England's Sophie Hahn takes first athletics gold medal of 2026 Commonwealth Games, 18-year-old Maddie Down wins bronze
Updated 27/07/2026 at 23:21 GMT+1
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Team England’s Sophie Hahn won the first athletics medal of the 2026 Commonwealth Games with a time of 12.78 to win the women’s 100m T38 final. The 29-year-old stormed to her second Commonwealth Games gold medal, eight years on from her first on the Gold Coast in 2018.
Watch as England's Hahn takes first athletics gold medal of the games
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She beat Wales’ Olivia Breen to the top of the podium, while fellow Team England runner Maddie Down picked up bronze with a personal best time of 12.86 at the age of just 18.
Hahn was beaten by Breen in Birmingham in 2022, but was able to extract revenge and to add to her impressive collection which includes two Paralympic golds and as many as seven World Championship gold medals.
Upon winning her second gold, Hahn said: ”I’m absolutely over the moon. Don’t get me wrong, I was very nervous coming into the games.
”I just thought, this is going to be tough, you have just got to go out, execute and just got to kick, kick, kick and to come away and just cross the line first. I am like, 'what just happened'?
”I feel like it is all tunnel vision, it is almost like you are in your own thoughts, it’s you against you, it doesn’t matter your surroundings.
”It is almost like, pick a landmark and just stay at that landmark and just go out and just kick, kick, kick, open up the stride, increase the frequency, open the arms and just go.”
Prince wins 110m hurdles gold, Katzberg sets Games-record
On a hugely busy night of athletics, in which nine gold medals were presented, Jamaica's Demario Prince held off Samuel Bennett of England to take men's 110m hurdles gold.
The 21-year-old ran a time of 13.17 to hold off Bennett, who ran a personal best time of 13.30 and Cypriot Milan Trajkovic, who took bronze.
Elsewhere on the track, there was further glory for Team England in the T38 100m, as Thomas Young won gold in a Games-record time of 11.11, while Scotland's Ben Sandilands eased to gold in the T20 1500m final by over four seconds.
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There was Kenyan domination in the men's 3000m Steeplechase final, with Edmund Serem winning gold, ahead of compatriots Simon Koech and Leonard Kipkemoi Bett.
But in the women's 10,000m final, Kenya's Diana Wanza was beaten to gold by Australia's Rose Davies.
In the field events, Canada's Ethan Katzberg took centre stage with a Commonwealth Games record in the men’s hammer throw final.
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Watch as Scotland's 'dominant force' Sandilands takes gold in the men's 1500m T20
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He won gold with a throw of 90.97, with Cypriot Iosif Kesidis taking silver and Rowan Hamilton - Katzberg's compatriot - securing bronze.
Jamaican Romaine Beckford won gold in the men’s high jump, beating Sarvesh Anil Kushare of India, who took silver, as Team England’s Kimani Jack sealed bronze.
And there were more medals for India in the women’s shot put F57 final, as Sharmila Dhankhar won gold and Shilpa Kanchugarakoppalu Shyla clinched bronze, with Ghana’s Zinabu Issah winning silver.
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