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. With Noemi Alphonse sitting on her wheel the entire race, Woods had pressure throughout, but she ultimately had the strength to pull away from the Mauritius athlete in the closing stages and take a memorable win. She will receive her medal later on Friday.

Joanna Robertson, who was one of those caught up in the crash in the initial final, returned to the track to claim fifth position, just being caught in a sprint to the line with England’s Ellis Kottas in a time of 4:03.44.

Woods and Robertson later returned for the T54 400m heats and the duo successful advanced to Saturday’s final. Woods was the fastest qualifier with a time of 56.74, while Robertson was fourth in her heat but progressed as the fastest non-automatic qualifier in 1:06.32.

The mixed 4x400m relay team executed their race to perfection to move into the final on Saturday. The squad of Brodie Young, Rebecca Greive, Bradley Francis and Georgina Adam ran a time of 3:19.07 in third place to secure safe automatic qualification to the final.

Callum Newby set a native record (best score by a Scottish athlete in Scotland) in the men’s decathlon with a superb points tally of 7723 points to end the competition in sixth place overall, while Joe McFarlane finished his campaign on 7370 in eighth position.

Returning for day two of the decathlon, McFarlane and Newby started their day in the 110m hurdles, and it was a mixed bag in terms of results. Both athletes hit hurdles in the race, McFarlane strongly pushing through to clock a time of 15.96, while Newby clattered the final hurdles but managed to keep his footing to cross the line in 15.02. They both remained in sixth and eighth respectively at that point.

Any lingering disappointment for Newby was extinguished in the discus as he threw a big PB of 42.16m, putting over a metre and a half on his previous best. McFarlane fouled his first two throws, leaving a nervous final attempt, but he got it out to 39.86m much to the delight of the home crowd.

In the pole vault, Newby cleared the highest height of the whole field – 5.00m – which gave him a big bonus to his overall points tally and moved him up to fifth overall. With the whole of Scotstoun only having eyes on him, he rose to the challenge and cleared 30cm more than his nearest competitor.

McFarlane cleared 4.30m to take him to 6017 points overall with two disciplines remaining.

During the evening session, McFarlane excelled in the javelin with his best coming on his third and final attempt, launching it out to 53.11m adding 635 points to his overall tally. After an elbow injury has hampered his training in the event, Newby’s best of 42.61m kept him in sixth place overall heading into the last event of the two-day event.

In the final gruelling event of the day, three- and three-quarter laps faced the whole field, with Newby starting boldly in his pursuit of moving up the rankings. He found the going tough with 800m to go, as McFarlane pushed on ahead. They crossed the line in times of 4:34.03 and 4:38.00 to complete their competitions.

Afterwards, Newby said, “You honestly couldn’t write it. I feel like I visualised in my head how amazing it was going to feel, and it just completely exceeded all expectations. And just from the love and the support of the crowd, people cheer for you, you know, even if you had a bad event, they are still there to pick you back up. For me, that’s what made it special.”

McFarlane added, “I get emotional every time I speak about it, but the Glasgow crowd was unreal. Friends and family were here; people have given up so much for me to be out there and be able to represent for them as much of myself. That was really special. I’ve been so blessed to get this opportunity. It is a once in a lifetime thing. So, although I didn’t really get a number I wanted, I absolutely enjoyed the heck out of it. I went out there and I think I brought a good show, and I just lived it up as much as possible.”