Athletics
University-based Jaz Sawyers won a stunning gold in the Women’s Long Jump. Sawyers’s score of 6.93m saw her top the pack to win a second Commonwealth medal – 12 years after the first.
In the same discipline, alum Molly Palmer finished sixth in the final after recording 6.55m.
There was also medal success for alum Owen Heard in the Men’s Pole Vault. Heard recorded 5.70m to take a brilliant bronze – Team England’s 100th medal of the Games.
On the track, Sophie Hahn couldn’t quite complete a double sprint gold at this year’s Games, having to settle for silver in the Women’s 200m T38 final.
The second-place finish in 27.53 seconds still caps an unbelieveable championships for Hahn, who will return to Loughborough elated at her medal returns.
In the same race, Loughborough-linked Ali Fewlin finished in sixth, clocking 29.21.
Back in the field, university-based Lawrence Okoye won an excellent bronze medal in the Men’s Discus Throw final. The 34-year-old recorded a best effort of 64.45m to make the podium and win his second ever Commonwealth medal.
Back on the track, Scotland finished seventh in the Women’s 4x100m Relay final. Alum Alisha Rees ran the anchor leg as the host recorded 44.81. Fellow alum Georgina Adam also ran in the heats.
In the Men’s 4x100m Relay event, Alum Elliot Jones’s Team England side finished just outside the medals in fourth. Their time of 38.71 was just .58 seconds behind bronze winners Ghana.
Alum Ben Pattison missed out on a podium place with a fourth-place finish in the Men’s 800m. Pattison’s 1:46.25 was so close to third but sadly fell short.
Jake Wightman finished sixth in the Men’s One Mile final after being in medal contention for much of the race. The Loughborough alum clocked 3:56.36.
Read more on another brilliant athletics evening here: www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2026/august/more-medals-won-on-penultimate-day
Boxing
Loughborough College alum Chantelle Reid kept the Loughborough coming by winning silver in the Women’s 70kg category. India’s Arundhati Choudhary proved too much an obstacle in the final round, winning 5-0 overall.
Netball
England will have to settle for a bronze medal at best after a 61-54 defeat to New Zealand in this morning’s semi-final.
England’s Loughborough-linked Fran Williams, Ella Clark, and Jess Shaw all made appearances in a match the Silver Ferns ran out deserved winners.
A shock semi-final defeat to Jamaica means pre-Games favourites Australia will now face England in Sunday’s bronze medal clash, scheduled for 09:00 BST on Sunday.
That also means a guaranteed silver at least for Jamaica’s trio of former Lightning players – Shamera Sterling-Humphrey, Rhea Dixon, and Brie Grierson – in Sunday’s showpiece final at 13:00 BST.
Cycling
There unfortunately weren’t any Loughborough cycling medals on Saturday as both England’s Sophie Capewell and Wales’s Rhian Edmunds finished outside the medal places in the Women’s 1000m Time Trial final.
Both current students at the University, Capewell clocked 1:06.107 to finish fourth, while Edmunds’ 1:06.978 was enough for ninth.
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