An incredible eight medals – two gold, three silver and three bronze – were added to the Team Scotland tally on Day Six of Glasgow 2026, coming from the basketball court, the athletics track and the swimming pool. Catch up with all the highlights across the seven sports in action…

Swimming

Gold for Angharad Evans, silver for Keanna MacInnes and the Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay team and bronze for Toni Shaw closed out a hugely successful few days at Tollcross. Read more HERE.

Basketball

History was made with Team Scotland’s first ever basketball medals and the first in any team sport at a Commonwealth Games. Read more HERE.

Athletics

Gold for Melanie Woods in the T54 1500m and bronze for long jumper Stephen Mackenzie were the headlines from Scotstoun Stadium. Read more HERE.

Looking ahead to Thursday, the evening session contains only one final with Scottish representation, and it will be a blockbuster with Megan Keith, Laura Muir, and Eloise Walker all in action on the track.

Keith returns to the track after competing in the 10,000m on night one, while Muir -1500m champion in Birmingham 2022 – competes for the first time, as does Walker who makes her second appearance at a Games.

Alyson Bell and Nicole Yeargin will be targeting spots in finals in the women’s 200m and 400m respectively. Bell races in the semi-finals during the evening session, while Yeargin rounds off the Scottish contingent in the morning programme.

Sarah Calvert, Jemma Reekie and Erin Wallace are in action in the women’s mile heats during the morning, while the decathlon gets underway with Joel McFarlane and Callum Newby starting the first of five events on the day with the 100m.

Netball

An excellent Scotland performance, in front of a roaring crowd, pushed third-ranked Jamaica all the way, but it was the Jamaicans who ran out winners 45-43 at The Hydro at Glasgow 2026.

It was a competitive opening quarter, and Scotland was matching the Jamaicans for play, though the score line tipped in the favour of Jamaica with a 15-9 lead going into the second quarter.

Scotland scored four times early in the second quarter and really took the game to Jamaica – confidence was flowing. Iona Christian and Hannah Leighton were covering a phenomenal amount of court and were a real driving force as the Scots kept within touching distance of the highly-ranked Jamaicans, and the first half ended 27-23 to Jamaica.

In the third quarter Scotland continued to push Jamaica hard and kept within three points, before pulling it back to 35-35 at the end of the quarter to a thunderous roar of the Hydro crowd.

There was anticipation in the air as the Glasgow crowd bounced into the final quarter, and early in the quarter Scotland took the lead. It was Jamaica’s turn to chase, and it was a chase they turned into goals. Scotland pushed to the last second but fell short of a momentous victory to match their momentous performance.

Scotland play Uganda tomorrow at 11:00 to complete their pool matches.

Head coach, Kath Tetley, said: “For us, that was really great execution of all of the things we talked about before. We are very respectful of how Jamaica plays, they are extraordinary athletes. For us it was making sure that we could match the intensity, the running onto balls, the beast mode of needing to play at that next level. For us, taking on that third ranked team in the tournament is a huge opportunity and we’re just really grateful for that. That was our approach: to take an opportunity when it presents like this and go for it.

“Maybe it’s the Aussie in me but I don’t like to lose and my attitude is well, why not us today? I brought my tissues as I was worried id get emotional – its really special to see people give every single part of themselves in the game and our caption, Iona actually talked about belief before the game and she said ‘we need to believe that we can do it’ and at the 3/4 part of the game, she said ‘see guys, we have to believe’. We left it all out in the court and I’m really proud.

“There’s still a long way to go, we’re only four steps on a six-step ladder so you can’t just go ‘oh that was nice’ and fall asleep tomorrow so this is about making sure that we stick to the plan, analyse what we maybe missed on as of course we made plenty of errors but also enjoy the moments that we had together that were pretty successful.”

Bowls

Bowls legends Paul Foster MBE and Alex Marshall MBE were victorious in their opening match of the Men’s Pairs against Chris Kamanga and Anwar Hamada of Kenya, with a 2-0 win.

After a good start by the Scots, the opening set became a tight affair with the Kenyans pulling themselves back into the match. Foster and Marshall kept them at bay however and saw out the opening set with a 5-2 win.

Scotland turned up the heat in the second set and very quickly pulled away into a 4-0 lead, before finishing up on another 5-2 win.

They made it two wins from two in the Men’s Pairs as they defeated Isle of Man’s Michael Collister, and Mark McGreal, 2-0. It was a tactical opening set but Foster and Marshall managed Collister and McGreal and made efficient work of 4-2 victory to go one up. The Isle of Man pair took an early lead in the second set but before long it was neck-and-neck at 2-2 after three ends. Scotland pulled ahead to 4-2 going into the final end and finished in style to make it 7-2 for a straight sets win. Next up for the men’s pairs is the Norfolk Islands tomorrow at 12:45.

Sophie McGrouther won her opening Glasgow 2026 Women’s Singles match with a 2-0 victory over Elizabeth Moceiwai.

It was a confident and composed start by McGrouther who took the lead early and eased clear of her Fijian opponent to claim the first set 7-3 in just over half an hour.
McGrouther’s confidence only grew in the second quarter as she played some sensational bowls to win the set 8-2 and get her Commonwealth Games off to a solid start.

She said: “This morning, when I woke up it was a different feeling to know it was finally my time. I’m the last of the Scottish representatives from bowls to compete. It’s been a long wait but it’s been nice to watch them and get some expertise and advice from them as well.

“It’s so inspiring to come behind these people that’ve already got gold medals and hopefully we’ll have some more waiting at the end of this week too.”

She won her second game of the day with a 2-1 victory over Eunice Wambui Mbugua of Kenya.

It was a tough opening for McGrouther as her Kenyan opponent raced into a 5-2 lead as the set neared its conclusion. The Scot dug deep to level the scores at 5-5 to end the set all square.

McGrouther took control of the match in the second set and quickly moved into a comfortable 4-1 lead. In the closing stages she moved through the gears to leave no opportunities for a comeback and took the second set 8-2. She is back in action tomorrow at 17:50.

Garry Brown and Stuart Sloan kept their Glasgow 2026 momentum moving forward in the Para Men’s Pairs B6-B8 with a 2-0 victory over Singapore’s Mawjit Singh Gurmet Singh and Khirmern Bin Mohamad.

Brown and Sloan were on top form from the outset and blasted into a 6-0 lead in the first two ends. Then, out of nowhere, Singapore played a sensational third end to pull it back to 6-5. The Scots had other ideas and swept the comeback aside to win the first set 9-6.

It was plain sailing in the second set to begin with, as the Scottish pair built on their first set success, but a late Singapore fight back had to be supressed for Scotland to win 6-4 and take the second set for a two sets to nil victory.

Pauline and Mary Wilson earned their first Glasgow 2026 win in the Para Women’s Pairs B6-B8 after beating Jean Stairs and Anne Hibberd of Canada 2-0. The opening set was very tight with very little between the two pairs, but it was Scotland who edged it on the final bowl to take the set 4-3. The second set continued to be close and tense with Scotland chasing Canada down after falling behind early, but they surged back to lead 5-2 after three ends. Unsurprisingly the set reached a tense conclusion with Canada battling back but the Scots were resolute and won 6-4 to complete the victory. Scotland take on New Zealand tomorrow night at 20:40.

Weightlifting

Agata Herbert and Tom Wright were the two weightlifters in action on Wednesday, enduring mixed fortune, but both soaking up the adoration of the home crowd.

Herbert went in the Women’s 77kg event, having made her Commonwealth Games debut in Birmingham and placing seventh. She made a really positive start in the Snatch discipline, making light work of both 87kg and 91kg, before coming unstuck at 94kg.

That put the Musselburgh lifter in 6th spot heading into the Clean and Jerk, where she was second up onto the platform. A really controlled effort saw a successful lift at 107kg, before a nice clean at 111kg, but the Scot couldn’t quite finish the lift.

A brave call saw her increase the weight on the bar to 114kg, and with the crowd behind her, she made it stick and she was rewarded with an eruption of roars from the home crowd, and a total score of 205kg, good for sixth place, one better than four years ago.

Doing her best to sum it up, Herbert said:

“It was such an experience! I’m quite happy with my performance, and the fact that we could do it at home is really special. The noise was insane, and I could place the voices from family and friends too, which gave me some extra energy. I was trying to encourage the crowd to get into it, and I think I managed that – I wanted to convince people that weightlifting is so much fun!”

The noise in the Armadillo was turned up a notch for the afternoon session, even before Tom Wright took to the stage for his first lift in the Men’s 94kg event. Strolling over to the bar, his 140kg Snatch went up relatively easily, before 144kg followed suit; unfortunately 146kg was a step too far on this occasion.

Lying seventh, Wright went into the Clean and Jerk with nothing to lose, and he continued to encourage the crowd to get behind him, even more than they already were! Unfortunately, despite getting his opening weight of 166kg above his head twice, he couldn’t quite lock out and complete the lift, so he ended the competition without a total.

Wright, who has only been in the sport for two years, was still positive as told us post-competition:

He said: “Right now I can be really annoyed and I reckon in a. Few days I’ll be annoyed and want to get back t training, but right now, I’m just overwhelmed with happiness. It was definitely not the result I wanted but t be able to put on a Team Scotland kit and the reception that I got, I think I got a bit too excited. I was so happy that you overpull everything, you put in more effort than you usually would in training. Sometimes the weights actually feeling lighter is a bad thing and that did happen to me today.

On his feelings today, “I think I want to be sad but I’m not sad and thats unexplainable just now. Someone else in my position would be annoyed and sad but I just feel so happy to be here, that was the goal and I’ve been doing weightlifting fr under two years so to be at the Commonwealth Games, I couldn’t be happier.

“I was hyping the crowd up and I think they liked that, I liked that and I wish I could give them a better result and I think thats the thing that im annoyed about the most.

When asked how he gets himself ready and his technique, he said: “It’s actually the rocky 3 quote, ‘there’s no tomorrow’ what Paul O’Creed says and I always think that I walk up to the bar, set myself up and go straight away. There’s no time to really mess about and it’s a sport of lifting maximum weight so why not just go for it.”

Boxing

Lara Brown went up against Michela Walsh from Northern Ireland in the quarterfinals of the Women’s 57kg. She lost in a unanimous decision but after only two years in the sport and facing an Olympic boxer, Brown can be very proud of her achievements.

She said: “I just had to go out there and do the very best that I could. I think I did that and all respect to her, she’s a very tough opponent and I wish her all the best in the rest of the tournament.

“It’s all been a bit surreal but now it’s time to get back to the gym and build on this experience and my performance.”

Nick Devlin boxed his heart out in the quarterfinal of the Men’s 60kg this afternoon losing to Owain Harris-Allan of Wales in a unanimous decision.

He said: “I am gutted, it’s hard to think about the positives just now but I had two good performances leading up to this. I really wanted to get a medal for Scotland but it just wasn’t meant to be. But I’ve been in this position before and I will come back again. It was fair and square in there today, I just couldn’t get going and fair play to Harris, he boxed well.”

Sonny Kerr secured Scotland’s third boxing medal with a quarterfinal win in the Men’s 70kg over Marion Ah Tong of Samoa. With a huge crowd support Sonny started confidently and was never on the back foot throughout the bout.

He said: “It feels really good. It was hard work but we are moving onto the next round. The pressure is off a little bit so now it’s all about changing the colour of the medal and I am ready for it.”

Boxing takes a rest day tomorrow then it’s semifinal time on Friday with Caitlin Rainey taking on Kaci Rock of Northern Ireland at 11am; Sonny Kerr versus Jon McConnell also of Northern Ireland at 4.15pm and Robert McNulty taking on Isaac Okoh of England at 4.45pm.