Team SA started the ninth day of competition with 26 medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – seven golds, eight silvers and 11 bronzes. Veteran cyclist Daryl Impey produced the highlight with a silver in the men’s road race. This is how they fared on Sunday.
ATHLETICS
Women’s javelin, final: Jo-Ane van Dyk finished seventh with a throw of 57.12m. Australia’s Kelsey Lee-Barber won gold with 64.53m. Van Dyk’s best throw came with her second attempt
Women’s 5000m final: Dominique Scott finished fifth in a season’s best 15min 07.50sec in a race where gold was won by Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet in 14:38.21. Scott surged courageously down the final straight to overtake Uganda’s Sarah Chelangat to claim fifth
Women’s 4x400m relay, final: Miranda Coetzee, Taylon Bieldt, Shirley Nekhubui and Zeney van der Walt finished fifth in 3:30.25. England won the gold medal from Canada in one of the best finishes of the Games. The times were 3:25.85 and 3:25.86, a hundredth of a second between gold and silver. England were later DQ’d for a lane infringement, giving Canada the gold and moving Team SA up to fourth
CYCLING
Women’s Road Race: Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, Hayley Preen, Kerry Jonker
The race evolved into a sprint finished, as expected, and on a flat course it wouldn’t suit Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, who was the highest-ranked road race rider in the field. They went over the line next to one another, credited with the same time as the winner, but were never in a position to strike for the medals. The Australian Georgia Baker hung on for gold. Moolman-Pasio crossed the line in 11th, with Hayley Preen 12th, both in 2hr 44min 46sec. The first 24 finishers were credited with that time. Kerry Jonker was 39th, 5min 17sec behind.
Men’s Road Race: SILVER! Daryl Impey sprinted to the silver medal at the end of a pulsating men’s road race, won by Aaron Gate of New Zealand. Impey was second in a photo finish, in 3hr 28min 29sec. Morne van Niekerk, who was prominent for a long way in the 160km race, was 12th, some 26 seconds behind, with Callum Ormiston 37th (8:39 behind), while Gustav Basson was pulled off the road at the 144km mark with the backmarkers at that stage