Live blog - Day 8 of Commonwealth Games

Tony Grantham and Ali Forsyth up in the Men's Pairs - They are taking on Pakistan.

New Zealand win 3-2, 5-4.

Athletics is back underway and tonight the sky is clear!
First up - Max Attwell in the Javelin (Decathlon)
Throw 1: 46.99
Throw 2: 46.50
Throw 3: 44.96
He now has 6518 points total and is in 9th palce

Women's Pole Vault
Imogen Ayris is up first for the strong team of kiwis. New Zealand has 3 kiwi females in the final.

IMOGEN TAKES THE BRONZE!
Imogen misses her opening jump at 4.30m. She goes again and unfortunately clips the bar, missing her second at 4.30m but then gets it on the 3rd. She then goes on to clear 4.45m on the first attempt. She clears 4.55m before missing her opening jump at 4.65m and 4.70m.

Olivia clears 4.30m to get on the board. She then misses 4.45m in her next jump. She unfortunately misses her last two jumps and is out of contention.

Eliza also clears the bar 4.30m bar with confidence before clearing 4.45, 4.55m and 4.65m on her first go in the same style. She then has two strikes at 4.70m

UPDATED - Sami Donnelly has just won silver in an exhilarating Scratch race on the track after another athlete had a DQ

C1- C3 1000M TIME TRIAL - 1.05.536 A NEW GAMES RECORD!!!

Individual pursuit women -

Bryony Botha finished 5th and due to a disqualification she has made the bronze medal race where she came 4th. Emily Shearman finished 8th, not enough to qualify for the finals.

Sprint women -

Ellesse Andrews made it through to the quarter finals and lost in the second race.

Rebecca Petch and Olivia King are not through to the next round.

Individual pursuit men -

Tom Sexton finished 14th

Marshall Erwood finished 7th

Daniel Morton finished 11th.

Men's Keirin -

Sam Dakin finished 5th in his heat meaning he will have to compete in the repechage round in order to make the next stage. Sam Dakin finished 4th in the repechage round unable to procees to the next stage.

Bryony Botha finishes 4th in the women's individual pursuit.

Men's Elimination
Tom Sexton got close to getting in the medals but bowed out in 4th

Set 1: 6-3

Set 2: 10-2

Max Attwell finished 5th in the 110m hurdles for the first decathlon session of the day.

Discuss: 39.47 points, 8th place.

Pole vault: 6th place.

Set 1: 7-2

Set 2: 1-9

Tie break 1-0

Final score 2-1

Ellesse Andrews, Rebecca Petch and Olivia King will be taking the track this morning to secure a spot in the women's sprint final.

All three qualified.

Ellesse Andrews finished 9th.

Rebecca Petch finished 16th

Olivia King finished 14th

Set 1: 13-3

Set 2: 9-5