Scotland smashes medals target
EILIDH Doyle won a third silver in as many Commonwealth Games on a day Team Scotland smashed its medals target.
Doyle, Scotland’s flag bearer at the opening ceremony, was pipped to 400m hurdles gold by Jamaican Janieve Russell.
Team Scotland now has 32 medals at the Gold Coast games, with four days of competition still to spare.
FLAG-BEARER Eilidh Doyle picked up her third consecutive Commonwealth Games silver as 32-medal Team Scotland breezed past its pre-games target with four days of competition still to spare.
Doyle finished second in the 400m hurdles in 54.80 seconds, less than four tenths of a second behind Jamaica’s Janieve Russell who won gold.
In the lawn bowls, in which Scotland has already won a handful of medals, the women’s triples of Kay Moran, Stacey McDougall and Caroline Brown moved comfortably into the final with a 19-7 win over Canada.
However, they lost out to hosts Australia in the gold medal match ensuring they will return home with silver medals.
In the women’s pairs, the Scots reached the semi-finals with a nail-biting 16-15 win over Australia while Darren Burnett also reached the last four, defeating Malaysia to book his place in the semifinals of the men’s singles.
Burnett has already won gold in the Gold Coast games, picking up the men’s triples title at the weekend and so the Arbroath policeman will be desperate to add further to his medal haul over the coming days.
The McIntosh name is famous in shooting circles for their Commonwealth Games success with both Jen and Shirley McIntosh now two of Scotland’s most decorated Commonwealth Games athletes ever.
And the youngest of the McIntosh clan, Seonaid, added to the family’s medal tally overnight by winning bronze in the 50m rifle prone competition.
Her older sister, Jen, is still to compete and is heavily tipped to add to her current Commonwealth Games medal haul of five medals.
Scotland’s cyclists performed impressively on the track but with the action in the velodrome complete, the cycling competition moved to the Nerang State Forest for the mountain biking competition.
And in the women’s cross-country competition, Isla Short put in a strong performance to finish in fifth place while in the men’s event, British champion Grant Ferguson secured a top-10 finish, crossing the line in ninth place.
In the diving, James Heatly won Scotland’s first diving medal since his grandfather was on the podium in 1958 when he picked up bronze in the 1m springboard yesterday but he had little time to celebrate and was back in action overnight.
He continued his good form, reaching the 3m springboard final while in the women’s 10m platform, Gemma McArthur also progressed to the final.
Scotland’s netballers are now finished competing in Gold Coast and they ended on a high, defeating Barbados 50-48 in an extremely tight finish that went to extra time before a winner could be decided.
The Scots win secured them ninth place though, equalling their placing at Glasgow 2014.
And in the hockey, Scotland’s women also finished with a victory, defeating Malaysia to secure seventh place.