England won their first team pursuit gold since 1974
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England's 4,000m team pursuit quartet cruised past Australia for the first of two cycling gold medals on day three.
Victoria Pendleton edged out Australia's Anna Meares to take gold in the women's sprint.
Gregor Tait's victory in the 200m backstroke gave Scotland their third swimming gold medal.
England's Chris Cook took gold in the men's 100m breastroke and England's quartet edged out Scotland to win the gold in a thrilling men's 4x200m relay.
Scotland's Sheena Sharp and Susan Jackson got the better of England's Sharon Lee and Helen Spittles to win gold in the women's 50m rifle prone pairs.
England's Mick Gault took silver in the 10m air pistol pairs alongside Nick Baxter to equal Karen Pickering's English record of 13 Commonwealth medals.
He missed a chance to break the record when he and Simon Lucas only came fifth in their qualifying round of the men's 25m Standard Pistol Pairs.
Elsewhere, in the swimming pool Australia's Libby Lenton claimed three gold medals in a day.
She won the women's 100m freestyle with the second-fastest time in history, followed it with the 200m breaststroke and rounded her day off by anchoring the Australian team to victory in the 4x200m relay, in which England took silver.
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DAY THREE HIGHLIGHTS - all times GMT.
CYCLING, TRACK 2330-1030
England's quartet stormed to victory over Australia to win their first 4,000m team pursuit gold since 1974.
In a clash of the titans, England's world championship winning quartet of Rob Hayles, Stephen Cummings, Paul Manning and Chris Newton beat the reigning Commonwealth and Olympic champions Australia by nearly three seconds.
England's Victoria Pendleton underlined her status as world champion by taking gold in the women's sprint.
In the tightest of finishes, Pendleton edged out Australia's Anna Meares in the deciding race to take the title 2-1.
Scotland's Ross Edgar took silver in the men's sprint after being beaten 2-0 in the final by Australia's Olympic champion Ryan Bayley.
Travis Smith of Canada beat England's Matthew Crampton in the race-off for the bronze medal.
SWIMMING 2300-1030
England's quartet edged out Scotland by the narrowest of margins to win an exciting men's 4x200m relay.
Coming off the last turn, all three teams were level, but individual 200m freestyle gold medalist Ross Davenport paced his leg to perfection to get the touch ahead of Robert Renwick.
Gregor Tait coasted to victory in the men's 200m backstroke to give Scotland their third gold medal in the pool.
Tait comfortably beat South Africa's Johannes Du Rand into second place, with Cameron Gibson of New Zealand taking the bronze.
England completed a one-two in the men's 100m breaststroke with Chris Cook taking the gold ahead of James Gibson.
Australian world record holder Libby Lenton produced the second fastest swim in history in winning the women's 100m freestyle.
Lenton spearheaded an Australian clean sweep in the event, with Jodie Henry and Alice Mills taking silver and bronze.
The Australian claimed her second gold medal of the day in the women's 200m breaststroke, with Scotland's Kirsty Balfour taking silver in a new British record time.
Lenton claimed her third gold medal of the day as she anchored Australia's quartet to victory in the 4x200m relay.
Australia's Sophie Edington set a new Commonwealth Games record in winning the women's 100m backstroke in which England's Melanie Marshall took bronze.
England's 50m backstroke gold medalist Matthew Clay finished a disappointing last place in the final of the men's 50m butterfly.
England's Rebecca Cooke was the fastest qualifier for Sunday's 800m freestyle final.
Australia's Jessicah Schipper set a new Games record of 58.49 as she bossed the heats of the women's 100m butterfly, going almost a second quicker than the fancied Libby Lenton (59.43).
Australia's Eamon Sullivan went quickest in the men's 100m freestyle semi-finals, clocking 49.94, with favourite Roland Schoeman taking it easy to qualify in 11th place.
England's Melanie Marshall and Katy Sexton will compete in the 100m backstroke.
GYMNASTICS 0230-0600, 0800-1030
Australia's Joshua Jefferis took gold in the men's individual all-around event.
SHOOTING 2200-0245
Scotland's Sheena Sharp and Susan Jackson edged out England's Sharon Lee and Helen Spittles to win gold in the women's 50m rifle prone pairs..
England's Mick Gault took silver in the 10m air pistol pairs alongside Nick Baxter to equal Karen Pickering's English record of 13 Commonwealth medals.
The pair accumulated a total of 1152 to finish behind India's Samaresh Jung and Vivek Singh.
But Gault and Simon Lucas only came fifth in their qualifying round of the men's 25m Standard Pistol Pairs.
Chris Hector and Mike Babb led a home nations 1-2-3 in the men's 50m prone pairs, scoring 1182 points, three more than second placed Scottish pair Martin Sinclair and Neil Stirton.
Welsh duo Gruffudd Morgan and David Phelps were a further three points behind in third, with Northern Ireland in seventh place.
BADMINTON 2200-1200
England's Olympic silver medallists Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms will take on India in the quarter-finals of the mixed team event.
Sri Lanka and Malaysia are also through to the last eight stage, with the other teams yet to be decided.
BOXING 0200-1130
The men's preliminary bouts continue, with Wales medal hope Mohammed Nasir survived a scare to come through 22-17 against Kenya's Peter Warui in the light flyweight category.
HOCKEY 2130-1130
England's women thumped Scotland 5-0 in the hockey, with goals from Chloe Rogers (2), Melanie Clewlow (2) and Melanie Grant.
England's 3-1 defeat of Scotland took them to the top of pool A, and left the Scots bottom and facing a big task to qualify for the semi-finals.
ROUND-UP
In the weightlifting, India's Yumnam Chanu took gold ahead of Canada's Emily Quarton and Australia's Natasha Barker in the women's 58kg class.
The men's 69kg class is still to come.
The women's solo and duet technical events begin in the synchronised swimming.
Australia's Emma Snowsill and Brad Kahlefeldt ended their country's triathlon hoodoo by taking gold in the women's and men's event.
Despite their strength in world championships, Australia had never won either Commonwealth or Olympic gold.
Snowsill was able to relax in the late stages of the run and enjoy the moment as she finished well clear of New Zealand's Sam Warriner, while another Kiwi, Andrea Hewitt, outsprinted compatriot Debbie Tanner for bronze.
Kahlefeldt took the gold with a superb display, beating New Zealand's Bevan Docherty who took second place after an epic battle with Australia's Peter Robertson who had to settle for bronze.
England's Timothy Don finished just out of the medals in fourth.
In the netball England beat Fiji 60-41.
And in the bowls, it is the quarter-finals in the men's and women's triples, men's and women's singles and pairs heats.
Plus there are the men's triples classification games.
England's Tania Bailey was knocked out of the women's squash by Malaysia's Nicol David 9-6 10-9 9-3.
Australia's Nathalie Grinham overcame Northern Ireland seventh seed Madeline Perry 9-1, 9-7, 4-9, 9-3, with the other two quarter-finals - Rachael Grinham (Australia) v Linda Elriani (England) and Vicky Botwright (England) v Shelley Kitchen (New Zealand) still to be played.
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