Star of the show was shooter James Huckle from Harlow, who won his second gold medal in two days after a superb performance in the 50 metre-rifle 3 positions event. 

 

In contrast to yesterday’s nerve-wracking final, Huckle established a commanding lead in the qualifying stages of today’s event - in which the competitors have to shoot from the prone, kneeling and standing positions - and increased his advantage in the final to finish 37.6 points ahead of the silver medallist Muhamed Bin Muhammed from Malaysia.
 
Huckle said: “It can be hard to concentrate in the final when you are so far clear but I just tried to focus on hitting the target. I shot really well today - when you make what you think is a mistake and you still hit a 10 then you know you are on form.”
 
The 18-year-old has an opportunity to make it three gold medals in tomorrow’s men’s 10m air rifle competition.

 

He said: “I’m hopeful but it is the most competitive event of the three so it will be tough.”
 
There was a further medal for England’s shooters today when Chester Cobb took the bronze in the men’s double trap event.

 

The 17-year-old from Aylesbury was pleased to win a medal but disappointed with his final performance.
 
He said: “I’ve been shooting well in training so I was hoping for a better performance today.

 

"It was windy but it didn’t affect the targets - I just didn’t shoot well.”
 
After watching her boyfriend Pete Smith win gold in yesterday’s men’s hammer competition, 17-year-old Sophie Hitchon followed suit today with gold in the women’s event.

 

The Burnley student made a nervous start with a no-throw but was ultimately too good for her opponents - taking the lead with her second throw and then increasing her advantage with her third and best throw of 58.43 metres, nearly eight metres further than the best throw of silver medallist Maria Badenhorst from South Africa.
 
Hitchon said: “I was nervous before the competition because there was a lot of pressure on me to win and when I missed my first throw it made me even more nervous.

 

"But I managed to get it together - I just wanted to get a throw in on my second attempt and when I did that I felt better.
 
“I felt more nervous for Pete yesterday than I did for myself. It was great that he won but I guess it put a bit more pressure on me. It’s nice that we can both go home with gold medals.”
 
Manchester athlete Abigail Irozuru won gold in the women’s long jump with a dominant performance.

 

Her first jump of 5.88m would have been enough for gold and she increased her advantage with a fifth round jump of 5.92m.
 
Curtis Griffith-Parker added a silver medal in the discus to the gold he won in the shot yesterday.

 

He said: “I’m pretty happy with the distance I threw.

 

"I could have thrown further but it was a good competition.”
 
Jordan McGrath from Birmingham snatched bronze in the men’s 400m after a strong finish.
 
He said: “I got out well, which I haven’t been doing all season.

 

"I lost my chance of gold in the third quarter of the race as I just switched off for a split-second but I’m pleased with bronze.

 

"I’ve never competed in these conditions before or had to cope with the travelling and the time difference and it’s been a big learning curve.

 

"It’s a nice way to end the season and hopefully I can build on this.”
 
The swimming events got underway when Scotland's Douglas Scott winning gold in the 5m breaststroke.

 

Scott won his final in a time of 29.54 seconds, equalling his personal best and Scottish junior record while setting a new Commonwealth Youth Games record.

The 18-year-old said: "I was quite pleased with it, but I thought I would have swum a bit better and a little bit faster.

 

He beat Warren Karsten of South Africa and Singapore's Jia Hao Ng into second and third place respectively.

Scott said: "It's great to win gold especially in these outdoor conditions where it's really hot and the 50m is one of my weaker events.

 

The 100 and 200 events are stronger so this will hopefully set me up well for the 100m breaststroke tomorrow."

The team's swimming coach, Ian Wright, said afterwards the gold medal was a "great boost to his team".

 

Soon after, namesake Daniel Scott from Glenrothes took silver in the 50m butterfly, capping a fine day for Scotland in the pool.

 

England's Louisa Farrer-Fisher, a student from Streatham, won silver in the women’s 200m freestyle before helping the team to another silver medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay.
 
She said: “I’m very pleased.

 

"I was the second quickest in the heats so I was hoping for a medal but I thought I would just see what I could do.

 

"I tried to pace the race right and do what I practice in training and I think I did that quite well.

 

"I was so close to the gold and you can always say, ‘What if?’ but I’m happy with silver.”

 

The third Scottish medal of the day came in wrestling, courtesy of Clydebank 17-year-old Craig McKenna, who had made it through the first two rounds of the 50kg event on byes.

He said: "In my first match today I got beaten by an Indian, but in my bronze-medal match I beat an Australian 3-1 in the first round and 2-1 in the second.

"I got a lucky draw at the start of the weigh-in, with byes in the first two rounds which definitely helped me get a bronze medal today.

 

"Before I came I was hoping to wrestle well and maybe sneak a medal so to get the bronze is absolutely brilliant.

"I'm going to back to Scotland to work my training and fight towards [the 2010 Commonwealth Games in] Delhi, and I'll definitely be fighting towards Glasgow [2014].

 

"They're the two biggest steps for me right now."