Glasgow 2026: Day 8 Storylines to Follow

Twenty-two gold medals will be decided across Athletics, Para Athletics, Track Cycling, Para Track Cycling and Judo, while the Boxing semi-finals and Netball classification matches take place and Bowls sectional play continues.

Here are some of the Commonwealth stories to follow.

Youth Games champions take next step

Two double Commonwealth Youth Games champions continue their progression to the senior Commonwealth stage in the long jump.

England’s Maddie Down competes in the women’s long jump T38 final after winning both the T38 100m and long jump titles at Trinbago 2023.

Australia’s Delta Amidzovski, who also won two gold medals in Trinidad and Tobago, begins the senior women’s long jump competition after claiming Oceania silver earlier this year.

British Virgin Islands target golden double

The British Virgin Islands have two major medal opportunities during Friday evening’s athletics session.

Kyron McMaster is seeking a third successive men’s 400m hurdles title after victories at Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022.

Adaejah Hodge carries record-breaking form into the women’s 200m final after setting a Commonwealth Games record of 22.01 seconds in Thursday’s semi-finals.

The 20-year-old is seeking the British Virgin Islands’ first women’s Commonwealth athletics title.

Dambile leads South African 200m challenge

Sinesipho Dambile enters the men’s 200m final as one of South Africa’s strongest remaining Athletics medal hopes.

The 24-year-old arrived at the Games with the quickest time among the entered athletes after running 19.74 earlier this year and won his semi-final in 19.82.

Dambile is seeking his first individual Commonwealth medal in a final that also includes Ghana’s Birmingham 2022 bronze medallist Joseph Amoah.

Maloney carries Vincentian hopes

Shafiqua Maloney competes in the women’s 800m final after qualifying from a fast semi-final won by reigning world champion Lilian Odira.

The two-time Olympian produced the finest performance of her career at Paris 2024, setting a national record in the semi-finals before finishing fourth in the final.

She now has another opportunity to deliver a major result for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on the Commonwealth stage.

Maselela builds on historic Lesotho medal

Rapelang Maselela competes in the women’s 57kg Boxing semi-finals after becoming the first woman from Lesotho to win a Commonwealth Games medal in any sport.

By reaching the last four, the 29-year-old has already guaranteed herself at least a bronze medal.

She now faces India’s reigning world champion Jaismine Lamboria as she attempts to turn Lesotho’s historic breakthrough into a place in Saturday’s final.

Wheelchair racers return for extraordinary rerun

The women’s 1500m T54 final will be staged again on Friday morning after Wednesday’s race was disrupted by a major first-lap collision.

Three athletes overturned after Canada’s Nandini Sharma moved across Noemi Alphonse of Mauritius, with Australia’s Eliza Ault-Connell and England’s Ellis Kottas also brought down. Scotland’s Joanna Robertson was impeded.

Scotland’s Melanie Woods crossed the line first in a Commonwealth Games record, but the result was later voided following appeals from Australia and Mauritius.

Six of the original seven athletes will return for the rerun, including GAPS alumna Alphonse, with Sharma excluded after being disqualified for causing the collision.