Hosts: Birmingham Dates: 28 July to 8 AugustCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app. Full detailsThe 22nd Commonwealth Games are under way – and here’s your day-by-day guide to all the action in Birmingham.
More than 5,000 athletes representing 72 nations and territories are competing in 280 medal events over a packed 11 days.
All times are BST and events are subject to change.
BBC TV times and extra live streamsBirmingham 2022 medal tableHome nations stars to watchSunday, 31 July – day threeLaura Kenny and Adam Peaty both hope to be celebrating gold on SundayGold medals: 24
Gymnastics: Women’s and men’s individual all-around
Rugby sevens: Women and men
Swimming: Women’s 50m free, men’s 200m fly, women’s 200m breast, SB8 men’s 100m breast, S8 women’s 100m back, women’s 100m back, men’s 100m breast, S14 mixed 4x100m free relay, women’s 4x200m free relay
Track cycling: Men’s tandem B sprint, women’s tandem B time trial, women’s points race, women’s time trial, men’s sprint, men’s scratch race
Triathlon: Women’s and men’s PTVI, mixed relay
Weightlifting: Women’s 59kg, men’s 67kg, men’s 73kg
Medal highlights
England’s Jake Jarman topped qualifying for the all-around final09: 00-12: 00 and 14: 30-17: 30 – Gymnastics – men’s (09: 00) and women’s (14: 30) individual all-around finals, where the gymnasts must perform on all sets of apparatus and the best combined score wins.
Women’s 2018 champion Ellie Black is not in this year’s Canada team, offering Australia’s Georgia Godwin and England’s Alice Kinsella the chance to upgrade their respective silver and bronze medals from the Gold Coast, though watch out also for England’s 18-year-old Ondine Achampong.
Commonwealth debutant Jake Jarman and 2018 all-around silver medallist James Hall, who helped England to team gold on Friday, were the two highest-scoring gymnasts in qualification.
11: 00-16: 20 – Triathlon hands out its final three sets of medals, beginning with the PTVI races featuring athletes who have visual impairments. Scotland’s Alison Peasgood, a Rio Paralympic silver medallist in 2016, is reunited with guide Hazel MacLeod, herself a reserve for Scotland’s Commonwealth Games triathlon team in 2014.
In the men’s PTVI race, sprint swimmer turned four-time Para-triathlon world champion Dave Ellis is a favourite for England.
14: 30 – Mixed team relay – Great Britain soared to a magnificent gold on its Olympic debut in Tokyo last year. Only two of that team are competing for England after Jonny Brownlee and Jess Learmonth were ruled out with injury. However, in Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown they have individual Commonwealth gold and silver medallists respectively. Australia are the defending champions, while any team with individual silver medallist Hayden Wilde in it has a chance – so look out for New Zealand. Scotland’s team will be headed by Beth Potter who is having a breakthrough season and took bronze on Friday, while Wales’ quartet contains former world champion Non Stanford.
15: 00-19: 00 – Track cycling – Laura Kenny, who won team pursuit bronze on Friday, goes for gold in the women’s 25km points race at 15: 53. England team-mate Matt Walls, the Olympic omnium champion, will miss the men’s scratch race at 18: 42 after being taken to hospital for tests following a nasty eight-rider crash during qualifying.
Elsewhere, Scotland’s Jack Carlin will be going for sprint gold while Wales’ James Ball and Scotland’s Neil Fachie look set for a close contest in the men’s tandem B sprint while there are strong home hopes in the women’s tandem 1,000m time trial. Scotland’s Aileen McGlynn and pilot Ellie Stone won silver in Friday’s Para tandem sprint but fellow Scot Libby Clegg missed out on a medal as did England’s Sophie Unwin and pilot Georgia Holt in controversial circumstances.
19: 00-21: 50 – Swimming – English eyes will be on the men’s 100m breaststroke final, where three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty seems to have fully recovered from a broken foot as he bids to defend his Commonwealth title (20: 51).
Another day at the pool, another butterfly final, and another Chad le Clos medal opportunity for South Africa. This time it’s over 200m. It’s another event he won four years ago. Le Clos’ team-mate Tatjana Schoenmaker will then try to hold off England’s Molly Renshaw and Abbie Wood in the women’s 200m breaststroke, which she won at Tokyo 2020.
For Wales, Lily Rice has a shot at gold in the women’s S8 100m backstroke and Medi Harris will look to upset world record-holder Kaylee McKeown of Australia and Canada’s Kylie Masse in the women’s 100m backstroke.
18: 00-22: 00 – Rugby sevens concludes in Coventry with the men’s and women’s finals at 20: 38 and 21: 04. Fiji face Australia in the women’s final. In the men’s event, Fiji play New Zealand in the first semi-final (12: 42) before Australia take on South Africa (13: 04)
What else is happening?Wales will seek to make the women’s team table tennis finalEngland’s 2018 weightlifting silver medallist Jack Oliver and up-and-coming Welshman Michael Farmer take on young Indian star Achinta Sheuli in the men’s 73kg class. Watch out for African record-setter Rafiatu Folashade Lawal of Nigeria in the women’s 59kg.
At 11: 00, one of the highest profile fixtures on any cricket calendar takes place – India face Pakistan in a group-stage game before world champions Australia, who overcame India in their opening match but had a big scare, face Barbados.
England’s men play Wales at 14: 00 in hockey’s group stages, while Scotland’s men, ranked 19th in the world, have a tough task against world number one side Australia from 09: 00. England face Canada in the women’s tournament at 19: 00.
In beach volleyball, Scotland’s women take on Vanuatu in a group game at 15: 30. Lynne Beattie, 36, and Melissa Coutts, 51, have a combined age of 87 but that brings a wealth of experience. They reached the quarters in 2018 and Beattie captained Great Britain’s indoor volleyball team at the 2012 Olympics. The 2018 Games marked the first time in Commonwealth history that Vanuatu won medals as they collected two bronzes, firstly in F46 javelin and then in beach volleyball as Miller Pata and then partner Linline Matauatu made the podium. Pata is now with Tini Tok. England pair Jess Grimson 31, and Daisy Mumby, 30, face Solomon Islands at 20: 00.
Table tennis has the men’s team quarter-finals at 09: 30 and Wales are in the women’s team semi-finals from 16: 00 after beating England in the last eight on Saturday.
Lawn bowls reaches the quarter-final stages for men’s triples, men’s fours, men’s pairs and women’s singles from 15: 00.
TV coverage and live streams
BBC One – 09: 00-13: 00, 13: 15-15: 35, 19: 45-22: 00
BBC Two – 15: 35-19: 45
BBC Three – 19: 00-22: 30
Red Button – 08: 25-22: 30
Digital platforms – watch up to 11 live streams from 08: 25-22: 35
Highlights
BBC One – 22: 30-23: 30
Monday, 1 August – day fourGold medals: 28
Gymnastics: Women’s vault and uneven bars, men’s floor, rings and pommel horse
Judo: Women’s -48kg, -52kg and -57kg, men’s -60kg and -66kg
Lawn bowls: Women’s singles, men’s triples
Swimming: Women’s 200m back, 200m medley, SB6 100m breast and 50m fly, men’s 100m free, S7 50m free, 50m back and 4x200m free relay
Table tennis: Women’s team
Track cycling: Women’s keirin and scratch race, men’s points race and time trial
Weightlifting: Women’s 64kg and 71kg, men’s 81kg
Medal highlights
13: 00-17: 00 – The first day of individual apparatus finals offers up five gymnastics gold medals. England’s Courtney Tulloch is set to attempt a defence of his 2018 gold on rings, an apparatus requiring immense upper-body strength and control, while team-mate Giarnni Regini-Morgan is a European silver medallist in the floor event. Rhys McClenaghan, cleared to take part after a row involving gymnastics’ world governing body over his eligibility having competed for Ireland at Tokyo 2020, won pommel horse gold in 2018. That was Northern Ireland’s only gold of the Games.
14: 00-19: 00 – Track cycling ends on Monday with the men’s points race, where we strongly recommend listening to the commentary to follow exactly what’s happening. You get points for performing well in a series of sprints throughout the race and also for lapping the field. Tracking everyone’s progress if this is your first points race could be a challenge. England’s Matt Walls won the Tokyo 2020 points race on the way to winning the Olympic omnium title. New Zealand’s Campbell Stewart, who was second in that race and won Olympic silver behind Walls, will also be in Birmingham, as will England team-mate Ethan Hayter, the omnium world champion. For Scotland, 2018 silver medallist Neah Evans could go one better in the women’s scratch race, although Laura Kenny is expected to ride against her for England.
19: 00-22: 00 – We move past the halfway point in swimming with the men’s 100m freestyle providing the night’s first final. Australia’s Kyle Chalmers will see this as a big opportunity to make an impact, having won Olympic silver in Tokyo. Canada’s Josh Liendo just picked up world bronze in this distance, with England’s Lewis Burras seventh in the same race. The women’s 200m individual medley could turn into a battle between Australia’s Kaylee McKeown and England’s Abbie Wood, while Maisie Summers-Newton, a world and European champion, has said she’s excited to hear the host nation’s roar in Birmingham after the pandemic-induced quiet of Tokyo when she swims for England in the SB6 100m breaststroke. Lastly, the 4x200m men’s freestyle relay splits apart the GB team – with English, Welsh and Scottish representation – that won gold in Tokyo last year.
What else is happening?
The first of three days of judo culminates in medal matches from 18: 00 to 20: 45. Judo has only appeared sporadically at the Commonwealth Games – four times since 1990 – so this is a relatively rare opportunity to see the sport at this level.
Table tennis runs from 09: 30 to 14: 45 with the women’s team medals decided. India beat Singapore to gold in this event four years ago, with England third after defeating Australia in the bronze medal play-off. Table tennis has only been in the Commonwealth Games since 2002 but Singapore already have a staggering 50 medals in this event, more than double the number won by any other nation.
In men’s hockey, there’s a group-stage test for England as they play India, the team ranked one above them in the world, at 16: 00.
Victoria Park in Leamington Spa hosts lawn bowls – a.k.a. curling on grass – with Wales’ Laura Daniels hoping to improve on women’s singles silver four years ago. Scotland are defending men’s triples champions. Lawn bowls can be a great opportunity to see teams from smaller nations and territories, such as Norfolk Island, the Cook Islands and Niue, who routinely compete in this event. In 2018, the Cook Islands even managed bronze in the men’s pairs, the islands’ first Commonwealth Games medal.
Tuesday, 2 August – day fiveGold medals: 37
Athletics: Women’s pole vault, discus, T37/38 100m and T33/34 100m, men’s T45-47 100m and 10,000m
Badminton: Mixed team
Basketball (3×3): Women’s and men’s wheelchair, women’s and men’s
Gymnastics: Women’s beam and floor, men’s vault, parallel bars and high bar
Judo: Women’s -63kg and -70kg, men’s -73kg and -81kg
Lawn bowls: women’s fours, men’s pairs, B6-8 para men’s pairs
Swimming: Women’s 100m free, 100m breast, 200m fly, SM10 200m medley and 800m free, men’s 100m fly, 200m back, S10 100m fly, 50m breast, mixed 4x100m medley relay
Table tennis: Men’s team
Weightlifting: Women’s 76kg and 87kg, men’s 96kg
Medal highlights
13: 00-17: 00 – Gymnastics concludes with another medal opportunity for England’s Giarnni Regini-Moran in the men’s vault, plus compatriots Alice Kinsella on the beam and Joe Fraser on the parallel bars. Frank Baines, coming out of retirement to compete in a third Commonwealth Games for Scotland, has a shot at a parallel bars medal too.
19: 00-22: 15 – Back to Alexander Stadium, scene of the opening ceremony, we go for the opening night of athletics action with six gold medals on the line. England will look to Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw in the women’s pole vault, Sophie Hahn in the women’s T37/38 100m, and Hannah Cockroft in the women’s T33/34 100m. In the men’s 10,000m, Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei – winner of the 2018 Commonwealth title – just won the world title in Oregon, leading home compatriot Jacob Kiplimo in third place, which bodes well for an impressive streak: Uganda have won the Commonwealth men’s 10,000m on every occasion since 2006.
19: 00-22: 15 – Not to be outdone, swimming offers up a blockbuster night to accompany the opening action at the track. There could be medals heading all over the place and some classic races if the cards fall the right way. England’s Adam Peaty is hot favourite in the men’s 50m breaststroke and Ariarne Titmus will be hard to beat in the women’s 800m free, but expect some scraps in events like the women’s 200m butterfly, where Canadian world champion Summer McIntosh – 15 years old – will try to hold off defending Commonwealth champion Alys Thomas of Wales. In the men’s 100m butterfly, at least four nations will feel they have a gold-medal prospect: Canadian world bronze medallist Josh Liendo, Australia’s Matthew Temple who
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