Commonwealth Games Review

Ignisious Gaisah from Ghana has won the Gold medal in the Men’s long jump with Gable Garenamotse from Botswana has won the silver and Australian Fabrice Lapierre has won the bronze medal.

Valerie Vili from New Zealand has smashed the Commonwealth Games record to win the Gold medal with a distance of 19.66m. Silver medal winner was Vivien Chukwuemeka from Nigeria and the bronze went to Cleopatra Borel-Brown from Trinidad and Tobago.

World Champion Dorcus Inzikuru has won the Gold medal in the Women’s 3000m Steeplechase for Uganda with Melissa Rollison and Donna MacFarlane from Australia winning the silver and bronze medals.

Samaresh Jung and Vivek Singh have won the Gold and Silver medals for India in the Men’s 10m Air Pistol shooting event. Friedhelm Ferdinand Sack has won the bronze medal for Namibia.

Hollie Dykes has won the Gold Medal for Australia in the Women’s Floor Gymnastics event. Team mate Ashleigh Brennan has won the Silver medal and Francki Van Rooyen has won the bronze medal for South Africa.

South Africa’s Elizna Naude has won the Gold Medal in the Women’s Discus. Seema Antil has won the Silver medal for India and 17 year old Dani Samuels has won the bronze medal for Australia.

Trecia Smith from Jamaica has won the Gold Medal in the Women’s Triple Jump with Otonye Iworima fron Nigeria taking the silver medal and Nadia Williams taking the bronze medal.

David Davies from Wales has won the Gold medal in the Men’s 1500m Freestyle. Andrew Hurd from Canada has won the silver medal and Hercules Prinsloo from South Africa has won the Bronze medal.

Deborah Esther Ainslie Lovely has won the Gold Medal for Australia in the 75kg Weightlifting event. Sheba Deireragea has won the silve and the first medal of the XVIII Commonwealth Games for Nauru and Babalwa Ndleleni has won the Bronze for South Africa.

Roland Schoeman has won the Gold medal for South Africa in the Men’s 50m Freestyle. Brent Hayden from Canada has won the silver and Brett Hawke has won the bronze for Australia.

Diane Swanton has won the Gold Medal in the women’s trap for South Africa. Rebecca Madyson has won the silver for Malta and Susan Marie Nattrass has won the bronze for Canada.

Augustine Choge has set a new Commonwealth Games record to win the Gold Medal in the Men’s 5000m event for Kenya. Fellow team mate Benjamin Limo has won the bronze medal while Craig Mottram of Australia has won the silver medal.

Mark Casey, Bill Cornehls and Wayne Turley have won the Gold Medal for Australia in the Men’s Triples Lawn Bowls Event. Neil Booth, Mark McPeak and Jeremy Henry have won the silver medal for Northern Island and Neil Anthony Burkett, Gidion Vermeulen and Eric Johannes have won the Bronze Medal for South Africa.

Shuja-Ud-Din Malik has won the Men’s 85kg Weightlifting event to claim the Gold medal for Pakistan. Cameroon’s Brice Vivien Batchaya and Simplice Ribouem have won the Silver and Bronze medals.

India has won the Gold medal in the Men’s Team table tennis event with Singapore taking Silver and Nigeria taking the Bronze.

Sheri-Ann Brooks has won the Women’s 100m for Jamaica with Geraldine Pillay taking the Silver for South Africa and Delphine Atangana took the bronze for Cameroon.
In the Men’s 100m, Asafa Powell took the Gold for Jamaica just over the 10 second mark. Nigeria’s Soji Fasuba took the silver and Marc Burns has taken the bronze […]

Janus Robberts has won the Gold medal for South Africa in the Men’s Shot Put. Dorian Scott from Jamaica has won the silver medal while Scott Martin has won the bronze medal for Australia.

In the event that was missing Ian Thorpe, the Australian men again failed to make the medals with the 3 guys only making 5, 6 and 7. England’s Simon Burnett took the gold while South Africa took Silver and Bronze thanks to Ryk Neethling and Roland Schoeman.

Majeti Fetrie has won Ghana’s first Gold medal of the XVIII Commonwealth Games in the Men’s 77kg Weightlifting competition. Mohammed Zakir Asdullah has won the Silver for India while Muhammad Irfan Irfan has won the bronze for Pakistan.
Ghana’s Weightlifting coach has complained about the organisation of the competition due to Majeti Fetrie being denied […]

Sunette Viljoen has won the Gold medal for South Africa in the Women’s Javelin while Laverne Eve from Bahamas taking the silver and Olivia McKoy from Jamaica taking the bronze medal.