Cameroon\u2019s Emmanuel Eseme powered to a Commonwealth Games record of 9.83 in the pouring rain to win the 100m in Glasgow on Tuesday (28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 32-year-old was one of three Games record-breakers during the first two days of competition at Scotstoun Stadium, Canada\u2019s Camryn Rogers and Ethan Katzberg also making history in the hammer. Rogers threw 74.91m to win the women\u2019s competition on Tuesday, while Katzberg managed 80.97m to win the men\u2019s on Monday (27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it was Eseme who secured the spotlight on the wet track as the African champion overpowered Australia\u2019s Lachlan Kennedy and Nigeria\u2019s Kayinsola Ajayi in the closing stages to win the 100m in a national record of 9.83 (1.3m\/s) \u2013 a performance that puts him third on the African all-time list and also makes him the third-fastest sprinter so far this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kennedy broke the Oceanian record with 9.85 for silver as the top four all dipped under 10 seconds \u2013 Ajayi clinching bronze in 9.90 and South Africa\u2019s Gift Leotlela finishing just 0.01 back for fourth place. Eseme had earlier won his semifinal in a national record of 9.89 (0.0m\/s), while Ajayi and Kennedy clocked 9.94, a PB for Kennedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New Zealand\u2019s Zoe Hobbs was another Oceanian record-breaker as she won her 100m title in 10.93 (1.0m\/s) to lead a sub-11 seconds top three ahead of England\u2019s Amy Hunt (10.98) and Australia\u2019s Torrie Lewis (10.99).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olympic and world hammer champion Rogers improved the Games record with her final throw in wet conditions as she launched the implement 74.91m to better her own previous record of 74.68m from Birmingham four years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That completed a Canadian hammer double as her fellow Olympic and world champion Katzberg threw 80.97m to improve on the Games record of 80.26m set by Nick Miller on the Gold Coast in 2018. All four of Katzberg\u2019s valid throws surpassed 80 metres. World U20 champion Iosif Kesidis of Cyprus was second with 76.97m and Rowan Hamilton clinched another medal for Canada \u2013 bronze with 75.36m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Games record was equalled in a women\u2019s high jump contest that was paused due to the rain, 2022 world gold medallist Eleanor Patterson clearing 1.96m on her final attempt to lead an Australian top two ahead of world champion Nicola Olyslagers (1.93m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was an Australian double in the 10,000m, Rose Davies winning a tactical women\u2019s race in 31:39.32 on Monday and Ky Robinson taking the men\u2019s title in 27:48.93 on Tuesday. Kenya\u2019s Diana Wanza was second in the women\u2019s race in 31:50.13, while Florence Niyonkuru battled for bronze, becoming Rwanda\u2019s first ever Commonwealth Games medallist. Silver in the men\u2019s race went to India\u2019s Gulveer Singh (27:49.78) and bronze to Isle of Man\u2019s David Mullarkey (27:50.28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kenya\u2019s world U20 champion Edmund Serem clocked 8:18.23 to lead a Kenyan medal sweep in the 3000m steeplechase ahead of Simon Koech and Leonard Bett as world champion Geordie Beamish finished fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jamaica\u2019s Demario Prince won the 110m hurdles in 13.17 (0.4m\/s) ahead of Sam Bennett in a PB of 13.30. There was another title for Jamaica in the high jump as Romaine Beckford got gold on countback ahead of India\u2019s Sarvesh Kushare after they both cleared 2.25m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Northern Ireland\u2019s Kate O’Connor led the heptathlon at the end of the first day with 3731 ahead of England\u2019s Jade O’Dowda on 3682. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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