BIRMINGHAM: Global champion Ben Proud powered into the semi-finals of the lads’s 50m freestyle on the Commonwealth Video games on Tuesday as breaststroke superstar Adam Peaty ready for a shot at redemption. England’s Proud, who gained the arena name in Budapest in June, used to be third-quickest within the heats, at the back of compatriot Lewis Burras, who touched in 22.09sec, and Australia’s Tom Nowakowski.

“That is what the entire thing’s about,” stated the 27-year-old, who’s aiming for a 3rd directly 50m freestyle Commonwealth name. “Within the butterfly (he gained gold on Saturday) it used to be about reclaiming my name after a couple of years. “The freestyle has been with me the entire time. I paintings so much tougher for it, I installed paintings each unmarried day. “That is one thing I’m going to do to end up that I’ve constantly been on the best for 8 years.”

Canadian international champion Kylie Masse crowned the charts within the girls’s 50m backstroke heats in a time of 27.57, with Australia’s Bronte Activity and Kaylee McKeown additionally within the combine. England’s Luke Greenbank (1min 56.33sec) used to be fastest in qualifying for the overall of the lads’s 200m backstroke, forward of compatriot Brodie Williams. Australian youngster Elizabeth Dekkers used to be quickest within the girls’s 200m butterfly heats, timing 2:07.62, whilst compatriot Sam Quick ruled the lads’s 1500m freestyle heats, touching in 15:02.66.

Ten gold medals are on be offering on Tuesday night time at the penultimate evening of motion on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, together with medals in para swimming. England’s Peaty, the arena document holder within the 50m breaststroke, is determined to avenge his “devastating” loss within the 100m match. However the 27-year-old, who neglected the hot international championships with a foot fracture, will face a stiff problem, with Australia’s Sam Williamson the fastest in qualifying. Australia paved the way within the Commonwealth pool with 16 golds out of a imaginable 33.

Emotional biking finale

In the meantime, England’s Laura Kenny and Australian Matthew Glaetzer gained Commonwealth Video games gold medals on an emotion-packed ultimate day on the monitor biking on Monday. Kenny, who has suffered a miscarriage and an ectopic being pregnant since competing eventually yr’s Tokyo Olympics, admitted she had concept it used to be “going to be my ultimate race”.

Then again, she re-focused and gained the ladies’s 10-kilometre scratch at the similar monitor the place 10 years in the past, elderly 20, she gained double Olympic gold. Glaetzer battled again from thyroid most cancers to compete on the Olympics however after some wretched success in Birmingham – coming to grief within the keirin after which stripped of his bronze medal within the dash on Sunday – he gained the lads’s 1,000m time trial.

New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews gained her 1/3 gold of the Video games, touchdown the ladies’s keirin. Her compatriot, Aaron Gate, additionally gained for the 1/3 time on the Video games, taking gold within the males’s 40km issues race. Kenny – watched by means of husband, fellow biking nice Jason Kenny – whipped off her helmet and whirled her proper hand within the air, pointing to the raucous crowd ahead of dismounting and draping herself within the flag of St George.

‘Misplaced spark’

It used to be a pointy distinction from her feelings within the lead-up to the race. Kenny, who has a tender son, had taken bronze within the staff pursuit after which completed thirteenth within the issues race on Sunday. She admitted her self assurance have been shaken by means of a horrific crash on that day that had ended in her team-mate, Matt Partitions, being taken to health facility. Her race on Monday used to be additionally marred by means of a crash that resulted in Indian rider Meenakshi Meenakshi being stretchered off the monitor. “You notice one thing like that (Partitions going over the barrier into the gang)… I used to be having a significant self assurance disaster,” she instructed the BBC.

“I simply didn’t need to be at the monitor and when that occurs I race badly and I don’t get a consequence. “And that’s what came about. While lately I used to be so fired up. I stored announcing to myself in the bathroom, ‘I will be able to do that’.” Kenny, who secured England’s best monitor biking gold on the Commonwealths, stated she had instructed her husband on Sunday evening the sport used to be up. “I will be able to’t imagine it. Truthfully, I stated to Jase (Jason Kenny) ‘I feel that is going to be my ultimate race’,” she stated.

“I’ve misplaced the spark, coaching doesn’t come that simple. I’ve completely simply misplaced motivation. “Then ultimate evening I used to be messaging my new trainer Len and I used to be like ‘No, I’m now not giving up, I’ve another roll of the cube, please simply assist me. “It will now not had been higher arrange if I attempted.” Glaetzer had a beaming smile as he stood at the best step of the rostrum. The 29-year-old had soaked up the applause on his lap of honour, with an Australian flag tied round his neck, Superman taste.

“I’m creating a addiction of bouncing again on the Commonwealth Video games,” stated Glaetzer, who timed 59.505sec. “I’d quite now not have such lows to return again from, but it surely presentations there may be at all times a brand new day and we will be able to at all times take a look at once more,” he stated. New Zealand and Australia ruled the Commonwealth Video games monitor biking, which incorporated para monitor occasions, successful 8 gold medals apiece. Many of the occasions on the Commonwealths are being held in Birmingham however the monitor biking came about on the Lee Valley VeloPark in London. – AFP