Commonwealth Games: Live coverage of Day 6 from Glasgow

Ollie Saxton nailed the 150kg snatch in his first crack, the biggest weight lifted thus far in the final’s early stages.

It looked routine for Saxton who can now build on top of it with his next two lifts.

A thin 10 horse race for the gold medal has been trimmed even more so after a timely DNF.

South African Nicolaas Jacobus du Plooy failed to register a snatch, leaving it down to nine lifters aiming for gold.

Perth’s Ollie Saxton is gunning for gold as the men’s 94kg weightlifting finals gets underway.

His planned 150kg to start the snatch is on the upper end for competitors, just two kgs off the max opening attempt.

Read about his story here.

A tight clash came down to the tie-breaker in the para pairs lawn bowls, and Delgado and Reynolds proved their might in the clutch.

Winning the first set 5-4 and losing the second 4-5 sent the English clash into a tie breaker, and the Aussies stepped up to claim the choccys.

Ellen Fife’s first set blowout put her on the backfoot and the Aussie couldn’t claw back to drop her lawn bowls match.

Facing England’s Katherine Rednall, the first set was lopsided in the Brit’s favour 13-2.

Despite a second set tie, Fife dropped the match 0.5-1.5.

Former Australian track cyclist Matt Richardson has pulled out of the Commonwealth Games because of an injury he suffered while racing in Japan.

In a major blow to the Glasgow Games, the English team announced on Wednesday night (AEST) that their sprint ace would no longer compete.

Richardson sensationally defected from Australia to Great Britain soon after winning three medals at the the Paris Olympics.

Read the full story.

No bench? No problem for the Gangarru’s thanks to a light’s out shooting performance from WA’s Amy Atwell to send Australia into the gold medal match.

She scored the opening eight points of the game to build a quick 9-0 lead inside the opening two minutes.

Injury to Emma Clark has left the Gangurru’s a woman short for the rest of the tournament, but who needs rotations when you can score as quickly as Atwell.

The Aussies flashy scoring was complemented by intense defence led by Lara McSpadden.

It took a foul to break Jamaica’s scoring drought, finally getting a bucket down 10 – which Atwell promptly responded with another deep dagger.

There was nothing Jamaica could do to stop Australia’s momentum and the sides looked heavily mismatched.

The Gangurru’s have gold on their mind following the 21-8 win, Atwell had the hot hand scoring 13 points – dropping five from deep.

The women’s 3x3 side are looking to follow the men’s side into the gold medal game, facing off against Jamaica for the coveted spot.

Australian defector Matthew Richardson has been ruled out of the Commonwealth Games.

The Great Britain cycling team announced that he will not take part due to injury, denying a rematch against his former Aussie teammates.

Australia will not get the chance at a spicy rematch against the Perth raised athlete, who sensationally defected to England after winning two medals for the green and gold at the 2022 Olympic Games.

The bitter rivalry was built up as one of the most highly anticipated sub-plots in this Commonwealth Games, but fans have been robbed the opportunity to see the clash following the injury.

After six events of the women’s heptathalon Tori West sits in bronze medal position helped by a strong javelin performance.

She will look to improve her standing while Mia Scerri needs some miraculous results to come back from sixth.