Commonwealth Games

Since the Commonwealth Games were first staged in Hamilton, Canada in 1930, Australia has won more medals than any other nation and topped the medal tally ...

For many of our opponents in Birmingham that will not be the case. The Queens have twice finished fifth at the Games, just short of the bronze medal match. Kumwenda was the top scorer at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014. One of them is expected to become Australia's 1,000th gold medallist. Here's a question for your next family trivia quiz – name a sport Australia has not medalled in at the Commonwealth games. Accompanying the 22 athletes will be almost as many officials. Back in Malawi there is not a single professional-grade court. Malawi has competed at every Commonwealth Games since Edinburgh in 1970. Bronte Campbell remembers living in Malawi but was unaware of the treatment of the LGBTQI+ community in a country where 77.3 per cent of the population is Christian, and 13.8 per cent is Muslim. No other country comes close. Malawi is about half the size of Victoria but with a population fast approaching that of Australia. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a median age of just 16. analysis: Funding, resources and the illusion of fairness in the world of sport

Crippled by a knee injury, Brooke Buschkuehl doubted ever getting back to the top. Now she's on the cusp of gold.

“I won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games games in 2018 and jumped 6.77 in the final. I was just doing everything I could to try and better my weaknesses.” Because I just felt horrible. “I just worked extremely hard. It was going to take months of getting some consistent training under my belt. “Some days it really gets to you mentally and I think if I had have given up and just thrown in the towel, I wouldn’t have been able to experience the amazing feeling that I experienced when I jumped 7.13. “And for years and years, it had been six years and four months since I jumped my 7.05 - my PB and Australian record - and for years and years and years, I was questioning everything because it had been so long. “But I knew that I was in good shape and I was training well but all these competitions just didn’t reflect where I was at. “I feel like I’d only just started to sort of find my groove, and the knee pain just started reducing, and I was able to really just start incorporating some of the plyometrics that I hadn’t been able to do into my programme only a few weeks ago. “So, when I was only just able to start running in February and jumping in April, I knew that I was going to be pushing it.” “It was gonna take a long time to build back and I knew that it wasn’t just going to be something that was going to happen overnight. “I was initially told that I’d probably get an Australian domestic season in and we had the World Indoor Championships in March, and we were almost certain that I’d be able to get there.

When the Commonwealth Games get underway, seven athletes will try to follow up a world title with an event repeat in Birmingham.

McIntosh prevailed over American Katie Grimes, a fellow teen, at the World Championships and has been sub-4:30 in the event. Several Canadian stars, including Penny Oleksiak will not be in attendance after racing at Worlds, but Masse has decided to remain in action. But she’ll have her hands full at Commonwealths, as reigning Olympic champ and countrywoman Emma McKeon enters the fray after passing on Worlds. More, Aussie Shayna Jack will be in the mix, if her broken hand from a freak warmup incident in Budapest has healed. He won the world championship comfortably in 2:07.07 and with no rival seeded under 2:08 in Birmingham, Stubblety-Cook is in minimal danger. His biggest threats will be fellow Aussie Mack Horton, the 2016 Olympic champion, and South Africa’s Matt Sates, one of several teens who have the sport excited about the future. Seven individuals, including four Australians, will look to follow up a world title from last month in Budapest with a Commonwealth gold medal in Birmingham, England.

Liz Clay has taken to social media with a heartbreaking post after her hopes of a gold medal in Birmingham were dashed.

Middle-distance star Jessica Hull was due to come out of isolation on Sunday, having tested positive to COVID the day after she finished seventh in the 1500m final in Eugene. Clay set her PB of 12.71 in the Tokyo Olympics semi-finals last year and only missed out on a spot in the final by four hundredths of a second. Clay suffered the injury when she smashed into the seventh hurdle and crashed to the track in her opening-round heat in Eugene on Saturday.

Liz Clay will sit out the Commonwealth Games after fracturing her foot in a nasty fall at the world champs.

However, her time of 12.71 seconds was the second fastest running by an Australian women, behind only Sally Pearson. "To make a Commonwealth Games team is a dream for so many young Australians and to see these three athletes forced out of our team so close to competition is a huge disappointment for them, the athletics team and the greater team. With the opening heats of the 100m hurdles at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games only 12 days away, in no circumstances will Clay be fit to compete.

Australian hurdler Liz Clay suffers a foot injury at the world titles in Eugene and is unlikely to compete at the Commonwealth Games.

"I've come into these championships with one real goal and that's to run a PB. "I didn't quite get that today but to be that close, just 0.02 off my best and I think my PB was with a 1.2m tailwind and today was into a small headwind. With the opening round of the 100m hurdles at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games just 13 days away, Clay faces a desperate race against time to prove her fitness, even if she is cleared of any fracture.

Australian Liz Clay has been forced to withdraw from the upcoming Commonwealth Games after fracturing her left foot at the World Athletics Championships. The 27-year-old was set to compete in the women's 100m event in Birmingham, but crashed heavily ...

The 2022 Commonwealth Games will begin in Birmingham on July 28. Clay was set for a strong Commonwealth Games, ranked second on the Australian all-time list for the 100m hurdles - only behind Sally Pearson - and narrowly missing out on the final at last year's Tokyo Olympics. Athletics Australia confirmed the news in a statement released on Monday morning.

Meg Lanning's team has added another trophy to their luggage and have now arrived in the CommGames village to begin pursuit of a gold medal.

It was their second match against Pakistan, one of their opponents in the upcoming Games in Birmingham, which had to be abandoned because of the elements. Australia had been left frustrated on Saturday when they were coasting to victory against Pakistan, only to be denied by the rain in Northern Ireland which forced a no result. Meg Lanning's team has added another trophy to their luggage and have now arrived in the CommGames village to begin pursuit of a gold medal

At Comm Games, Kylie Masse and Kaylee McKeown will battle for the top two spots of the 50/100/200 back. Will anyone be able to breakup the superstar duo?

It’s a tossup between McKeown and Masse in the 100 back, but in the 200, McKeown clearly holds the edge. This isn’t a reason to count her off the podium, but is something to keep in mind. At 17-years-old, this is McGill is coming off European Juniors for her debut Commonwealth Games. McGill’s made huge strides in this event over the last year. They’ll be without the familiar presence of Regan Smith in the next lane, but Masse and McKeown are the heavy favorites in the 100 back. Masse and McKeown are all but a lock for gold and silver; the only question is which medal goes to which swimmer. Still, she’s put up a competitive enough time to be in the medal conversation. Here, we’ll get a look at her form in an event where she’s the world record holder in the short course meters edition. With Worlds finalist Ingrid Wilm racing at Canadian Championships, the only other Canadian in the race will be Maggie MacNeil. At Worlds, MacNeil only competed in relays to prioritize her mental health and recover from her elbow injury. Another swimmer who didn’t race backstroke at Worlds is Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan. In Budapest, she opted to focus on her freestyle events, a move which paid off as she came away from the competition with six medals (three of them gold). Now, we’ll get a chance to see what she can do with the backstrokes added to her schedule. Armed with her record, Worlds gold, and consistently fast times, she’ll be the one to beat in Birmingham. The top five women in the Commonwealth have all been under the championship record this season, so we’ll be on record watch here through the three rounds. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, four women collected all of the individual backstroke medals: Kylie Masse, Emily Seebohm, Taylor Ruck, and Georgia Davies. Only Masse returns to compete in Birmingham this summer.

Full 2022 sport-by-sport Commonwealth Games schedule with Australian start times.

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The Commonwealth Games begin in Birmingham this week. Here's the refresher you need before the action starts on Friday.

Coverage will begin every night at 7pm AEST and run through the wee hours of the morning. Swimmers picked up six gold medals in relays at the last Games. There are two days of competition where the swimming and athletics programs overlap. The Games will be held in and around Birmingham at 15 different venues. Medal races begin at 4am and go until 7am (AEST). We’re set for six days of swimming action. Keep in mind, however, there’s a nine-hour time difference between Birmingham and the east coast of Australia. The opening ceremony begins on Friday morning at 4.45am AEST, with competition beginning later on Friday for Australian viewers. Sport lovers might have to sacrifice some sleep in the coming days. The first runs from 7pm to 10:30pm (AEST) and then again at 3:30am to 7am (AEST). The XXII Commonwealth Games will run across 11 days of competition from July 29 to August 8. The young and the old? The average age of the Australian team is 26.6 years old and 65 per cent of athletes will be competing at their first Commonwealth Games. On day one for example (this Friday), lawn bowls is the first sport to get underway, at 5.30pm (AEST). Swimming heats will then begin in prime time for Australian viewers on the east coast.

The likes of Neeraj Chopra, PV Sindhu, Hima Das and Lakshya Sen are part of the 215-member Indian contingent going into the Birmingham Games.

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