GLASGOW - Australia's Rose Davies completed a 5,000 and 10,000 metre double in Glasgow as Olympic triple jump champion Thea LaFond finally landed gold in her fourth Commonwealth Games on Thursday.
Davies outgunned teammate Jessica Hull in a shootout over the final 400m after the Australian duo pulled away from Scotland's Megan Keith, who held on for bronze to the delight of the home crowd.
In adding the 5,000m title to her 10,000m crown earlier in the week, Davies becomes the first woman to complete the long distance double in Commonwealth Games history.
LaFond arrived at Glasgow's last Commonwealth Games in 2014 as a teenager.
After bronze in the Gold Coast in 2018 and silver in Birmingham four years ago she finally delivered a first Commonwealth gold medal for the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica.
"It feels so bittersweet. The sweet part is that I've really been waiting for this. I've now won every colour of Commonwealth Games medal there is, and it feels amazing to be a trailblazer for Dominica," said the 32-year-old.
"The bitter part is that this is probably my last Commonwealth Games. This is where it all started for me, and this is probably where it will end."
Jamaican duo Ackelia Smith and Shantae Foreman completed the triple jump podium.
Devynne Charlton won the women's 100m hurdles gold for Bahamas, beating Jamaican Megan Simmonds into silver with Nigeria's defending champion Tobi Amusan third.
But there was Jamaican joy in the women's discus as Samantha Hall took gold.
There will be no sprint double for 100m men's champion Emmanuel Eseme after the Cameroonian failed to qualify for the 200m final.
Chukwuebuka Enekwechi of Nigeria won the men's shot put with a throw of 21.07m to dethrone New Zealand's defending champion Tom Walsh, who was second with England's Scott Lincoln winning bronze.
Zachary Shaw of England won the para-sport T12 100m in 10.89. Canada's Sheriauna Haase won the women's event in the T47 category.
- AFP