Captain Breen leaps to long jump gold in GlasgowImage source, Team WalesImage caption, Olivia Breen won long jump bronze at the 2020 ParalympicsByGareth BaileyBBC Sport WalesPublished27 minutes agoOlivia Breen leapt to Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow by winning the T38 long jump final at the Scotstoun Stadium.The Team Wales captain secured her country’s sixth gold with a jump of 5.09m in the first round.That distance was further than her own Games record from 2018 but the wind speed (+3.9) was too high to count.Just minutes later she did set a new record with a second round jump of 5.03m that was deemed wind-legal, although it was short-lived.Australia’s Layla Sharp claimed silver just three centimetres behind Breen’s best with 5.06m. Another Aussie, 15-year-old Ayla Kowalczyk, won bronze.Breen was defending the title she won at Gold Coast in 2018 after the event was not included at Birmingham 2022.It was the 30-year-old’s second medal of the Games, having won silver in the T38 100m final on Monday night.
Breen’s gold was the third of the day for Wales, with Anna Morris and Emma Finucane securing individual pursuit and individual sprint titles at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome earlier in the evening.
Breen has competed for Wales at four Commonwealth Games and won five medals – three gold, one silver and a bronze.
She finished in seventh in Glasgow in the same event in 2014 when he celebrated her 18th birthday.
Her 30th birthday celebrations will be all the sweeter after a gold and a silver.
