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01/08/2026 00:00, I Mewn Blog / Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games - Latest News /

The Glasgow Commonwealth Games track and field schedule comes to a fittingly spectacular finale for the Welsh team on Saturday.

It’s finals all the way as Jake Heyward and Charlotte Henrich take their places in the historic men’s and women’s mile finals, Tom Walley will be hoping to reach new heights in the pole vault final and Charlotte Henrich goes for one lap glory in the 400m.

Teenage Commonwealth Games debutant Henrich is the first Welsh athlete in action  featuring in a stacked women’s 400m final at 12:20.

The Invicta East Kent athlete has been in record breaking form already this season having twice improved the Welsh all time best mark of Michelle Scutt, which had stood for 44 years.

Henrich has brought that kind of form into these championships as she impressively progressed through high quality first round and semi-final challenges.

Drawn in lane three, she now faces the cream of the Commonwealth including talented Nigerian Ella Onojuvwevwo, who pipped Henrich to a win in the semi-finals.

There are one lap stars wherever you look in the line-up which also features Jamaica’s World Championships 4x400m silver medallist Dejanea Oakley and Sada Williams of Barbados, who has twice won individual bronze at the World Champs.

Moving into the evening session, next up for the Welsh team will be pole vaulter Tom Walley (Wrexham AC).

The nine-time Welsh Champion who has been waiting patiently to make his Commonwealth Games debut while he has watched all his other Team Wales comrades compete this week.

But the proud Welshman, who is an avid Wrexham FC fan is about to take centre stage in the biggest competition of his career so far at 19:10.

The clear favourite for the competition will Kurtis Marschall, of Australia, who has this season cleared a dizzying six metres. Also competing is Owen Heard, of England, who will be a familiar foe for Walley from their UK Championship tussles.

Last but definitely not least for the Welsh competitors on Saturday evening are the men’s and women’s mile finals.

The legendary distance has made a spectacular and welcome comeback at these games after an absence of 60 years.

One of the ingredients which has made the men’s mile so special this year is the presence of Scotland’s recently crowned world record holder Josh Kerr.

But at 20:55 all the Welsh focus will be on the man who finished third in a new Welsh mile record on that unforgettable occasion at the London Stadium when the world record fell.

Jake Heyward’s return to the Commonwealth Games has been just as welcome as the mile itself. Four years ago, the Welsh record holder finished fourth in the Birmingham 1500m final.

Since then, Heyward endured an injury nightmare which saw him absent from the sport between September 2022 until May of this year.

But showing indomitable spirit, the 27-year-old has burst back onto the scene in remarkable style – improving his own mile record and now impressively advancing to Saturday night’s start line.

There, he will meet the aforementioned Kerr, who is bound to whip the partisan Scotstoun Ground into a frenzy alongside his countrymen Jake Wightman, himself a previous World Champion.

Apart from the home duo, there are threats wherever you look in the 13-man line up which includes former 1500m World Champion Timothy Cheruiyot and rising Australian star Cam Myers.

The honour of closing out these wonderful championships for the Welsh team goes to Ava Lloyd (Wigan and District Harriers and AC), who lines up in the 12-strong start list for the women’s mile at 21:45.

Part of the hugely successful Trevor Painter/Jenny Meadows training group, which includes the likes of 800m Olympic Champion Keely Hodgkinson, Lloyd has looked impressive on her way to this final.

In the semi-finals, the 20-year-old produced a perfectly measured performance, sitting in the pack before showing impressive speed over the final 200 metres to move into third place and comfortably secure one of the automatic qualifying spots.

In the final, the European Cross Country Championships relay bronze medallist will face and impressive field.

The fastest on paper are Australia’s Jessica Hull, who won silver in the 1500m at the Paris Olympics and fellow Aussie Abbey Cauldwell, who won bronze in the 1500m in Birmingham.

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