ATHLETICS
Women's hammer
Lorraine Shaw claimed England's first gold medal of the 2002 Games with a throw of 66.83m.
Men's 10,000m
Kenyan Wilberforce Talel won the event in a Games record of 27 mins 49.39secs.
Men's 100m
English co-favourites Dwain Chambers and Mark Lewis-Francis comfortably reached the semi-finals with second round victories.
Chambers started slowly but won in 10.17secs, while Lewis-Francis could afford a sideways (10.13) look as he reached the line.
Women's 100m
Jamaica's Veronica Campbell won the first heat and will be joined in the semi-finals by the runner-up, Amanda Forrester of England.
Debbie Ferguson (11.23), of the Bahamas, produced the fastest qualifying time.
Men's 400m
World champion Avard Moncur coasted through to the semi-finals, as did Jamaican Michael Blackwood who was content to finished second in his round two run.
Earlier, Welshman Jamie Baulch was forced to pull out of the event with a hamstring injury.
Women's 400m
Defending champion Sandie Richards eased into the semi-finals.
Discus
South Africa's Frantz Kruger shattered the championship record with his opening throw in qualifying.
Kruger produced a monster effort of 66.25m to beat English thrower Bob Weir's mark by just 17cm shy of two metres.
Heptathlon
Australian Jane Jamiseon led with 3,6227 points after four events, the 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put and 200m.
MEN'S GYMNASTICS
The host nation won their second gold medal when England won the men's gymnastics team title with a total of 162.075 points.
AQUATICS
Canadian Alexandre Despatie won his second diving title by taking the 3m springboard event, with England's Tony Ally once again in the silver position.
Compatriot Claire Carver-Dias won the solo synchronised swimming title, with England's Gayle Adamon taking silver.
WOMEN'S HOCKEY
England and New Zealand shared an exciting 2-2 draw.
Scotland lost 3-0 to Australia, the current defending champions and gold medal favourites, while India defeated Canada 1-0.
South African striker Sophie Mayer hit a hat-trick in the opening 11 minutes as Malaysia were defeated 11-0.
ROUND-UPBoxing
Welsh featherweight Peter Ashton claimed he was bitten by Northern Ireland's Kevin O'Hara in their Commonwealth Games clash.
Netball
South Africa beat Fiji 52-42 in the opening match of the competition at the MEN Arena, while Wales just edged out Sri Lanka 48-47.
Badminton
Second seeds New Zealand began their mixed team campaign with a 5-0 thrashing of Mauritius at the Bolton Arena.
Squash
The Queen watched the start of England veteran Chris Walker's three-game drubbing of Jamaican Wayne Prescod.
Table tennis
England were given a scare by minnows Trinidad and Tobago in the men's team event.
Lawn bowls
Cook Islands bowler Inatio Akaruru collapsed during a first round men's pairs match against Malaysia.
Akaruru, 65, a deputy Prime Minister of the Cook Islands for 10 years until 1999, was treated for fatigue and then taken back to the Athletes' Village for rest.
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