Australians have racked up another trifecta at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, this one in the womens 20 kilometre road time trials final.
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20 Mar 2006 - 12:00 AM  UPDATED 22 Aug 2013 - 12:18 PM

Oenone Wood clinched the gold with Kathy Watt and Sara Carrigan taking silver and bronze respectively.

Shooting

Australia's Lalita Yauhleuskaya won the women's 25m Pistol shooting gold with Kim Eagles of Canada won silver while Pamela McKenzie of Australia took
bronze.

Swimming

Australian swimmer Liesel Jones broke the world record in the 100 metres breaststroke at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

Jones hit the wall in a time of 1:05.09 ahead of her teammate Jane Edminstone who swam 1:07.24. Kirsty Balfour of Scotland took the bronze.

It was another women's trifecta in the pool when Libby Lenton has outswam her teammates Jodie Henry and Alice Mills to take gold.

Finishing the 50m Freestyle Final in 24.74, Lenton set a new Games record and replicated the result of the 100m Freestyle when the three Australians swan 1, 2 and 3.

Australia's Joanna Fargus has gone one better than Manchester to win her first Games Backstroke gold medal in the 200m backstroke final setting a new Games record in 2:10.36.

She was followed by England’s Melanie Marshall and New Zealand’s Hannah McLean.

In the Women’s 50m Backstroke Australia’s Giaan Rooney and Sophie Edington battling to touch the wall first. Edington equalled the Games record of 28.42 set by Rooney in the Semi-Final. Tayliah Zimmer finished third.

The 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay was Australia's, romping home with a lead of around three body lengths. England and Canada took silver and bronze respectively.

Earlier Papua New Guinea won its first gold medal of the Games with Ryan Pini flying home to win the 100m Butterfly Final from Australia’s Michael Klim.

Improving on their semi-final times, Pini clocked 52.86 and Klim 52.64 while New Zealand’s Moss Burmester touched for bronze.

England's Liam Tancock won the mens 100 metre backstroke followed by Australia's Mat Welsh and Gregor Tait from Scotland.

England had great night in the pool, earlier coming in one, two as Christopher Cook and Darren Mew were followed by Australia's Breonton Rickard.

Caitlin McClatchey won the 400m Freestyle with Australia’s Bronte Barratt following Joanne Jackson from England for the bronze medal.

Track and field

Jamaica's Asafa Powell won his first major title by clinching the men's 100 metres on the track.

Powell, the world record holder was easily the favourite, but he needed to win a major title to break that jinx.

He grabbed gold in 10.03 seconds with Nigeria's Soji Fasuba taking silver in 10.11 seconds and Marc Burns of Trinidad and Tobago third in 10.17.

In the Women’s 100 metres final, Jamica’s, Sheri-Ann Brooks, took gold ahead of South Africa’s Geraldine Pillay with Delphine Atangana, of Cameroon winning the bronze medal.

In the men's 5000 metres, Kenya's Augustine Choge clinched the title from local favourite Craig Mottram.

Choge overtook Mottram before the final bend and raced to the line in a games record 12 minutes, 56.41 seconds.

Mottram came second in 12:58:19 with world champion Benjamin Limo, also of Kenya, third in 13:05.30.

Australia’s Brooke Krueger set a Commonwealth Games record to win the gold medal in the Women’s Hammer Throw final with a throw of 67.9 metres.

It breaks the record of 66.83m set by England’s Lorraine Shaw at the Manchester Games in 2002.

Canada’s Jennifer Joyce won silver with 67.29m while Shaw could only manage 66m to take the bronze medal.

Gymnastics

Englishwoman Imogen Cairns scored 14.325 after nailing her two vaults - a Yurchenko half-on, pike-off and Yurchenko one-and-half, to claim gold.

Canadian Alyssa Brown collected the silver with a score of 14.275, and Australian Naomi Russell bronze with 14.137.

In the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics pommel final Canada' national champion Alexander Wong claimed his second gold medal of the Games.

Malaysia’s Shu Wai Ng, collected his second consecutive Games silver while Olympic champion Kyle Shewfelt had to settle for bronze.

MEDAL TALLY

AUSTRALIA 43 Gold 39 Silver 33 Bronze

ENGLAND 18 Gold 22 Silver 15 Bronze

INDIA 13 Gold 8 Silver 3 Bronze

SCOTLAND 8 Gold 5 Silver 6 Bronze

CANADA 7 Gold 16 Silver 14 Bronze