Commonwealth Games -2014-Day 4 Schedule This is your comprehensive day-by-day guide to the main events, big names and best stories at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Gold medals won today: 24. Athletics (mens and womens marathons, mens 5,000m, womens Para-sport long jump T37/38), Cycling - Track (mens keirin and scratch race, womens sprint, points race and Para-sport 1,000m time trial B tandem), Lawn Bowls (womens singles and fours), Rugby Sevens, Shooting (mens and womens double trap events), Swimming (mens 100m free, 50m back and 4x200m free relay, womens 200m back, 50m fly, 200m medley and Para-sport 100m SB9 breast), Table Tennis (womens team), Weightlifting (womens 63kg, mens 77kg). Highlights include: 09:00 - Marathon: Glasgows marathon route involves two laps through Merchant City, George Square and Buchanan Street as well as Bellahouston and Pollok Park, crossing the River Clyde four times. Speaking of routes, Steve Ways unlikely path to the England marathon team has attracted considerable attention in the run-up to the Games. He weighed more than 16 stone and was smoking 20 cigarettes a day when he decided to change his lifestyle in 2007. You can read his incredible story here. The now 40-year-old Way will line up alongside team-mates Ben Moreau and Nicholas Torry in Glasgow. Kenya enjoyed a highly successful Delhi Games four years ago - winning 33 medals, 12 of them gold - and will expect more joy in this years marathon, an event in which they rarely misses the podium. John Kelai, who won in Delhi in 2010, will be defending his title. Lee Merrien , who raced for Team GB at London 2012 and had been hoping to compete for Guernsey in the Glasgow marathon, has pulled out with a stress fracture. 11:00 - Lawn Bowls: Sunday sees the final of the womens singles, won by Englands Natalie Melmore at the Delhi Games four years ago. Melmore, who turns 25 on Monday, is back in action but will first have to get past South Africas Colleen Piketh in the last four. 14:30 - Athletics: The 5,000m is one of the highlights on the first day of action but it will not feature double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah after he pulled out because of injury. The fastest men in the world get their campaign underway with Englands Harry Aikines-Aryeety, Richard Kilty and Adam Gemili in action in the 100m. 17:15 - Rugby Sevens: Sevens has been in the Commonwealth Games since 1998, but this years tournament is all the more important as the sport will be in the Olympic programme for Rio 2016. New Zealand must start as clear favourites - they have won all four Commonwealth sevens tournaments to date and are champions of the past four World Series. Few would dare bet against the All Blacks, especially with Fiji, serious contender on the sevens circuit, out of the running. Fiji were only reinstated to the Commonwealth earlier this year after a full suspension relating to a military coup and, by that point, they were too late to qualify a team. South Africa should give New Zealand a run for their money, while England - losing finalists at Melbourne 2006 - are rarely outside the worlds top four. This will be the culmination of new coach Simon Amors first full season in charge. Also: Badminton (team semi-finals), Boxing (mens preliminaries), Hockey (09:00 Scotland women v Australia, 11:00 England women v Malaysia, 21:00 Malaysia men v England, and other group stage matches), Netball (09:30 Jamaica v Scotland, 17:00 England v South Africa, 19:00 Northern Ireland v New Zealand, and other group stage matches), Squash (singles semi-finals).
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:43:07 +0000
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