to qualify after losing 11-7 11-5 9-11 11-5 to Asim Qureshi of Pakistan.
Squash:
On the squash court England's men's doubles campaign got off to the perfect start when Mark Chaloner and Paul Johnson beat the Lesotho duo of Keabetsoe and Lentsoe Monnapula 2-0.
Wales suffered, though, at the hands of Malaysia's Kelvin Ho and Sharon Wee in the mixed event with Katrina Hogan and Scott Fitzgerald crashing to a 2-0 defeat.
Judo:
After a stunning medal haul yesterday, Britain's judo competitors started where they left off.
England's Thomas Cousins made quick work of his first-round opponent Gerard Baker of the Seychelles in the under-81 kilogram division.
Welshman Luke Preston also made it safely through to the quarter-finals with victory over Morgan Endicott-Davies of Australia.
Weightlifting:
Stewart Cruikshank got England's day up and running with a bronze in the weightlifting 69kg final.
British swimmers kept their medal hopes alive in the pool today, breaking records in the heats, while Ian Thorpe maintained his quest for seven Commonwealth golds, easing through his 200m freestyle heat as the fastest qualifier.
The 'Thorpedo' will not be the sole object of interest for the home crowd today, with England's Jamie Slater, Scotland's David Carry and Wales's David Davies also qualifying for this evening's final (20:30) along with Guernsey pair Jonathon Le Noury and Ben Lowndes.
Meanwhile England's Sarah Price shattered the Games 100m backstroke record with a time of one minute 1.16 seconds in her heat to carve 0.90secs off the previous best - set moments earlier by Canada's Dyana Calub - and reach this evening's semi-final.
Price will be joined by team-mates Joanna Fargus and Katy Sexton, while Wales will be represented by Bethan Coole. Natalie Bree flying the flag for Jersey.
England's 200m medal heroes Karen Legg and Karen Pickering are in the hunt for more success after reaching the semis of the 100m freestyle alongside team-mate Melanie Marshall. Scotland's Alison Sheppard set the second quickest time of the heats while Wales' Catrin Davies and Northern Ireland's Julie Douglas also made progress.
Scottish duo Cameron Black and Todd Cooper qualified for the semi-finals of the 50m butterfly, as did English duo Mark Foster and James Hickman.
England will have a trio of swimmers in the semi-finals of the 100m breaststroke too after Darren Mew, Adam Whitehead and James Gibson all made progress. Northern Ireland have two representatives following good swims from Andrew Bree and Michael Williamson while Ian Edmond is the sole Scot.
Men's table tennis
Owen Griffiths needed less than 10 minutes to wrap up victory in his opening group match of the men's singles.
The 18-year-old from Wales demolished Tuvalu's Teokila Maleko 11-4 11-6 11-3 but Scotland's Niall Cameron is unlikely to qualify after losing 11-7 11-5 9-11 11-5 to Asim Qureshi of Pakistan.
Squash:
On the squash court England's men's doubles campaign got off to the perfect start when Mark Chaloner and Paul Johnson beat the Lesotho duo of Keabetsoe and Lentsoe Monnapula 2-0.
Wales suffered, though, at the hands of Malaysia's Kelvin Ho and Sharon Wee in the mixed event with Katrina Hogan and Scott Fitzgerald crashing to a 2-0 defeat.
Judo:
After a stunning medal haul yesterday, Britain's judo competitors started where they left off.
England's Thomas Cousins made quick work of his first-round opponent Gerard Baker of the Seychelles in the under-81 kilogram division.
Welshman Luke Preston also made it safely through to the quarter-finals with victory over Morgan Endicott-Davies of Australia.
Weightlifting:
Stewart Cruikshank got England's day up and running with a bronze in the weightlifting 69kg final.
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