MANCHESTER (voa) – Olympic champion Simon Whitfield of Canada made the most of the 10-kilometer run on his way to winning the men’s triathlon in one hour, 51 minutes and 57 seconds. Miles Stewart of Australia took silver, while Hamish Carter of New Zealand won the bronze.
His fellow-Canadian Carol Montgomery took the women’s gold 20 seconds ahead of Leanda Cave of Wales, in a time of two hours, three minutes and 18 seconds. Nicole Hackett of Australia took bronze.
Petria Thomas of Australia has kicked off the final night of swimming at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England by winning her third individual butterfly gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly.
Thomas touched the wall in two minutes, 8.40 seconds Sunday to win her fourth gold of the Games. England’s Georgie Lee took the silver, while the bronze went to Margaretha Pedder. Thomas picked up another gold medal as she led Australia to the title in the women’s 4 x 100-meter medley relay.
World record-holder and world champion Grant Hackett of Australia cruised to victory in the 1,500 meter freestyle final, picking up the gold in 14 minutes and 54.29 seconds. Scotland’s Graeme Smith held off Aussie Craig Stevens for the silver. In other events, Roland Schoeman of South Africa captured gold in the men’s 50-meter freestyle, Jim Piper of Australia won the men’s 200-meter breaststroke, and his countrywoman Jennifer Reilly took the title in the women’s 400-meter individual medley.
Australian Ian Thorpe won his sixth gold medal at Manchester to match compatriot Susie O’Neill as the most successful swimmers ever at the Commonwealth Games. Thorpe also became the first man to win an aggregate 10 Commonwealth golds, as he anchored Australia’s 4 x 100-meter medley relay team to victory Sunday in the last event of the Games swim meet.
The 19-year-old did not reach his goal of seven gold medals, which would have tied the record set in the pool by American Mark Spitz at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Thorpe placed second to countryman Matt Welsh in the 100-meter backstroke Saturday, but had already won gold in the 100, 200 and 400-meter individual races as well as the 4 x 100 and four-by-200 team relays.
Jamie Dwyer has netted a hat-trick (three goals) to lead Australia to the men’s field hockey gold medal, as the defending champions defeated New Zealand 5-2. Earlier, Sohail Abbas scored five goals to spark Pakistan to a 10-2 drubbing of South Africa in the bronze medal match.
Indian weightlifter Krishnan Madasamy took the shine off a team which has been celebrating its biggest-ever haul of Commonwealth Games medals. With the Indian team winning 64 medals, 29 of them gold, the Commonwealth Games Federation took three silvers away after Madasamy tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone.
Malaysia ended the Commonwealth Games badminton tournament with a golden treble, winning the men’s singles, men’s doubles and women’s doubles. England picked up the mixed doubles badminton gold, while the men’s table tennis gold went to Singapore.
