Gold for Melanie Woods on the track, four medals from cycling, three boxing bronze, including Team Scotland’s first in a women’s event, and the first judo medal of the Games. Catch up on all the sporting action…

Athletics

There was delight for Melanie Woods as she won the women’s T54 1500m in a new Games record of 3:32.30, over a second ahead of the time she set in the initial race on Wednesday. After the Jury of Appeal decided the rerun the race after a series of crashes on Wednesday evening, Woods set her stall out early, moving quickly to the head of the field with her eyes solely on getting her golden moment confirmed as Joanna Robertson took fifth. Read more HERE.

The final day of athletics and para athletics is set to be a blockbuster event with Scottish athletes representing in at least nine finals.

All eyes will be on the marquee events of the programme; the men’s and women’s one mile races.

In the men’s event, world record holder Josh Kerr will return to the track after a confident display in the heats on Wednesday. He will face strong competition from his compatriot and friend, Jake Wightman, who won the world 1500m title in 2022 and silver in 2025. Cam Myers from Australia will ensure this is a not to be missed spectacle for an anticipated sell-out crowd at Scotstoun.

The final event of the Games athletics programme will see Jemma Reekie and Sarah Calvert going for silverware in the women’s mile. Reekie looked in excellent form in the heats on Thursday, while Calvert is one to keep an eye on with a devastating sprint finish in her back pocket.

The morning’s finals will kick off the day in style, with Nicole Yeargin competing in her first major international final in the women’s 400m. Sean Frame is first up on the track for Team Scotland in the men’s T54 1500m, while Nick Percy will pull on the vest and aim for a podium spot in the men’s discus. Also in morning session, the women’s 4x100m relay squad will be looking to navigate their way through to the evening’s showpiece.

After sealing 1500m gold on Friday morning, Melanie Woods will be looking to make it a double gold medal haul in the T54 400m final. She lines up as the fastest qualifier. Woods will be joined by teammate Joanna Robertson in that final.

In the long distance races, Andrew Butchart will be targeting an improvement to his 13th place in the 10,000m as he goes in the men’s 5000m final. Jax Thoirs, who was fourth at Glasgow 2014, lines up in the men’s pole vault.

Should the women’s 4x100m relay make it through the morning’s heats, they won’t be the only Scottish quartet in action on Saturday evening, with the mixed 4x400m relay team racing for medals.

Boxing

Caitlin Rainey made history as the first Scottish woman ever to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal as Team Scotland’s boxers took three bronze medals on Friday. The podium finishes for Rainey, Sonny Kerr and Robert McNulty continue the sport’s run of winning at least one medal at every Commonwealth Games since they began in 1930. Read more HERE.

Cycling

Cycling enjoyed a medal rush on Friday night winning four medals; a silver for Mark Stewart, two bronzes for Erin Boothman and a bronze for Fin Graham. Read more HERE.

Judo

Summer shaw took Team Scotland’s first judo medal of Glasgow 2026. Read more HERE.

Scotland’s Judoka will be back in action on Saturday from 11am, with Daniel Pacitti (Men’s -73kg), Ollie Short (Men’s -73kg), Sunny Doig (Women’s -63kg), Sophie Wood (Women’s -63kg), and Scott Cusack (Men’s -90kg), all in competition.

Bowls

Garry Brown and Stuart Sloan lost nervy tie break in the Para Men’s Pairs B6-B8 against England’s Joe Peplow and Kieran Rollings. England made the better start to the match and edged ahead after three ends with a 4-2 lead. Brown and Sloan battled back and evened the score at 4-4 heading into the final end of the first set but it was Peplow and Rollings who earned the win at 6-4.

The second set was tight at the outset with Scotland nosing ahead after a measurement went in their favour. The English clawed themselves back into the match and took the lead 2-1 after three ends. The Scots levelled the score at 2-2 going into the final end and took the game to a tie breaker with a 4-2 win.

As always, the tie break was a bag of nerves, and it took outstanding bowls from Rollings at the finale to keep the Scots at bay and give England the win.

Pauline and Mary Wilson, bounced back in the Para Women’s Pairs B6-B8, with a tie-break victory over England’s Michelle White and Helen Wood.

The Scots settled into the contest with a 4-2 opening set victory to calm any early nerves. It was the second set where the pair shifted through the gears and flowed into a 6-2 lead after the first three ends.

Out of nowhere, White and Woods turned the set around and won 8-6 to take things to a tie breaker, but the Scots prevailed cheered on by a loud home crowd.
Australia will be next for the pair as they set their sights on a semi-final spot.

In the Men’s Pairs Paul Foster MBE, and Alex Marshall MBE, were defeated in a tie-breaker by John Bezear and Ryan Bester of Canada.

Foster and Marshall looked unstoppable in the opening set and stormed to a 10-0 set victory in under half an hour.

The second set wasn’t as straight forward as the first, with the pairs’ level at 3-3 after the third set, and then Canada edged ahead 5-3 going into the final end. It could have went either way, but it went 5-4 to Canada, and the game went to a tie break.

Bester had a sensational tie-break performance for Canada, and it was the Canadians who took the vital victory.

South Africa at 9:55 on Saturday is next for the Scots.

Sophie McGrouther suffered her first defeat in the Women’s Singles in a tie break loss to Milika Nathan of Tonga.

It was a tough opening for McGrouther as Nathan pulled away into a 5-2 lead after five ends. The Scot clawed the score back to 5-4 going into the last end and completed the comeback to win the set 7-5.

The second set was tight, but McGrouther with the crowd behind her was edging it. The Scot took the lead 4-2 heading into the latter stages but the Tongan levelled it going into the final end. The hugely supported McGrouther fell short on the final bowl as Nathan took the set 5-4. The tie-breaker was close but the Tongan played the better bowls and took the victory.

Norfolk Island is up next at 16:25 on Saturday.

Netball

Scotland lost the 7th/8th place match 54-47 to Malawi but still claimed Scotland’s highest ever netball finish at a Commonwealth Games.

The fast and frenetic start to the match saw both sides battle for everything but it was Malawi that was more clinical in the forward areas. Mwayi Kumwenda was maintaining a 100% shooting rate and her connection with Takondwa Lwazi was causing problems. Niamh McCall and Emma Barrie were holding their own and kept the Scots within touching distance, with the quarter ending 17-12.

In the second quarter Malawi, cheered on by their fans in full voice, extended their lead to seven points at 30-23 at half time.

After half time it felt like the momentum was starting to shift towards Scotland. The crowd upped its decibels and the Scots were connecting nicely all over the court. Before long the deficit was down to five, and then three, but Malawi found a way to stem the flow of goals and finished the quarter 42-35 up.

The Scots gave it their all in the final quarter but Malawi did enough to hold out for a 54-47 victory, and the seventh position.