31-7-14 commonwelth blog

STRONG PREFORMANCES FOR NI GIRLS

Amanda Mogey of Northern Ireland beats Betty Guo 11-4, 11-8, 11-8 in the table tennis first round

Machelle Walsh defeated Sarah Jay Ray of Jamaica this was an easy match for her as she was much stronger in every department

NI SHOW THEY CAN WIN AT NETBALL

Northern Ireland beat Scotland by 37 goals to 32 in the netball

Northern Irish duo Dawson and Lawlon secured a spot in the last 16 of table tennis beating Pakistan opponents 11-9, 11-8, 11-8   

THERE IS NO NATION WE CANT BEAT IN BOXING

Michael Conlan secured a bronze medal in the bantam weight division  

Paddy Barnes Knocked out his opponent Charles Kwane in the third round in the flyweight division

Spicer Dominica’s only boxer lost to Audley Murphy of Northern Ireland by split decision this will be the first medal given to a lady as she won her flyweight match  

Steven Donelly secured a semi final place in the boxing

BIG TRAMS BEGIN TO SHOW HOCKEY CLASS

 

New Zealand defeat Canada 6-0 to secure a spot in the women’s semis

England beat Canada 3-0 to secure a spot in the semi finals

AUSTRILAIANS CRUISE TO 1 METRE PLATFORM

There were scalps for both Scotland and England in table tennis

In the 1 metre springboard Mitch Andbree from Australia won gold silver went to Jack Laugher from England got silver and bronze to Australians grant Wel this was an Australian 1,3,4  

ROTHERFORD PROVES HE IS NOT A ONE HIT WONDER

Greg Rutherford won another Long Jump gold and looks like he can do it in Rio  

In the women’s heptathlon Bryan Tyson Eaton won gold silver went to Jessica Zelinka of Canada and bronze went to Jessica Taylor from England

IT THE DAY OF THE JAMES

 The men’s 400 metres won by Karani James with a Glasgow record silver going to Wade Van Nekerk of South Africa and bronze to Tolonde of Trinad and Tobago

England beat Scotland 13-12 to win a bronze medal in the Para sport lawn bowls

 

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A PERFECT FIGHT IN THE RING

Rurrai Dalton lost to Malory of Australia in the boxing

Joseph Fitspatrick won his match in the men’s 60kg division

Sean Dufy secured a spot in the next round of the boxing

WE DO MUCH BETTER IN BADMINTON THAN WE THOUGHT

Steven Malone won his badminton match 21-7, 21-7 beating Jeff Thao

 Tony Murphy wins in badminton after beating a Pakistan opponent 11-21, 22-20, 21-18

WE CAN RUN TOWARDS OUR DREAMS

Leon Reed of NI secures a spot in the semi finals of the 200 metres with a fastest looser spot

Katie Kirk qualifies for the women’s 800 metres second round

SMITH SHOWS HE STILL HAS QUALITY

In the gymnastics men’s team final after 6 rotations England got gold with 266.804 in silver was Scotland with 267.603 and the bronze went to Canada with 252.708

A DIFFERENT PLACE FOR MEDALS IN MOUNTAIN BIKING

In the mountain biking A cooper of New Zealand won gold silver going to S Gaze of New Zealand and bronze goes to D Mc Connell of Australia. This was a race between 4 until the end of the race where anyone could have won it

In the women’s mountain biking Catherine Pandel gets gold followed by Emily Batty and bronze going to Beth Harrison

WALES ARE DOING WELL IN THE POOL

Lauren Boyle from Australian won the 800metres swimming in a Glasgow record in silver was Eales hero Jazz Carolin and bronze went to Barret of Australia  

Men’s 50 metre freestyle won by Benjamin proud of England silver to Australians Cameron Mc Evoy and bronze to James Magnuson of Australia

In the women’s 5o metre backstroke Georgia Davis from Wales got gold in a Glasgow record silver went to Lauren Quigly and bronze to Brooke sanders of Canada

Daniel Turner from Australia won gold in the men’s individual medley silver went to Daniel Wallace of Scotland and bronze to Chad Le Closs of South Africa

 

JAMICAN PERFECTION

A Jamaican 1,2,3 in the women’s 400 metres with Stephanie Mc Pharline getting gold silver going to Novelle Williams Mills ands bronze to Christene Day

ENGLAND GO TO SEMIS

Women’s Hockey result score Scotland 1-2 England this puts England in the final

Australia beat South Africa 64-40 Australia will all 4 quarters and reach semis  

 

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QUALITY BOXERS ARE IN NI AS BOTH MEN CRUISE THROUGH

Micheal Conlan secured a spot in the last 8 as he looks in real good shape in the bantamweight division

Northern Irelands Paddy Barnes won his light flyweight tie against Furatt Shaby by Technical knock out after cruising to a win

NOTHERN IRELAND DO WELL AT NETBALL

Alana Stevenson lost in the badminton to Elizabeth Cann 21-16 21-11

In the netball Northern Ireland beat St Lucia by 61 goals to 40

SCOTLAND GAIN NANOTHER GOLD

Scotland’s pair of Paul Foster and Alan Marcel won gold in the men’s pairs after beating Malaysia

Nicole David of Malaysia neat Laurie Saro 12-10, 11-2, 11-5 and won a gold medal in the squash. Now she can go home and be adored by her fans

BAD PREFORMANCES FOR ENGLAND IN HOCKEY

Australia beat England 3-0 in the women’s hockey  

Nz beat England 3-0 in the men’s hockey

Singapore beat England 3-1 in the men’s team table tennis after a comfortable win for Jian Jan

ANOTHER MEDAL FOR ENGLAND IN SHOOTING

In the shooting Keneth Bar from England got the bronze medal G Narrag got the silver and Warren Potent from Australia got the gold

Will Strop cant stop Nick Matthews gold in squash

AUSTRILAN PERFECTION

In the men’s 200 metre backstroke it was an Australian 1, 2,3 with Mitch Larkin getting gold. Silver going to Josh Beaver and bronze to Mathew Lawson

WELSH GOLD

In the women’s 800m freestyle Jazz Carlin of Wales won gold. Silver went to Lauren Bolenino of New Zealand and bronze to Brittney Maclean of Canada

Sophie Taylor won the women’s 100m breaststroke Laura Tonks from Australia got the silver and Alia Atkinson got the bronze

LIBBY CLEG SHOWS HER CLASS

Libby Clegg won the T11/12 100 metres with a season’s best and as her sight has decreased it is more impressive how she can run with a guide

UNKNOWNS WIN GOLD IN 100 METRES

Blessing from Nigeria got gold in the women’s 100 metres in 10.85 followed by Veronica Campbell Brown and bronze to K Stewart of Jamaica

The men’s was won by Baily Cole of Jamaica followed by Adam Gemil and the bronze went to N Ashmeade of Jamaica  

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A SMALL NATION CAN ACHIEVE NEARLY ANYTHING

Northern Ireland got the silver medal in the lawn bowls after loosing 19-10 to South Africa a game that they were not in range of at any point and you would thing looking in during the match that South Africa has had complete controlof this match. This will be retiring Skip Neil Booths last match as him and his team of Paul Daly and Neil Mulholland go down happy.

Michael Dawson from Northern Ireland reached the 50 metre breaststroke semi final

Ward lost by split decision to an English favourite which means that there will be no medal for him and if he had the luck of the draw he could have went further in the competition

In the boxing Northern Irish boxer  Ruri Dail got trough to the quarter final of the boxing after winning his match in the flyweight division

SHELLY CELEBRATES HAPPY SUNDAY MORNING FOR AUSTRILIA

Mike Shelly from Australia won gold in the marathon with a personal best of  2:11:13 in silver was Steven Chelang of Kenya and the Bronze medal for Adrian Kiplino also from Kenya

Daniel won the gold and Kittel won the silver both from Kenya but Australians Jess Trenmore was able to get the bronze which made for a happy morning for Australia

                                                                               BADMINTON

Australia also managed to get the bronze medal after beating India in the team event

NEW ZEALAND CRUISE TO EASY WIN

In the women’s field hockey Canada cruised into a 4-1 win

Men’s hockey New Zealand beat India 3-0

IS ANNA MEERS TIME UP

In the cycling there were gold medals for both Jess Varnish and Stephanie Morton who had to beat old favourite Anna Meers

MOMENTS OF THE GAMES

The first moment of the games for me so far is the moment when a man from the solemn islands ran to the finish and was happy to finish the race as the fans clapped him on he was far behind the leaders and you saw how happy he was to finish the race

The other moment of the Commonwealth games was yesterday also when Erraid Davies won a bronze medal in the pool and she is only 13 years old

NEWZELANDS UNBEATEN COMONWELTH RUN IS OVER

New Zealand lost their Commonwealth title last night after loosing 17-12 to South Africa this is a title that they have never lost before

In the Bronze match Australia hammered Samoa by 24-0. I was disappointed not to see England in the semi finals  

 

 

 

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FIELD HOCKEY  

The first result that I saw was a 4-0 win for Australia

Wales must be disappointed with the field hockey result as they were level at half time but lost 2-1 to India  

SWIMMING

NI RACERS

Connor Mun of Northern went through to the second round of the swimming but there is still a round to go before the final

Danielle Hill finished in second place in the women’s 50metres freestyle

FINALS

In the women’s 400metres individual medley Hannah Miley got Scotland’s hopes off to a great start as she won gold followed by Englands Amy Willnott and Australian Keryn Mc Master in bronze

In the men’s sport freestyle s9 it was an all Australian table with Rowan Corethers winning gold silver going to Mathew Cowdry and bronze going to Brendan hall

In the Men’s 200 metre breaststroke was won by Scotland’s Ross Murdock silver going to Scotland’s Michael Jamison and Bronze to England’s Andrew Willis

In the mens 400m metre freestyle Ryan Cochrane of Canada won gold followed by David Mc Keown of Australia and the Bronze went to James Guy

 

TRIATHGALON

The triathlon was the first medals of the games 1.58.56 won the gold for England silver went to Canada and Sweetland  0.05 behind while Holland takes the Bronze .15 behind. This was a race where the 2 English girls helped each other out a little but at the finish Sweetland was able to get in between the two

Alistair Brownle won the gold in the men’s Triathlon while his brother Jonathan won silver.  Jonathan was considered the form brother before yesterday

BADMINTON

In the Badminton Alana Sterenson was the only member of the team to get a set as Northern Ireland went down 3-0 in matches and it does look like the English team are much better  

CYCLING

Anna Meers from Australia won the 500 metre time trial closely followed by Steph Morton and the bronze went to Jess Varnish of Australia

JUDO

There have been some matches in the judo

Owen Livesly and Tom Reed from England are in the semi finals of the mens 81kg semi finals

Home favourite Sarah Clarke is in the final of the women’s 63 kg where she will face Dombeu of Cameroon

Sally Conway and Megan Fletcher are in the semi finals of the women’s 70kg division

 

NETBALL

New Zealand were scared in the first round of the netball as they won by 50 points to 47 and considering the fact that New Zealand are Commonwealth champions and Malawi are mioes this was a surprise