Hosts: Birmingham Dates: 28 July to eight AugustCoverage: Plan live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Crimson Button, BBC Sport web web mumble and BBC Sport cellular app. Elephantine detailsThe 22nd Commonwealth Games are beneath manner – and here is your day-by-day handbook to the overall motion in Birmingham.
Extra than 5,000 athletes representing 72 worldwide locations and territories are competing in 280 medal occasions over a packed 11 days.
All times are BST and occasions are topic to trade.
BBC TV times and extra live streamsBirmingham 2022 medal tableHome worldwide locations stars to watchSunday, 31 July – day threeLaura Kenny and Adam Peaty both hope to be celebrating gold on SundayGold medals: 24
Gymnastics: Females’s and males’s individual all-round
Rugby sevens: Females and males
Swimming: Females’s 50m free, males’s 200m cruise, girls folks’s 200m breast, SB8 males’s 100m breast, S8 girls folks’s 100m aid, girls folks’s 100m aid, males’s 100m breast, S14 blended 4x100m free relay, girls folks’s 4x200m free relay
Track cycling: Males’s tandem B chase, girls folks’s tandem B time trial, girls folks’s substances chase, girls folks’s time trial, males’s chase, males’s scratch chase
Triathlon: Females’s and males’s PTVI, blended relay
Weightlifting: Females’s 59kg, males’s 67kg, males’s 73kg
Medal highlights
England’s Jake Jarman topped qualifying for the all-round final09: 00-12: 00 and 14: 30-17: 30 – Gymnastics – males’s (09: 00) and girls folks’s (14: 30) individual all-round finals, where the gymnasts must make on all sets of equipment and the best blended rating wins.
Females’s 2018 champion Ellie Black is rarely any longer in this year’s Canada group, offering Australia’s Georgia Godwin and England’s Alice Kinsella the chance to fortify their respective silver and bronze medals from the Gold Flit, even supposing survey out moreover for England’s 18-year-pale Ondine Achampong.
Commonwealth debutant Jake Jarman and 2018 all-round silver medallist James Hall, who helped England to group gold on Friday, were the 2 top possible-scoring gymnasts in qualification.
11: 00-16: 20 – Triathlon hands out its final three sets of medals, starting with the PTVI races featuring athletes who agree with visible impairments. Scotland’s Alison Peasgood, a Rio Paralympic silver medallist in 2016, is reunited with handbook Hazel MacLeod, herself a reserve for Scotland’s Commonwealth Games triathlon group in 2014.
Within the males’s PTVI chase, chase swimmer turned four-time Para-triathlon world champion Dave Ellis is a licensed for England.
14: 30 – Mixed group relay – Astronomical Britain soared to a glowing gold on its Olympic debut in Tokyo final year. Simplest two of that group are competing for England after Jonny Brownlee and Jess Learmonth were ruled out with distress. However, in Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown they’ve individual Commonwealth gold and silver medallists respectively. Australia are the defending champions, whereas any group with individual silver medallist Hayden Wilde in it has a gamble – so recognize out for New Zealand. Scotland’s group will seemingly be headed by Beth Potter who’s having a leap forward season and took bronze on Friday, whereas Wales’ quartet contains aged world champion Non Stanford.
15: 00-19: 00 – Track cycling – Laura Kenny, who won group pursuit bronze on Friday, goes for gold in the girls folks’s 25km substances chase at 15: 53 whereas England group-mate Matt Partitions, the Olympic omnium champion, will devour his probabilities in the males’s scratch chase at 18: 42. Every races reward riders for getting out ahead of the self-discipline and both develop to a dramatic climax. Defending champion Elinor Barker, who welcomed son Nico in March, opted to return to the Wales group on the avenue as a replacement and Katie Archibald is absent from the Scotland group by strategy of distress.
In other places, Scotland’s Jack Carlin will seemingly be going for chase gold whereas Wales’ James Ball and Scotland’s Neil Fachie recognize dwelling for a cessation contest in the males’s tandem B chase whereas there are powerful dwelling hopes in the girls folks’s tandem 1,000m time trial. Scotland’s Aileen McGlynn and pilot Ellie Stone won silver in Friday’s Para tandem chase nonetheless fellow Scot Libby Clegg missed out on a medal as did England’s Sophie Unwin and pilot Georgia Holt in controversial instances.
19: 00-21: 50 – Swimming – English eyes will seemingly be on the males’s 100m breaststroke final, where three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty appears to be like to agree with fully recovered from a broken foot as he bids to defend his Commonwealth title (20: 51).
Another day on the pool, yet one more butterfly final, and yet one more Chad le Clos medal replacement for South Africa. This time or no longer it’s over 200m. It’s yet one more match he won four years previously. Le Clos’ group-mate Tatjana Schoenmaker will then attempt to spend off England’s Molly Renshaw and Abbie Wooden in the girls folks’s 200m breaststroke, which she won at Tokyo 2020.
For Wales, Lily Rice has a shot at gold in the girls folks’s S8 100m backstroke and Medi Harris will recognize to upset world file-holder Kaylee McKeown of Australia and Canada’s Kylie Masse in the girls folks’s 100m backstroke.
18: 00-22: 00 – Rugby sevens concludes in Coventry with the males’s and girls folks’s finals at 20: 38 and 21: 04. Fiji face Australia in the girls folks’s final. Within the males’s match, Fiji play New Zealand in the first semi-final (12: 42) sooner than Australia buy on South Africa (13: 04)
What else is occurring?Wales will behold to invent the girls folks’s group table tennis finalEngland’s 2018 weightlifting silver medallist Jack Oliver and up-and-coming Welshman Michael Farmer buy on young Indian wide name Achinta Sheuli in the males’s 73kg class. Plan out for African file-setter Rafiatu Folashade Lawal of Nigeria in the girls folks’s 59kg.
At 11: 00, with out a doubt one of many top possible profile fixtures on any cricket calendar takes location – India face Pakistan in a neighborhood-stage sport sooner than world champions Australia, who overcame India of their opening match nonetheless had a if truth be told perfect fright, face Barbados.
England’s males play Wales at 14: 00 in hockey’s neighborhood stages, whereas Scotland’s males, ranked 19th in the world, agree with an advanced job in opposition to world no 1 aspect Australia from 09: 00. England face Canada in the girls folks’s tournament at 19: 00.
In sea mosey volleyball, Scotland’s girls folks buy on Vanuatu in a neighborhood sport at 15: 30. Lynne Beattie, 36, and Melissa Coutts, 51, agree with a blended age of 87 nonetheless that brings a wealth of expertise. They reached the quarters in 2018 and Beattie captained Astronomical Britain’s indoor volleyball group on the 2012 Olympics. The 2018 Games marked the first time in Commonwealth history that Vanuatu won medals as they restful two bronzes, before every part in F46 javelin after which in sea mosey volleyball as Miller Pata after which companion Linline Matauatu made the rostrum. Pata is now with Tini Tok. England pair Jess Grimson 31, and Daisy Mumby, 30, face Solomon Islands at 20: 00.
Table tennis has the males’s group quarter-finals at 09: 30 and Wales are in the girls folks’s group semi-finals from 16: 00 after beating England in the final eight on Saturday.
Backyard bowls reaches the quarter-final stages for males’s triples, males’s fours, males’s pairs and girls folks’s singles from 15: 00.
TV coverage and live streams
BBC One – 09: 00-13: 00, 13: 15-15: 35, 19: 45-22: 00
BBC Two – 15: 35-19: 45
BBC Three – 19: 00-22: 30
Crimson Button – 08: 25-22: 30
Digital platforms – survey up to 11 live streams from 08: 25-22: 35
Highlights
BBC One – 22: 30-23: 30
Monday, 1 August – day fourGold medals: 28
Gymnastics: Females’s vault and uneven bars, males’s flooring, rings and pommel horse
Judo: Females’s -48kg, -52kg and -57kg, males’s -60kg and -66kg
Backyard bowls: Females’s singles, males’s triples
Swimming: Females’s 200m aid, 200m medley, SB6 100m breast and 50m cruise, males’s 100m free, S7 50m free, 50m aid and 4x200m free relay
Table tennis: Females’s group
Track cycling: Females’s keirin and scratch chase, males’s substances chase and time trial
Weightlifting: Females’s 64kg and 71kg, males’s 81kg
Medal highlights
13: 00-17: 00 – The first day of individual equipment finals affords up five gymnastics gold medals. England’s Courtney Tulloch is decided to are trying a defence of his 2018 gold on rings, an equipment requiring immense upper-body strength and control, whereas group-mate Giarnni Regini-Morgan is a European silver medallist in the flooring match. Rhys McClenaghan, cleared to buy part after a row appealing gymnastics’ world governing body over his eligibility having competed for Eire at Tokyo 2020, won pommel horse gold in 2018. That develop into Northern Eire’s perfect gold of the Games.
14: 00-19: 00 – Track cycling ends on Monday with the males’s substances chase, where we strongly advocate taking note of the commentary to observe exactly what’s occurring. You find substances for performing successfully in a chain of sprints for the length of the chase and moreover for lapping the self-discipline. Monitoring all and sundry’s development if here is your first substances chase is also a speak. England’s Matt Partitions won the Tokyo 2020 substances chase on the manner to worthwhile the Olympic omnium title. New Zealand’s Campbell Stewart, who develop into 2d in that chase and won Olympic silver on the aid of Partitions, will moreover be in Birmingham, as will England group-mate Ethan Hayter, the omnium world champion. For Scotland, 2018 silver medallist Neah Evans might maybe maybe drag one higher in the girls folks’s scratch chase, even supposing Laura Kenny is anticipated to scurry in opposition to her for England.
19: 00-22: 00 – We drag past the midway level in swimming with the males’s 100m freestyle providing the night time’s first final. Australia’s Kyle Chalmers will survey this as a if truth be told perfect replacement to invent an affect, having won Olympic silver in Tokyo. Canada’s Josh Liendo good picked up world bronze in this distance, with England’s Lewis Burras seventh in the the same chase. The girls folks’s 200m individual medley might maybe maybe develop into a battle between Australia’s Kaylee McKeown and England’s Abbie Wooden, whereas Maisie Summers-Newton, a world and European champion, has said she’s excited to listen to the host nation’s cry in Birmingham after the pandemic-brought about aloof of Tokyo when she swims for England in the SB6 100m breaststroke. Lastly, the 4x200m males’s freestyle relay splits apart the GB group – with English, Welsh and Scottish representation – that won gold in Tokyo final year.
What else is occurring?
The first of three days of judo culminates in medal suits from 18: 00 to 20: 45. Judo has perfect seemed sporadically on the Commonwealth Games – four times since 1990 – so here’s a slightly rare replacement to survey the game at this stage.
Table tennis runs from 09: 30 to 14: 45 with the girls folks’s group medals decided. India beat Singapore to gold in this match four years previously, with England third after defeating Australia in the bronze medal play-off. Table tennis has perfect been in the Commonwealth Games since 2002 nonetheless Singapore agree with already got a staggering 50 medals in this match, extra than double the amount won by any other nation.
In males’s hockey, there is a neighborhood-stage take a look at for England as they play India, the group ranked one above them in the world, at 16: 00.
Victoria Park in Leamington Spa hosts backyard bowls – a.okay.a. curling on grass – with Wales’ Laura Daniels hoping to fortify on girls folks’s singles silver four years previously. Scotland are defending males’s triples champions. Backyard bowls on the overall is a if truth be told perfect replacement to survey groups from smaller worldwide locations and territories, equivalent to Norfolk Island, the Cook dinner Islands and Niue, who robotically compete in this match. In 2018, the Cook dinner Islands even managed bronze in the males’s pairs, the islands’ first Commonwealth Games medal.
Tuesday, 2 August – day fiveGold medals: 37
Athletics: Females’s pole vault, discus, T37/38 100m and T33/34 100m, males’s T45-47 100m and 10,000m
Badminton: Mixed group
Basketball (3×3): Females’s and males’s wheelchair, girls folks’s and males’s
Gymnastics: Females’s beam and flooring, males’s vault, parallel bars and excessive bar
Judo: Females’s -63kg and -70kg, males’s -73kg and -81kg
Backyard bowls: girls folks’s fours, males’s pairs, B6-8 para males’s pairs
Swimming: Females’s 100m free, 100m breast, 200m cruise, SM10 200m medley and 800m free, males’s 100m cruise, 200m aid, S10 100m cruise, 50m breast, blended 4x100m medley relay
Table tennis: Males’s group
Weightlifting: Females’s 76kg and 87kg, males’s 96kg
Medal highlights
13: 00-17: 00 – Gymnastics concludes with yet one more medal replacement for England’s Giarnni Regini-Moran in the males’s vault, plus compatriots Alice Kinsella on the beam and Joe Fraser on the parallel bars. Frank Baines, popping out of retirement to compete in a third Commonwealth Games for Scotland, has a shot at a parallel bars medal too.
19: 00-22: 15 – Abet to Alexander Stadium, scene of the hole ceremony, we drag for the hole night time of athletics motion with six gold medals on the road. England will recognize to Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw in the girls folks’s pole vault, Sophie Hahn in the girls folks’s T37/38 100m, and Hannah Cockroft in the girls folks’s T33/34 100m. Within the males’s 10,000m, Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei – winner of the 2018 Commonwealth title – good won the world title in Oregon, main dwelling compatriot Jacob Kiplimo in third location, which bodes successfully for an excellent hurry: Uganda agree with won the Commonwealth males’s 10,000m on each occasion since 2006.
19: 00-22: 15 – Now to not be outdone, swimming affords up a blockbuster night time to accompany the hole motion on the monitor. There might maybe maybe successfully be medals heading in each place and a few classic races if the cards fall the simply manner. England’s Adam Peaty is hot favourite in the males’s 50m breaststroke and Ariarne Titmus will seemingly be laborious to beat in the girls folks’s 800m free, nonetheless predict some scraps in occasions love the girls folks’s 200m butterfly, where Canadian world champion Summer season McIntosh – 15 years pale – will attempt to spend off defending Commonwealth champion Alys Thomas of Wales. Within the males’s 100m butterfly, no longer no longer up to four worldwide locations will feel they’ve a gold-medal prospect: Canadian world bronze medallist Josh Liendo, Australia’s Matthew Temple who performed fifth in Tokyo, defending champion Chad le Clos of South Africa, and England’s James Guy, who performed 2d on the aid of Le Clos in 2018. All of that and we’ve no longer even reached the finale, the blended 4x100m medley relay, which wants to be though-provoking, madcap, and per chance a extremely cessation contest between England and Australia.
19: 00-22: 00 – 3×3 basketball (teach it “three ex three”) made its Olympic debut in 2020 and now reaches the Commonwealth Games for the first time. All four gold medals are awarded on Tuesday. Within the males’s sport, Canada and Australia must restful attain successfully. Canada must restful moreover be powerful in the girls folks’s match, where St Lucia dropped out to be replaced by the British Virgin Islands, serving to those islands ship their perfect-ever group to the Commonwealth Games. Australia and Canada are again among the many stronger groups in the wheelchair occasions.
What else is occurring?
It’s miles the 2d-busiest day of the Games. Badminton’s blended group final is prone to feature one or both of India and Malaysia, even supposing India agree with slipped up sooner than, most notably in 2014 when England defeated them in the semi-finals. England and Canada are in with a shot this year.
Judo awards four extra gold medals. This is also Howell and Powell day for England, as European champion Gemma Howell competes in the girls folks’s -63kg class and Walsall’s Daniel Powell takes part in the males’s -73kg. Howell will no longer have to take care of compatriot and world no 1 Lucy Renshall, who’s out injured.
Backyard bowls medals awarded on Tuesday encompass the para males’s pairs, where Scotland’s Kevin Wallace will group up with a slack replacement after scheduled companion Garry Hoodwas expelled from the group no longer up to a week sooner than the originate of the Games.
Within the table tennis males’s group final, India are unsurprisingly the strongest entrants on paper, nonetheless England are in with a gamble – if they’ll find past Nigeria, who agree with a solid table tennis medal file on the Commonwealth Games and proved too powerful for the English in 2018’s group semi-finals.
The athletics morning session, from 10: 00 to 13: 30, facets a valuable recognize on the heptathlon starring England’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the 2019 world champion and defending Commonwealth champion. You are going to moreover survey the hole round of the girls folks’s 100m.
England’s girls folks play South Africa in neighborhood-stage cricket from 11: 00.
The girls folks’s hockey neighborhood match between Australia and New Zealand, two of the tip three groups in the competition, might maybe maybe give some perception into who’s in the fight for gold (09: 00). England face India at 14: 00.
Scotland’s girls folks face England in sea mosey volleyball at 20: 00.
In weightlifting, Eileen Cikamatana – the youngest member of Australia’s weightlifting group – attempts to develop into the first girl to desire individual Commonwealth gold for 2 separate worldwide locations. The 22-year-pale, who’s in the 87kg class, won gold for Fiji four years previously nonetheless has since switched allegiance.
Wednesday, 3 August – day sixGold medals: 31
Athletics: Females’s 10,000m, shot build, heptathlon and 100m, males’s excessive bounce, F42-44 and F61-64 discus, T37/38 100m, and 100m
Biking: Females’s and males’s mountain bike spoiled-country
Judo: Females’s -78kg and +78kg, males’s -90kg, -100kg and +100kg
Backyard bowls: B6-8 para girls folks’s pairs
Squash: Females’s and males’s singles
Swimming: Females’s 400m free, 50m aid, 4x100m medley relay and S14 200m free, males’s 200m medley, S14 200m free, 50m free, 1500m free and 4x100m medley, blended 4x100m medley 34Pt
Weightlifting: Females’s +87kg, males’s 109kg and +109kg
Medal highlights
11: 30-16: 00 – Cannock Run Wooded space, north of Birmingham, has been given an fortify to host the mountain bike spoiled-country occasions on Wednesday. In 2018 the girls folks’s chase develop into won by Annie Final in an England one-two, and New Zealand pulled off the the same feat in the males’s edition. This time, there is no Final so Evie Richards, 2d for England four years previously nonetheless now world champion, is build in because the fresh girls folks’s favourite. Every New Zealanders from 2018, Anton Cooper and Sam Glimpse, are aid.
19: 00-22: 15 – The males’s and girls folks’s 100m finals chase aid-to-aid from 21: 40. Reckoning on replacement, there will seemingly be enormous hope in Jamaica for a repeat of the scenes that saw the nation sweep the girls folks’s 100m world podium in the lead-up to Birmingham 2022. Within the males’s chase, Jamaica must restful again feature nonetheless so must restful South Africa’s defending Commonwealth champion Akani Simbine. Reece Prescod might maybe maybe successfully be England’s perfect medal prospect. Scotland’s Eilish McColgan will aim gold in the girls folks’s 10,000m. Almost in the present day sooner than the 100m finals, we’ll discover if Katarina Johnson-Thompson can desire yet one more significant heptathlon title.
19: 00-21: 55 – Swimming draws to a cessation with all four dwelling worldwide locations in with a gamble of ultimate-gasp gold. England will recognize to Tokyo champion Reece Dunn in the S14 200m freestyle, world champion Ben Proud in the males’s 50m free, and the males’s medley relay. Scotland agree with Tokyo silver medallist Duncan Scott in the males’s 200m individual medley. Welsh hopes leisure with Daniel Jervis, 2018 silver medallist and Olympic finalist in the males’s 1500m free, with a gamble that Medi Harris can speak for the rostrum in the girls folks’s 50m backstroke. For Northern Eire, world champion Bethany Firth – who has postponed her honeymoon until after the Games – is favourite in the girls folks’s S14 200m freestyle. Ariarne Titmus has a final shot at individual gold for Australia in the girls folks’s 400m freestyle.
What else is occurring?
Squash holds its singles finals on Wednesday (16: 00 to 20: 30). England’s James Willstrop returns for his fifth Commonwealth Games look having won gold on the Gold Flit four years previously. A worthwhile title defence will no longer be easy – Willstrop is at sign outranked by Welshman Joel Makin and New Zealand’s Paul Coll. Within the girls folks’s match, New Zealand’s Joelle King is the tip seed, adopted by England’s Sarah-Jane Perry and Gina Kennedy.
Judo – most Scottish judoka competing at Birmingham 2022 are debutants, nonetheless no longer Sarah Adlington. Adlington, now 35, is a significant contender for girls folks’s +78kg gold, critically as she seeks to rebound from a disappointing first-round exit at Tokyo 2020. Wales agree with 2014 Commonwealth champion Natalie Powell in the girls folks’s -78kg class.
In weightlifting, Tokyo silver medallist Emily Campbell represents England at girls folks’s +87kg stage. Samoa’s Feagaiga Stowers, who edged past Campbell to Commonwealth gold in 2018, is aid for Birmingham 2022.
As netball’s neighborhood stage continues, Wales face an advanced nonetheless winnable job in opposition to South Africa, ranked three places above them in the world, at 12: 00. Northern Eire play Uganda on the the same time.
Boxing – all weights reach the quarter-final stage in a packed day from 12: 00 to 22: 00. A hit a quarter-final in boxing ensures a medal because the game awards bronze to each shedding semi-finalist. Quarter-finals proceed on Thursday, adopted by a one-day fracture sooner than the medal contests.
Thursday, 4 August – day sevenGold medals: 15
Athletics: Females’s F42-44 and F61-64 discus and T53/54 1,500m, males’s long bounce, T11/12 100m, discus and 110m hurdles
Street cycling: Females’s and males’s time trial
Diving: Females’s 10m platform, males’s 1m springboard
Powerlifting: Females’s lightweight and heavyweight, males’s lightweight and heavyweight
Rhythmic gymnastics: Group
Medal highlights
10: 00-16: 00 – Street cycling’s time trial direction sends the girls folks across 29km and the males by strategy of 37km of the Black Country and Staffordshire. Geraint Thomas, unique from the Tour de France, is aid to scurry for Wales eight years after selecting up time trial bronze and avenue chase gold at Glasgow 2014. His challengers in Thursday’s time trial – riders originate one by one and the quickest time wins – will encompass England’s Ethan Hayter, Australia’s Rohan Dennis and file-equalling Tour de France stage winner Trace Cavendish representing the Isle of Man. Within the girls folks’s time trial, Scottish Olympian Anna Shackley will buy on the likes of Australia’s Grace Brown.
18: 00-21: 00 – Jack Laugher won 1m springboard diving gold for England in 2018 and he has since added world silver in the the same match, en route to turning into the first British diver to desire three medals at a single world championship. That installs him because the favourite in Birmingham. Scotland are represented by European and Commonwealth bronze medallist James Heatly. English runt one Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, seventh at Tokyo 2020, is a contender in the girls folks’s 10m platform match in opposition to the likes of Malaysia’s Pandelela Rinong.
19: 00-21: 45 – A a runt bit quieter night time on the athletics outcomes in five gold medals, including the males’s 110m, where England’s entrants encompass Andrew Pozzi, up-and-coming two-time British champion Tade Ojora, and Josh Zeller, who produced an excellent fifth-location attain on the world championships in Oregon. Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment doubtlessly starts because the favourite after worthwhile final year’s Olympic title nonetheless a hamstring distress that saved him out of the world final might maybe maybe call that into quiz.
19: 30-21: 30 – Scotland’s Micky Yuletide will attempt to desire the males’s powerlifting heavyweight title in his third Commonwealth Games look. The past two Games resulted in fourth-location finishes, so Yuletide has a demonstration expose. Speaking of fourth-location finishes, England’s Trace Swan good missed the world podium in December final year and might maybe maybe successfully be a contender for males’s lightweight gold in Birmingham.
What else is occurring?
England’s cricketers play New Zealand of their final neighborhood sport from 18: 00 at Edgbaston, a clash that will agree with crucial ramifications for the semi-finals on Saturday. South Africa face Sri Lanka in Neighborhood B’s other sport at 11: 00. Neighborhood A concluded a day earlier.
The first rhythmic gymnastics medals are awarded on the group final from 12: 00 to 21: 30. Cyprus produced a shining sequence of shows four years previously to desire four gold medals in rhythmic gymnastics on the gold flit, including this one. However, the Cypriot efficiency develop into powered largely by the extra special Diamanto Evripidou, who’s rarely any longer on the group for Birmingham 2022. Australia snort their “reinvigorated” group agree with a gamble of a valuable gold medal since Delhi 2010.
In netball, there is a significant neighborhood-stage bump into between Australia and Jamaica, the world numbers one and 4, to originate the day at 09: 00.
Meanwhile, in the morning athletics motion from 10: 00, the decathlon begins. Australia’s Ashley Moloney will seemingly be among the many medal contenders.
Within the girls folks’s hockey neighborhood stages, England play Wales at 11: 00.
Friday, 5 August – day eightGold medals: 17
Athletics: Females’s triple bounce and 3,000m steeplechase, males’s shot build, T53/54 100m and decathlon
Diving: Females’s 1m springboard, males’s 3m synchro and 10m synchro
Backyard bowls: Females’s triples, B2-3 para blended pairs
Rhythmic gymnastics: All-round
Wrestling: Females’s 57kg, 62kg and 68kg, males’s 65kg, 86kg and 125kg
Medal highlights
10: 00-13: 00 and 18: 00-21: 00 – Jack Laugher has two significant diving medal opportunities in two days. This time or no longer it’s the 3m synchro, which the 27-year-pale has won on the past two Commonwealth Games. In Birmingham, his companion will seemingly be Anthony Harding as Chris Mears, who won gold with Laugher for England in 2018, has retired to level of interest on his track occupation. Laugher and Harding won world silver in June with their nearest Commonwealth rivals being Malaysia in 11th and New Zealand 12th. The males’s 10m synchro is a the same anecdote to an extent – England’s Matty Lee and Noah Williams moreover won world silver final month – nonetheless Canada are seemingly be respiratory down their necks and Australia might maybe maybe feature, too. Scotland’s Grace Reid and Australia’s Georgia Sheehan renew their battle in the girls folks’s 1m springboard, a battle won by Reid four years previously, even supposing Canadian world bronze medallist Mia Vallee is a brand fresh name in the body.
19: 00-22: 00 – The decathlon reaches a climax with the 1500m good after 21: 30. England’s Harry Kendall, ranked 97th in the world, is the best confirmed dwelling worldwide locations entrant. Grenada’s Lindon Victor, who won the 2018 title and stays in the world’s prime 10, is prone to realize on the rostrum. David Weir might maybe maybe invent an look for England in the T53/54 1,500m, whereas the girls folks’s steeplechase and triple bounce are moreover decided. Within the males’s shot build, defending champion Tom Walsh stays with out a doubt one of many perfect in the world and favourite to preserve gold for New Zealand.
10: 30-19: 30 – Wrestling erupts into two frenzied days of express with the preliminary rounds, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals all decided in six weight classes. The males’s 65kg is a possibility for Indian wide name Bajrang Punia to invent some redemption after a knee distress disrupted his attempt to land Olympic gold final year, in the slay settling for bronze. It’s extra than half of a century since anybody as antagonistic to India or Canada topped wrestling’s medal table at a Commonwealth Games, and you will be in a space to predict extra of the the same in Birmingham as Canadian beneath-23 world champion Ana Godinez Gonzalez appears to be like for gold in the girls folks’s 62kg. The correct dwelling nation athlete to reach a final in 2018 develop into Wales’ Kane Charig, who’s rarely any longer attending this year.
What else is occurring?
Backyard bowls (09: 00-15: 45) might maybe maybe carry opportunities for England’s Alison Yearling and Chris Turnbull in the para blended pairs. In visually impaired bowls, athletes receive steering from “directors” – sighted those who serve the avid gamers. Within the case of Yearling and Turnbull, their directors are grandmother and grandson Sue and Trace Wherry. Meanwhile, the Scottish girls folks’s triples group will hope for a gamble of revenge in Birmingham after shedding 2018’s final to Australia.
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which Commonwealth worldwide locations don’t most frequently invent noteworthy of a demonstration at world stage, where Russia, Italy and Bulgaria are extra worthwhile. However, the all-round final on Friday will seemingly be a gamble for the Commonwealth’s perfect to sign what they’ll attain – and that might maybe maybe imply gold for Australia if Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva can spend off rivals equivalent to New Zealand’s Havana Hopman.
Females’s hockey reaches the semi-final stage at 18: 00, whereas sea mosey volleyball’s quarter-finals happen for the length of the day.
Lastly, the morning session of monitor and self-discipline affords a gamble at 11: 05 to survey Scotland’s Laura Muir, Olympic silver and now world bronze medallist, in motion in round with out a doubt one of many girls folks’s 1500m.
Saturday, 6 August – day nineGold medals: 33
Athletics: Females’s excessive bounce, F55-57 shot build, 10km chase rush, hammer, 400m hurdles, 800m and 200m, males’s hammer, 3,000m steeplechase, 1,500m, pole vault, 5,000m, 400m hurdles and 200m
Diving: Females’s 3m synchro and 10m synchro, males’s 3m springboard
Backyard bowls: Females’s pairs, males’s singles, males’s fours
Rhythmic gymnastics: Hoop, ball, golf equipment, ribbon
Table tennis: Females’s classes 3-5 singles and classes 6-10 singles, males’s classes 3-5 singles
Wrestling: Females’s 50kg, 53g and 76kg, males’s 54kg, 74kg and 97kg
Medal highlights
10: 00-13: 15 – There are two athletics sessions featuring finals on Saturday, starting with a morning session appealing the males’s 1500m final. Scotland’s Jake Wightman has vaulted himself to the tip tier of British monitor and self-discipline with a staggering world title in Oregon, straight inserting in him among the many favourites in the match here. England’s Elliot Giles and Wales’ Jake Heyward will attempt to cease Wightman securing a summer season double, whereas Kenya and Australia must restful moreover speak for medals. Also survey out for England’s Emily Borthwick, Laura Zialor and Morgan Lake in the girls folks’s excessive bounce, taking on Australia’s newly crowned world champion Eleanor Patterson.
10: 00-13: 00 and 18: 00-21: 00 – Would you guess in opposition to yet one more medal for Jack Laugher? Diving continues with the males’s 3m springboard final, won by Laugher in 2018, even supposing Scotland’s James Heatly might maybe maybe voice the Englishman a repeat in Birmingham. New Zealand and Jamaica agree with medal potentialities, too. Females’s 10m synchro might maybe maybe survey England up in opposition to Malaysia for prime space, whereas the day’s earlier final, the girls folks’s 3m synchro, sees Australia’s Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith enter among the many favourites.
18: 30-21: 45 – The 2d athletics session switches the level of hobby to some lightning motion on the monitor because the girls folks’s and males’s 200m finals wrap up the evening. Jamaicans Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are two of the world’s quickest girls folks over 200m simply now, whereas Namibian Olympic silver medallist Christine Mboma might maybe maybe return from distress in time to feature. The males’s chase is a platform for South Africa’s most modern chase sensation, Luxolo Adams, up in opposition to Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards. England’s Adam Gemili and Zharnel Hughes lead dwelling nation hopes. In other places, the girls folks’s 800m final might maybe maybe come all the manner down to England’s Keely Hodgkinson or Scotland’s Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie.
What else is occurring?
Wrestling concludes with six extra gold medals awarded. Scotland’s Christelle Lemofack competes in the girls folks’s 53kg having performed fifth at Glasgow 2014 whereas representing Cameroon.
Backyard bowls concludes with what’s also a appropriate afternoon for Scotland. Hannah Smith and Claire Johnston agree with a medal shot in the girls folks’s pairs and Scotland’s males’s fours are defending the title they won in 2018.
Three of the four Para-sport table tennis occasions reach a conclusion on Saturday. England and Australia fracture up the 2 para titles on offer in 2018.
Netball’s semi-finals happen at 09: 00 and 14: 30, as attain cricket’s semi-finals at 11: 00 and 18: 00. The males’s squash semi-finals originate at 18: 00, as attain the males’s hockey semi-finals.
Not like the Olympics, rhythmic gymnastics on the Commonwealth Games awards medals in each of four individual sets of equipment: hoop, ball, golf equipment and ribbon. Cyprus powerhouse Diamanto Evripidou bagged a medal in all four in 2018, including two titles. However, Evirpidou will no longer be in Birmingham, opening the manner for others.
Sunday, 7 August – day 10Gold medals: 46
Athletics: Females’s 100m hurdles, 400m, javelin, 4x100m relay, long bounce, 1500m, 5,000m and 4x400m relay, males’s triple bounce, 400m, 10km chase rush, 4x100m relay, javelin, 800m and 4x400m relay
Coastline volleyball: Females, males
Boxing: Females’s minimumweight, mild/middleweight, mild-flyweight, lightweight, featherweight and middleweight, males’s flyweight, middleweight, mild-heavyweight, bantamweight, mild-welterweight, mild-middleweight, heavyweight, featherweight, welterweight and good-heavyweight
Cricket: Females
Diving: Females’s 3m springboard, males’s 10m platform
Hockey: Females
Netball: Females
Street cycling: Females’s and males’s avenue chase
Squash: Mixed doubles
Table tennis: Females’s singles, males’s doubles and classes 8-10 singles, blended doubles
Medal highlights
10: 00-13: 00 – It’s laborious to know where to originate on a day with extra than 40 gold medals being handed out, making Sunday the busiest day of Birmingham 2022. The athletics morning session on my own sees eight gold medals won, including the girls folks’s and males’s 4x100m relays in which England will drag up in opposition to the likes of Jamaica and Canada. Annu Rani is one to survey in the girls folks’s javelin, having develop into the first Indian girl to reach a world final in the match, where Australia moreover agree with medal potentialities. The Bahamas might maybe maybe dominate the 400m finals even supposing England’s Matthew Hudson-Smith, who hails from Wolverhampton, is in shining make and might maybe maybe speak Olympic champion Steven Gardiner in the males’s match. Shaunae Miller-Uibo has won the girls folks’s Olympic title at both Tokyo and Rio, nonetheless is rarely any longer a confirmed name on the Birmingham originate listing on the time of writing.
08: 00-17: 00 – The final cycling medals of Birmingham 2022 are the avenue races, held in and round Warwick, including stretches that pass Warwick Castle and chase up to the brink of Royal Leamington Spa’s Victoria Park. The males’s chase is 160km, whereas the girls folks full 112km. Within the girls folks’s chase, Scottish hopes are dented by the distress-enforced absence of Katie Archibald. Australia will hope for a repeat of their 2018 victory, this time spearheaded by Grace Brown. Names that soar out in the males’s chase encompass Olympic and Tour de France superstars Geraint Thomas for Wales and Trace Cavendish for the Isle of Man.
10: 30-21: 30 – All 16 boxing titles are decided in three wrathful bursts of express at Birmingham’s NEC. England won six of the 16 gold medals at Gold Flit 2018. Delicious Orie – England’s 6ft 6in replacement at good-heavyweight this year – is a form of searching to compare the group’s success four years previously. Orie – of Russian and Nigerian heritage – says he believes he can in the end be higher than Anthony Joshua. For Scotland, Reese Lynch – the first Scot to desire a World Championship boxing medal with bronze final year – fights at mild-welterweight. Welsh hopes encompass Rosie Eccles – a welterweight silver medallist in 2018 who’s coming aid from a plague that saw her lose the utilization of an arm for a time. Aidan Walsh – an Olympic bronze medallist in the welterweight class – is in the Northern Eire group.
17: 30-20: 30 – At the diving, the males drag up to the iconic 10m platform. Tom Daley is taking a year out nonetheless England’s Matthew Dixon and Noah Williams – 2d and fourth respectively in 2018 – are aid. So is Domonic Bedggood – the Australian who beat Dixon to gold on the Gold Flit. The girls folks’s 3m springboard has a brand fresh Canadian wide name in world silver medallist Mia Vallee nonetheless Scotland’s Grace Reid made the tip 10 in the the same final and wants to be aggressive in Birmingham.
19: 00-21: 30 – The evening athletics session is the final of the Games and culminates in the girls folks’s and males’s 4x400m relays. Eilish McColgan is decided to feature for Scotland in the girls folks’s 5,000m and all eyes will seemingly be on group-mate Laura Muir in the girls folks’s 1500m, even supposing she is anticipated to face an advanced speak from Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon. Lorraine Ugen and Jazmin Sawyers are medal hopes for England in the girls folks’s long bounce.
What else is occurring?
All styles of group finals happen on Sunday nonetheless, on the time of writing, or no longer it’s too early to mutter who’ll be taking part and how excessive the stakes will seemingly be for the house worldwide locations. In expose for you to opinion ahead, here are the timings for the quite a bit of finals on Sunday:
15: 00-17: 30 – Coastline volleyball (males)
17: 00-20: 30 – Cricket
17: 00-20: 00 – Hockey (girls folks)
20: 00-22: 30 – Coastline volleyball (girls folks)
20: 30-2230 – Netball
Monday, 8 August – day 11Gold medals: 12
Badminton: Females’s and males’s singles, girls folks’s and males’s doubles, blended doubles
Diving: Mixed synchro 3m, blended synchro 10m
Hockey: Males
Squash: Females’s and males’s doubles
Table tennis: Females’s doubles, males’s singles
Medal highlights
09: 00-14: 00 – The final day of the Games begins with badminton. In 2018, England picked up two of the five badminton titles on offer on the game’s final day thanks to Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge in the males’s doubles and Chris and Gabby Adcock in the blended doubles. Ellis is aid in the England line-up this year nonetheless the others agree with departed, even supposing England can lean on yet one more experienced campaigner in Lauren Smith. Smith has won five Commonwealth medals nonetheless by no blueprint gold, and is exhibiting in her third Games. Scotland’s Kirsty Gilmour is yet one more athlete who has each Commonwealth coloration except gold in the locker: she’s focusing on a title in the girls folks’s singles having performed third four years previously.
09: 30-13: 15 – It’s miles an extended, long time since anybody as antagonistic to Singapore won the table tennis girls folks’s doubles. Three of Feng Tianwei’s fantastic 10 Commonwealth table tennis medals agree with come in this match, and she or he’s aid in the squad for Birmingham 2022. The anecdote is nearly the same in males’s singles, which blueprint Singapore might maybe maybe receive a solid medal boost on the final day of the Games. Fifty of the island nation’s all-time 96 Commonwealth medals agree with come in this sport.
10: 00-13: 00 – The final diving motion in Birmingham facets the 2 blended synchro contests. The 3m synchro match represents a if truth be told perfect likelihood for Scotland, whose James Heatly and Grace Reid collectively won world bronze in June, finishing successfully obvious of nearest Commonwealth rivals Malaysia in seventh. England must restful agree with a shot on the 10m synchro title nonetheless Australia might maybe maybe successfully be the group to beat.
10: 00-14: 30 – Squash ends with the girls folks’s and males’s doubles. England’s Daryl Selby and Adrian Waller misplaced a survey-saw final to Australia in 2018 and both are aid in the squad for Birmingham 2022. Simplest one half of of the victorious Australian duo – Zac Alexander – is returning. The girls folks’s match is a possibility for New Zealand’s Joelle King, who’s with out a doubt one of many perfect in the world, to have the ability to add yet one more medal.
12: 30-15: 00 – Males’s hockey concludes with the gold-medal sport. If the world rankings are any handbook, Australia will buy one berth and India or England are favourites to snag the opposite.
What else is occurring?
The closing ceremony begins at 20: 30 – reuniting the athletes at Alexander Stadium and handing over to Victoria, Australia for the 2026 Games.