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  1. Team Wales captain Breen claims sprint silverpublished at 20:01 BST

    Olivia BreenImage source, Team Wales

    Team Wales captain Olivia Breen earned the first Welsh medal in athletics with a silver in the T38 100m final with a season's best of 12.86 seconds.

    Breen, who was the defending champion, was beaten by England's Sophie Hahn to the gold.

    Breen, who turned 30 yesterday, edged England's Maddie Down in a photo finish on the line.

    It is the fourth Commonwealth medal of her career. Wales have now won seven Games medals in Glasgow, with two silvers and five bronze.

  2. Wales wheelchair basketball side suffer Scotland losspublished at 18:20 BST

    The Wales 3x3 wheelchair basketball teamImage source, Team Wales

    The Wales women 3x3 basketball team lost their first game in the final group game when they were defeated 16-2 by Scotland.

    After Wales' victories against India and Nigeria, the Commonwealth Games hosts proved too strong.

    Molly Lander scored the two Wales points with Olivia Phillips, Anastasia Blease and Chloe Morgan completing the quartet.

    Scotland top Pool B and head to the semi-finals, with Wales now going into a play-off system to try and qualify for the last four.

  3. Weightlifter Jones finishes sixth in Glasgowpublished at 17:41 BST

    Catrin Haf JonesImage source, Getty Images

    Weightlifter Catrin Haf Jones finished sixth in the women's 58kg final in Glasgow.

    The 27-year-old from Bangor was competing in her third Games and lifted a snatch of 82kg which placed her sixth at the halfway stage.

    Jones lifted 106kg in her clean and jerk to complete a total of 188kg.

    "It was a bit of a whirlwind," said Jones.

    "I am proud of my performance today, especially after Birmingham in 2022 did not go to plan where I did not put a score on the board."

    Nigerian Rafiatu Folashade Lawal won the gold medal.

  4. Abigail Roper claims gymnastics vault bronzepublished at 14:25 BST

    Abigail Roper with the Wales flagImage source, Getty

    Gymnast Abigail Roper claimed Commonwealth Games bronze in the women's vault in Glasgow.

    It was Wales' first women's vault medal since Sonia Lawrence in 1994, while Roper's identical twin sister Emily finished fourth.

    Canada's Lia-Monica Fontaine claimed gold, with England's Abigail Martin finishing second.

    It was Wales' fifth Commonwealth Games medal in Glasgow after four podium finishes of one silver and three bronze in the pool, with the wait for gold continuing.

    "I can't even put into words how crazy it is," said Abigail.

    "I went into this final with no expectations, it was my first final at a major tournament and I was just happy to make it.

    "To come away with a bronze medal is just insane."

    Abigail admitted she felt for her sister, who had a further chance to win a medal in the uneven bars later on Monday.

    "I want to be happy for myself but then at the same time like I feel bad for her," Abigail said.

    "Fourth is not the best after coming fourth in the team final, we found that hard.

    "She's got the bars final now, so she just needs to keep her head focused and hopefully she'll do a really good job."

  5. Team Wales captain Breen qualifies for final published at 13:35 BST

    Rhiannon Clarke and Olivia BreenImage source, Team Wales

    Olivia Breen is through to Monday night's T37/38 100m finals after finishing second in her heat.

    The double Commonwealth gold medal winner finished in 13:05, the third fastest time.

    "I'm happy, I'm content," she said.

    "I didn't want to go all out for the heat, I'm saving myself for the final and I'm excited for later.

    The Team Wales captain celebrated her 30th birthday yesterday.

    "I went to The Ivy with my parents, had a good old Shepherds pie," said Breen.

    Meanwhile, there was disappointment for Welsh hammer thrower Amber Simpson who failed to qualify for the final.

    After two failures, she threw 59.14 on her final attempt which left her 13th in the standings, one shy of a place in tomorrow's medal event.

  6. Boxing duo take Wales quarter-finallists to sixpublished at 13:08 BST

    Owain Harris-Allan swings a punch at Niven ChembenImage source, Getty Images

    Owain Harris-Allan and Orlando Holley-Sotomi increased the number of Wales Commonwealth Games boxing quarter-finallists to six with victories in Monday's opening session in Glasgow.

    Harris-Allan, 22, celebrated a unanimous victory against Niven Chemben from Mauritius.

    The lightweight from Cardiff, who won bronze at the Birmingham Games in 2022, will fight Scotland's Nicholas Devlin on Wednesday.

    Light-heavyweight Holley-Sotomi defeated England's Paddy Hewitt in a split decision to set up a quarter-final bout against Refiloe Thai from Lesotho.

    Connor Williams, Rosie Eccles, Niamh Brookes and Helen Jones were already in the last eight, while Daniel Pitt is in last-16 action later on Monday

    Boxer Orlando Holley-Sotomi punches England's Paddy HewittImage source, Team Wales
  7. Richards eases through in first individual racepublished at 11:46 BST

    Matt Richards in actionImage source, Team Wales

    Olympic swimming champion Matt Richards began his Commonwealth Games individual campaign on Monday morning after already winning two relay medals.

    Richards was second in his 100m freestyle heat behind England's Gabriel Shepherd to progress to tonight's semi-final.

    He was third fastest in qualifying overall and will be joined by fellow Welsh swimmers Harry Milne and Dan Jones, who finished third and fourth respectively in their heat.

    Medi Harris and Rebecca Sutton qualified for the women's 50m backstroke semi-finals this evening, a feat that was matched by Amy Crowley in the women's 50m breaststroke.

  8. Sprinter Azu safely through to 100m semi-finals published at 11:26 BST

    Jeremiah AzuImage source, Team Wales

    Wales' fastest man Jeremiah Azu is through to the men's 100m semi-finals after a comfortable start to his Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

    Azu won his heat in a time of 10:10 which meant he was the sixth fastest in qualifying.

    The 17 fastest athletes are through to tomorrow's semi-finals where they will join the top seven ranked sprinters who were given a bye from the heats.

    "I got out well, and then I just controlled it from the front," said Azu.

    "With these days, it's more the nervous energy and the excitement that you can burn.

    "So on the track, you want to be as smart as you can during the rounds. Today was just about qualifying and getting through to tomorrow.

    "It's good to get the ball rolling. It's just been waiting, waiting, waiting, but now it's officially begun."