Commonwealth Games track: New Zealand still on a roll

Sunday 31st July. 2nd day

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New Zealand continue their run at the Commonwealth Games And for the opening day’s two golds, he has added another Three out of four wins come on the second dayResponsible Bryony Botha and Aaron Kate (single pursuit) and Elles Andrews (Speed), completing the first day’s medal table Nicholas Ball, in Keerin.

Botha and Australian Mauve Bluff were offered as favourites. They are two of the few women in the world to go under 3:20. The New Zealander recognized his ambitions and broke the barrier again in qualifying. Two seconds ahead of his rival. Later, in the afternoon final, the margin was even wider (3:18.456 to 3:27.122), meaning that Plouffe’s attempt to reverse the situation did not have the desired effect. Scottish Neah Evans completed the podium The Brit was out of the lead in the final, beating Australian Sarah Roy (3:25.050 to 3:28.079).

For the male version, In-form Aaron Gade was one of the favourites, although what was unexpected was that his rival in the final was a countryman, and more specifically Tom Sexton., after a qualifying series, the Final Four went under 4:10. In the final (4:07.760 to 4:12.179), Kate didn’t give her compatriot a chance. Australia’s Connor O’Leahy won bronze against England’s Charlie Tanfield (4:09.311 to 4:10.423), so the hosts left the test without medals, neither women nor men. Don Bigham could only finish sixth (4:11.078).

Along came the ‘Kiwis’ third gold Elles Andrews won an ‘unexpected’ double medal in the team events yesterday. In qualifying, she could only finish sixth. With 10,869, Canada’s Kelsey Mitchell was the fastest, compared to 10,612. But she eliminated fellow Canadian Laurie Genest in the quarterfinals, recovering from a first-set loss, and Britain’s Sophie Capewell, the second seed, in the semifinals. Mitchell, meanwhile, made it to the final without any setbacks, but ultimately had to succumb to a formidable match by the New Zealander. A tiebreaker was unnecessarily imposed.

A poor English day to finish without medals continued in the B final, where Welshman Emma Finucane made a comeback. 1-0 from Capewell to complete the podium. Finally Keirin represents the success of Nicolas Paul, who is at the highest level every time. The Scot dominated the finals against Jack Carlin and Malaysia’s Shah Sahrom, who did as he was told to replace compatriot Azizulhasni Awang.

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Saturday 30 July. 1st day

Gold for the Australian quad © AusCycling

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New Zealand and Australia have won the tournament twice This marks the start of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, with the track events taking place at the London Olympic Velodrome. The ‘Kiwis’ took the men’s pursuit and the women’s sprint. When he‘Aussie’ wins gold in women’s pursuit and men’s sprint

New Zealanders Aaron Gate, Jordan Kerby and Campbell Stewart avenged their misfortune in Tokyo and in the company of Tom Sexton. In the final, they took victory in the team pursuit, beating England with Charlie Tanfield, Dan Bigham, Ethan Vernon and Oliver Wood (3:47.575 – 3:49.584). The only ‘Kiwi’ to dip below 3:50 (3:49.821) in qualifying dominated the hosts throughout as they significantly improved their result from last Games.

Australia, particularly Joshua Duffy, Graeme Frisley, Conor Leahy, Lucas Plop and James Moriarty, had to limit themselves in the fight for bronze. Against Wales, he clearly dominated (3:50.403 to 3:53.525). The ‘Aussie’ was half a second short in the morning and entered the final.

However, they took revenge on women, a 4:12.234 was a Commonwealth Games record and gave gold to Georgia Baker, Sophie Edwards, Chloe Moran and Maeve Plough, with New Zealand sprinter Elles Andrews having to resort to. Ally Wollaston to complete the quatrain after injury days earlier. Bryony Botha, Michaela Drummond and Emily Shearman were the other three members who had no chance in the final (4:17.884), but should be more than enough value with silver in the circumstances.

And more than a second is important in passing a second England fell far short of expectations by failing to make the finals. In 4:17.096 to 4:18.892 they outscored Wales, so Laura Kenny, Josie Knight, Sophie Lewis, Maddie Leach and Grace Lister were on the podium for bronze.

The team will speed up, The Australian trio (Matthew Glatzer, Matt Richardson and Lee Hoffman) clearly defeated the British in the final.42,040 to 43,372, with Ryan Owens, Hamish Turnbull and Joe Truman, not only a Games record, but also a seafaring one. The Netherlands’ biggest rivals in the short term.

bronze, For the renewed New Zealand trio, with Bradley Knipe, Sam Dakin, Sam WebsterDefeated Canada in the final B: 43,856 to 44,573.

Finally, in the women’s edition, Andrews was undaunted by her ‘unexpected challenge’ and in the company of Rebecca Petch and Olivia King they took gold, It shows that they have found a very balanced team with future. With 47,425, also a record for the Games, they surpassed Canada’s 48,001 with Sarah Orban, Kelsey Mitchell and Lauren Genest.

As was the case at the Nations Cup in Glasgow, Wales were above England, this time the former taking bronze. Ryan Edmonds, along with Lori Thomas, Emma Finucane and Eleanor Victoria Coster, beat Australia with a better time (47.767 to 48.123) than the Americans. For the English, a disappointing fifth place was only three thousandths of a second to overtake the Australians and enter the B final.

The day ended with two tandem trials, with victories for the Scots Neil Fauci-Stuart Lewis in Kilometers Men’s and Australians Jessica Gallagher and Caitlin Ward, women’s pace.

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