Archive for the 'Scotland' Category

Scotland Win Gold in Men’s Lawn Bowls Pairs

Scotland’s Paul Foster and Alex Marshall have won the Gold Medal in the Men’s Lawn Bowls pairs event after beating England’s Mark Bantock and Ian Bond. Australia’s Barrie Lester and Nathan Rice have won the bronze medal.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Australia win Gold in Women’s Pairs Lawn Bowls

Lynsey Armitage and Karen Murphy of Australia have beaten Joyce Lindores and Kay Moran of Scotland to take the Gold medal in the Women’s Pairs Lawn Bowls. Sisters Jan and Marina Khan of New Zealand have won the Bronze medal.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Scotland win Gold in Women’s 50m Rifle Prone

Sheena Sharp has won the Gold medal for Scotland in the Women’s 50m Rifle Prone. New Zealand’s Juliet Etherington has gone one better than her Bronze in Manchester to take silver and Johanne Brekke from Wales has won the bronze medal.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Australian Men finally get Gold in the pool

Matthew Welsh, Brenton Rickard, Michael Klim and Eamon Sullivan have finally won Australia a gold medal in the men’s pool events in the Men’s 4×100m Medley Relay in a new Commonwealth Games Record. Christopher Cook, Ross Davenport, Liam Tancock and Matthew Bowe won the silver medal for England and Todd Cooper, Kristopher Gilchrist, Craig […]

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Jamaica win Gold in men’s 110m Hurdles

Jamaica’s Maurice Wignall has added another sprinting gold medal to the Caribbean nation’s tally. Scotland’s Chris Baillie has won the silver and England’s Andrew Turner has won the bronze.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Australia Win Gold, Silver in Men’s 94kg Weightlifting

Aleksan Karapetyan and Simon Francis Heffernan have won the Gold and Silver medals for Australia in the Men’s 94kg Weightlifting. Thomas Litster Yule has won the bronze medal for Scotland.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Gregor Tait adds another Gold to Scotlands Swimming Tally

Scotland’s Gregor Tait has won the Gold medal for Scotland in the Men’s 200m Individual Medley. Dean Kent from New Zealand has won the Silver and Brian Johns has won the bronze medal for Canada.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

England win Gold in Men’s 100m Backstroke

Liam Tancock has broken the Commonwealth Games Record in a time of 54.53 to win the Gold Medal for England in the Men’s 100m Backstroke. Australian Matthew Welsh won the silver medal while Gregor Tait from Scotland took home the Bronze.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Leisel Jones smashes World Record to claim gold in Women’s 100m Breaststroke

Australia’s Leisel Jones has won the Gold medal in a World Record time of 1:05.09 in the Women’s 100m Breaststroke. Fellow team mate Jade Edmistone has claimed the silver and Kirsty Balfour from Scotland has won the bronze.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

McClatchey win’s another Gold for Scotland

Caitlin McClatchey has won the Gold in the Women’s 400m Freestyle Final for Scotland with Joanne Jackson from England taking the silver and Bronte Barratt from Australia taking the bronze.

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Scotland take Gold, Silver in Men’s 400m Individual Medley

David Carry and Euan Dale have won the Gold and Silver medals for Scotland in the Men’s 400m Individual Medley. Australia’s Travis Nederpelt has finished third to claim the bronze.

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Isle of Man has won the Gold in the Men’s Scratch race

Mark Cavendish has ended the Track Cycling with a win in the Men’s Scratch Race for the Isle of Man. Australia’s Ashley Hutchinson has won the silver with James McCallum from Scotland winning the bronze.

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Ryan Bayley wins Gold for Australia in Men’s Sprint

Australia has added a further cycling Gold to their tally as Ryan Bayley beat Scotland’s Ross Edgar in the final. Travis Smith from Canada beat Matthew Crampton for the bronze medal.

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Australia Win Gold in Women’s 200m Breaststroke

Leisel Jones has added another Gold medal to her own and Australia’s haul in the pool but it wasn’t going to be a clean sweep with Brooke Hanson and Sally Foster finishing 4 and 5 in the Women’s 200m Breaststroke. Kirsty Balfour from Scotland have come away with the silver medal and Suzaan Van […]

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Scotland Win Gold in Men’s 200m Backstroke

Gregor Tait has broken the Commonwealth Games record to claim the Gold Medal in the Men’s 200m Backstroke. Johannes Du Rand won another Silver Medal in the pool with New Zealander Cameron Gibson winning the bronze medal.

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Scotland Win Gold in Women’s 50m Rifle Prone Pairs

Susan Jackson and Sheena Sharp have won the Women’s 50m Rifle Prone Pairs at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games for Scotland. Sharon Lee and Helen Spittles from England have claimed the Silver medal and New Zealand shooters Juliet Etherington and Kathryn Mead have taken home the bronze.

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

England thrash Scotland

England has demoslished the Scottish women’s hockey team in a 5-0 whitewash this morning.

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

England Takes out Men’s 50m Rifle Prone

Mike Babb and Chris Hector have shot themselves into the Gold Medal position in the Men’s 50m Rifle Prone event at the Commonwealth Games. Scotland’s Martin Sinclair and Neil Stirton won the silver while Gruffudd Morgan and David Phelps from Wales picked up the bronze.

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Scotland, New Zealand and South Africa oust Australia in the pool

The Australian’s have been talking up the events they have been wanting to take home not only just the gold medal, but a clean sweep of the Silver and Bronze as well. Tonight however, it was the Scots that surprised everyone when Caitlin McClatchey beat the favoured Libby Lenton in the Women’s 200m Freestyle […]

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Scottish Swimmer set to reign on Australian Pool Party

While the Australian women have been touted as the favourites in many of the pool events, Scottish swimmer, Caitlin McClatchey has set the fastest time in the heats of the 200m Freestyle with 1:59:96.
Libby Lenton is there with Linda Mackenzie to represent Australia but with McClatchey setting the fastest time in the pool, tonight’s final […]

Thursday, March 16th, 2006