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Commonwealth Games: Bethany Firth claims gold for NI, while Duncan Scott and Ben Proud also exhaust

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Aug 4, 2022
Commonwealth Games: Bethany Firth claims gold for NI, while Duncan Scott and Ben Proud also exhaust

Hosts: Birmingham Dates: 28 July to eight AugustCoverage: Look dwell on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport net page and BBC Sport mobile app; Hear on BBC Radio 5 Stay and Sports Further; dwell text and clips on-line.Bethany Firth took Northern Eire’s first Commonwealth gold in the pool – and the nation’s first at Birmingham 2022 – between victories for Scotland’s Duncan Scott and England’s Ben Proud.

Six-time Paralympic champion Firth added Commonwealth gold to her sequence in the 200m freestyle S14.

Earlier, Scott beat English rival Tom Dean to 200m particular individual medley gold.

Proud received the 50m freestyle, earlier to Dean eventually claimed a relay gold after six silvers in Birmingham.

It turned into Proud’s third successive Commonwealth title in the occasion and he received forward of compatriot Lewis Burras.

Dean secured gold in his closing recede of the 2022 Games as he anchored England’s males to a narrow 4x100m medley relay victory.

Scotland took relay bronze as Scott, 25, extended his lead as the workers’s most decorated Commonwealth athlete with his 13th medal.

Daniel Wiffen later added to Northern Eire’s unprecedented success in the pool with 1500m freestyle silver – and an Irish file of 14 minutes 51.79 seconds – as England’s Luke Turley claimed bronze.

In the closing swimming recede of the Games, England’s females took 4x100m medley bronze in the abet of gold medallists Australia and 2d-positioned Canada.

Firth, 26, took her victory in two minutes 7.02 seconds as England’s Jessica-Jane Applegate claimed silver and Louise Fiddes bronze.

The 27-365 days-used Proud, who received 50m butterfly gold earlier in the Games, took freestyle victory in 21.36 seconds, with Burras touching in at 21.68 and Canada’s Josh Liendo claiming bronze in 22.02.

“To be ready to claim I had been here for eight years constantly on the head is shiny,” Proud acknowledged.

“I held off the young guns but one more 365 days.”

‘I be pleased the tubby sequence now’ – FirthHaving in no way claimed a Commonwealth swimming medal earlier to, Northern Eire be pleased had a dream Games on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre.

Barry McClements received the nation’s first Commonwealth medal in the pool as he took 100m backstroke S9 bronze on Friday.

As effectively as her Paralympic achievements, Firth has three world titles and acknowledged: “This has given me the tubby sequence now.

“I’m so thankful to be here and I’m so contented my household might even be here to scrutinize me because they would not be there in Tokyo [at the Paralympic Games].

“They attain so principal for me and I be pleased them so principal and I am hoping I made them proud.”

Following Firth’s victory, Wiffen claimed his silver as he completed 1500m in a inner most easiest as Australia’s Sam Short executed first in 14: 48.54.

Commonwealth Games day-by-day e-book & scheduleBBC TV, radio & digital coverage timesBBC Stay e-book for links to all dwell streamsWatch easiest of Commonwealth Games video’Rivalries accumulate essentially one of the most sensible out of us’ – ScottScott and Dean are moral company exterior of the pool, but be pleased pushed each other end for the duration of the Games.

Scott executed the 200m particular individual medley in a Games-file one minute 56.88 seconds, with Dean 0.13secs in the abet of.

After taking 200m freestyle silver in the abet of Dean on the Olympics, Scott beat the Englishman to that title in Birmingham. Dean then took 100m freestyle silver as Scott executed third.

“Rivalries or rivals accumulate essentially one of the most sensible out of us,” Scott, whose complete for the Games stands at two gold and 4 bronze medals, acknowledged.

“I’m capable of claim that for myself and Deano, we be pleased a recede whether that is Olympics, world champs, or Commonwealth Games.”

It turned into Dean who came out on prime in the relay, taking Sandwell to the loudest quantity it has reached all Games as he managed to maintain off Australia’s Kyle Chalmers for gold.

Dean executed first after his England workers-mates Brodie Williams, James Wilby and James Man – who received six medals in Birmingham- led for the duration of the recede.

“It be been a complex week, six silvers, but to eventually accumulate the gargantuan gold on the finish skill the arena,” Dean acknowledged.

“It be an honour to attain this in entrance of this crowd.”

Following the males’s relay success, England’s females’s 4x100m medley workers of Lauren Cox, Molly Renshaw, Laura Stephens and Anna Hopkin took bronze.

Australia came first and that supposed Emma McKeon elevated her tally as essentially the most a hit Commonwealth Games athlete of all time with 20 medals, in conjunction with 14 golds.

England’s Cox had misplaced out on 50m backstroke bronze by 0.03secs as Australia’s Kaylee McKeown executed correct forward of her in third, while Canada’s Kylie Masse took gold and Australian Mollie O’Callaghan silver.

Australia’s Ariarne Titmus took 400m freestyle gold – her fourth in Birmingham – in a Games-file three minutes 58.06 seconds as Canada’s Summer McIntosh received silver and Titmus’ compatriot Kiah Melverton claimed bronze.

Unusual Zealand’s Lewis Clareburt received bronze in the 200m particular individual medley, while Canadian Nicholas Bennett, 18, took the 200m freestyle S14.

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