Today at the Birmingham Games – July 31
WAIS supported athletes appeared on the podium four times across day two of competition in Birmingham. It all started with Madison de Rozario in the marathon as she defended her gold from four years ago, Zac Incerti was part of the gold medal winning men’s 4x100m freestyle relay team in the pool and Conor Leahy and Brianna Throssell both picked up bronze.
In other competition the Hockeyroos got their campaign off to a strong start beating Kenya, the Diamonds keep on rolling with a big win over Scotland, the beach volleyball is underway for Paul Burnett with a win plus boxing and basketball wins.
A busy Sunday awaits in the pool with Kieren Pollard, Holly Barratt, Zac Incerti and Josh Yong chasing medals, Matt Richardson and Luke Zaccaria feature in the velodrome, the Kookaburras start their campaign and more.
Aquatics – Swimming: From 5:30PM5:30PM Men’s 200m Butterfly Heats – Kieren Pollard6:03PM Women’s 50m Butterfly Heats – Holly Barratt6:18PM Men’s 100m Freestyle Heats – Zac Incerti2:17AM Women’s 50m Butterfly Semi Final – (Subject to qualifying) Holly Barratt2:28AM Men’s 200m Butterfly Final – (Subject to qualifying) Kieren Pollard3:11AM Men’s 100m Freestyle Semi Final – (Subject to qualifying) Zac Incerti3:51AM Men’s 100m Breaststroke Final – Josh Yong
Basketball10:30PM Women’s 3×3 Australia v Sri Lanka – Lauren Scherf3:20AM Men’s Wheelchair 3×3 Australia v Northern Island – Jake Kavanagh3:45AM Women’s Wheelchair 3×3 Australia v South Africa – Amber Merritt and Georgia Inglis4:10AM Men’s 3×3 Australia v England – Greg Hire and Jesse Wagstaff
Boxing8:15PM Men’s Light Welterweight – Billy Polkinghorn
Cycling: From 5PM5:02PM Men’s Sprint Qualifying – Matt Richardson5:45PM Men’s Tandem B Sprint Qualifying – Luke Zaccaria5:57PM Men’s Sprint 1/8 Finals – (Subject to qualifying) Matt Richardson6:25PM Men’s Tandem B Sprint Semi Finals – (Subject to qualifying) Luke Zaccaria6:34PM Men’s Sprint Quarter Finals – (Subject to qualifying) Matt Richardson10:02PM Men’s Tandem B Sprint Finals – (Subject to qualifying) Luke Zaccaria10:10PM Men’s Sprint Semi Finals – (Subject to qualifying) Matt Richardson12:42AM Men’s Sprint Finals – (Subject to qualifying) Matt Richardson
Hockey6:00PM Men Australia v Scotland – Aran Zalewski, Tom Wickham and Jake Harvie4:00AM Women Australia v South Africa – Aleisha Power, Karri Somerville, Penny Squibb, Shanea Tonkin and Georgia Wilson