8 Aug 2022

Commonwealth Games: Two golds, two bronze overnight

From Morning Report, 8:50 am on 8 August 2022

New Zealand has claimed two gold and two bronze medals on the penultimate day of competition in Birmingham.

Cyclist Aaron Gate won the road race to snare a fourth gold - the first New Zealander to achive that at any Games.

He told Morning Report about the challenge of riding on his own while English riders were using team tactics in an attempt to drop him over the closing stages.

And this morning, Paul Coll and Joelle King needed barely half an hour to win their squash mixed doubles final over England opponents.

Coll earlier won a men's singles gold medal but King surprisingly missed out in singles.

She said it made the doubles title even sweeter.

The Silver Ferns netballers and White Ferns cricketers both beat England to win bronze medals overnight.

But our beach volleyball pair of Alice Zeimann and Shaunna Polley have just fallen short in their playoff for bronze against Vanuatu.

RNZ reporter Bridget Tunnicliffe spoke to Guyon Espiner.