Commonwealth Games: England win landmark third team gymnastics gold

England became the first team to win three successive Commonwealth team gymnastics golds as Joe Fraser helped them.

The roars around the arena came from Fraser's score of 14. 650 on the horse.

The hosts made light of the absence of MaxWhitlock to finish with a score of 254-7500.

Giarnni Regini-Moran, James Hall, Jake Jarman, and others were also impressive.

England had the top position in all six pieces of apparatus.

Alex Yee won the triathlon on the opening day of the Commonwealth Games.

Two weeks before the Commonwealths, Fraser's hopes of competing in the all-around competition were ruined by an ankle injury.

However, he vowed to put his disappointment behind him to help England chase another title after success at Glasgow 2014 and on the Gold Coast in 2018.

He entered the competition with a good routine on the pommel horse.

The judges scored him 14.650, 0.300 ahead of Northern Ireland's Rhys McClenaghan, who was the defending Commonwealth champion on the apparatus.

England's lead was extended with a controlled, confident display that earned a score of 14.700 and was easily surpassed by the rest of the competitors.

Jarman was the top scorer in both the parallel bars and floor.

It was left to Fraser. He was the top scorer with 14.500 on England's last rotation.

The England team bounced together in a joyful huddle, but their celebrations were overshadowed by the Cyprus team who took a bronze.

Both Scotland and Wales finished in the top six.

The top eight on each apparatus progress to the medal events later in the Games, as the qualification event for individual disciplines.

England's Jarman and Hall were the highest scoring gymnasts in all-around qualification.

Scotland's Frank Baines returned to the sport after retirement to compete in a third Commonwealth Games.