Jake bags a sensational bronze on Gold Coast
England finally came alive on the track as Zharnel Hughes grabbed redemption and Lorraine Ugen became an unlikely sprint hero on the Gold Coast yesterday.
The 4x100m men and women squads clinched gold on the final day at the Carrara Stadium.
They helped raise the athletics medal tally to 14 – still four short of the worstever total from Melbourne in 2006.
The English boxers also had another successful day, winning six gold medals, including Lisa Whiteside’s flyweight title.
The men’s relay victory saw Hughes bounce back in style after he was disqualified following his win in the 200 on Thursday.
“It’s been a long week man, but I’m still a gold medallist,” he said, after his run with Reuben Arthur, Richard Kilty and Harry Aikines- Aryeetey in 38.13 seconds.
“I’m really happy with that and proud of it. I told them just get me the baton and I’ll do what I have to do. It’s going to be redemption and it was just that.”
Ugen was only drafted in to the women’s squad on Friday night – having come fourth in the long jump on Thursday – after Corinne Humphreys pulled out injured.
She ran the final leg as Asha Philip, Dina Asher-Smith and Bianca Williams helped claim gold in 42.26s.
She said: “I found out yesterday I was on the team, I did my first exchanges in the warm- up track. I didn’t feel too nervous and I was only going to do it if I felt I was capable of doing the job.”
Morgan Lake claimed high jump silver and Laura Weightman took bronze in the 5000m.
In boxing, Whiteside claimed her long- awaited first major championship gold medal with victory in the women’s flyweight final, beating Northern Ireland’s Carly Mcnaul.
Sandy Ryan won with a split decision victory over Rosie Eccles of Wales in the women’s 69kg division.
But Wales’ Sammy Lee and Lauren Price took the men’s 81kg and women’s 75kg crowns and, at the close of day 10, Wales had their best Games medals haul, equalling the 36 won in Glasgow but with 10 golds, compared to the five won four years ago.
Peter McGrail beat Northern Ireland’s Kurt Walker at 56kg, Galal Yafai vanquished India’s Amit Phangal on points in the - 49kg final, Pat Mccormack won the 69kg title and Frazer Clarke took the +91kg crown against Satish Kumar.
England’s hockey teams both won bronze on Saturday, the men beating India 2- 1 thanks to Sam Ward’s double while the women hammered India 6-0.
Sophie Bray bagged a hattrick with Hollie Pearne-Webb, Laura Unsworth and Alex Danson also netting.
On the road, Wales’ cyclists Jon Mould and Dani Rowe collected silver and bronze medals respectively and, in the basketball, England took the silver medal after being beaten 99- 55 by Australia in the final.
Paul Drinkhall and Liam Pitchford won gold in men’s doubles table tennis while England will face New Zealand in the rugby sevens semi final after topping their pool.