Today at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games – July 29

Published On: 29 July 2022

WAIS has supported 46 athletes, making up 90% of the Western Australian athletes selected on the team. The first day of action will see WA athletes across swimming, basketball, boxing, cycling, lawn bowls and netball.

Aquatics – Swimming: From 5:30PM
6:49PM Men’s 100m Backstroke Heats – Josh Edwards-Smith
7:02PM Women’s 100m Butterfly Heats – Brianna Throssell
7:30PM Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay Heats – To Be Confirmed
3:56AM Women’s 100m Butterfly Semifinals – (Subject to qualifying) Brianna Throssell
4:31AM Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final – (Subject to qualifying) To Be Confirmed

Basketball 3×3
10:55PM Women’s 3×3 Australia v Scotland – Lauren Scherf
3:20AM Men’s Wheelchair 3×3 Australia v Canada – Jake Kavanagh
3:45AM Women’s Wheelchair 3×3 Australia v Scotland – Amber Merritt and Georgia Inglis
4:35AM Women’s 3×3 Australia v Kenya – Lauren Scherf

Boxing: From 7PM
Men’s Light Welter – Billy Polkinghorn

Cycling: From 5PM
5:55PM Men’s Team Pursuit Qualification – Conor Leahy
7:16PM Men’s Team Sprint Qualification – Matt Richardson
11:10PM Men’s 1000m Time Trial – Luke Zaccaria
11:41PM Men’s Team Pursuit Finals – (Subject to qualifying) Conor Leahy
1:03AM Men’s Team Sprint Finals – (Subject to qualifying) Matt Richardson

Lawn Bowls: From 10PM
Women’s Fours Round 1 Australia v Botswana – Kristina Krstic
Women’s Fours Round 2 Australia v Fiji – Kristina Krstic

Netball
7:00PM Australia v Barbados – Courtney Bruce and Sunday Aryang