Sawyers, a Winter Youth Olympic games silver medallist in the bobsleigh, recorded a distance of 6.54 metres to finish second behind Nigeria’s Ese Brume.<\/p>\n
There were tears for Proctor, though, who pulled up halfway down the runway holding her left thigh, and was unable to continue.<\/p>\n
Jodie Williams and Bianca Williams shed tears of a different kind by claiming respective silver and bronze in the 200m.<\/p>\n
\nThursday evening’s athletics golds at a glance<\/h2>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n\nVikas Shive Gowda <\/strong>(India) – Men’s discus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Ese Brume<\/strong> (Nigeria) – Women’s long jump<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Angela Ballard<\/strong> (Australia) – Women’s 1,500m T54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | David Weir<\/strong> (England) – Men’s 1,500m T54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Nijel Amos<\/strong> (Botswana) – Men’s 800m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Cornel Fredericks <\/strong>(South Africa) – Men’s 400m hurdles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Kaliese Spencer<\/strong> (Jamaica) – Women’s 400m hurdles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Blessing Okagbare<\/strong> (Nigeria) – Women’s 200m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Rasheed Dwyer<\/strong> (Jamaica) – Men’s 200m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n | <\/p>\n The former, a 20-year-old who won silver in the 2010 World Junior Championships, ran 22.50secs to finish just 0.08 ahead of her 21-year-old team-mate.<\/p>\n In the men’s 200m, Jamaica swept the medals, with Rasheed Dwyer <\/strong> taking gold in 20.14, ahead of Warren Weir and Jason Livermore.<\/p>\n Two more Jamaicans, Kaliese Spencer <\/strong> and Janieve Russell, won gold and bronze respectively in the women’s 400m hurdles, but the Hampden Park cheers were reserved for home favourite Eilidh Child, who took silver.<\/p>\n South Africa’s Cornel Fredericks <\/strong> won the equivalent men’s event in a time of 48.50, seeing off the challenge of Trinidad and Tobago’s Jehue Gordon, who took silver, and Jeffery Gibson of the Bahamas, who claimed bronze. England’s Niall Flannery was fourth.<\/p>\n Botswana’s Nijel Amos <\/strong> produced a stunning run down the final straight to beat Kenyan David Rudisha to 800m Commonwealth gold.<\/p>\n Six-time Paralympic champion David Weir <\/strong> put in a majestic display to win his first Commonwealth gold medal in the men’s T54 1500m, while fellow English athlete Jade Jones <\/strong> won her first senior medal with bronze in the women’s T54 1500m.<\/p>\n England’s Jessica Judd <\/strong> claimed a superb victory in the second semi-final of the women’s 800m.<\/p>\n She was joined in Friday’s final by compatriot Jenny Meadows and Scotland’s Lynsey Sharp, who were a disappointing fourth and fifth respectively in the first semi, but qualified courtesy of being the fastest losers.<\/p>\n Scotland’s Emily Dudgeon narrowly missed out on qualification despite finishing fourth in her semi.<\/p>\n India’s Vikas Shive Gowda <\/strong> won the men’s discus with a throw of 63.64, with Cypriot Apostolos Parellis taking silver and Jason Morgan of Jamaica claiming bronze.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare completed a Glasgow 2014 sprint double by winning the women’s 200m ahead of English duo Jodie Williams and Bianca Williams. The 25-year-old, who won Monday’s 100m, claimed victory in 22.25 seconds. The two English sprinters ran personal best times, as did their compatriot Anyika Onuora, who took fourth. England’s Jazmin Sawyers won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":36340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1922,1797,3,31,125],"yoast_head":"\n |
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Jamaica cleaned up in the men’s 200m<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Blessing](\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76663000\/jpg\/_76663806_452976274.jpg\")
Okagbare (right) was just short of her own personal best in her run in Glasgow<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Kaliese](\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76665000\/jpg\/_76665236_452983250.jpg\")
Child, who also won silver in Delhi four years ago, ran a strong race and came home in 55.02 seconds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Silver](\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76665000\/jpg\/_76665238_452980408.jpg\")
England’s Jade Jones (right) is mentored by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n