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Ali Jawad: 'Setting new world record was my target'

England's bronze medalist Ali Jawad claims that he achieved his target by setting a new world record in the Para-sport lightweight powerlifting event at the CWG.

Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Ali Jawad has claimed that he achieved his target by setting a new world record in the Para-sport lightweight powerlifting event.

Nigeria's Paul Kehinde took gold with 221 points, with teammate Rolland Ezuruike claiming silver, but Jawad declared himself happy after lifting 194kg on his final attempt to earn 209.4 points, and beat his own 59kg category world record by 4kg.

"I wanted to break the world record and I've done that - Nigeria didn't break the world record today, I did," the 25-year-old, who was born without legs, told reporters. "I don't think you can do much more than break the world record - there's nothing more to prove.

"I broke it by 4kg which is a huge amount to break it by in this sport, so to me this bronze medal feels like a gold medal, and I hope people see it like that."

The points in the event are worked out by a formula which equates each athlete's bodyweight to a coefficient, before multiplying that number with their best result.

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Tuesday's key events


DIVING
· Team GB duo Jack Laugher - silver medallist in Rio - and James Heatly take part in the men's 3m springboard semi-final (2am), and will hope to qualify for the final later in the day (7am)

ATHLETICS
· Two Britons are involved in the women's long jump final, but Abigail Irozuru and Jazmin Sawyers have their work cut out to get a spot on the podium (2.50am)
· Norwegian Karsten Warholm, who broke the world record just last month, goes for gold in the men's 400m hurdles final. USA's Rai Benjamin is expected to be his main challenger (4.20am)
· Great Britain have three representatives in the final of the women's 800m, with Jemma Reekie having perhaps the best chance of a medal (1.25pm)
· A mouth-watering women's 200m final sees Elaine Thompson-Herah go for the prestigious sprint double after claiming the 100m crown. Compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Namibia's Christine Mboma and USA's Gabrielle Thomas are expected to be her main competitors (1.50pm)

SAILING
· The rescheduled women's skiff 49er FX (4.33am) and men's skiff 49er (5.33am) come to their conclusion, with Team GB involved in both medal races
· Defending champion Giles Scott bids for a second successive gold in the Finn class medal race (6.33am)
· There is another medal chance for Team GB in the mixed Nacra 17 medal race (7.33am)

ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
· Team GB's Joe Fraser takes part in the parallel bars final, kicking off the final day of artistic gymnastics (9am)
· USA superstar Simone Biles, who has been forced to pull out of all of her finals so far, is on the starting list for the beam final as she bids for a fifth Olympic gold (9.50am)

FOOTBALL
· The men's semi-finals take place, with Mexico taking on Brazil first up (9am)
· The winner of that first semi-final will face either hosts Japan or Spain (2pm)

CYCLING
· Laura Kenny will look to win a third straight Olympic team pursuit gold medal. Team GB take on United States in their heat (7.44am), with the gold medal race later that day (9.26am)
· Laura's husband and fellow Olympic legend Jason Kenny will also look to continue his huge success in the men's team sprint - an event he has won gold in at every Games since 2008. Team GB will first need to get through the men's qualifying (7.58am), with the gold medal race ending the session (9.44am)

BOXING
· Pat McCormack will be looking to achieve his dream of Olympic gold when he faces Cuba's Roniel Iglesias (11.05am)

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