Australian walk champion clashes with Kenyan rival as weightlifting star heads to MasterChef

Isaac Beacroft, the 19-year-old Australian who captured gold in the men’s 10,000-metre walk, rebuffed repeated taunts from Kenyan Stephen Kihu, insisting he would not “go around” and instead executed a decisive kick to the finish. A product of Greater Western Sydney’s junior academy, Beacroft said the rivalry spurred him to “drop the hammer” and claim victory. In a separate story, England’s Emily Campbell, an Olympic and World Championships medallist, set a Commonwealth Games record of 278 kg in the women’s +86 kg weight class before turning her attention to the kitchen for Celebrity MasterChef.

Campbell described the TV competition as more nerve-racking than the Games and promised to showcase a Caribbean signature dish. Australian cyclists Felicity Wilson-Haffenden and Sophie Edwards were disqualified from the women’s individual pursuit over equipment-related rule breaches, prompting comments from AusCycling’s performance director Jesse Korf. A re-run of the women’s 1,500 m T54 race saw Australia’s Mikaela Dingley lose a brief bronze medal after the original result was overturned, while Botswana’s lawn bowler Charles Diteko looked forward to a Celtic match after the Games.