Day One of competition to begin today

Day One of competition to begin today
03 October

The Delhi Commonwealth Games officially opened this morning with a grand Opening Ceremony. Now the action is about to begin.

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What Kiwis are in action on Day One?

Schedule for New Zealand athletes in competition at the Commonwealth Games on Monday, October 4.

New Zealand’s first medals could come from the pool with the swimming finals tonight from 11.25pm. One of the medal chances could come from Moss Burmester who will be defending his Commonwealth Games title if he qualifies for the final.

Swimming - 3.55pm
Heats – Men's 50m backstroke, Daniel Bell, Gareth Kean.
Women's 200m freestyle, Lauren Boyle.
Women's 50m butterfly, Hayley Palmer.
Men's 200m butterfly, Moss Burmester.
Women's 200m freestyle, Penelope Marshall, Natasha Hind.
Women's 200m individual medley, Natalie Wiegersma.

Badminton - 4.25pm
Mixed teams pool games - Danielle Barry, Michelle Chan, Donna Halliday, Anna Rankin, James Eunson, Oliver Leydon-Davis, Henry Tam, Joe Wu

Table tennis - 5pm
11.30pm Women's teams event qualification matches - Jenny Hung, Karen Li, Yang Sun, Annie Yang.

Tennis - 5.30pm
12.30am Women's singles, first round - 8-Marina Erakovic v Nikkita Fountain (Bahamas). Mixed doubles - Erakovic/Rubin Statham v Sarah Borwell/Ken Skupsi (England)

Squash - 5.25pm
Men's singles, first round - 15-Martin Knight v Hardeep Reel (Kenya), 16-Campbell Grayson v Ray Zimbule (Zambia).
Women's singles, first round - 7-Jaclyn Hawkes v Amelia Pittock (Australia), 12-Joelle King v qualifier

Women’s Hockey - 5.50pm
New Zealand v Wales

Netball - 6.50pm
New Zealand v Papua New Guinea

Bowls - 7.30pm, 11pm, 2.30am
Men's triples group matches - New Zealand (Shannon McIlroy, Andrew Todd, Richard Girvan) v Wales, v Namibia.
Women's pairs group matches - New Zealand (Jan Khan, Manu Timoti) v Botswana, v South Africa.
Men's pairs group match - New Zealand (Daniel Delany, Richard Collett) v Wales. Women's triples group match - New Zealand (Dale Lang, Genevieve Baildon, Karen Coombe) v Botswana.

Gymnastics - 8.50pm
Men's team competition and individual qualification - Brandon Field, Mark Holyoake, Misha Koudinov, Matt Palmer, Patrick Peng

Archery - 10.30pm
Men's compound individual qualification - Stephen Clifton, Shaun Teasdale, Tony Waddick.
Women's compound individual qualification - Amanda McGregor, Stephanie Croskery, Anne Mitchell

Swimming - 11.25pm
Finals - Women's 200m freestyle, men's 50m backstroke, women's 200m individual medley, men's 200m butterfly

Watch the action on SKY Sport or Prime TV.

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