Australia's swimmers have ended their Commonwealth Games with three more gold medals, as attention turns towards track and field, and team sports head towards the pointy end of competition.
The swimmers brought home 65 medals — 25 gold, 21 silver and 19 bronze — which is more than half of Australia's total of 123 after six days.
As they have done throughout the first week in Birmingham, the women's swim team dominated the final day in the pool, closing out the program with gold in the 4x100m medley relay for Kaylee McKeown, Chelsea Hodges, Emma McKeon and Mollie O'Callaghan.
McKeon ended her remarkable meet leading the individual medal tally with eight — including six gold, a silver and a bronze — while O'Callaghan ended her first Commonwealth Games with five gold medals and two silver. McKeown finished with six medals, including four gold.
Sam Short also took out the men's 1,500m final and Ariarne Titmus added the Commonwealth 400m title to her famous Olympic gold in the event.
The Dolphins won nine medals on day six, which also included a thrilling silver medal for the men's 4x100m medley team, with Kyle Chalmers touched out for gold by 0.08 of a second by England's Tom Dean.
As attention turns to athletics, Evan O'Hanlon won his second straight gold medal in the T37/38 100m final, but Brandon Starc could not back up his 2018 victory in the high jump, winning silver behind New Zealand's Hamish Kerr with a jump of 2.25 metres.
Meanwhile, Rohan Browning qualified sixth fastest for the men's 100m final, but missed out on a medal by 0.06 of a second.
Earlier, Peter Bol was fastest in heats for the men's 800m, but he will have to wait until Monday morning AEST to run in the final, where he will hope to improve on his fourth-placed finish from the Tokyo Olympics.
Australia also took its judo tally to 10 medals, with Harrison Cassar (-90kg), Abigail Paduch (+78kg) and Liam Park (+100kg) winning their bronze medal bouts, and Zoe Cuthbert won the country's first non-track cycling medal of the Games, taking home silver in the women's cross country mountain bike.
Hockeyroos aiming for semi-final revenge against India
Both Australia's hockey teams remained perfect on day six, with the Hockeyroos beating Scotland 2-0 and the Kookaburras taking down South Africa 3-0.
While the men have a pool match left, against Pakistan on Friday morning, the Hockeyroos have topped Pool B with four straight wins and are yet to concede a goal.
That puts them on a collision course with the second-placed Pool A finishers India, who upset the Hockeyroos in the quarter-finals of last year's Olympics.
Australia's cricketers are also unbeaten, with Tahlia McGrath starred with bat and ball (78* off 51 and 3-13) in a 44-run win over Pakistan in their T20 pool game.
The Aussies finished top of Group A, and next face a semi-final against England or New Zealand.
Look back at how day six in Birmingham played out in our live blog.
Key events
- 🥇 Athletics: A brilliant gold for Evan O'Hanlon in the T37/38 100m
- 🥈 Athletics: Silver for Brandon Starc in high jump final
- 🥇 Swimming: Australia ends program with gold in women's 4x100m medley
- 🥈 Swimming: Australia finishes just behind England in an amazing men's 4x100m medley relay final
- 🥇 Swimming: Titmus wins 400m freestyle for fourth gold, Melverton gets bronze
- 🥉 Judo: Three more bronze medals for Australia
- 🥇 Swimming: Sam Short wins Australia's first gold of the day in the men's 1,500m final
- 🥈 Swimming: Silver and bronze for Australia in women's 50m backstroke
- 🥈 Swimming: Benjamin Hance gets silver in 200m freestyle S14 final
- 🥉 Weightlifting: Charisma Amoe Tarrant wins medal by 1 kilogram!
- 🥈 Lawn bowls: B6-B8 women's pair goes down to Scotland in gold medal match
- 🥈 Cycling: Zoe Cuthbert second in the mountain bike
Live updates
By Kelsie Iorio
What to watch on day seven
One week in! So much has happened and there's still so much more to come — squeezed into just a few more days of competition in Birmingham.
Here's what we're excited for on day seven:
- Athletics (discus, long jump, T53/54 1500 finals)
- Para-powerlifting
- Netball (the Diamonds play Jamaica from 6pm AEST tonight)
- Cycling time trials
- Hockey (the Hockeyroos play Pakistan tomorrow morning)
- And the diving and rhythmic gymnastics begins (two of my favourites yay)!
The blog will be back in the early hours of tomorrow morning to bring you the action live and catch you up on everything you missed while you were sleeping.
Thanks for joining us!
By Kelsie Iorio
Swimming: Titmus 'bloody buggered' as swim competition ends
Ariarne Titmus and Cody Simpson are speaking to Sunrise on Channel 7 after the conclusion of the Commonwealth Games swimming section.
Ariarne says she's "bloody buggered" after what can only be described as a massive few days in the pool.
"I love this group, I love the team and I wouldn't want to be part of any other team than this, it's the best," she says.
Cody Simpson is asked, yet again, about whether he's going to write an album about swimming. Dear Kochie, from one sports lover to another, please stop. Please.
By Kelsie Iorio
Lawn bowls: Lindfield dedicates silver medal to mum
Para-lawn bowler Cheryl Lindfield (who's the oldest athlete on the Australian team in Birmingham this year) has dedicated her silver medal to her mother, who's really unwell at the moment. 😢
"I got a call just before we entered the village on day one, saying my mother hasn’t got long to live," she told AAP.
"I think she’d be proud. I’m here today playing for her as well; she was a bowler, we played together."
Cheryl, who will turn 64 in January, also told AAP that she 100 per cent plans on competing again at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in regional Victoria.
"In my 20s I was told I had to give up sport otherwise I’d be in a wheelchair," she said.
"I went 'ok, what can I do with just my arms?' I did archery, tried golf … then bowls, and they said 'you’re a natural'."
By Jon Healy
Hockey: Kookaburras stay perfect with 3-0 win over South Africa
The Aussie men's side shot out of the gates with two goals in the first quarter, before South Africa knuckled down to keep them out for the next two quarters.
But the weight of possession (59-41) was eventually too much, and the Aussies got their third late in the final quarter.
The 3-0 Kookas are the only undefeated team in Pool A, with New Zealand, South Africa and Pakistan all with one win each, and Scotland last n the pool
The Kookaburras final pool match is against Pakistan tomorrow morning at 6am AEST.
By Kelsie Iorio
Boxing: Three quarter-final wins for the green and gold
Catching up on some boxing results from overnight — Kaye Frances Scott (pictured here getting the W), Caitlin Anne Parker and Callum Peters have all come away with wins in their quarter-finals in the women's light middleweight, women's middleweight and men's middleweight respectively.
Alex Winwood will go up against Patrick Chinyemba of Zambia in the flyweight quarter-final late tonight (our time), heavyweight Edguardo Coumi is scheduled to face Japheth Olton from Anguilla and Tina Rahimi will fight England's Sameenah Toussaint overnight as well.
By Kelsie Iorio
Athletics: Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah wins women's 100m final
There were no Australians in this final, but Elaine Thompson-Herah has stormed home to take the gold in under 11 seconds.
Julien Alfred from St Lucia won silver and Daryll Netia of England will take home the bronze.
By Kelsie Iorio
Athletics: Anyone else's heart rates a bit too high after that 100m final?
I didn't do any of the running, obviously. But that was stressful.
By Kelsie Iorio
Athletics: A close result but no medal for Rohan Browning this time
Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. So close but so far for Rohan Browning, who finishes sixth in the men's 100m final.
It ends with just 0.18 between him and first place.
Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya takes the gold, South African Akani Simbine wins silver and Sri Lanka's Yupun Abeykoon has snagged the bronze.
Browning says he's "not satisfied, but not too beat up" with the result.
"I would have loved to have been on the podium," he tells Channel Seven.
"I'm glad I came here, it's been a great experience and I wouldn't change it for the world."
By Kelsie Iorio
Athletics: Men's 100m finalists enter the stadium
There's fireworks, there's a roaring crowd, and there's a Rohan Browning in this final. Turn your TVs on now.
By Kelsie Iorio
🥇 Athletics: A brilliant gold for Evan O'Hanlon in the T37/38 100m
Evan O'Hanlon has dominated the men's T37/38 100m final, setting a new Games record and running a season-best in the process.
It's the 34-year-old's second gold medal in this event — he won it on the Gold Coast as well.
South Africa's Charl du Toit won silver and Zachary Gingras from Canada won bronze — du Toit has actually also set a Games record because he's classified as T37 and O'Hanlon is T38.
I feel like yesterday was mullet day but between Evan O'Hanlon and Brandon Starc, today is moustache day. Here for it.
By Kelsie Iorio
🥈 Athletics: Silver for Brandon Starc in high jump final
He's gone straight to congratulate gold medallist Hamish Kerr of New Zealand and Tejaswin Shankar of India, but a second consecutive gold is not to be for Brandon Starc.
But still — a silver medal with an end result of 2.25 is fantastic.
By Jon Healy
🥇 Swimming: Australia ends program with gold in women's 4x100m medley
It's Kaylee McKeown (backstroke), Chelsea Hodges (breaststroke), Emma McKeon (butterfly) and Mollie O'Callaghan (freestyle) for Australia. What a team.
Kylie Masse of Canada leads McKeown at the first turn, but the 100m and 200m champ retakes the lead as she hands over to Hodges.
Hodges builds the lead and has a superb changeover to McKeon, who completes her first 50m with a 1.56-second lead.
Mollie O'Callaghan will end the meet in the water. And she anchors Australia home to gold!
It wasn't quite as close as the men's race, but still an entertaining battle between Australia and Canada, who finished with silver. England gets bronze, 0.19 of a second in front of South Africa.
By Kelsie Iorio
Athletics: England takes the heptathlon gold
England's Katarina Johnson-Thompson has won gold in the heptathlon after a really impressive performance from start to finish in this massive event.
Taneille Crase will just miss out on a medal this time around.
By Jon Healy
🥈 Swimming: Australia finishes just behind England in an amazing men's 4x100m medley relay final
Bradley Woodward (backstroke), Zac Stubblety-Cook (breaststroke), Matt Temple (butterfly) and Kyle Chalmers (freestyle) will swim for Australia in the penultimate event of the swimming program.
Australia may be favourites, but England and Scotland will take it to them.
Brodie Williams gives England a narrow lead after a thrilling backstroke duel with Woodward.
James Wilby maintained England's lead over Stubblety-Cook, and James Guy kept it over Temple, sending Chalmers into the water second, 0.56 of a second after Tom Dean.
Chalmers just regained the lead in the final 50 metres, but Dean came right back at him with 25 metres to go and edged him by 0.08 of a second.
As expected, Scotland was third.
What a race!
By Jon Healy
🥇 Swimming: Titmus wins 400m freestyle for fourth gold, Melverton gets bronze
Already with the 200m, 800m and 4x200m gold medals in her locker from Birmingham, Ariarne Titmus has added the Commonwealth Games 400m title to her Olympic title.
Titmus led from the jump and came home in a Games record of 3:58.06, with Canadian 15-year-old Summer McIntosh pushing her right to the end.
Kiah Melverton wins bronze for Australia, with Lani Pallister fifth.
By Kelsie Iorio
Athletics: Signs on point from these passionate supporters
Yep, confirmed — Matt Denny has been located doing a very important job.
By Kelsie Iorio
Athletics: Games record for Scotland, eighth place for Australia in women's 10000m
Australia's Isobel Batt-Doyle has finished eighth in the women's 10000m final with a time of 32:04.52.
Athletics Australia says that's the fourth-fastest shes's ever run over that distance, so a big result regardless.
Scotland's Eilish McColgan set a new Commonwealth Games record after leading or being very close to it for almost the entire race.
Kenya's Irine Chepet Cheptai and Sheila Chepkirui Kiprotich won silver and bronze.
By Kelsie Iorio
🥉 Judo: Three more bronze medals for Australia
Harry Cassar, Abigail Paduch and Liam Park (pictured here) have all won their bronze medal matches in the men's -90kg, women's +78kg and men's +100kg categories respectively.
Fellow Australian Kayhan Ozcicek-Takagi lost to England's Harry Lovell-Hewitt in their showdown for bronze, so unfortunately misses out on a medal.
This morning's results wrap up the judo section of the Commonwealth Games — Australia finishes with two gold and eight bronze medals overall.
