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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Mark Staniforth

Amy Hunt takes silver as England wait for Commonwealth women’s 100m win goes on

Amy Hunt, right, took silver (Martin Rickett/PA) - (PA Wire)

England’s long wait for a women’s 100m Commonwealth Games champion will go on after Amy Hunt was squeezed into silver by New Zealand’s Zoe Hobbs in the final at a sodden Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow.

There had been high hopes that the 24-year-old Hunt would be the sprinter to end a home nation drought in the Games’ blue riband event that stretches back 40 years to Heather Oakes’ victory in Edinburgh in 1986.

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