8 Aug 2022

Golden Games - record Commonwealth gold medal haul

From Nine To Noon, 9:05 am on 8 August 2022
Joelle King and Paul Coll of New Zealand celebrate their mixed doubles Gold Medal win during Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Photo: PHOTOSPORT

New Zealand has bagged a record gold medal haul at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

This morning cyclist Aaron Gate added to his own personal medal success, adding a record fourth gold medal and pushing New Zealand's golden total to 18.

That beat the previous haul of 17 set 30 years at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland.

Gate's success was soon followed up on the squash court, where Paul Coll and Joelle King won the mixed doubles, taking the number of gold medals won so far to 19.

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