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There was a silver double for England's sprint teams at the Commonwealth Games on the opening day of competition at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.

Katy Marchant, Rhianna Parris-Smith and Sophie Capewell were edged out by Wales in the women's final, allowing an early advantage to slip as Wales roared back to win by 0.141 seconds in a new Games record of 46.760secs.

Hamish Turnbull, Harry Ledingham-Horn and Joe Truman also had to settle for silver after being beaten by Australia by 0.577secs across the three-lap race, the winners finishing in 42.455secs.

Morgan Newberry enjoyed mixed emotions in the C4/C5 4,000m individual pursuit.

Having set a new C5 world record in qualification for the final, the 27-year-old saw the mark broken by New Zealand's Nicole Murray in the bronze medal race.

Newberry then stormed to another new world record in the gold final, posting a time of five mins 5.764secs, only for her factored time to be beaten by Australian Tara Neyland who claimed gold, just outside her own C4 record.

Lizzi Jordan and pilot Sylvie Misztal secured bronze in the tandem B sprint, winning the first two races of a best-of-three series against team-mate Sophie Unwin and her pilot Anna Whitworth-Hay.

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Charlotte Henrich gave her mother a birthday to remember by qualifying for the 400m final in her first Games.

Henrich finished second in her heat in a time of 52.13 seconds behind Nigeria's Ella Onojuvwevwo to qualify eighth fastest for Saturday afternoon's final.

Earlier there was delight for Ava Lloyd, who is also on Games debut, when she qualified for the final of the women's mile with a personal best time of four minutes 31.21 seconds.

But there was disappointment in the same event for athletics co-captain Melissa Courtney-Bryant, who finished seventh in her heat, a spot outside the qualification places.

The 32-year-old was touch and go to make the start line in the first place after injury-hit preparations.

Meanwhile, 800m runner Justin Davies missed out on a final despite recording a season’s best 1:45.51 in his semi-final, finishing fifth.

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Wales will contest the 9th/10th playoff after a 74-28 loss to Jamaica in their final pool match.

This was their fourth defeat of the Commonwealth Games with just a solitary win against Trinidad and Tobago.

It was a competitive opening quarter from the Welsh Feathers who trailed by just two goals at the first break.

But Jamaica showed why they are the 2022 silver medallists as a clinical second quarter from the Sunshine Girls saw them pull away.

Wales tried to compensate by making several changes, with captain Bethan Dyke even dropping to the bench. But the onslaught from Jamaica continued and they extended their lead to 36-18 at half time.

Despite some positive moments for Wales in the third and fourth quarters, Jamaica proved too strong, converting attacks ruthlessly to seal victory and a place in the semi-finals.

It's been a disappointing competition for Wales who will finish at least one place lower than four years ago, after finishing eighth in Birmingham in 2022.

They will need to dust themselves off quickly ahead of tomorrow morning's classification match with Tonga at 11:00 BST.

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Sophie McGrouther is setting the pace in Group D of the women’s singles, with the Scottish bowler making it a hat-trick of wins.

So too are Paul Foster and Alex Marshall in Group C of the men’s pairs, the Commonwealth Games veterans have brushed by Kenya, Isle of Man and Norfolk Islands without dropping a set.

Canada are also unbeaten, but the Scots met them on Friday at 16:25 BST.

On her Games debut, 23-year-old McGrouther has opened up with wins over Fiji, Kenya and Namibia to sit top of her group.

Shae Wilson from Norfolk Island has also recorded three wins from three, McGrouther meets her in her final group game on Saturday at 16:25.

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Weightlifter James Wales missed out on a podium spot, finishing fourth in the men's 110+kg event.

The serving Royal Navy commissioned officer managed 145kg with his second attempt in the snatch, before failing to lift 150kg.

Roared on by the crowd in the arena after failing with his first two attempts, Wales successfully lifted a Welsh record 191kg in the clean and jerk to avoid a 'did not finish'.

This left him with a total of 336kg, 20kg short of England's Andrew Griffiths who went on to win a bronze medal.

New Zealand's David Liti's score of 389kg was just enough to claim gold, with Singh Lovepreet just one kilo behind in silver.

This was the final event of the weightlifting programme at these Games.

Team Wales finish with one medal in the sport, thanks to Laura Hughes' bronze in the women's 77kg.

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BBC Sport NI Journalist

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Team Northern Ireland's Omar Keshta finished in seventh in the weightlifting +110kg final at the SEC Armadillo.

Keshta, making his Commonwealth Games debut in Glasgow, successfully lifted 142kg with his snatch, but failed on his final attempt to reach 145kg.

In the clean and jerk, he completed a lift of 177kg but was unsuccessfully in his two attempts to then lift 183kg as he finished with a final score of 319kg.

The gold medal was won by New Zealand's David Liti with India's Lovepreet Singh taking silver and England's Andrew Griffiths claiming bronze.

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Wales have won Commonwealth Games gold in the women's team sprint at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome by beating England in the final.

The Welsh trio of Emma Finucane, Rhian Edmunds and Lowri Thomas defeated Katy Marchant, Sophia Capewell and Rhianna Parris-Smith in a new Commonwealth Games record time of 46.760s.

Wales had set the fastest time in qualifying to set up the gold medal race and delivered the ultimate upgrade on the bronze medal the same trio won in Birmingham in 2022.

It was the 18th medal for Team Wales with three gold, six silver and nine bronze.

This was the third medal for Wales on the opening night of track cycling after silver for Para-cyclist James Ball and his guide Matt Rotherham and bronze for the women's team pursuit.

Unfortunately the men's trio of Lewis Oliva, Steffan Lloyd and Ioan Hepburn could not compete in the team sprint event bronze medal race.

Hepburn made the start line but pulled out after having medical advice.

Trinidad and Tobago were awarded the bronze medal.

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BBC Sport NI Senior Journalist in Glasgow

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World pairs champions Adam McKeown and Gary Kelly were in dominant form as they beat Pakistan 11-1, 16-0 to make it two wins to start their men’s pairs campaign.

Maqsood Waseem Khan and Mohammed Ayub Qureshi were no match for the the Northern duo who have started the competition in fine form.

However, only the group winners will qualify for the semi-finals so tonight’s game against the New Zealand pair of Tony Grantham and Ali Forsyth will be crucial as they have also started with two wins.

Meanwhile Shauna O’Neill remains unbeaten after three games of the women’s singles group stages.

The Limavady bowler had a comfortable 9-2, 10-2 win over Catherine Papani from Niue Island.

It’s sets up a clash with Guernsey’s Ali Merrien on Thursday that could well determine who advances to the semi-finals.

Merrien is also unbeaten after three games.

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BBC Sport NI Journalist

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Winless Northern Ireland suffered another heavy defeat in netball as they lost 88-27 against world number one ranked Australia at the Hydro.

Australia raced out of the blocks and led 27-6 after a dominant first quarter and they further extended their advantage in the second to lead 47-10 at half-time.

The Warriors, as they have done in previous games, rallied in the third scoring 12 times, but Australia regained control in the final period to ease to victory.

The big victory gives Australia a four-point cushion at the top of Pool A over England, having played a game more.

NI prop up the pool and are set to play the 11th/12th classification match on Friday against Trinidad and Tobago, who also lost all five group games, at 09:00 BST.