Friday, 2 August, 2002, 10:25 GMT 11:25 UK
Commonwealth Games day nine
All the day nine action.
Women's 800m freestyle
Men's 100m freestyle
Men's 100m backstroke
Just minutes after being presented with his medal, Thorpe comfortably won his backstroke semi-final.
Fellow Australian Matt Welsh, the biggest obstacle to Thorpe's bid for the magnificent seven, won the other semi.
Women's 100m butterfly
Men's 400m individual medley
Women's 50m freestyle
Sheppard broke 25 seconds again just hours after shattering her own Games record with a time of 24.68secs in her heat.
Women's 100m multi-disability freestyle
Men's 50m butterfly
England's James Hickman reached the final, but was beaten in his semi by Australian Adam Pine.
Men's 50m breaststroke
Women's 50m backstroke
England's Sarah Price (29.13) set a new best British mark when winning the second semi.
Women's 100m breaststroke
England survived an early scare before defeating the Cook Islands 24-12 as the competition got under way.
The hosts followed up with a 33-12 victory over Kenya, who had earlier stunned sixth seeds Samoa 28-20.
Australia beat England to gold in the men's team sprint final. Scotland earned bronze.
New Zealand's Greg Henderson won the men's points race title with Australian Mark Renshaw second and England's Chris Newton bagging bronze.
The Kiwis also triumphed in the women's 3,000m individual pursuit final through Sarah Ulmer, whose time of of 3:32.467mins broke her own Games record.
David Calvert won his second gold medal of the Games for Northern Ireland by taking the men's open fullbore rifle singles title.
India's Anjali Bhagwat won her fourth gold by landing the women's 50m rifle three positions contest.
Canada's Metodi Igorov triumphed in the men's 25m rapid fire pistol, while Edith Barnes produced Scotland's second shooting medal.
Barnes took bronze behind winner Lauren Ogilvie and Natalia Rahman, who had to shoot off after tying for first place.
Indian Jaspal Rana claimed the men's 25m standard pistol honours, with South Africa's Frederick van Tonder winning a shoot-out to gain silver ahead of England's Mick Gault.
Delroy McQueen won triple gold for England in the 105kg competition.
Australian weightlifter Alex Karapetyn collected all three gold medals in the 94kg event, while England's David Guest clinched overall silver after taking second in the snatch.
Cameroon's Madeleine Yamechi swept the board in the women's 69kg weightlifting.
They will meet English pair Andrew Baggaley and Gareth Herbert.
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