Women claim three medals at Glasgow Games
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Emma Foy and pilot Jessie Hodges beat a strong field for gold in the women's tandem para pair time trial - their second gold of the Commonwealth Games following their earlier win in the sprint.
Foy and Hodges were the fifth pair away in the field of six. They rode smoothly and seemed to pick up speed as they got further into the race and positively flew around the last lap.
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Their time of 1min 06.367s lifted them above the previous leaders, Australians Jessica Gallagher and Jacqueline Mengler-Mohr, by nearly hafl a second.
The New Zealanders then had a nervous wait while the English team made their bid. But they faltered and the gold was New Zealand's, to whoops of joy from all the New Zealand spectators.
Tori Moorby produced a sterling silver performance to place second in the javelin on a big day in the athletics stadium.
Moorby (née Peeters) had a best throw on the night of 60.04m, which gave her a margin of more than two metres on the bronze medallist. The javelin event was won by Australian Mackenzie Little, who had a best throw of 61.88m and led throughout the competition.
Moorby's sequence of throws was 55.85m, 56.27m, 60.04m, foul, 58.14m, foul.
Track cyclist Ellesse Andrews put in a determined ride to take bronze in the women's 1km time trial.
Andrews, already a four-time Olympic medallist, has been a fraction off her best in Glasgow, but she showed the fight of a champion.
She was the last of the 17 riders to go in the time trial and she followed shortly after Welsh marvel Emma Finucane had blazed her way to a time of 1min 05.285s, a Games record.
Andrews was quick and for much of the torturous journey she looked as if she'd grab the silver medal, but she faltered slightly in the closing stages and eventually recorded 1min 05.737s for the bronze.