Catch Gymnastics, Judo and MORE this week at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham!

Aug 1

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CBC Sports is the exclusive Canadian home for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

CBC Gem, cbcsports.ca, and the CBC Sports app are streaming six channels of multi-sport content each day.

Basketball 3x3 Finals

This week is a slam dunk for women’s Basketball 3x3 at the 2022 Commonwealth Games!

This is the sport’s first-ever appearance at this event, as in the past the 5x5 version was played a couple of times.

Team Canada players - Taya Hanson, Rosalie Mercille, Sarah Te-Biasu, and Tara Wallack are coming off a gold medal at the under-23 GLOBL JAM tournament and they are ready for more!

Rosalie Mercille @RosalieMercille

Extremely grateful to have been able to represent my country at GLOBJAM! 🥇🇨🇦 @CanBball @Sportsnet #GLOBJAM

And all of these women have experience playing for Canada with more than 90 combined games representing the country.

Hanson and Te-Biasu played together for Canada at the FIBA U19 Women’s Basketball World Cup 2019 and Mercille and Wallack played together at both the FIBA U16 Americas Women’s Championship 2019 and the FIBA U19 Women’s Basketball World Cup 2021.

So, with that many qualifications and chemistry, there will certainly be good basketball!

Watch all of it here:

Monday 3 p.m. (CBC Sports Channel 4)
Monday 7:30 p.m. Semi Final (CBC Sports Channel 3)
Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Women’s Final and Women’s Wheelchair Final (CBC Sports Channel 3)

Artistic Gymnastics - Apparatus Finals

Team Canada’s women’s artistic gymnasts will go up against England on Tuesday!

Now, it’s hard to say if “home-field” advantage applies to a gymnastic’s floor, but it will no doubt be interesting to watch England’s side compete here — especially as their team is looking quite good.

Claudia Fragapane, in particular, is the talk of the Team. Having won four gymnastics gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow (making history as the first woman from Team England to accomplish this in 84 years) all eyes will be on her, for her long-awaited return after 8 years.

Team England @TeamEngland

Back and better 👏 Eight years after her first major success at the Commonwealth Games, our star gymnast @claudia_frag reflects on how far she has come and what it means to her to compete in her home city ✨ #BringItHome #PartofthePride

Fragapane is also Britain’s second World Championship medallist and has appeared on one of the BBC’s popular television dancing competition shows called ‘Strictly Come Dancing’!

So, will Canada dance its way to victory?

Watch Fragapane and more here:

Monday 1p.m. ET: Women’s Vault and Beam Finals on CBC Sports Channel 1.
Tuesday 1p.m. ET: Women’s Beam and Floor Finals on CBC Sports Channel 1.

Women’s Field Hockey

Canada women’s field hockey team will start out their Commonwealth Games run by competing against Ghana and India, who is ranked 9th in the world by the International Hockey Federation.

And they’re definitely up for a challenge as the team’s best-ever finish was 5th place at Gold Coast 2018. But, that doesn’t mean they can’t perform.

This year, Canada’s women’s team qualified for the FIH World Cup through the Pan American qualification tournament with a 1-0 win over the United States! They then played at their first FIH World Cup in 28 years!

Field Hockey Canada @FieldHockeyCan

#B2022 | @canwolfpack took Game 1 today 4-0 over Wales. Goals: Brie Stairs (2), @Haughn13 (1), @SaraMac17 (1) and Rowan Harris with the shutout. 📸: @yhucken @CwthSportCAN @birminghamcg22

So, even though they finished fifteenth in the competition, there is something to be said for firsts and we just might see another one this week — especially as they took the win over Wales in the first game.

Watch here:

Canada vs Ghana: Tuesday 2:30 p.m. ET (CBC Sports Channel 6
Canada vs India: Wednesday 9 a.m. ET (CBC Sports Channel 6)

Judo

Now that Judo is back as a core sport in the Commonwealth Games and is here for its fourth run, there are so many women to talk about in this sport!

Quebec’s Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard is one of them.

She is currently ranked 5th overall in the under 63kg category by the International Judo Federation and was a bronze medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics!

CBC Olympics @CBCOlympics

A magical medal moment for a Montreal native🥉 Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard is bringing home bronze, Canada's second judo medal at #Tokyo2020

Her olympic medal put her down in the books as the 2nd Canadian woman ever to win a medal in judo at the Summer Olympics.

Quite the accomplishment for Beauchemin-Pinard, who will no doubt hope to replicate that success on the podium this year.

Watch the match ups on CBC Sports Channel 6 Tuesday at 5 p.m.

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