Day-by-day guide to must-see events

DAY 1

THURSDAY, APRIL 5 Cycling B&Vi 1000m Time Trial, 7pm – 4000m 10pm Team Pursuit, Team B&Vi Sprint, Sprint 4000m (Men) Team Pursuit, Team Sprint (Women) 7pm – 10pm Gymnastics Team Final: Artistic (Men) 5pm – 8.15pm Swimming 200m Breaststroke S14, 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle (Men) 7.30pm – 10.30pm S7 50m Butterfly, 200m Freestyle, 400m Individual Medley, 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay (Women) 7.30pm – 10.30pm Triathlon Women’s race 9.30am. Men’s race 1pm Weightlifting 56kg (Men) 9.30am – noon

48kg (Women) 2pm – 4.30pm 62kg (Men) 6.30pm – 9pm DO NOT MISS Swimming Men’s 400m freestyle: Olympic champion Mack Horton could kick things off in style for the Aussies with gold in this event. He will have to hold off teammates Jack McLoughlin and David McKeon as well as England’s James Guy. Triathlon Women’s final: Gold Coast product Ashleigh Gentle could get Australia off to a winning start in the first medal event of the Games just hours after the opening ceremony. But she’ll have to overcome the world No.1, Bermuda’s Flora Duffy, to take gold. Cycling Men’s team pursuit: Just how fast can Australia go? They rode a 3min51.008sec in the final in Rio which set the world record but the Poms broke it by more and took gold in 3:50.265. With Great Britain’s riders now split among their separate nations, the Aussies will start hot favourites but the question is can they go sub 3:50?

DAY 2

FRIDAY, APRIL 6 Cycling 4000m 7pm – 10pm Individual Pursuit, Keirin (Men’s) Sprint, 3000m Individual Pursuit (Women’s) 7pm – 10pm Gymnastics Team Final – Artistic (Women) 4pm – 9pm Swimming 100m Backstroke, 50m Butterfly, S9 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, 400m Individual Medley, 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay (Men) 7.30pm – 10.30pm S9 100m Backstroke, 50m Breaststroke, 100m Butterfly (Women) 7.30pm – 10.30pm Weightlifting 53kg (Women) 9.30am – noon 69kg (Men) 2pm – 4.30pm 58kg (Women) 6.30pm – 9pm DO NOT MISS Swimming Men’s S9 100m freestyle: Australia’s Timothy Diskin (below left) and Brenden Hall (below right) quinellaed this event at the Rio Paralympics and are likely to fight out the major medals again on the Gold Coast. Cycling Women’s sprint: Stephanie Morton has assumed the role of Australia’s queen of the track now that Anna Meares has retired but that process began in Glasgow four years ago when she upstaged her superstar teammate to win the women’s sprint. Now she’s going into the Gold Coast Games as defending sprint champion and ready to deliver on expectations. Gymnastics Women’s team final: Australia have won four of the eight Commonwealth Games women’s team gold medals, including at the most recent home Games in Melbourne in 2006, and they are again chances but they will need to step up to beat more-fancied Canadian and English rivals.

DAY 3

SATURDAY, APRIL 7 Cycling B&Vi 6.30pm Sprint, – 10pm Sprint, 15km Scratch Race (Men) B&Vi 25km 1000m Points Race Time (Women) Trial, 500m 6.30pm Time Trial, – 10pm Gymnastics 4.30pm Individual – All-Around 7.30pm (Women) Swimming SB8 100m Breaststroke, 100m Breaststroke, 200m Butterfly (Men) 7.30pm – 10.30pm 100m Backstroke, 200m Breaststroke, 50m Freestyle, SM10 200m Individual Medley, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay (Women) 7.30pm – 10.30pm Triathlon PTWC Final (Men and Women) 9.30am – 1pm Mixed Team Relay 1pm – 3pm Weightlifting 77kg (Men) 9.30am – noon 63kg (Women) 2pm – 4.30pm 85kg (Men) 6.30pm – 9pm DO NOT MISS Swimming Men’s 100m breaststroke: England’s Adam Peaty is a superstar of world swimming and out to dominate this event after winning gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016 and last year’s world championships. Australia’s Jake Packard and Scotland’s Ross Murdoch will push him all the way. Gymnastics Women’s All-Around: Gold Coast-born and raised Georgia Godwin (pictured) was the secondhighest ranked Commonwealth gymnast in last year’s world championships in Canada with a standout 13th but she must get past Canadian star Elsabeth Black and a world-class British team to become only the fourth Australian woman to snare the coveted all-round gold. Paratriathlon Men’s and women’s event: Bill Chaffey will start favourite for the men. In the women’s event, Emily Tapp will lead Australia’s charge but her teammate and newcomer to the sport Lauren Parker will also be a contender.

DAY 4

SUNDAY, Athletics APRIL 8 20km 5000m, T38 Long Race Hammer Jump Walk (Women) (Men Throw and (Men) Women) 2pm 7am – 6pm – noon 2pm – 6pm Cycling 1000m 7pm – 10pm Time Trial, 40km Points Race (Men) 10km Scratch Race, Keirin (Women) 7pm – 10pm Gymnastics Floor Exercise, Pommel Horse, Rings (Men) 2.30pm – 6pm Vault, Uneven Bars (Women) 2.30pm – 6pm Lawn Bowls Triples Singles (Men) (Women) 9am 5.30pm – 3.45pm – 8.30pm Shooting 10m Air Rifle (Men) 9am – 5pm 10m Air Pistol, Skeet (Women) 9am – 5pm Swimming

50m Backstroke, 100m Freestyle, SM8 200m Individual Medley, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay (Men) 7.30pm – 10.30pm 200m Backstroke, 50m Butterfly, S9 100m Freestyle, 200m Individual Medley (Women) 7.30pm – 10.30pm Table Tennis Team (Women) 4pm – 9.15pm Weightlifting 69kg (Women) 9.30am – noon 94kg (Men) 2pm – 4.30pm 75kg (Women) 6.30pm – 9pm DO NOT MISS Swimming Men’s 100m freestyle: The Olympic champion against the fastest man in history in a textile suit. Kyle Chalmers, Cameron McEvoy and Jack Cartwright will fight it out, with Scot Duncan Scott the dark horse. Cycling Men’s 1000m Time Trial: Aussie sprinter Matt Glaetzer this year set the sea level world record with 59.759secs at the nationals. Favourite for gold but can he get the world record too? Gymnastics Women’s uneven bars: If Queensland gymnasts Georgia-Rose Brown and Rianna Mizzen can nail their difficult and high-scoring routines they can be medal contenders.