Devynne strikes gold
Thirty-year-old Charlton wins 100 metre hurdles at the Commonwealth Games
• National record holder Keyshawn Strachan advances to men’s javelin final
• Veteran Anthonique Strachan falls short in women’s 200m semis, ends up 14th overall
• Steven Gardiner fails to advance in men’s 200m preliminaries, ends up 18th overall
IN the fnal event on day four of the track and feld competition at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, The Bahamas got its frst medal - a gold from Devynne Charlton in the women’s 100 metre hurdles.
Charlton, the 30-yearold national record holder, added her frst major outdoor feat to her silver she won at the last games in Birmingham, England, in 2022.
Running out of lane six and holding onto her quick lead from start to fnish over the 10 fights of hurdles in the Scotstoun Stadium, Charlton clocked 12.33 seconds to hold of her Jamaican training partner Megan Simmonds, who came through with the silver in 12.41.
Charlton, the three-time world indoor 60m champion and world record holder, also snapped Nigerian Tobi Amusan’s two-straight reign of the title going back to the Gold Coast in 2018 as she ended up with the bronze in 12.60.
It was expected to be a dandy of a fnal after the three competitors were
placed side by side based on their performances in the preliminaries earlier in the day.
The 29-year-old Amusan led the feld with the fastest qualifying time of 12.19, just shy of her world record of 12.12 from her victory at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Charlton, coming of her second-place fnish behind Denisha Cartwright at the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations’
National Championships in June, won the second heat in 12.39 with Simmonds coming in second in 12.55.
It was the third straight Commonwealth Games that The Bahamas has earned a gold medal, dating back to LaQuan Nairn’s victory in the men’s long jump in the 2022 Birmingham Games and Shaunae Miller-Uibo’s triumph in the women’s 400m at the 2018 Gold Coast Games.
Charlton’s medal now places The Bahamas in a two-way tie for 16th place overall with Fiji. Australia is leading the chart with 51 gold in their 110-medal haul.
While Charlton took the spotlight, two other Bahamians competed in their respective events with national record holder Keyshawn Strachan advancing to the men’s javelin fnal, but veteran Anthonique
Strachan fell short in her bid in the women’s 200m semifnals. Men’s Javelin
The 22-year-old Strachan earned a berth in today’s fnal of the spear with an eighth place in Group A with a heave of 257-feet, 10-inches or 78.60 metres. The fnal is set for today and Strachan will be the 11th competitor in the feld just behind Grenada’s two-time world
champion Anderson Peters, the defending silver medallist from the 2022 games. Trinidad & Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott, the 2012 Olympic gold medallist and the reigning world champion, is third on the list to compete. Women’s 200m Strachan, running out of lane one in the last of three heats, got ffth place in the